Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Somers Brookings, 2nd. 119 John Phillip Sehen 76 Randolph Appleton Kidder 63 Francis Daniels Moore 55 Robert Bradley Cutler 52 Frederic Augustus Webster 42 Samuel Smith Drury, Jr. 26 William Pepper Watts 24 Charles Fuller Woodard 24 POET *Ten Eyek Lansing 169 Hugh Mason Wade 136 TREASURER *David Whitney Lewis 86 Edwin lde Brainard 76 Chester Kaufman Litman 66 Warren Sturgis 49 Robert Lincoln Cummings, Jr. 44 Donald Vincent McGranahan 40 David Hill Murray 9 CHORISTER *Francis Edgar Johnson, 3rd. 124 Malcolm Seymour 91 William Gurney Kirby 99 *Elected ORATOR *Frederick de Wolfe Bolman, Jr. 95 Victor Horsley Kramer...
Because Director Force's taste is as impeccable as her temper is robust, the Whitney biennial has acquired, with the passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines...
...handsome Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan does not like to think of itself as a mere repository for modern U. S. paintings. From its fat endowment it has bought throughout Depression far more pictures than it needed or could show as the kindest, most practical form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year...
...Whitney biennial has no jury, no admissions committee. Autocratically it invites each U. S. artist whom it considers worthy of the honor to submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...
...David Whitney Lewis...