Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorial exhibition was last week staged at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Selected with the collaboration of three top-flight artists-Guy Pène du Bois, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll-it honored their friend William James Glackens, who died last...
...began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...these other young artists, the fin de siècle was buoyant. In Paris Glackens enjoyed himself painting public gardens, cafés, dance halls in the general manner of Degas and Manet. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1895. Among 97 canvases hung at the Whitney show were several glamor paintings of this period done after Glackens returned to Manhattan: Mouquin's Restaurant, Hammerstein's Roof Garden, sledding in Central Park...
While rumors flew and suits piled up, Treasurer Thompson and a few others stubbornly insisted that the company would not be wrecked. In Wall Street, which remembered Richard Whitney and Ivar Kreuger, savage wit ran riot. F. Donald Coster's epitaph became: "He couldn't face the Musica...
...board was discussing whether to write an official finis to the Richard Whitney case. Dr. Hutchins held that since no investigation had been made of certain Exchange members whose previous testimony indicated they knew about Richard Whitney's criminality, the Exchange should take further action. After due talk, the board, including the other two public representatives, voted 27-to-1 to drop the matter. Dr. Hutchins thereupon resigned in a huff, not visibly aiding the public...