Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced his organization and revealed that its trustees included Dr. Clarence Cook Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and of the American Birth Control League, and Secretary Leon Fradley Whitney of the American Eugenics Society...
Many modern artists hold on to the past as a man holds his hat in a roller coaster. Manhattan's Whitney Museum upholds U. S. tradition but it has distinguished itself for doing so gracefully...
...show of Winslow Homer in 1936 was a landmark in the recent appreciation of that 19th-Century artist, and year ago the museum made news with a lively exhibition of Luks, Bellows, Henri and other important U. S. painters of the early 1900s (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week the Whitney pulled off a triumph in a field where triumph was not expected: U. S. landscape painting of the 19th Century...
More than one critic has observed that that period is unusual for the quantities of mediocrity it produced. Indian maidens by waterfalls, snowy-breasted brooklets and 10?-store moonlight still testify to the infinite sentimentality of its influence. Nevertheless, the Whitney show of 81 paintings by 47 artists proved that wholesale contemners of the 19th-Century landscape have been unable to see the woods for the trees. In Colonial America, there was little demand for landscapes. Unknown journeymen painters turned out a few which, like Runaway Horse (see cut), are still as fresh as daisies...
George Inness, who rejected the literal-minded grandeur of this school for simpler, more warmly painted, atmospheric studies of nature. Place of honor at the Whitney last week was occupied by Inness' The Home of the Heron, a scene of deep forest splashed with...