Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indirectly another even richer woman sculptor was important in last week's art news. Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, resting from her own labors since her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries eight months ago, opened the Third Biennial Exhibition of U. S. artists at the Whitney Museum of American...
...artists, submitted by invitation only, went up on the Museum's walls. Present was practically every well-known name in modern U. S. painting, with the possible exception of Thomas Benton. Perhaps he had nothing ready to show. Differing from most mass art shows, the Whitney Biennial has no jury, offers no prizes, but the Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde...
...something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...Letters department of TIME for Nov. 9 Mr. George C. Whitney writes of the switchback in the H. T. & W. Railroad as being reputed to be the only one east of the Rocky Mountains...
...Harvard lineup; g., Gray; rf., Morrisson; lf., Gosline; rh., E. Whitney; ch., Witkin; lh., A. Scott; ro., Parsons; ri., Sachs, Whittemore; c., Carter, Arrowsmith; li., Alexandre, Motley; lo., Sinnott, Rabenold...