Word: wildenstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan gallerygoers were all agog. They read the names Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, all in one announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...
Rockwell Kent paints only his adventures. Wherever he sails he is on the watch for rugged seascapes. He does no portrait work on order. Nor does he paint for a living. He lives first and paints afterward. His last trip was to Ireland. Consequently his recent exhibition at the Wildenstein galleries, Manhattan, was a collection of Irish crags, cliffs, inscrutable waves, symbolical shadows, all stark, bleak, sternly ecstatic. Some critics deplore Artist Kent's dearth of variety-"his gaunt monotonous forms are always inflexibly the same." All critics admire his virile compositions, his color effects. In his art they...
Last week, an exhibition of the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec was held in the Wildenstein Galleries, Manhattan. Between the years 1880 and 1890, this artist was often pointed out by habitues of the Moulin Rouge Cafe, Paris, to friends from out of town; a whisper passed from Parisian mouth to Provincial ear. Amazement, incredulity, re-assertion...
Rockwell Kent, known best for his woodcuts and his Wilderness, a book about Alaska, is holding an exhibition this week at the Wildenstein Galleries, Manhattan. Mr. Kent is most generally known as "Hogarth, Jr.,"over which signature he has done many delightful cartoons for Life and other publications. The present show is of his serious work and contains many of the original drawings for Wilderness. The surprising characteristic is the direct and sure technique, with few alterations and erasures. More recent works are Figure Head, the prow of a ship against a black night sea; The House of Dread...