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...moved a little closer last week. For its fourth international art contest, Hallmark Cards had made eminently sensible rules. The 50 contestants, from a total of 16 countries, were all invited to compete with a free choice of subject matter. The results, on view at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery, therefore combined quality with diversity...
...Carnegie Institute has hung 121 works in its "American Classics of the 19th Century"; Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is about to inaugurate an enlarged American wing; the Brooklyn Museum is preparing "The Face of America," an exhibition of portraits from all periods. This week Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery opened an exhibition called "The American Vision," a show based on and selected from TIME'S new book, Three Hundred Years of American Painting, which contains 250 reproductions of paintings in full color, an unprecedented presentation of U.S. art in book form...
From the bullfrog severity of Robert Feke's The Reverend Thomas Hiscox, painted in 1745, to Loren Maclver's dew-gentle The Street, done last year, the Wildenstein exhibition is a succession of triumphs. No fewer than 28 major museums in 16 states contributed to the exhibition, and of its 54 canvases more than half are outright masterpieces. Seen in a body, they bring home with tremendous impact the vast and varied achievements of American painting. Said Harris K. Prior, director of the American Federation of Arts, in a foreword to the Wildenstein show: "Americans are finally accepting...
...Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman, about the price and profit. "Apples are expensive...
...suit last week, charged otherwise: "The defendants obtained much information which . . . was of a confidential character, and the defendants used such confidential information to compete unfairly . . . The possession and use by defendants of such confidential information caused [Knoedler] serious injury in its business, good will and reputation . . ." Wildenstein's lost no time in sniping back: "The Wildenstein Galleries have never engaged in any wiretapping, and there was no evidence in the Broady trial to show that Wildenstein had participated in any way in the wiretapping. It would appear that Knoedler has instituted this action for selfish business reasons...