Word: youngscholar
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...many things he will be rememberedfor as director, at least among students of mygeneration, will be his trust in students whowished to work with the museum and who wanted tobring contemporary art into its collections. Itwas typical of John that he encouraged the youngscholar Michael Fried to mount a provocativeexhibition of recent American painting, ThreeAmerican Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski,Frank Stella (1965) and to publish what quicklybecame the signal statement on the new paintings'style and purpose. At the same time, he acquiredfor the Fogg our first paintings by thatgeneration, Morris Louis' Color Barrier and BlueVeil, and Kenneth Noland...
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