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...York Artists Equity Association offered the public a grab-bag art show at the Whitney Museum. The terms were challengingly simple. Admission: $100 a couple and take your pick of more than 500 pieces of donated painting and sculpture-some of them by such top-notchers as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Isabel Bishop and William Zorach. The only catch: the art was all untitled and signatures were taped over with adhesive...
Third prize went to Manhattan's Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose works sometimes have the taste and balance of good Oriental art. His shrill, finicky Fish Kite did not. Joseph Hirsch's fourth-prizewinning view of Nine Men in a men's-room mirror was as skillfully done as anything in the show, and as dour. Hirsch had caught the cold light reflected from glass and white tiling, dramatically illuminated the begrimed and weary workmen cleaning up in its glare...
...conviction that the East, for all its galleries, dealers and big reputations, was dangerous for a painter's individuality. At Chicago's Art Institute "an artist had more chance to develop his own style," was not likely to be turned into a picayune Picasso or "little Kuniyoshi...
...Kuniyoshi looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most of his Whitney show: ragged, melancholy still lifes, Western landscapes and dusky figure paintings. Each painting begins with a detailed charcoal drawing from the model, which he modifies from month to month as he sees fit. "I play with my paintings," he says, "and I sometimes have a dozen of them going...
Ruin on the Table. His still lifes at the Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...