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...well-attended festivities celebrated -and almost obscured-an exhibition of eleven new paintings by one of the pets of the Manhattan-Woodstock crowd. The pet, bespectacled, Japanese-born Artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi, arrived late, grinning and amiable...
...worker whom his fellowmen have rarely over-burdened with material rewards, he appreciates his $23.86 from WPA, can live pretty well on it and wants to keep it. On the very practical subject of subsistence, the Artists' Congress, to which such noted professionals as William Zorach, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Rockwell Kent, Stuart Davis, Max Weber, George Biddle, were delegates, was eloquent indeed. This practicality distinguished the Artists' Congress from the American Writers' Congress of last summer (TIME, June...
...Congress' slightly incoherent Utopianism, works on view were of a remarkably high character, presented the highest artistic average of any group show of the past season. Artists exhibiting were far from unknown. They ranged from ultra-conservatives like Paul Manship through progressives like Leon Kroll, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Biddle, to complete abstractionists like Stuart Davis. A few scenes of the Spanish War were on the walls but for the most part propaganda was left to the Congress' various pamphlets...
...usual, the mass of the exhibits were exercises in mediocrity. Such artists as Sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione, Muralist James Michael Newell, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Bohrod and a sprinkling of others were able to produce work which seemed, by contrast, superb. An innovation was a new department entitled Index of American...
...fortnight ago with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...