Word: abstractionism
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¶Horse Mackerel, by Karl Knaths, 64, was given by Department Storeman Morton D. May to the City Art Museum of St. Louis. Assistant Museum Director William Eisendrath calls it "an example of an American artist who is a genius, and who has come under the influence of cubism and...
¶Clear Cut Landscape, by Milton Avery, 63, was acquired by the women's board of the San Francisco Museum of Art for "about $1,500." Grace Morley, the museum director, recommended its purchase because "Avery is a very distinguished colorist, and in the American school color isn'...
FEW painters managed to outrage the respectable standards of their day with more gusto than France's master of 19th century realism, Gustave Courbet. In his time he kept up a running battle with critics, who found his work sordid and common, termed him a "butcher" and "a great...
The last of the artists represented, Alden B. Christie '57, is the most accomplished painter. He has a good sense of design and fine knowledge of color and texture. The mechanical red flower (pictured) is the best picture of the show except perhaps for his other highly colorful, erupting abstraction...
Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New...