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...hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously to clothe the girl in blue cheesecloth and Christian resignation. But Lovey wields her cross like a blunt instrument, tears up her Braille primer, tongue-lashes sympathetic playmates, flatly turns down the great opportunity of being patronized by the local seed king's family...
Chicago Daily News Critic Kenneth Shopen fumed: "Painting has given way to plastering, sewing and pasting . . . Fastened upon the canvas are such 'found objects' as cheesecloth, string, mud, sand, scraps of cardboard, fragments of mirrors, broken bottles and tennis shoes . . . Sculpture has given way to constructions where 'found objects' of junk yards are welded together in fantastic arrangements with droolings of solder . . . Work dealing with decay, destruction, fragmentation, explosions and torture are frequent. Apparently it is stylish to make a negative rather than an affirmative statement about life-and easier . . . Chicago is not that sick...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
Thus Painter Everett Shinn summed up the turn-of-the-century standards: idealized nudes wrapped in cheesecloth, banal studio models posed in quaint period costumes. Into this world rushed a group of artists who, by the genteel standards of the day, behaved like sandlot hoodlums bent on showing only America's dirty face. Their talented and dashing leader was Robert Henri, goad and teacher to more than a dozen leading American painters. Last week, with the biggest collection of Henri's work to be shown since 1931 on display at New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum, tribute...
Chefoo to Cheesecloth. Thornton was certainly different. Whatever school he attended-the Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...