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...takes unusual merit or a great reputation to draw the average Manhattan art critic from his comfortable daily beat up & down the smart art marts of 57th Street. Most of these choosy journalists were down under the Elevated last week picking their way among the packing cases and fruit stands of Greenwich Village. Alexander Brook was having another exhibition at the Downtown Gallery...
Highlight of the exhibition was a cool grey-green canvas, square at the end of the gallery, called Summer Wind. Many critics hailed it as the most effective nude of the season, not excluding Eugene Speicher's magnificently painted figures at the Rehn Galleries (TIME, Jan. 22). Artist Brook's good friend Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the Times went further, called it "a particularly arresting embodiment of youth, animated by the sort of resilient 'lift' that sculptors know as the Greek inhalation." Alex Brook's paintings are no longer for amateur collectors. Admirers...
...ones") from traditional Italian marionets, hates to have them called marionets or puppets. Charles Dillingham first brought him and his little ones to Manhattan in 1923 when they failed dismally. Last year Podrecca came again, succeeded hugely, toured the country, ending this week in Manhattan. Sometime lawyer, author, art critic, children's magazine publisher and War hero, Podrecca began his Teatro dei Piccoli in Rome in 1913. In 1923 he married Cissie Vaughan, an Irishwoman, who sings the parts of Josephine Baker and Don Juan's peasant girl. Says her husband: "As an Irishwoman she is the most...
Artist Miro is still an abstract painter more interested in getting emotions on canvas than creating recognizable designs. But in late years critics, hardened to modernists, have come to realize that he is also a serious, thoughtful painter with a vast grasp of the technique of his craft and an uncanny sense of color. His strange de signs have the quality of holding attention and spurring imagination which, in its essence, is the final aim of surrealism. Wrote conservative Critic Henry McBride last week...
...past 30 years, divided sharply between his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War New York that everyone likes and a bevy of strange bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black. With these nudes he has been stubbornly experimenting in late years. They gave conservative Critic Royal Cortissoz "a positively painful sensation," but for Critic McBride they proved that "John Sloan has kept his youth." Doyle. In the eminently respectable Newton Galleries was exhibited a series or black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood...