Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very absence of color, the refusal to jump to conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
...exhibit worth it? To make sure that it would be, Pepsi had screened the 156 final canvases through six juries of artists and museum men (Exhibit Director Roland McKinney served on all six). The resulting show, which ran the gamut from naturalism to sheer abstraction, contained very few duds. It proved again the energy, variety and competence of a number of U.S. painters, known and unknown, doing their work in all parts of the country. Among the standouts...
...very dead porpoise has suddenly come alive to the nostrils of visitors to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. So startling was the odor that museum staff members still can't agree why the stuffed specimen was hastily whisked off exhibit and exiled to a corner of the Museum's fifth floor...
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney's annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting...
Director Mitchell Wilder had put on his first "new accessions" show two years ago. "Some of the museums may have had the feeling that we wanted to exhibit their pictures and give them the haha. We had no such thought in mind and were very circumspect...