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...shows have aroused neither scorn nor outraged contempt, and they have had serious attention from critics. But the general reaction of both press and public has been rather tepid and indifferent. Nevertheless, the shows' sponsors feel a sense of accomplishment. Said Collector Lawrence Fleischman, whose fine collection of American paintings (TIME, Sept. 10) was sent abroad by USIA last year: "In this propaganda battle today, Russia's weakest point is that its artists have to create according to the way the government tells them. Nobody who sees these shows can fail to understand that our artists paint...
Hard-Boiled Eggs. On hand to greet the visitors and deliver an explanatory lecture was the collection's proud assembler and owner, 31-year-old Detroit Industrialist Lawrence A. Fleischman, vice president of his family's Detroit carpet company, part owner of two TV stations and a rotary-press company. Born of poor Russian immigrant parents, Fleischman scraped through hard times, remembers when the family lived on nothing but hard-boiled eggs for days. As a youth he pitched in to help his father run a small linoleum store in Detroit. After the elder Fleischman nourished his shop...
...Fleischman's serious collecting began after service overseas in World War II as a combat infantryman. On the advice of his wife, a keen art student, he shifted his buying to American works, and now Fleischman has a handsome collection of Winslow Homer and John Marin watercolors. "What started out to be a hobby has become a disease," he admits...
Fast Conversion. A loan exhibit of Fleischman's collection at the University of Michigan last winter attracted U.S. Information Agency officials. They asked Fleischman to make it a traveling exhibit. Says Fleischman: "I felt it was time the Latin Americans had a glimpse of North American art. I came along myself because I wanted to see, to be a part...
...Fleischman and wife Barbara lost no time in wading in, are now sopping up Mexican culture, have started buying Mexican art, and have struck up an acquaintance with Artist Rufino Tamayo. In his way, Collector Fleischman is proving to be almost as good propaganda as his collection. He will travel with it to nine other Latin American countries in the next 20 months...