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...voice my thanks to your Art reporter for telling the story [March 15] of my mad granduncle, Louis Eilshemius. For all his many faults, he was a very prolific painter and had reached a remarkable standard in painting skill...
...world was ripe for change. In 1911, the dissident artists formed the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which, they hoped, would put on an exhibition that would have the same notoriety and success as Paris' Salon des Refusées. As president, they chose Painter Arthur B. Davies. not so much because he had exhibited with the Ashcan School, but because he knew people of wealth and position. The choice had repercussions no one foresaw: while the Henri group wanted to put on a huge exhibition to call attention to "progressive" American art, Davies happened to have...
...inspire him. "Van Gogh's work enthralled me." he wrote, "I met the sculptor Lehmbruck and secured some of his sculptures, also works by Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi to make his U.S. debut in their show, arranged for paintings by Braque and Picasso...
Today, at 51, Meistermann is not only a first-rank painter but also Germany's master of the stained-glass window (sec opposite page). Though such artists as Matisse and Chagall in France, as well as Abraham Rattner in the U.S. and John Piper in Britain, have helped give this once-neglected art a new prestige, Meistermann is probably the most prolific designer of all. He has done dozens of windows for clubs, chapels, offices and public buildings all over West Germany...
...mark and leadership are there nonetheless. "Mexican art was at a dead end. Now we are free," he said, and the other interioristas enthusiastically agree. Canadian-born Arnold Belkin. 32, one of the co-authors of the manifesto, says that Rivera, chiefly significant as a social-protest painter, had the byproduct effect of leading Mexican art "up a blind alley -two generations of picturesque Indians making tortillas or setting out candles for the Night of the Dead." When abstraction invaded the country, it turned out to be another false trail. "Mexican gallery-goers began to accept 'action painting...