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...Metropolitan Museum, and his realism was accepted as the quintessence of the search for American roots and the often angry realism of Depression-era artists. Last March he was named the keystone artist to represent America at the 1967 Sao Paulo Bienal. Said Brandeis University's William Seitz, who made the selection: "There is no other master who can better represent what is most characteristic of art in the U.S. A pioneer in representing 'unpaintable' American subjects, he provides a bridge from the Ashcan School to the decade...
...Modern knew about Lowry, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) father of two teenage daughters, long before then. MOMA Curator William Seitz (now at Brandeis) had been impressed by a contemporary-art exhibit, "The Object Makers," that Lowry staged while chairman of the art department at Pomona College from 1959 to 1963. Lowry is frank about what he considers the Modern's primary problem today: "It has suffered from being too successful...
...next September's Sao Paulo Bienal, the U.S. will be represented by such pop artists as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. But by startling contrast, William Seitz, former curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who picked the entries, opted for a real grandpop to stage the major U.S. one-man show: Edward Hopper, 84, an old master of realism whose cityscapes go back to his association with the "Ashcan" realists. When someone suggested that Hop might be a bit old-fashioned to be keeping such company, Seitz snapped: "It would be ridiculous to eliminate the best...
...Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three other trustees who direct the corporation that was set up in 1952 by Marshall Field III. They are George B. Young, a lawyer who is also corporation president; Edward I. Farley, who is senior vice president; and Howard Seitz, who has been legal counselor to the Field family for more than 20 years...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. From 700 artists, the Museum of Modern Art's William Seitz picked 26 painters and sculptors for this first major U.S. showing of contemporary Israeli art. Agam and Castel are well known here, but others, notably...