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Among the oldest, most conservative of Manhattan art marts is the Knoedler Galleries. Last week its suave brown velvet walls burgeoned with weird birds, impossible flowers, strange writhing figures wrought from paint so thick that it seemed as much sculpture as painting. Art critics, society reporters and psychiatrists hurried over to see them for three reasons: Brilliant color and an unquestioned sense of design make them worthy of serious attention as works of art. They were painted by the third wife of wealthy Irving Ter Bush. Mrs. Bush insists that they are "automatic paintings" produced under occult control...
Vivacious, sagacious, Describe a publisher's daughter, True blue and gracious Oh, bless the Gods who wrought...
...play in his neat, polished style. Chopin and Brahms showed him expertly romantic. Liszt exercised his strong, fleet fingers. But none of these great ones overshadowed the man named Bennett. He contributed four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed more futile than...
Wilde had persuaded him to try his fortune in London. "Art is art because it is not nature," he had believed, but there was a change wrought by those days, forty years ago. He moved in Wilde's circle and learned that it did not matter whether the sun went round the earth, or the earth round the sun. The patriots seized upon him, and his was the "Celtic" art. Today he is at Leverett House, today he is in Boston...
...Germany, walked down a crooked little street, and glancing through the window of a dingy old house glimpsed the perfection of a marvelous orchid. Because Professor Goodale was interested in botany he looked again and longer, and to his amazement found that the orchid was glass, so finely wrought that the most minute inspection revealed no flaw. It was then and there that the famous Harvard collection of glass flowers began...