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Art Museum News and NotesAuthor(s): Burt WassermanSource: Art Education, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan., 1963), pp. 14+19Published by: National Art Education AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3190604 .

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BURT WASSERMAN

art museum news and notes

Have You Heard?

Announcement was made in January 1962, shortly after the death of Louis E. Stern, eminent interna- tional attorney and art collector, that his collection of paintings, sculpture, graphic work, and Oriental, primitive, and Near Eastern art objects and his li- brary of art books would be given to a foundation bearing his name to stimulate art education. In June 1962, the trustees of the Stern Foundation announced that the Brooklyn Museum had been chosen for the first public showing of more than 225 works from the collection. The exhibition will be on view through March 10, 1963.

The exhibition includes works of great French, Italian, and American artists as well as unknown mas- ters of African, Indonesian, Mexican, Cambodian, In- dian, Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Egyptian, and Greek art. The following works are among those being exhibited: Rousseau's "Carnival Evening," Cezanne's "Madame Cezanne in The Conservatory," Modigliani's "La Polonaise," Redon's "Butterflies," Klee's "Three Houses," and Rouault's "Christ" and "Clown Fantastique."

Three sidelights are particularly fascinating: In Bonnard's oil, "Hommage a Maillol," there is a stand- ing nude by Maillol. The bronze of that Maillol piece is also in the Stern collection and is shown with the Bonnard painting. Another Maillol sculpture in bronze, "Leda," is in the still life, "Flowers with Leda," by Vuillard. Both of these works are in the exhibition as is Renoir's bronze plaque, "Dancer with Tambourine," and his original sketch for it.

Stern's friendship with Chagall is largely responsi- ble for his superb collection of Chagall's paintings, of which there are 10 in the show. Among them are "Blue Cow," "Purim Feast," and a somewhat ideal- ized "Self Portrait." In a letter to Chagall, Stern once wrote, "I have lived with my Chagall's and love them beyond almost any other pictures."

Among the works by Americans are Marin's "Cape Split, Maine 1941" and "Sunset" and Shahn's "Nearly Everyone Reads the Bulletin."

Prints and drawings by 20 artists range from

Burt Wasserman is an Associate Professor of Art at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N. J.

Ingres' 1840 "Study for the Mural: Golden Age" to Giacometti's 1958 pencil drawing, "Figure Study for Sculpture."

The show also presents 24 illustrated books selected from Stern's library. The illustrators of these valuable books of fiction and nonfiction are Bonnard, Braque, Manet, Matisse, Miro, Pascin, Picasso, Toulouse- Lautrec, and Villon.

To Show Your Creative Work Ninth Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show.

March 1963. Entries due February 15. Open to resi- dents of all states. Write for prospectus and entry forms to William Story, Art Gallery, Ball State Teach- ers College, Muncie, Indiana.

Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the American Color Print Society. March 1963. Entries due February 1, work by February 8. Open to residents of all states. Write for prospectus and entry forms to Ameri- can Color Print Society, Print Club, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia 3, Pennsylvania.

Ultimate Concerns Exhibition, Prints and drawings. March 15-30, 1963. Entries due February 21, work by March 1. Open to residents of all states. Write for prospectus and entry forms to S. T. Niccolls, director, Westminster Foundation, Ohio University, 18 North College Street, Athens, Ohio.

Shows Worth Seeing The Fifth International Hallmark Art Awards ex-

hibition will be shown in the Art Commission Gallery of the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge from January 13 to February 3. Beauty in Holiness, a show circu- lated by the Jewish Museum of New York City, will be at the Gallery until February 23.

From January 3 to January 24 the West Texas Museum in Lubbock will present the Ninety-Fifth An- nual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. The show will then travel to the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center for showing between February 7 and February 28.

A show that aroused much controversy when it was first exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art was Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure. NAEA mem- bers in Colorado may view this exhibition when it moves into the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in mid-January, where it will be until February 27.

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The Center will also display photography in the Fine Arts between February 17 and March 13.

Midwestern graphic arts buffs can see lithographs from the Tamari Workshop at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis from January 13 to February 17. Featured at the same time will be American Prints

Today, an exhibit being circulated by the Print Coun- cil of America.

Selections from The Garbisch Collection of Ameri- can Folk Art, one of the foremost private collections of its kind, may be seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum from January 15 until February 12.

An exhibition of approximately 45 etchings, litho- graphs, and woodcuts, entitled The Graphic Arts of the Post-Impressionist Period, will be displayed in the Print Gallery of the Detroit Institute of Arts, through January 27. The selection of graphic prints includes work by Sisley, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, and Renoir, but the main emphasis is upon the work of those men often referred to as Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Several interesting new galleries have opened in New York City's Greenwich Village. The Hilda Car- mel Gallery, 84 East Tenth Street, will be showing the work of Gail Cottingham until January 24 and oils by Henrietta Schoppel from January 25 to the middle of February.

The twentieth American Drawing Annual opened to the public early in January and may be seen until

January 27 at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. The works in the show were selected by Bartlett Hayes, author and director of the Addison

Gallery of American Art, from entries submitted by artists across the country.

The lens-aimed urban visions of three classic pho- tographers-Eugene Atget, Arnold Genthe, and Jacob Reis-will be presented between January 18 and Feb-

ruary 15 at A Photographer's Place, the photography division of the Kenmore Galleries in Philadelphia.

An exhibition of painting and sculpture, titled Some

Contemporary British Art, may be seen at the Cleve- land Museum until February 10. Artists represented are Armitage, Davie, Frost, Heron, Lanyon, Moore, Nicholson, Scott, and Sutherland. (One wonders why Barbara Hepworth and Reg Butler are not included.) Until February 24, visitors may also see Barbizon Revisited, an exhibit being circulated by the French Government Ministry of Culture.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is offering Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth (discussed a few months ago in this column) from January 17 through February 17.

One of the most stimulating competitive exhibitions open to American artists is the Corcoran Gallery,

Washington, D.C., Biennial of Contemporary Ameri- can Painting. The twenty-eighth show in this series, which includes 150 works executed within the past two years may be seen at the gallery between January 19 and March 3.

Art educators near Utica, New York, should look in on the Annual Exhibition of Central New York Artists at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. The show, which remains through February 3, includes paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, and drawings.

A Matter of Opinion The many college art departments who would like

to keep in better touch with their alumni might well follow the example of Queens College in New York City. In December 1962, at the Klapper Library Art Center on their campus, they presented a show titled Creative Teaching in the Schools: Art Work by Pupils of Queens College Alumni. From January 7 until February 13 they will be showing an exhibition of work by Department of Art alumni. This show will be followed by a regular program of exhibitions which will include work in various media from outside the institution as well as work by faculty members. There is being demonstrated here a recognition and a respect for the art teaching of alumni as well as their per- sonal creative art activity. It serves also as a focus of interest for alumni in-service professional growth.

Postscript Recently, the inaugural ball gown of Mrs. John F.

Kennedy was added to the Smithsonian Institution's display of dresses of the first ladies of the White House. Mrs. Kennedy's dress is of white peau d'ange with a beaded bodice, veiled with an overblouse of thin chiffon. Completing the costume is a full-length cape made of peau d'ange covered with several layers of chiffon.

The collection of dresses of the first ladies is one of the most popular exhibits in the Smithsonian. The first dress received for the collection was the inaugural gown of Mrs. William Howard Taft, the first lady in 1912. Other dresses were soon received from former first ladies and their descendants. The collection now contains a dress representing the administration of every president of the United States; from the Taft administration to the present day, each first lady has added a dress to the collection. The dresses are ex- hibited on plaster mannequins made to fit the indi- vidual dresses. The faces are alike, but the coiffure of each lady represented has been copied from a picture or portrait.

The collection is installed in a series of eight period settings that give the viewer an opportunity to see the dresses in the surroundings in which they were originally worn.

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