Art Museum News and Notes

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Art Museum News and NotesAuthor(s): Burt WassermanSource: Art Education, Vol. 15, No. 9 (Dec., 1962), pp. 18-19Published by: National Art Education AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3186891 .

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BURT WASSERMAN

ART MUSEUM

NEWS

AND

NOTES

Have You Heard?

The Allen Art Museum of Oberlin College (Ohio), has acquired its second painting by Paul Cezanne, a watercolor entitled "Provencal Landscape." It is the

gift of Paul Rosenberg and Company of New York and is on view with 19th century French master

drawings. The new acquisition was painted about 1890-94

and was probably done in the vicinity of Cezanne's home in Aix-en-Provence. A group of trees with

foliage dominates the left foreground. One large tree creates a strong accent at the right, sharply thrusting its long branch toward the center and thus linking the two parts of the composition. The gently sloping profile of the horizon beyond is suggested in a few telling brush strokes.

Until 1936 the landscape had been in the collection of Ambroise Vollard, Cezanne's dealer, then in various private collections in England until the 1950's, when the Rosenberg firm acquired it.

The selection of work for the University of Illinois' (at Urbana) 11th Exhibition of Contemporary Ameri- can Painting and Sculpture is currently under way. The exhibition will be on view in the spring of 1963 as part of the University's biennial Festival of Con-

temporary Arts. Some 12,000 to 15,000 works are considered by the

University's representatives in selecting about 150 to be displayed. Generally, one-third are by artists who have not shown in the exhibition before. The intention of the exhibition is to survey and report on what is taking place in contemporary American

painting and sculpture. No one direction is given premium over another. A special feature of the Illinois exhibits has been the catalogues, which have become

important as significant documents of 20th century art.

Burt Wasserman is an Associate Professor of Art at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New

Jersey.

In a move to expand its facilities, the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts has acquired a building adjacent to its main building in Detroit. The acquisition was announced by Walter B. Ford, II, president

To Show Your Own Recent Creative Work

Fourth Dixie Annual (Drawings, Graphics, Watercolors) March 1963. Write for prospects and entry forms to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 440 South McDonaugh St., Montgom- ery 4, Alabama. (Open only to residents of the 13-state area that comprised the Confederacy.) Area Artists Show (all media) February 1963. Write for prospectus and entry forms to the Sioux City Art Center, 617 Douglas St., Sioux

City, Iowa. (Open only to residents within a 50-mile radius of Sioux City.)

Society of American Graphic Artists 45th An-

nual Exhibition (all graphic media except mon-

otypes) February 18 to March 18. Entries due

January 11. Write to Society of American

Graphic Artists, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York

28, N. Y. (Open to residents of all states.) Brockton Art Association 6th Annual Show

(all media) March 1963. Write to Brockton Art

Assn., Box 533, Brockton, Massachusetts. (Open to residents of all states.)

Michigan Artist-Craftsmen Annual Exhibition

(Ceramics, Jewelry, Weaving, etc.) February 1963. Entries due by January 12, 1963. Write to Paul Grigaut, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Street, Detroit 2, Michigan (Open only to Michigan residents.)

Ultimate Concerns Exhibition (Prints and

Drawings) March 15-30, 1963. Entries due by February 21. Write to S. T. Niccolls, Director, Westminster Foundation, Ohio University, 18 N. College St., Athens, Ohio. (Open to residents of all states.)

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of the society's board of trustees, who said the addition will almost triple the school's total floor space. The

expansion was necessitated by the recent inauguration of a degree program in industrial design and the increase in enrollments at the school.

A recent publication describing many valuable school services, special programs, loan materials, guided tours and how to arrange for them, and so forth, is available free, on request, from George Sykes, Supervisor of Education at the New York Historical Society, Central Park West at 77th Street, New York 24, N. Y.

Shows Worth Seeing From December 7 to January 6, the Fine Arts

Gallery of San Diego, California, will present a re- creation of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition Art Exhibit in a show called "Modern American Paint- ing: 1915." Canvases by Bellows, Glackens, Sloan, Prendergast, and Henri may be seen.

The biennial exhibition, "Artists of Colorado Springs and Vicinity," will be on view through Janu- ary 15 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Colorado).

A visual and, potentially, gastronomic feast awaits the vision of visitors to the "Fates de la Palette" exhibition at the Delgado Museum of Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. The show will run through January 6. The works, some 80 pieces borrowed from museums in this country and abroad, trace the history of delights of the table from the 16th through the 18th century. Various aspects of the theme are reflected in paintings devoted to market place and shop, kitchen, meal preparation, the table and table setting, and to feasts and feasting. Furthermore, the exhibition will be laced throughout with decorative objects and notes on the recipes and manners of the times. The exhibition cata- log not only includes pictures and notes on the paintings but also 16th to 18th century Flemish, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish recipes as well.

December 6 to 30 marks the period of viewing the 25th Anniversary North Carolina Artists Show at the North Carolina Museum of Art at Raleigh.

Mr. Vincent W. Van Gogh, owner of one of the two major Van Gogh collections, has made available to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Michigan) a dis- tinguished group of world-renowned paintings done by his uncle, Vincent Van Gogh. The exhibition, made up of approximately 80 paintings and 60 watercolors and drawings, opens December 12 and closes Jan- uary 27, 1963. Usually this group of paintings is on loan to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Some of Van Gogh's most famous works such as The Potato Eaters, The Sunflowers, and Wheatfield with Crows will be included in the exhibit.

A major exhibition of 111 paintings and drawings by 19th century French landscapists may be seen at the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) through December 27. The show, titled "Barbizon Revisited," is on loan from the French government.

Since his tragic death in 1948, the reputation of Arshile Gorky has grown steadily. It is particularly sad that an artist of his considerable stature never lived to see the influences and impact that his work was to have on countless other artists. In my opinion, few painters have managed to realize the intense con- centration of expressive power, integrity, and richness of form that Gorky was able to achieve. And now, from December 19 to February 12, visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (New York) may see 60 oils and 50 watercolors and draw-

ings by this outstanding artist of our time. They are well worth every extra effort it may take to get to see them.

Such encounters between flesh and stone as Don Juan meeting his death at the hands of a marble statue and Pompey's statue bleeding while Caesar is stabbed at its base are the subjects of "The Stone Guest," an exhibition of prints currently on view through January, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (New York). The exhibition of

prints, drawings, and photographs, consists of more than 100 works from the Museum's collection, and ranges from the 15th to the 20th century.

This column winds up for this month with a salute to the Roberts Gallery of Santa Monica High School (California). The gallery is named in honor of Mrs.

Josephine Seaman Roberts who served as the first chairman of the art department at the high school until her retirement in 1954.

During her tenure, she made a strong and lasting contribution to a creative art education program which has gained wide recognition. Under Mrs. Rob- erts' leadership the first art gallery at the high school was established in 1937 during the W.P.A. recon- struction. To our knowledge, this is the only high school art gallery to have been in existence for twenty-five years.

As a result of the just-completed remodeling of the high school, the art department has a new and im- proved art gallery of professional status. Thus, they carry on the cultural traditions established by Mrs. Roberts.

The gallery presents a regular exhibition program which, of course, contributes qualitatively to the sig- nificance of art learning experiences enjoyed by the students there. While we have virtually infinite reser- vations about copying what others do, this may well be an idea that could stand being copied widely elsewhere.

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