Howard DEVREE
35 articles
EXHIBITION
National Exhibition of Art by the Public Works of Art Project
PUBLISHED
18 September 1934
PUBLIC WORKS ART SHOWN AT EXHIBIT; Three Floors of Museum Are Given Over to Results of National Project. AMERICAN SCENE IS THEME Oils, Water-Colors, Sculptures and Sketches for Murals in Varied Display.
By Howard DEVREE
Beginning tomorrow, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to see for themselves a selected group of oils, water-colors, sculptures and sketches for murals produced in the Public Works of Art Project. The Museum of Modern Art has assembled them -- three floors of them -- for its first Fall show.
New York Times • page 19 • 678 words
EXHIBITIONS
- Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan
- Summer Exhibition: Project for a Community Center by Architects, Painters, and Sculptors Collaborative
PUBLISHED
27 June 1937
MUSEUM IN NEW QUARTERS; Summer Show Selected to Illustrate Diverse Phases of Modern Art
By Howard DEVREE
DESPITE the necessity of moving only a few days earlier, a task of no small proportions and beset with many complexities, the Museum of Modern Art opened on schedule last week its Summer exhibition of paintings, sculpture, architecture and other material from the permanent collections, supplemented by important loans from private collections.
New York Times • page 143 • 1,209 words
THEATRE DESIGNS PUT ON EXHIBITION; Modern Museum Shows Prize Architectural Works for College in South THREE PLANS GET AWARDS Five Others Receive Mention in National Theatre and Academy Competition
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public today an exhibition of prize-winning architectural designs in the recent competition for a festival theatre and fine arts building for the campus of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
New York Times • page 25 • 530 words
A REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK; Brief Comment on Some of the Recently Opened Shows in Museum and Gallery
By Howard DEVREE
SUMMER group exhibitions continued to bulk largest on the calendar as the New York art world prepared for the hot season doldrums. A number of diverse and interesting shows opened last week, including oils and watercolors by French and American artists at Kraushaar's, the annual Summer show at Rehn's, a group retrospective at the No. 10 Gallery and two traveling exhibitions not previously seen in New York at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page X7 • 748 words
A REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK; Brief Comment on Some of the Recently Opened Group and One-Man Shows
By Howard DEVREE
LUNCHING exhibitions in quick succession this season, the Museum of Modern Art opened two more last week, both consisting of examples from its own collections. One of these is of the museum's "primitives," with ten recent acquisitions.
New York Times • page X10 • 1,403 words
A REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK; Comment on Recent Paintings by Cowles, Bohrod, Pleissner and Others
By Howard DEVREE
SEVERAL really outstandings shows of paintings by contemporary American artists helped to make last week exceptional in the galleries. Recent work by Russell Cowles, on view at Kraushaar's, is far ahead of anything he has previously shown, either from his Santa.
New York Times • page X10 • 1,172 words
4 MUSEUMS OPEN SPECIAL DISPLAYS; Defense Posters Are Offered in an Exhibition at the Riverside Galleries WHITNEY VARIES SHOW Remington's Art of the West Is at Metropolitan -- Hogarth Prints at Brooklyn
By Howard DEVREE
The Fall art season may now regarded as officially begun, since four New York museums opened special exhibitions yesterday and a fifth is to open still another show on Friday. The Riverside Museum is starting its fifth year with a large and timely display of war and defense posters from the United Nations.
New York Times • page 20 • 876 words
A REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK
By Howard DEVREE
DESCRIBED as "The First American Modern," a hitherto unheralded and almost unknown painter, T. Chambers, is currently being presented at the Macbeth Gallery. For six years Albert Duveen and Norman Hirschl have been combing up-State New York for the score of pictures assembled.
New York Times • page X9 • 887 words
TO SHOW PAINTINGS BY M. HIRSCHFIELD; Display of Thirty Primitives Will Open Today at the Modern Art Museum
By Howard DEVREE
Thirty "primitive" paintings by Morris Hirshfield of Brooklyn constitute the exhibition which opens today in the ground floor galleries of the Museum of Modern Art. This is a "retrospective" exhibition including all the work Mr. Hirshfield has done in this field in the five or six years since retiring at the age of 65, after two decades or more of work in the cloak and suit business and as a slipper manufacturer.
New York Times • page 19 • 365 words
A REVIEWER'S NOTES; Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions, Chiefly Contemporary
By Howard DEVREE
CONTEMPORARY work with a decidedly modern slant took possession of the exhibition schedule last week, all but a few of the score of shows I visited being well within that category. At least three of the shows, were unquestionably American, and these we may take up briefly first.
New York Times • page X8 • 1,147 words
DIVERSE ONE-MAN SHOWS; In Various Veins
By Howard DEVREE
RECENT gouaches by Stuart Edie, at the Ferargil, are so good that one wishes they were just a little better. In a modest foreword to the catalogue Edie says they "picture a result of things seen, experienced with little cerebration involved."
New York Times • page X7 • 818 words
BY GROUPS
By Howard DEVREE
A SUMMER exhibition of painting's by French and American artists has opened at the Wildenstein Galleries. "Melting Snow at I'Estaque," seen in the recent Cezanne show, renews its appeal and suggests that that French master certainly influenced Vlaminck.
New York Times • page X6 • 523 words
WORK BY BROTHERS DUE AT MODERN ART; Show of Sculpture by Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner to Open Today at Museum
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art is opening to the public today an exhibition of work by two brothers, Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, who were pioneers in what has come to be known as constructivist sculpture. The earliest piece shown dates from 1913; the latest from 1947.
New York Times • page 25 • 408 words
MODERN ART SHOWS BONNARD PAINTINGS; Retrospective Display Includes Graphic Work by Colorist -Opens to Public Today
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public today a retrospective exhibition of paintings and graphic work by Pierre Bonnard. More than eighty oils, a group of water-colors, a score of drawings, another score of lithographs and illustrations for books have been assembled to attest the fruitfulness of the career of this great French colorist, who died last year just before reaching 80.
New York Times • page 25 • 320 words
PERSONAL CHOICES; Examples in Collections In a Summer Show
By Howard DEVREE
SELECTED examples from six private collections of contemporary art have been placed on view at the Museum of Modern Art. The paintings, sculpture and collages are not only indicative of the personal tastes of the collectors but also present, taken together, a miniature cross section of the modern movement.
New York Times • page X8 • 453 words
NEW ART PROJECT OPENS AT MUSEUM; Show of War Veterans' Work, Directed by Victor D'Amico, Will Go on View Today
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public today an exhibition which looks backward on a museum activity that has closed and looks forward to an enlargement of the activities in a new project. The exhibition consists of painting, drawing, sculpture, woodworking, ceramics and design executed in classes of the War Veterans Art Center during the four years which ended on June 30.
New York Times • page 21 • 423 words
THE SEASON OPENS; Museums and Galleries Resume Activities
By Howard DEVREE
THE 1948 art season got under way last week with activities at the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art and the Morgan Library; a group annual, two outstanding sculpture shows and a variety of other events.
New York Times • page X9 • 948 words
PROLIFIC SCULPTOR; Nadelman in Retrospect -- Heliker and Hirsch
By Howard DEVREE
AMONG the events of the most crowded week of the season thus far -- some thirty-five were on the calendar -- the Museum of Modern Art opened an exhibition of sculpture by Elie Nadelman. Some forty pieces, together with drawings, have been assembled by Lincoln Kirstein, who has been at work for two years sorting and arranging the thousand examples the sculptor left behind at his death two years ago.
New York Times • page X9 • 1,051 words
TIMELESS OR MODERN?; Museum Raises Questions In Show -- Other Events
By Howard DEVREE
ONE historian begins the modern movement with Cezanne, a second with the struggle between the classicists and romanticists at the outset of the nineteenth century and a third begins his consideration of modern art with Rubens.
New York Times • page X9 • 1,168 words
TODAY'S AMERICANS; The Museum of Modern Art's Collection -- Artists' Gift to Israel's Museums EXTREMES IN THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
By Howard DEVREE
CURRENT museum exhibitions present an extraordinary opportunity for surveying contemporary American painting. Last week the Museum of Modern Art placed on view in its third-floor galleries about half of the American examples in its permanent collection -- some 150 examples by more than a hundred artists.
New York Times • page X11 • 1,258 words
RETROSPECT OF CAREER; Kokoschka's Development Through Forty Years
By Howard DEVREE
THE retrospective exhibition of work by the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka which has opened at the Museum of Modern Art does considerably more than bring before us an artist's development. In fact, the exhibition seems to me much less important in itself at the moment than for what it reveals of the art of our period.
New York Times • page X6 • 825 words
DOUBLE EXHIBITION IN MODERN MUSEUM; 13 Recently Acquired Paintings Share Honors With Stieglitz and Atget Photographs
By Howard DEVREE
A double exhibition of recent acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art will open to the public today. One part includes thirteen paintings by European and American...
New York Times • page 27 • 410 words
EXHIBITION
New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Drumlevitch, King, Parker
PUBLISHED
28 April 1950
EXPERIMENT IN ART BEGUN BY MUSEUM; Painters Not Seen Here Before in Major Exhibitions Show Wares in Modern's Test
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art is opening an experimental series of exhibitions designed primarily to bring to the attention of members the work of artists who have not held major exhibitions in New
New York Times • page 19 • 392 words
TWO BIG ANNUALS; OUTSTANDING PAINTINGS IN A BIG ANNUAL
By Howard DEVREE
TWO big group exhibitions which opened last week, one in Philadelphia and the other in New York, demonstrated several things in common. In the annual of the Penn- ...
New York Times • page 89 • 1,060 words
GRAPHIC ARTS SHOW OPENS HERE TODAY; Modern Museum to Exhibit Prints, Posters by Picasso, Redon, French Symbolist
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art Will open to the public today a double show of graphic art. Prints, posters and book illustrations present the immense diversity of Picasso's graphic output over fifty years. A comprehensive selection of the lithographs and drawings by Odilon Redon, the French symbolist and pre-surrealist artist from 1870 to the early Nineteen Hundreds, provides the material for the other half of this unusually interesting exhibition.
New York Times • page 25 • 485 words
EXHIBITION
New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Elliott, Powers, Rogalski, Summers
PUBLISHED
14 May 1952
MODERN MUSEUM SHOWS NEW TALENT; Fourth Exhibition in the Series Offers Paintings, Engravings and Woodcuts in Color
By Howard DEVREE
The Museum of Modern Art opens today the fourth in its series of new talent exhibitions. Four artists are represented -- Philip Elliott, director the Albright Art School in Buffalo, and Gorman Powers, formerly of Chicago and now residing at Croton Falls, N. Y., both painters; Walter Rogalski of Glen Cove, L. I., represented by engravings, and Carol Summers of New York, who is showing woodcuts, mostly in color.
New York Times • page 32 • 398 words
PERSONAL COLLECTION; Museum of Modern Art Shows French Work
By Howard DEVREE
New York Times • page X7 • 1,125 words
BY FRENCH MASTERS; The Metropolitan Shows Wertheim Collection
By Howard DEVREE
OUTSTANDING nineteenth and twentieth century French paintings, drawings and sculpture in the collection of the late Maurice Wertheim, eventually to go to the Fogg Museum, have been lent by Mrs. Wertheim for the summer for display at the Metropolitan where they are installed in two of the special exhibition galleries.
New York Times • page X6 • 772 words
SPENCER REVALUED; Museum of Modern Art Opens Notable Show
By Howard DEVREE
DESPITE the fact that all his relatively small output was acquired for public or private collections, the late Niles Spencer did not in life have the wider recognition he merited. The artist whose work does not demand partisan recognition for strict adherence to tradition nor through impact of violent novelty is very likely to find himself in this situation.
New York Times • page X6 • 823 words
SEASON FORECAST; Local Museum Programs For Next Year
By Howard DEVREE
SO far as museum plans may be taken into account, next season should provide the New York art world with a year of reappraisal. For most of the exhibitions thus far scheduled are group exhibitions with a sober retrospective cast.
New York Times • page X4 • 567 words
About Art and Artists; Controversial Works of Giacometti to Be Shown Today at Guggenheim Museum
By Howard DEVREE
THE first comprehensive museum exhibition of sculpture, painting and drawing by Alberto Giacometti will open today to the public at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue. James Johnson Sweeney, director, has assembled forty-seven pieces of sculpture, twenty-four paintings and a score of drawings by this controversial sculptor, covering his production from 1925 to the present.
New York Times • page 24 • 633 words
IN VEINS OF TODAY; Two Group Exhibitions Vital and Varied In Many Styles Museum Additions
By Howard DEVREE
YEAR by year the exhibitions of work by candi dates for grants through the National Institute of Arts and Letters take on a more contemporary--not to say "modern"--look. This time the show of painting, sculpture and ...
New York Times • page X11 • 785 words
MATURE MODERNS; Matta and David Smith In Museum Shows A Nightmare World Uncompromising Form Variety and Experiment
By Howard DEVREE
FOR its series of exhibitions entitled "Artists in Mid Career" the Museum of Modern Art could hardly have selected two mature craftsmen in greater contrast than the Chilean-born ...
New York Times • page X11 • 890 words
CRISIS AVERTED; Museum Damage is Cut by Prompt Action -- Our Art for Overseas
By Howard DEVREE
AFTER the first dismay over the fire at the Museum of Modern Art, second thought must emphasize the good fortune that the damage was so restricted. For this the devotion and efficiency of the museum staff with volunteer aid cannot be too highly praised.
New York Times • page X11 • 777 words
EXHIBITIONS
PUBLISHED
12 October 1958
MUSEUM REOPENS; Notable Additions to the Collections -- Jean Arp's Work Over the Years
By Howard DEVREE
WITH three diverse exhibitions at once the Museum of Modern Art has signalized its reopening. Closed for months to permit extensive interior reconstruction, it had left a void in the art world which had been felt acutely especially during the lean summer months.
New York Times • page X18 • 831 words