John CANADAY
18 articles
EVOLUTION OF A PUBLIC; The Audience Created for Modern Art May in Turn Be on the Point of Redirecting That Art
By John CANADAY
ORDINARILY, the exhibition of fifty-nine works of art purchased by various people from the Museum of Modern Art's Lending Service, an exhibition that opened Wednesday, would warrant only an appreciative paragraph or two in this column.
New York Times • page X17 • 1,093 words
Comprehensive Landscape Show Opens Today at the Modern Museum
By John CANADAY
THE Monet exhibition announced some months ago by the Museum of Modern Art opens today under the title "Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments." It is worth the wait -- a good show that should please everybody, from those who expect of Monet only beautifully tinted pictures of London, Venice and the French countryside to those who are interested in Monet -- as the museum is -- as a tributary force in contemporary painting.
New York Times • page 29 • 583 words
Five Centuries of Drawings Share A Common Romantic Denominator
By John CANADAY
VISITORS to exhibitions have become accustomed to spotting particularly appealing drawings and finding on them the name of Walter C. Baker as lender. The common denominator of Mr. Baker's collection, which went on exhibition at the Metropolitan last Thursday, is a combination of elegance and romantic sensibility.
New York Times • page X16 • 1,119 words
IS LESS MORE, AND WHEN FOR WHOM?; Rothko Show Raises Questions About Painters, Critics and Audience
By John CANADAY
MARK ROTHKO, who is the subject of a large exhibition that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art, is a Russian-born American painter who for the last ten years has devoted his energy to painting hazy-edged rectangles of color that float in space of another color, in the manner of the illustration below.
New York Times • page X17 • 1,032 words
LOPLOP THE WATERWITCH; Max Ernst Remains a Master Diviner in Retrospective
By John CANADAY
MAX ERNST, whose retrospective exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art Wednesday, is an artist who gives the impression, of having been diverted from a profession for which he was born -- that of biologist, or of optometrist, or of wandering minstrel -- by a hobby that took over his life.
New York Times • page X17 • 1,257 words
U.S.A., CURRENT AND REVIVED; The Whitney and The Museum of Modern Art in Tandem
By John CANADAY
WITH the art season developing the first signs of a limp as it draws toward a close, the handsomest temporary exhibition in New York last week was a bed of scarlet tulips (Tulipa Fosteriana Emperor) in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page X15 • 1,132 words
EXHIBITIONS
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23 July 1961
TRUE STORY, HAPPY ENDING; 200 Drawings: Their Trip From Verona To Michigan
By John CANADAY
THE current futurism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art is studded through with painting and sculpture on loan from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston of Birmingham, Mich., and one entire section is composed of drawings and graphic works from their collection by Umberto Boccioni, the central figure of the movement.
New York Times • page X9 • 1,106 words
Art Out of Anything
By John CANADAY
FIFTY years ago come next May, Pablo Picasso pasted a bit of oil cloth into a painting and wrapped a length of rope around the border for a frame. As he so often does, Picasso had started something. During the last half-century, artists have made pictures out of paper scraps and have built sculpture from just about anything that can be made to hold together with something else. The contribution?
New York Times • page SM52 • 490 words
AN ART ALMANAC; If the Stars Have Anything to Do With It, 1961 Holds Lessons for 1962
By John CANADAY
THE Farmer's Almanac, a helpful publication for anyone who wants to know when to prune, plant and harvest crops, also supplies side information for individuals eager to conduct their lives in accordance with the fish and game laws, auto laws, postal laws, and the influences of the stars.
New York Times • page X14 • 1,677 words
Art: 39 Steps from Mission House to Boutique
By John CANADAY
New York Times • page 145 • 1,242 words
Art; Lyonel Feininger and Jim Dine in Two for the Road
By John CANADAY
THE Museum of Modern Art has mounted a couple of new exhibitions about the size of after-dinner mints and just as refreshing. Both were organized as circulating exhibitions and, as is the museum's custom, are making their debuts at the parent institution.
New York Times • page 105 • 1,002 words
Art: The Pleasures of Everyday Life; Impressionists on View at the Acquavella
By John CANADAY
BY impressionism's record as a popular attraction over the last 20 or 30 years, the current exhibition at the Acquavella Galleries in new quarters at 18 East 79th Street should be the best-loved exhibition in town.
New York Times • page 33 • 1,047 words
Delightful, Which Is No Surprise
By John CANADAY
THE FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART at 62-64 East 78th Street, and the Museum of Modern Art -- you know where that is -- are currently offering drawing exhibitions that, considering the disparity of dates (old masters in one case, 20th-century masters plus some living semi-masters in the other) are not too disharmonious to be wrapped up in a single package, which we will do forthwith, Finch first.
New York Times • page D31 • 1,032 words
Art: Engaging Prints by Jasper Johns
By John CANADAY
Although the exhibition that opened Tuesday at the Museum of Modern Art is called "Jasper Johns: Lithographs," it is anything but a line-up of prints. What with modifications in ink, pencil, chalk, paint and collage on working proofs, and variations in paper and color that transform some of the stones from impression to impression, these prints have the variety and intimacy of drawings.
New York Times • page 8 • 469 words
Show of Schwitters's Art Has Sparkle -- And Irony
By John CANADAY
The Museum of Modern Art's new Kurt Schwitters exhibition, which opened Monday and will close Sept. 10, is a sparkling show that points up, perhaps without meaning to, the major irony and half a dozen other contradictions upon which this formidable 20th-century reputation rests.
New York Times • page 17 • 474 words
A Nice Show and Some Pleasant Reflections; Art
By John CANADAY
THE Museum of Modern Art hasn't been making much noise lately, which only proves that in spite of an error here, an error there, and a couple of bang-up bloopers in its recent history, everything is under control again.
New York Times • page 25 • 969 words