Stuart PRESTON
12 articles
NEW MUSEUM IN MAINE; The Cultural Center in Rockland Is a Year Old
By Stuart PRESTON
STRAGGLING across a green headland that juts into Penobscot Bay, Rockland, Me., looks, at first glance, like any New England seaport that has grown and prospered without losing any of the individual flavor of a small town. Past and present meet in its seemingly endless Main Street, where late Victorian municipal buildings confront quick-lunch rooms; divide in the tree-shaded streets whose prim white and yellow clapboard houses simply ignore the Woolworth-Texaco civilization around the corner.
New York Times • page X6 • 618 words
EXHIBITION
Carvers-Modelers-Welders: A Selection of Recent American Sculpture
PUBLISHED
6 August 1950
AT TWO MODERN MUSEUMS; Realist to Abstract
By Stuart PRESTON
UNDER the title, "Carvers, Modelers, Welders," the Museum of Modern Art is showing a small selection of recent American sculpture, fourteen pieces by eleven artists who, with two exceptions, Harriet Moore and Charles Stevens, are familiar to gallerygoers.
New York Times • page X5 • 681 words
NEW TALENT ALONG WORN PATHS; VIGOROUS INTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE BY TWO AMERICAN PAINTERS
By Stuart PRESTON
EVERY now and again the Museum of Modern Art puts on a "New Talent" exhibition. The latest of these, comprising work by a painter, sculptor and a printmaker, is now being shown in the Penthouse, where members may otherwise solace themselves with sun and sandwiches.
New York Times • page X9 • 1,173 words
YEAR-END EXHIBITIONS; Church Vestments Designed by Matisse An Anniversary -- Art Awards
By Stuart PRESTON
THE richness, decorative power and invention that characterized Matisse's art through so many productive years were in no way diminished at the end of his life when bedridden, he fashioned final visual delights with scissors, paste and bits of colored paper.
New York Times • page X14 • 697 words
A DECADE OF DESIGN; Hand and Machine Problems of Display
By Stuart PRESTON
FOR the next two months the whole of the Museum of Modern Art's ground floor will be given over to "Textiles U.S.A.," one of the most lavish and imaginative exhibitions ever installed here and the first to be devoted exclusively to American fabric design.
New York Times • page X6 • 736 words
Adventures of Contemporary Artists Both From Home and Abroad
By Stuart PRESTON
PLACING a premium on originality often pays off for the connoisseur or speculator. But it does mean missing an honorable and unadventurous artist like the American impressionist painter William S. Horton (1865-1936), whose long and active career is surveyed in an exhibition at Hirschl Adler's.
New York Times • page X13 • 808 words
NEW SEASON WARMS UP
By Stuart PRESTON
WHILE museums and galleries are slowly taking off their wraps for the 1961-62 season a veritable Mount Everest of a summit meeting of scholars, art historians and teachers is taking place this week in New York.
New York Times • page X27 • 550 words
Art: Positive Nonobjective Statements; Frank Roth Paintings Seen at Borgenicht's Works by John Kacere at the Allan Stone Recent Openings A Small Tour Farther Up the Avenue Stops on Fifty-seventh Museums
By Stuart PRESTON
A CRUCIAL dividing line in nonobjective painting sep arates the sterile (even if attractive) decorative composition that fulfills its role in enlivening an architectural scheme, from composition that evidences personal tension between the artist and the ...
New York Times • page 16 • 1,135 words
Art: Figure Display at the Downtown; Contemporary Works Show Array of Wit Eleanor Lowman's Oils at the Sagittarius
By Stuart PRESTON
A MASSIVE reminder that the figure was treated obliquely and deviously in twentieth-century American painting and sculpture many years before the existence of the Museum of Modern Art is contained in a big exhibition,
New York Times • page 22 • 1,155 words
TWO PRIVATE COLLECTORS IN A PUBLIC PLACE; Last Decade of Painting and Sculpture Surveyed in a Loan Show at Yale Of a Time and Place Setting Their Sights Picking and Choosing
By Stuart PRESTON
NEW HAVENS CONN. THE Yale University Art Gallery has this summer brought off a resounding coup by securing the temporary loan of two out standing collections of modern painting and sculpture, those formed by Susan Morse Hilles and by Richard Brown Baker.
New York Times • page 116 • 1,047 words
Reputations Made And in Making
By Stuart PRESTON
FITTING tribute to a remarkable connoisseur, the late John S. Newberry, is paid at the Museum of Modern Art in a memorial exhibition of drawings he presented to it. This attractive and varied small anthology represents no more than a fraction of the Newberry collection, now largely elsewhere.
New York Times • page X23 • 748 words
Art: Museum's Giacometti Exhibition; Sculpture and Pictures Show Development 140 Works Represent 40 Years of Career
By Stuart PRESTON
THE qualities that have made Alberto Giacometti an outstanding figure in modern art can be comprehensively appreciated in the major retrospective of his sculpture, paintings and drawings opening today at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page 44 • 486 words