Not to be Missed, Some Outstanding Current Art Events In the Flood of Recent Shows
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Not to be Missed, Some Outstanding Current Art Events In the Flood of Recent Shows
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A New York Times review of the exhibit "Magic of Flowers in Paintings" that benefited the Lenox Hill Association. Writen by Howard Devree.
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April 1954
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, APR
NOT TO BE MISSED
Some Outstanding Current Art Events In the Flood of Recent Shows
SPRING COMES TO A GALLERY
Since the spring season has been unusually heavy with several consecutive weeks presenting fouty to fifty exhibitions each, it may be well at thie relative breadhing space to look back for a moment and emphasize some of the more important events which the art minded public definitely should not miss in the welter of activities.
The most recent of these attractions is perhaps as serenely beautiful an event as one is likely to find in our distracted times -- selected flower painting of the last four centuries in a wonderfully colorful loan exhibition at the Wildenstein Galleries. Highly timely for the Easter season, this display brings together some eighty paintings from public and private collections -- the earliest a "Vase of Flowers" by Ludger Tom Ring, a German artist of the mid-sixteenth century, and another panel by Jan Breughel a century later, both still fresh and bright. The small center gallery is given over to the seventeenth century Dutch flower painters and their contemporaries -- space-filling compositions of the solidly and frankly decorative style so long in vogue as overmantel ornaments, heavy and naturalistic to modern eyes.
NOT TO BE MISSED
Some Outstanding Current Art Events In the Flood of Recent Shows
SPRING COMES TO A GALLERY
Since the spring season has been unusually heavy with several consecutive weeks presenting fouty to fifty exhibitions each, it may be well at thie relative breadhing space to look back for a moment and emphasize some of the more important events which the art minded public definitely should not miss in the welter of activities.
The most recent of these attractions is perhaps as serenely beautiful an event as one is likely to find in our distracted times -- selected flower painting of the last four centuries in a wonderfully colorful loan exhibition at the Wildenstein Galleries. Highly timely for the Easter season, this display brings together some eighty paintings from public and private collections -- the earliest a "Vase of Flowers" by Ludger Tom Ring, a German artist of the mid-sixteenth century, and another panel by Jan Breughel a century later, both still fresh and bright. The small center gallery is given over to the seventeenth century Dutch flower painters and their contemporaries -- space-filling compositions of the solidly and frankly decorative style so long in vogue as overmantel ornaments, heavy and naturalistic to modern eyes.
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“Not to be Missed, Some Outstanding Current Art Events In the Flood of Recent Shows,” Archives & Special Collections, accessed May 3, 2024, https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/omeka/items/show/2330.
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