Lenin, Rockefeller and Diego Rivera (The Literay Digest, 1933)When it was made known to Nelson Rockefeller that the muralist he retained to decorate the lobby of his New York Building (Rockefeller Plaza) had taken the liberty of painting the likeness of Lenin in the work, letters were exchanged between the two men. The attached column is an excerpt from a longer piece that pertains to the dust-up.
Ben Shahn ('48 Magazine, 1948)A magazine article about the artist Ben Shahn (1898 – 1969) and his particular approach to making art:
"A fundamental of Ben Shahn's philosophy insists that there should be a minimum of separation between the private and the public work of art. He believes that the painter should speak with the same voice in the room and in the street. He is pleased by the criticism that his posters sometimes look like fragments of murals..."
This review was penned by James Thrall Soby (1906 – 1979), art historian and critic who wrote two monographs on the artist.
Isamu Noguchi (Creative Arts Magazine, 1933)A profile of the twenty-eight year old artist Isamu Noguchi (1904 – 1988).
Stuart Davis: Thirty Years of Evolution (Art Digest, 1945)A review of the Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964) retrospective that opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1945. The artist referred to his influences:
"In my own case I have enjoyed the dynamic American scene for many years, and all my pictures (including the ones I painted in Paris) are referential to it. They all have their originating impulse in the impact of [the]contemporary American environment. Some of the things that have made me want to paint , outside the other paintings, are: American wood and iron work of the past, the brilliant colors of gasoline stations, chain-store fronts, and taxicabs. ..In one way or another the quality of these things plays a role in determining the character of my painting..."
The Women of Reginald Marsh ('47 Magazine)
New York Exhibit for Le Corbusier (Art Digest, 1946)A brief art review from 1946 announcing an exhibition of paintings, drawings, photographs, architectural plans and models by the modern architect Le Corbusier (né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, 1887 – 1965) at the Mezzanine Gallery in Rockefeller Center.
"Along with Ozenfant, Le Corbusier invented Purism. The earliest painting in the collection, and the only one of that period (1920), which is familiar to art audiences as part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art."
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