G. I. Art Show
IN ORDER TO give concrete illustration to three Great Issues Course lectures on the relation of the arts to society, an exhibit of unusual interest was prepared for display in the Carpenter Art Galleries from April 22 to May 1 through the cooperation of five New York galleries. Prepared under the direction of Prof. Churchill P. Lathrop with the assistance of several art majors, the exhibit had as its theme the freedom of the artist in a democratic society.
The exhibit was divided into two parts: (1) an explanatory group of reproductions, arranged to show the character and development of painting from naturalism to surrealism and (2) a group of 33 original modern paintings.
Included in the exhibit of modern paintings were the works of three Dartmouth alumni, Russell Cowles '09, Dantan W. Sawyer '33 and Paul Sample '20, artist-in-residence, and of Balcomb Greene, a former Dartmouth English instructor.
Others represented were George C. Ault, Leonora Carrington, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Lyonel Feininger, Vaughn Flannery, Bernard Karfiol, William A. V. Kienbusch, Jacob Lawrence, Loren Maclver, Rene Magritte, Ma-Pe-Wi, George L. K. Morris, Abraham Rattner, Frederic Remington, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan, Vernon Smith, Reuben Tam, Dorothy Varian, Max Weber, and Marguerite Zorach.
In addition to paintings from the Dartmouth College Collection, the exhibit included loans from A. P. Rosenberg & Co., The Downtown Gallery, C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art and the Pierre Matisse Gallery.
In his foreword to the exhibit, Professor Lathrop stated. "Our time is a period of great productivity in the art of painting. A very large number of artists are producing an astounding variety of pictures. Both the quality and the diversity of modern painting result from the rfelative freedom of the artist in a democratic society. He is free to create his picture and we are free to see it."
The lecture basis for the ekhibit were Great Issues talks by Prof. Allan H. Macdonald of Dartmouth on "The Revolution in the Arts" and by Prof. Theodore M. Greene of the Yale Philosophy Department on "The Arts and Human Values."
