"Rock Drawing," a 1956 term cotta sculpture by Reuben Nakian of Stanford has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and is currently on view in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11 West $3 Street, Hew York City*
Feinting and sculpture by artists of 12 nationalities are included in the exhibition, which constitutes one of the Museum's periodic reports to the public on works purchased or acquired by gift*
Nakian's 10* high "Rock Drawing* is one of many similar pieces made as studies while the artist was w orklng on the very large steel construction,
"The Rape of Lucrece*1* which is on extended loan to the Museum* Two of his works were included in the exhibition "Recent Sculpture USA" held at the
Museum during the summer of 19$9* Kaldan was born in Hew York City in 1897*
The exhibition which was selected and installed by Alfred H. Barr, Jr«,
Director of Collections, will remain on view through January 31*
Checklist of the exhibition is enclosed* For additional information, please contact Elisabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 HE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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Special to Brooklyn iiailyi
"Conatanza", a 1958 painting by George McNeil of Brooklyn has recently
been acquired by the Muaeuxn of Modern Art and is on view through January 31st
in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11 West 53rd Street. It is the first
work by the jl year old artist to enter the Collection.
The exhibition, selected and installed by Alfred H# Barr, Jr. Director
of Collections, constitutes one^f the Museum's periodic reports to the
public on works purchased or acquired by gift. The £3 paintings and
sculptures are installed on the first floor along with a model of the
proposed new wing placed on view November 17th for the opening of the
Museum's 30th Anniversary Fund Raising Drive for additional space and for
program funds.
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For phetos and additional information contact Elizabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, New York*
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Special to .brooklyn Dailyt
"Constanza", a 1958 painting by George McNeil of Brooklyn has recently
been acouired by the Museum of Modern Art and is on view through January 31st
in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11 Wast 53rd Street. It is the first
work by the Si year old artist to enter the Collection.
The exhibition, selected and installed by Alfred H. Barr, Jr* Director
of Collections, constitutes one^f the Museum's periodic reports tot ha
public on works purchased or acquired by gift. The 53 paintings and
sculptures are installed on the first floor along with a modal of the
proposed new wing placed on view November 17th for the opening of the
Museum's 30th Anniversary Fund Raising Drive for additional space and for
program funds.
For photos and additional information contact Elizabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 21 Wast 53rd Street, New York, New York*
Annotated Checklist is enclosed. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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*rrhre*tcned Game" « lo$o painting toy the 39 y*ar ©14 Qw Iataster, of Amsterdam has recently been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art end le on view throu^i January 31 in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11 West 53 Street, New York City. This le the first work by the artist to enter the Collection. Latasfcer nee a friend and fellow student of the slightly younger and better- known Karel Appel* When Appel left for Paris in 1950 Iataster remained in Am sterdam* In "Threatened Oame" a child at the rlgit holds a ball above hie heed as he tumbles backward fro* the red flans and black smoke of a bomb. The exhibition, selected and installed by Alfred H. Barr, «Jr*, Director of Collections, constitutes one of the Museum's periodic reports to the public on works purchased or acquired by gift* The 53 paintings and sculptures ere installed on the first floor along with a model of the proposed new wing placed on view November 17 for the opening of the Museum* s 30th Anniversary Fund Raising Drive for additional space and for program funds* e«*##*«*««#****#«***e
Additional information and photographs are available from Elisabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Hew York, Mew York* GX 5-6900.
Aa annotated checklist and background material on the Museum of Modern Art and the Netherlands are enclosed* «*****tt«*##*e***e««* THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK 79 »»•"••-•'••» TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 5-8900
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Special to Swiss Newspapers:
Four recently acquired works by Swiss artists are on view through January 31st
in a special exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West lS3rd Street, New
York City. "Sculpture Number 18" by Hungarian born Zolton Kemeny (b» 1907)
of Zurich and Paris, the forged iron "Ex Veto" by 39 year old Robert Muller
of Paris and "Hutching Egg", a motorized construction by 36 year old Jean
Tinguely, also of Paris, are the first works by these artists to enter the
Museum's Collection. Also on view is a bronze "Dog" by the Parisian Alberto
Giacometti (b* 1901). This is the sixth sculpture by Giacometti to be
acquired by the Museum which also owns one of his paintings, a poster and a
number of prints and illustrations.
The exhibition,selected and installed by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Diredtor
of Collections, constitutes one of the Museum's periodic reports toythe
public on works purchased or acquired by gift. The 53 paintings and sculptures
are installed on the first floor along with a model of the proposed new
wing placed on view November 17th for the opening of the Museum's 30th
Anniversary Fund Raising Drive for additional space and program funds.
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Annotated Checklist enclosed. fRE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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A psinting entitled "Two takes" by an unknown contemporary aboriginal artist from Oroote Bylandt, Australia, haa baan acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and la on view through January 31 In a special exhibition at the Mua**um, 11 West 53 Street, New York City. The 1?55 work la of colored clay over eharcoal on eucalyptus bark* Other Australian artists whose paintings are included in the Moeeun Collection are William Constable, Sidney Holan, Charlee Roderick Purvea-Staitb, and Albert Tucker* The exhibition, selected and installed by Alfred Hi Barr, «Jr», Director of Collections, constitutes one of the Museum1© periodic reports to the public on works purchased or acquired by gift* The 53 paintings and sculpturea are installed on the first floor along with a model of the proposed new wing placed on view
ltor«berl7 for the openly of the NIM*. 30th AmdwrH^r Fund Raising Drive for additional space and for program funds*
Additional info matt on and photographs are available from Elisabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City* CI 5-S900* THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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«Aix^Ll£it^%*datr% a 191$ sculpture by Max Weber (b* 1861) of Greet Neck, has been acquired by the Museum of Modem Art and la currently on view in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11 Vest 53 Street, Ifstr York City, The exhibition of painting and sculpture by artists of 12 nationalities constitutes one of the Museum* s periodic reports to the public on works purchased or acquired by gift*
Weber's polychromed plaster sculpture, one of several done in 1915, represents an extraordinarily early date for this degree of abstraction* It is the first sculpture by the artist to be acquired by the Museum which owns 20 of his paintings as well aa a drawing, prints and illustrations* The exhibition, selected and installed by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., will remain on view throng, January 31.
Checklist of the exhibition is encloaed. For additional information, please contact Elisabeth Shaw, Publicity Director, Museum of Modern Art, 11 Wast 53 Street, New York City. CI 5-8900.
Sent to: Bernadette Fisher Carol Thirer Newsday L. I. Star Garden City, It. I. 1 Star Square L- I. City, New ]fork Art Editor * L*I • Press Jamaica, L.I. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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Faear reeently enquired pelntlage and enulpturee by British artiste are eurrently
em tiw in a special exhibition at the MOMOI of Modern Art, 11 Hast SJ Street, 0 ftw Tork City. «Oirl with Bar* Shoulders" (c# 19W) by Oven MM (1B76-193 ) and "Meeting Flees,* 1957 abstraction toy iia-yeer old Bryan Wynter of Cornwall are tha first paintings tegr theee artiata to enter tha eollaotlon. T» l#i© bronaa nadaa toy the faaous Aanrlooa-born sculptor Sir Jacob fipeteia <1£0«5~19SSO have baas given to tha Wlmua^ which owns three of the artists' aarllar works* Tha exhibition, wtdatt Inolnrtoi painting and sculpture toy artists of 12 mtionelitles, oonstltntss ona of tha ffriooun* • periodic reports to tha public on works purchased or esquired
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lata nineties, and than with ^bietlsr in Paris* Jaaab ISpsteln Is jspisionftstf by two moll and intensely vital bronaa inrtati
waa bora In tha United States in 1880, worked In London fron 1$0$ until his death
tha ajchlblttoa will roaalii an view through January 31 •
A ohaaklist of tha exhibition and Heskgrewnd lafomatioa on tha Mnason of Modem Art awl Great Britain la encloeed. far additional infemotion, please eoataat lUaabatli Sbsw, Publicity Director, toumm of Madam Art, 11 Moat $3 Street, Maw York City, CI 5-690O* THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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Socently acquired work* by eight French artists are currently on view in * special exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 Wort &*d Street, sew York City* Paintings
07 Robert Dolauney (1&B$-I9lil)$ Maurice Dania (1870-191*3), Feraand Lager (l£fi5-19£S), Claude ?ionat (lBliO-1926) and Louis Valtat (1869-1952) are ahown along with recent works by three newcoaere to the collection, Roger Biaaiere (b. 1888), ffcdle Oilioli (b* 1911) and Csechoalovakian bom laroelav Serpen (b* 1922), all of whom live in Paris* The exhibition, which includes painting and sculpture by artists of 12 nationalities, constitutes one of the Museum's periodic reports to the public on worka purchased or acquired by gift*
Two of the French paintings ware also included along with seme premised gifts in
the special exhibition "Toward the Haw Museum of Modern Art9 which opened the Museum' a 30th Anniversary Fund Hal sing Drive November 17* These ara Claude Monet'e h2~foot long triptych entitled "%feter tlliea" (c* 1920) and Fernand Lager1a "Umbrella and Bowler*' (1926)* The current show includes two later canvases by Lager, "Mechanical Fragment" (1913-UO and "landscape with Tallow Sat" (1952)»
Of particular historical importance ia Maurice Denis» "Tha Pitcher" which anticipates cubist textures and clear contours of OaenfanVs Purist still lifss of 1920* Denis studied snd championed Gauguin'a ideas about 1890 and later, with Vuillard and Bonnerd, helped form the Mebi group* He was one of the best French art critica of his generation*
The newly acquired "Disks'* (1930*33) by Robert Dalaunay supplements the Museum's 1912-13 "Sun Disks" the most famous and one of the earliest of these compositions*
"Nude in Forest" (e» 190$) is the second painting by Louis Valtat to enter the Museum's Collection* Valtat wee born the same year as Matisse and waa associated
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with the fauva group* Tha thraa nawecMars ara rapraaantad tagrtw o paintings and a sculptural "Had Bird on Black1* (1°$J) bgr Kogar Blasiare, laroslav Sarpan's 1?57 cantaa, "Wtertsphds, M
and "3qr and Sa»» (l$£6)f a sublty cut Jaccarat crystal by i&Lla Oilioli.
Tha ambition, notch was selaetsd and installad by Allrad H. Barrt Jr», Piraetar of Muaaun Gollactiona, will raaain en view througjh January 31st*
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Far additional infomational and photograpna plsaaa contact Sliaabath Shaw# Publicity Mractar, Museum of Hodam Art, 11 Waat 5jrd Straat, Saw Tork, Haw Tork# CI £-89O0« THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK 19 M *••?**#•?•§•? TELEPHONE-. CIRCLE 5-8900 CABLES, MODE AN A *T, NEWYOHK For Immediate Release Friday, Dec. 4, 1959 gpeoial to the Italian press
Three paintings and a sculpture by Italian artists have recently been acquired by the
Museum of Modern Art and are currently on view in a special exhibition at the Museum, 11
West 53 Street, New York City, "Dark Seal" by Franco Assetto, who lives in Turin, "Reason
and Intellect - Sun and Moon" by Renato Cristiano, who lives in Rome, and "The Bookmaker"
by the famous sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) are the first works by these artists to
enter the collection, "The Laugh;% also on view} is the third painting by the Futurist
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) to be acquired by the Museum, which also owns one of his
sculptures and a number of drawings.
One of Boccioni1s most famous early paintings, "The Laugh" (1911) was first shown in
Milan in 1911. There it was slashed by an outraged "spectator" but Boccioni repainted it
in time for the spectacular Futurist Exhibition shown first in Paris in January, 1912.
Boccioni, who was born in 1882, was a leader of the Italian Futurist artists from 1910
until his death in 1916.
Medardo Rosso's wax and plaster sculpture "The Bookmaker" (189^) is the earliest work
in the exhibition* Rosso, who was Italian by birth and training, was one of the most ad
vanced sculptors working in Paris during the 1880's and 1890*s* He was a friend of Rodin
and the backward stance of "The Bookmaker" is said to have influenced Rodin1 s "Monument to
Balzac" which stands in the Museum garden*
The works by Rosso and Boccioni were included, along with some promised, gifts, in the
special exhibition "Toward the •New* Museum of Modern Art" which opened the Museum's
30th Anniversary Fund Raising Drive on November 17*
Two of the Italian works in the current exhibition were painted during the past two
years* "Dark Seal" (1958), an oil, partly in low relief, by 48-year old Franco Assetto was bought from the Pittsburgh International in 1959*
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Renato Cristiano (b. 1927) .Mnt .^JK * W() spent someftime in Bali where he became interested in the ements of native dancers* hands and fw . » r nands and feet. He has tried to capture these movements in His painting -Reason and Instinct - Sun ««* u-^ n ^ ^inct sun and Moon" through the use of actual handand foot kints.
The exhibition, which includes works by artists of 12 nationalities, will remain to view through January 31.
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