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/ HE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK ELEPHONE: CIRCLE 7-7471 FOR RELEASE Saturday Afternoon, September 30 and Sunday Morning October 1, 1933. The Summer Exhibition of The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53d Street, has aroused such interest and enthusiasm that much of it will be retained in the Museum's Exhibition of Modern European Art, open to the public from October fourth to twenty-eighth. This will enable New Yorkers who have been out of town for several months to see the important paintings displayed during their absence as well as the additional works included in the new showing. The Summer Ex- hibition was assembled by a committee which included: Mr. Stephen C. Clark, Chairman, Mr. John Parkinson, Jr., Mr. Frank Crowninshield and Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg; assisted by Miss Ernestine Fantl of the Museum staff. Mr. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., who rearranged the exhibition, has re- cently resumed his active duties as Director of The Museum of Mod- ern Art, after a year abroad. In commenting on the exhibition, he says: "Many of the pictures included represent the experiments of the European vanguard; others are among the masterpieces of the last half century. The most striking room in the exhibition is unquestionably the group of 'Abstract' paintings. Most of us are by this time fairly familiar with the Cubism of Picasso and Juan Gris, Braque and Leger. Cubism has now passed its 25th anniversary and Cubism's founder, Picasso, has recently been honored by Cubism's champion, Gertrude Stein, on the highly respectable pages of the Atlantic Monthly. The Cubists, inspired with a passion for design, broke up the objects they painted, and rearranged the fragments into compositions which are called Still Life, Compote with Eggs, or Violin just as if the fruit or fiddle were still quite recognizable instead of being mere points NFOftMATION AFTER MUSEUM HOURS :

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    H E M U S E U M O F M O D E R N A R T 11 WEST 5 3 R D STREET, NEW YORK

    ELEPHONE: CIRCLE 7 - 7 4 7 1

    FOR RELEASE Saturday Afternoon, September 30 and Sunday Morning October 1, 1933.

    The Summer Exhibi t ion of The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53d

    St ree t , has aroused such i n t e r e s t and enthusiasm tha t much of i t

    will be re ta ined in the Museum's Exhibi t ion of Modern European Art,

    open to the public from October fourth to twenty-eighth. This w i l l

    enable New Yorkers who have been out of town for several months to

    see the important pa in t ings displayed during t h e i r absence as well

    as the addi t ional works included in the new showing. The Summer Ex-

    h ib i t ion was assembled by a committee which included: Mr. Stephen

    C. Clark, Chairman, Mr. John Parkinson, J r . , Mr. Frank Crowninshield

    and Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg; a s s i s t ed by Miss Ernest ine Fant l of the

    Museum staff .

    Mr. Alfred H. Barr, J r . , who rearranged the exh ib i t ion , has r e -

    cently resumed his act ive dut ies as Director of The Museum of Mod-

    ern Art, af ter a year abroad. In commenting on the exh ib i t ion , he

    says: "Many of the p ic tu res included represent the experiments of the

    European vanguard; others are among the masterpieces of the l a s t half

    century. The most s t r ik ing room in the exhib i t ion i s unquestionably

    the group of 'Abst rac t ' pa in t i ngs . Most of us are by t h i s time f a i r l y

    familiar with the Cubism of Picasso and Juan Gr i s , Braque and Leger.

    Cubism has now passed i t s 25th anniversary and Cubism's founder,

    Picasso, has recent ly been honored by Cubism's champion, Gertrude

    Stein, on the highly respectable pages of the At lant ic Monthly. The

    Cubists, inspired with a passion for design, broke up the objects they

    painted, and rearranged the fragments into compositions which are

    cal led S t i l l Life , Compote with Eggs, or Viol in jus t as if the f r u i t

    or fiddle were s t i l l quite recognizable ins tead of being mere poin ts

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    of departure. This i s exasperat ing to those who look for resemblances*1

    to famil iar objoots* But i t i s not noaoormry to hnnr mosquitoes or the

    night wind in a Nocturne. Nocturne i s a name for a pioco of musio;

    S t i l l Lifo for a p iece of pa in t ing ; both may be about oqual ly removed

    from Nature*"

    One of the new pa in t ings in the e x h i b i t i o n i s Oskar Schlemmerfs

    '•Bauhaus S ta ir s , ' 1 hung in the entrance h a l l . I t i s loaned"by a p r i -

    vate c o l l e c t o r of New York and has never before been shown in th i s

    country. One of the moot widely known German p a i n t e r s , Professor

    Schlemmer i s in addi t ion a s cu lp tor , choreographer, designer of

    costumes and furn i ture , and the author of Buhne in Bauhaus, a book on

    experimontal theatro known to studonts a l l over the world. Ho was fori'

    severa l years a teacher at the Bauhaus School at Dessau, where he or-

    ganized the Department of Theatre and B a l l e t with d i s t ingu i shed suc-

    c e s s .

    The pa inters and scu lptors shown include Bauer, Berard, Berman,

    Bonnard, Brancusi , Braque, Cezanne, Chir ico , D a l i , Degas, Derain,

    Despiau, Dufy, Ernst , Gauguin, Gr i s , Hol ion, Kandinsky, Klee, Kolbe,

    La Fresnaye, Laurencin, Le'ser, Lehmbruck, M a i l l o l , Masson, Mat i s se ,

    Miro, Modigl iani , Moholy-Nagy, Mondriaan, Pasc in , P i c a s s o , Redon, Re-

    noir , Rouault , Roy, Schlemmer, Segonzac, Seurat, Soutine,

    Tche l i tchev , Tonny, Toulouse- lautrec , U t r i l l o , van Gogh, Vlaminck

    and Vui l lard .

    Pr iva te c o l l e c t o r s who have l e n t works of art for the Exhib i t ion

    include Miss Berenice Abbott, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Bakwin, Ashbel Bar- |

    ney, James W. Barney, Stephen 0 . Clark, Frank Crowninshield, CM.

    deHauke, George Gershwin, A. Conger GootLyear, S. R. Guggenheim,

    Edgar Â* Levy, Adolph Lewisohn, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel A. Lewisohn, Mrs*

    Sadie May, Mrs* Nathan M i l l e r , Mrs. John D. Rockefel ler , ' J r . , Mrs.

    Charles H* R u s s e l l , J r . , James T. Soby, Mrs. Cornelius Su l l ivan ,

    E. M. M. Warburg, and Miss Edith Wetraore.

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