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Fair Will Exhibit Contemporary Art Brooklyn Eagle Nov 19 '38 Special Building To House Selections Of Famous Judges Many men prominent in the world of American painting, sculpture and graphic arts are among those on the juries for the selection of arts to be exhibited at the World's Fair according to an announcement made by Grover A. Whalen, president of the Fair Corporation. Jonas Lie, president of the National Academy of Design, Charles Burchfield and Gifford Beal are among the nine members of the committee for the selection of paintings from New York City and State. John Gregory, president of the National Sculpture Society; Paul Manship and William Zorach are members of the sculpture committee. John Taylor Arms, president of the Society of American Etchers; William Gropper, Reginal Marsh and Miss Anne Goldthwaite, chairman of the American Print Makers, are among the graphic arts group. First Exhibition of Kind Under the direction of Holger Cahill, the contemporary art exhibition will be housed in a large building, especially erected for this purpose, on Bowling Green near one of the main entrances. Its keynote will be "Democracy in Art." It is said that never before has such a comprehensive and democratic plan been undertaken to assemble the contemporary work of living artists for any exhibition. The Fair Corporation has placed the exhibition under the direction of a governing committee and an artists committee. A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art the chairman of the governing committee will be assisted by Mrs. Juliana Force, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Laurance P. Roberts, acting director of the Brooklyn Museum and Holger Cahill, national director of the Federal Art Project. It is anticipated that more than 15,000 works of art will be exhibited at pre-views or submitted to the various juries. Of these, 800 will be selected for the exhibition in the 23 galleries at the Contemporary Arts building. Although some of the pictures exhibited may be sold to individuals or institutions, any work thus disposed of must remain hung until the conclusion of the exhibition. Committee Members The members of the committee of selection for New York City and State are: For Paintings - Stuart Davis, Philip Evergood, Herman More, Henry Schnakenberg, Eugene Speicher, Max Weber, Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield and Jonas Lie. Alternates, Wayman Adams, Gwendolyn Bennett, Allen Tucker. For Sculpture - Gaetano Cecere, Cornelia Chapin, Robert Cronbach, Louis Slobodkin, Adolph A. Weinman, Warren Wheelock, Paul Manship, John Gregory and William Zorcah. Alternates, Chaim Gross, Thomas Lo Medico, Hugo Robus. For the Graphic Arts - Adolph Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Elizabeth Olds, Ernest Roth, Stow Wengenroth, John Taylor Arms, Anne Goldwaite, William Gropper and Reginal Marsh. Alternates, Kerr Eby, Ronald Joseph, Gladys Mock. THIS CLIPPING FROM NEW YORK, N.Y. TIMES NOV 19 1938 HUGE ART DISPLAY PLANNED AT FAIR 23 Galleries in Contemporary Arts Building to Provide Room for 800 Exhibits SELECTION GROUPS NAMED Whalen Announces Governing and Artists Committees Will Have Full Charge Complete plans for the exhibition of contemporary American art at the New York World's Fair 1939 were announced yesterday afternoon at a reception for artists given by Grover A. Whalen, president of the Fair Corporation, at his city home, 48 Washington Mews. The exhibition will be held in the Contemporary Arts Building, on Rainbow Avenue, with its entrance facing Bowling Green and one of the main gates of the fair. The building consists of 40,000 square feet of built-over space on a lot of about 60,000 square feet. Divided into twenty-three galleries, the building will provide display space for 800 works of art in the fields of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. It is planned to open the exhibition April 30 and to close it late in October, 1939. During that period it will be open to the public daily from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. at an admission charge of 25 cents. The Fair Corporation has placed the exhibition under the direction of a governing committee and an artists' committee. A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art, is chairman of the governing committee, which has general direction of the exhibition. The other members are Mrs. Juliana Force, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Laurance P. Roberts, acting director of the Brooklyn Museum, and Holger Cahill, national director of the Federal Art Project. The artists' committee consists of Miss Anne Goldthwaite, chairman of the American Print Makers; John Taylor Arms, president of the Society of American Etchers; Stuart Davis, national chairman of the American Artists Congress; Hugo Gellert, chairman of the Artists Coordination Committee; John Gregory, president of the National Sculpture Society; Jonas Lie, president of the National Academy of Design; Paul Manship, Eugene Speicher and William Zorach. Holger Cahill is chairman of the artists' committee and director of the exhibition. "To insure a thoroughly representative and democratically selected exhibition," the announcement issued yesterday says, "to which artists from all sections of the country will be given opportunity to submit their work on equal terms, a country-wide series of committees of selection has been appointed. These committees of selection will pass on all work submitted for the exhibition. The committees have complete freedom of choice in making their selections. The exhibition expects to exhibit all works of art passed by them. The exhibition, however, reserves the right of refusal in special cases. Every effort has been made to see that the committees of selection are adequately representative of American art in all its tendencies, conservative, middle-of-the-road and modern." Artists living outside the New York metropolitan area will present their work to the nearest committees of selection in their States. American artists living abroad and those in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone will submit their work to the New York committee of selection. American artists in Hawaii will send to the San Francisco committee. Work submitted to the New York committee will be received at 350 Fifth Avenue, Feb. 20, 21, 23, 24, 27 and 28 from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. and on Feb. 25 from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. A portfolio of sixteen reproductions in color made from work in the exhibition will be issued. The committee of selection for New York City and State are: Painting - Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Philip Evergood, Jonas Lie, Hermon More, Henry Schnakenberg, Eugene Speicher, Max Weber. Alternates - Wayman Adams, Gwendolyn Bennett, Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George McNeil, Cathal O'Toole, Katherine Schmidt, Allen Tucker, Gladys Wiles. Sculpture - Gaetano Cecere, Cornelia Chapin, Robert Cronbach, John Gregory, Paul Manship, Louis Slobodkin, Adolph A. Weinman, Warren Wheelock, William Zorach. Alternates - Richmond Barthe, Ulric Ellerhusen, Chaim Gross, Thomas Lo Medico, Jose Luis de Rivera, Hugo Robus, Concetta Scaravaglione, David Smith, Sidney Waugh. Graphic Arts - John Taylor Arms, Adoph Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Ann Goldthwaite, William Gropper, Reginal Marsh, Elizabeth Olds, N.Y. EVE. Post Nov. 19. 38 FAIR ANNOUNCES JURIES TO SELECT ART FOR EXHIBIT Artists Will Choose Work of Contemporaries on Regional Basis By JEROME KLEIN Selections for the juries charged with the formdiable task of choosing out of some 15,000 entries the 800 paintings sculptures and prints to represent American contemporary art at the World's Fair were announced by Grover Whalen, president of the fair, at a reception for artists held at his home, 48 Washington Mews, yesterday afternoon. Every applicant will have his work judged by practicing members of his own craft. The juries, working on a regional basis, have been chosen to represent all trends, according to Mr. Whalen. For New York City and State they are as follows: For Paintings: Stuart Davis, Philip Evergood, Herman More, Henry Schnakenberg, Eugene Speicher, Max Weber, Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield and Jonas Lie. Alternates: Wayman Adams, Gwendolyn Bennett, Allen Tucker. For Sculpture: Gaetano, Cecere, Cornelia Chapin, Robert Cronbach, Louis Slobodkin, Adolph A. Weinman, Warren Wheelock, Paul Manship, John Gregory and William Zorach. Alternates: Chaim Gross, Thomas Lo Medico, Hugo Robus. For the Graphic Arts: Adolph Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Elizabeth Olds, Ernest Roth, Stow Wengenroth, John Taylor Arms, Anne Goldthwaite, William Gropper and Reginald Marsh. Alternates: Kerr Eby, Ronald Joseph, Gladys Mock.
