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University Daily Kansa Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
New Approach Taken In KU Armory Exhibit
An art exhibition "to commemorate one of the most important events in modern art," will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Museum of Art, curator Gerald Bernstein said yesterday.
The exhibition is titled "The Organizers of the Armory Show," and uses as its emblem the Pine Tree flag of the American Revolution with the epitaph "The New Spirit" inscribed beneath.
This is the same emblem used in 1913 at the Armory Show in New York, an exhibit that has proved historically significant to the world of painting. "The significance of that show on the history of art in this country is monumental," Bernstein said.
THE ARMORY SHOW exhibited paintings by 19th and 20th Century European and American artists, the names of many of whom have since become standard fare in almost every art history book in existence.
"But we're going to concentrate on the Armory Show in a new way," Berstein said. "Rather than show the paintings that were used in the 1913 exhibition, we're going to concentrate on the organizers of the Armory Show."
The organizers were Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, both Americans, Bernstein said. "But they weren't administrators, they were artists. We're going to show their work in relation to the work of the artists represented at the Armory Show.
Neither Davies nor Kuku exhibited their own paintings at the Armory Show," Berstein said.
DAVIES, in his paintings, concentrated on romantic subjects "with dream-like settings and fantastic landscapes," while Kuhn was recognized as one of the most progressive young American painters of his time. Bernstein said.
Although the Armory Show represented all the main currents of modern art, certain important styles were left out, Bernstein said.
"To represent this aspect of the show's organization, we have included in our exhibition the work of the progressive Kansas artist, John Noble," he added. Although Noble's work was recognized, for some reason, his canvases were not represented in the 1913 show, Bernstein said.
NOBLE WENT to Paris at the turn of the century. His paintings at that time seemed to indicate that he was trying to forget the landscape of his Kansas homeland by concentrating on seascapes scenes on the Brittany coast.
But the influence of the Kansas prairies is felt even in his seascape scenes, Bernstein said.
Bernstein referred to some of Noble's paintings as "exciting mystical abstractions."
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