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Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53d Street.
The Museum of ̂ odern Art announced today that its next
exhibition "The Art of the Common Man in America" will
open to the public on Wednesday, November 30. There
will be a preview for members of the Museum on Tuesday,
November 29.
Mr. A. Conner Goodyear, President of the Museum of
Modern Art said today: "The Exhibition includes both
painting and sculpture and is the first complete ex
hibition covering the entire field of the art of the
common man in America from about 1750 to the close of
the 19th century."
The Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture,
1862 - 1932 will remain on view until January 31, 1933,
and will be open continually to the public, including
November 29th and 30th.
The Exhibition of Persian Frescoes will be on view
until November 26.
The Exhibition of "The Art of the Common Man in
America" will include 175 items under the following
classifications. (The name of the artist is in most
cases unknown.)
1. Oil paintings, including portraits, landscape
and genre, and historical, religious and allegorical
paintings.
3. Pastels, portraits and landscapes
3. Watercolors including a group of Pennsylvania
fracteur, a survival of the art of manuscript
illumination up to the time of the Civil War.
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4. Paintings on velvet, a. larce selection
5. Tinsel pictures and painting on glass
6. A design group, showing one design in 5 different methods.
7. Wood Sculpture, ships figureheads, cigarstore figures,
toys, whittler portraits, wbathervanes, wild fowl decoys.
8. Sculpture in metal, weathervanes, lawn figures, stove
plates of 18th century decorated in relief, fire
insurance emblems.
9. Plaster ornaments and a pattern group of 15 droll
designs for cookie moulds.
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