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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

NFOftMATION AFTER MUSEUM HOURS :

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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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