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MuseumofArt"s"Artistsfor\'ictor\"showinNewYorkin1942.Hedivideshis
timebetweenLongIslandandPennsylvania.
."^mongcollectionswhereSpencer'sworkisrepresentedarethe Albright.\rt
Galler\ inBuffalo,NewYork; Museumof.\rtoftheRhodeIslandSchoolof
DesigninProvidence;.\nnArbor(Michigan) Art.\ssociation;Columbus(Ohio)
Galler\-ofFineArts;FieldFoundation,Brooklyn,NewYork;Newark(NewJersey)
Museum.\ssociation:PhillipsMemorialGallery,Washington,D.C.;Wichita(Kansas)
.\rtMuseum;MetropolitanMuseumofArt,MuseumofModernArt,andtheWhitney
Museumof.-Vmerican.ArtinNewYork.InPennsylvaniahisaddressisDingmansFerry.
SPRUCE.EverettF..RockyPlace, 20 x30. Illustration—Plate^102
SprucewasbornnearConway,Arkansas,in1907.Hestudiedat theDallas
(Texas)ArtInstituteandwithOlinH.Travis.Since 1940 hehasbeenonthestaff
oftheUniversityofTexas.BesideswinningawardsinTexasshows,Spruce'swork
wonprizesatSanFranciscoin1940,atAVorcester(Massachusetts)in1945,inthe
Pepsi-Colashowof1946,LaTauscaexhibitionin1947,andafirstaward,presented
byEuropeancritics,foroneofhispicturesintheexhibitionof.Americanpainting
senttoBelgiumin1948.Someofthecollectionswhichpossessexamplesofhiswork
aretheMuseumofFineArtsofHouston,Texas;Dallas(Texas)MuseumofFine
.Arts;WitteMemorialMuseum,San.Antonio,Texas;MuseumofModern.Artand
MetropolitanMuseumof.ArtinNewYork;PhillipsMemorialGalleryinWashington,
D.C.;Pennsylvania.AcademyoftheFineArts;IsaacDelgadoMuseumof.Art,New
Orleans;RiodeJaneiro fBrazil)Fine.ArtsMuseum;IllinoisWesleyanUniversity,
Bloomington,Illinois;BaltimoreMuseumofArt;ColoradoSpringsFine.ArtsCenter;
andthe^VilliamRockhillNelsonGallers-of.Art,KansasCity,Missouri.Helivesin
-Austin,Texas.ForsomecommentonartbySpruce,seehisremarksinthecatalogue
oftheexhibition".Americans1942"heldattheMuseumofModernArtinNew^'ork.
STEIN,Walter,ThePillozf,27'/>x34. Illustration—Plate 80
"WithregardstomypictureThePillow:perhapsthepillowwasalung,or
therepresentationofabreathofair;thepossibilityoftheinterminglingofelements
orthetransmutationofsubstances.'"
WalterSteinwasborninNewYorkCityin1924,studiedthereandinFlorence,
Italy.Forabrieftimein 1944 and 1945 hehadexperienceteaching.Hehasalready
hadaone-manshowinNewYorkandseveralprivatecollectorsownexamplesofhis
work,amongthemLincolnKirstein,PhilipHofer,JohnS.Newbern,,Jr.,andEdgar
Kaufman.SteinlivesinBoston,Massachusetts.
STEVENS.EdwardJohn.Jr.,VoyaocoftheGods, 20 x26.
Illustration—Plate 64
"'ThepaintingVoyageoftheGodswaspaintedafteravisittoMexicoin1950,"
writestheartist,whoismuchinterestedinancientMexicanart.It"showsagroup
ofthesedeitiesstartingonafantasticvoyagetogathernewg\oTy.Thepaintingis
notnecessarilyMexicaninfeeling.Thegodsareratherrepresentativeofallsemi-
pagangods.ButIhopeonefeelsitisavoyagethatcouldhavehappenedinthe
dimpast,orperhapssomewhereeventoday."
