Art: American Challenge

Up for judgment in Manhattan's galleries last week, as in every week of the art season (October-May), was enough canvas to put sails on a four-master and enough sculpture to ballast one. Some 60 U. S. artists were there, of all ages, regions and schools, plus a varied assortment of Europeans. In time, they ranged from Dürer to Disney. In place, they ranged the globe.

The Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel...

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