Art: Snooksology

Fanny Brice, radio's famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe and the U.S.

The walls of the Baltimore Museum's Junior...

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