Not all the fireworks connected with the latest Carnegie International art show (TIME, Oct. 24) were confined to the exhibition itself. Juror G. David Thompson, a Pittsburgh steelman and art collector, complained vehemently to the press that his foreign colleagues on the jury were unduly prejudiced in favor of entries from their native lands, brushing off U.S. contributors with two honorable mentions. Other partisans of U.S. art muttered that Carnegie Director Gordon Washburn himself was to blame for the poor U.S. showing, that he had ignored some of the most promising young U.S. painters. But the most baffled reaction of all...
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