From the Metropolitan Museum of Art came a routine Press announcement last week. Following its new policy of buying contemporary works of U. S. artists, the museum had acquired five canvases—Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius.
It was the last that caused critics' mouths to drop. Louis Eilshemius is a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and the...
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