Art: Mirkels

Back from Nashville, Tenn. a year ago came Manhattan Photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe with a portfolio full of photographs and a head bubbling with enthusiasm. In a semiliterate, 57-year-old Negro tombstone carver she had discovered yet another U. S. primitive artist. The Museum of Modern Art's Director Alfred Barr Jr. echoed her enthusiasm, and last week the first one-man show the Museum has ever given a Negro artist opened in a couple of alcoves in the Museum's temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center.

Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are...

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