New York's Whitney Museum of American Art opened its doors last week for a special exhibition, a review of what it has done in the past year to help U. S. artists. Exposed were 161 items—paintings, sculpture, water colors, drawings, prints—added to the Museum's permanent collection during the past year. Twenty-eight of these, purchased from the Museum's recent biennial review of U. S. painting, cost the Museum just $20,000, an investment of $714 apiece.
Fortnight ago a succession of lush, heavily framed portraits passed across the stage of the American Art Association-Anderson...
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