Art: Vermeer Controversy

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Art lovers journeying last week to Manhattan from Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati* and other less important art centers were pleasantly aware that they would be able to scrutinize the works of famed English painter Augustus E. John at the Anderson galleries. Scanning 99 of his pictures, mostly portraits of famed persons, it would be possible for them to decide whether he was, as many critics have urged, a proper heir to the glory and prestige of famed John Singer Sargent.

One other important Manhattan exhibit was the collection of 24 pictures by famed Paul Cézanne, who, almost a quarter of a century after his death, is still perhaps the most noteworthy modernist painter.

* "Because of Cincinnati's famous art collections and its interest in music, it is already in the forefront of American cities as a cultural oasis in an arid land." This was an opinion offered by famed Art-critic (of the New York Times) Royal Cortissoz, as quoted, under the headline "Oasis," in the Cincinnati Enquirer, last week.

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