At a Glance

Source: MoMA, No. 1 (Autumn, 1974), p. 6

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At a Glance
Coming Up
Furniture by the Scottish archi-
tect Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(1868-1928), whose work is
marginal to the main direction of
Art Nouveau and closer to the
International Style that revolu-
tionized architecture and design
in the twenties. Some chairs are
once again in production. Opens
in November.... First major re-
trospective of work by the mas-
ter photographer Edward Wes-
ton, who died in 1958. Opening
in January 1975 and made pos-
sible by a grant from the Nation-
al Endowment for the Arts and
SCM Corporation.... On March
30 the first opportunity in this
country to see a comprehensive
exhibition of work by Anthony
Caro, whose sculpture and
teaching have played a crucial
role in the rise of a new school of
British sculptors and have had a
profound effect in the United
States as well. Organized in co-
operation with the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, funded by
the National Endowment for the
Arts and the British Council on
the Arts.
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Gerald Murphy with Picasso.
Antibes, 1923.
On the Road
Among the Museum exhibitions
in the U.S. this fall: "New Japa-
nese Photography," beginning a
two-year tour in Denver, then
continuing to St. Louis, Min-
neapolis, Champaign, San Fran-
cisco, Seattle, and Portland,
Oregon. Funded by a grant from
the National Endowment for the
Arts which was matched by SCM
Corporation, winner of an Hon-
orable Mention in the Eighth
Annual BCA Business in the Arts
Awards for its support....
Paintings by Gerald Murphy,"
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Anthony Caro. Midday. 1960.
Edward Weston. Nude on Sand. 1936.
an exhibition of exquisite works
by the American artist known
for his friendship with artists
and writers in France in the
twenties, was called "a distinct
contribution to the history of
modern American painting"
when shown here this spring. It
moved to San Francisco in the
summer and then on to Dallas
this fall.
People
Inga Forslund succeeded Ber-
nard Karpel as Librarian follow-
ing his election of early retire-
ment to become General Editor
of the Smithsonian's Bicenten-
nial Bibliography of the Arts in
America. Miss Forslund, Asso-
ciate Librarian for the past eight
years, received her library de-
gree in Stockholm, was with the
United Nations Library and at
the Public Library in Princeton
before joining the Museum staff
in 1961. The Museum Library,
containing thirty thousand vol-
umes, hundreds of periodicals,
catalogs, rare documents, and
manuscripts, is now open to
Museum members and serious
art researchers five days a week,
from 1:00 to 5:00 daily.... Riva
Castleman, Curator of Prints and
Illustrated Books, served as a
member of the jury in Krak6w,
Poland, for the Fifth Interna-
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tional Print Biennial.... John
Szarkowski, Director of Photog-
raphy, lectured in six Australian
cities at the invitation of the
Australian Centre for Photog-
raphy.... Anthony Yearwood,
Mailroom Supervisor and a stu-
dent in medieval art history,
leads a tour in Russia to see
icons this month.... Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller 3rd, President of the
Museum, has been appointed a
member of the Council of the
National Endowment for the
Humanities.
In the Bookstore
Recommended for Christmas:
John Szarkowski's Looking at
Photographs: 100 Pictures from
the Collection of The Museum
of Modern Art is called "one of
the finest photography an-
thologies in print" by The New
Yorker and "a book of breath-
taking beauty-a connoisseur's
anthology" by The New York
Times. Winner of an AIGA
award as one of the fifty best-
designed books of the year,
Looking at Photographs has re-
cently gone into a second print-
ing.... Also at members' 25%
discount, selected art books of
various publishers-notably Hil-
ton Kramer's The Age of the
Avant-Garde, which includes
reviews of many of our shows.
A book that is "lively, amusing
and measured," according to
Denys Sutton in The London
Financial Times.... The cover of
the 1975 Junior Council Ap-
pointment Calendar, On Time,
is a three-dimensional hourglass
filled with white sand.... The
Christmas Shop (23 West 53
Street) will carry for the first
time a number of items repre-
sented in the Design Collection:
the Hastil fountain pen, a Danish
ashtray, the Automatic coin
bank, the McArthur Open Uni-
versity microscope, and the Sin-
clair Executive calculator-all
available to members at a
discount.
Stamp Corner
Three Picasso paintings from the
Museum collection have been
issued as part of a commemora-
tive series of postage stamps by
the Republic of Togo in West
Africa.... The only painting by
an American artist included in a
group of six stamps issued by
the Universal Postal Union is by
John Frederick Peto and is from
the Museum's collection. The
Peto entered the collection in
1940 as a work by William Har-
nett. When it was cleaned the
Museum discovered that the
Harnett signature had been
painted over that of Peto, a
friend and admirer of Harnett.
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Print Room
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Print Room is being celebrated
early this winter with the ex-
hibition "American Prints:
1913-1963," in the Paul J. Sachs
Galleries. The fifty-year period
scanned by the exhibition will
be the subject of a symposium.
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