Festival included: panel discussions featuring Lester D. Longman, Thomas Wood Stevens, Arnold Small, Philip Greeley Clapp, Fletcher Martin, W. D. Coder, E. C. Mabie, Thompson Stone, Horst Janson; exhibition of contemporary art of seventy-nine…
Festival included: luncheon speakers featuring Jean Charlot, Modeste Alloo, Thomas Wood Stevens; exhibition of American paintings and etchings; graduate student art exhibitions; plays and musical performances.
"The fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art is presented as a major feature of the Tenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. Dr. Lester D. Longman, Head of the Department of Art, selected the paintings"--P. 3.
"This exhibition has been designed to dramatize the contrast between American art in the 1930's and 1950's. The painters who represent the decade of the thirties are the majority of those who were at that time considered the leading progressive…
"The Thirteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa presents as one of its major features the exhibition of ... historical and contemporary drawings. The exhibition has been chosen by Dr. Lester D. Longman, who selected the…
Festival included: an opera, Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini; "The paintings presented in this catalogue were selected ... by Mrs. Edith Halpert, Director of the Downtown Gallery ... New York City ... forty-three paintings by twenty-five ...…
"The works in the exhibition divide into two esthetic categories: 1) those which achieve visual unity through a balance of stable shapes and 2) those which achieve visual unity through an ultimate equilibrium of shifting effects"--P. 5; "The works of…
