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Fine Arts Festival, University of Iowa, July 13-17, 1941
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…
Fine Arts Festival, University of Iowa, July 14-18, 1940
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.
Fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art, University of Iowa, June - July, 1948
"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.
Then and now, American painting in the 1930s and 1950s: sixteenth annual Fine Arts Festival, State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, June 13 - July 31, 1954
"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…
Six centuries of master drawings, thirteenth annual Fne Arts Festival, summer 1951
"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…
Exhibition of contemporary paintings: twentieth annual Festival of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts, Summer Session, State University of Iowa, June 18 - August 13, 1958
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 ...…
Main currents of contemporary American painting: XXII Festival of the Arts, May 26 - August 7, 1960
"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…
Fourteenth annual Fine Arts Festival: contemporary art in Iowa, State University of Iowa, June 15 - August 1, 1952
"The exhibition is divided into two parts: (1) 'Art Created in Iowa' and (2) 'Art Collected in Iowa.' For the purposes of this exhibition, contemporary creative activity in Iowa is represented by works of art in several media by the faculty of the…
Fifteenth annual Fine Arts Festival: paintings by American masters, State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, June 17 - July 31, 1953
"The exhibition 'Paintings by Americam Masters' is presented as part of the Fifteenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. The present exhibition presents several paintings by each of ... the [eleven] best painters in America…
Recent work by former Iowa art students: 1957 summer exhibition
"The Art Exhibition of the Nineteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa introduces paintings, prints, sculpture, crafts and design representing recent work of former students who hold one or more degrees from the State…