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 ...…
"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…
