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13-734: When it first opened – on Thursday, November 15, 1945 – an extravagant party was held on the premises; an article by Edward Alden Jewell in the next morning’s Times reported on everything from the “first-rate” paintings to the sumptuous decorations, the work, he surmised, of “most of the florists in town”. The entire dance world, or so it seemed, turned out for the reception, surely less for the chance to contemplate paintings by Chagall and de Chirico than for an up-close view of Pavel Tchelitchew and Tamara Toumanova . The gallery’s inaugural exhibition in November 1945, entitled “The Fantastic in Modern Art”,

26-709: The World Court Magazine the following year. in 1916 and 1917, he was an associate editor at Everybody's Magazine before returning to the Tribune as Sunday editor. Jewell's first novel, The Charmed Circle , was evidently well regarded, receiving favorable reviews from Carl Van Doren in Bookman and H. W. Boynton in The Independent . Beginning in 1925, Jewell was employed as both an editor and contributor by The New York Times Sunday Magazine , and in 1928 became

39-640: The Hugo Gallery in New York. Magritte achieves international recognition, in large part, to Hugo Gallery. In 1952, Andy Warhol had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery named "Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote" (June 16 – July 3, 1952). In 1953, Jan Yoors , the Belgian-born artist working in tapestry, painting, sculpture, and photography, had one of his first New York solo exhibitions at

52-597: The assistant to the Times art critic Elisabeth Luther Cary . Jewell succeeded Cary in that role at the time of her death in 1936. After being stricken by an undisclosed illness on the night of October 11, 1947, Jewell died while being transported from his East 55th Street Manhattan address to Metropolitan Hospital on Roosevelt Island . He was survived by former wife Manette Lansing Carpenter and their daughter Marcia, both then living in California. As per his instructions, there

65-522: The gallery. The director of the gallery was Alexander Iolas , assisted by David Mann. Alexander Iolas after working at the Hugo Gallery, founded the Jackson-Iolas Gallery in 1955 with former dancer, Brooks Jackson and later created a network of galleries under his own name. David Mann after working at the Hugo Gallery became the director of Bodley Gallery . Edward Alden Jewell Edward Alden Jewell (March 10, 1888 – October 11, 1947)

78-576: The theatre and acting, and toured for a time with the Kansas City-based stage actor Louis James. After studying abroad in 1910 and 1911, Jewell worked as a reporter and later drama critic at the Grand Rapids Herald , a paper whose then-proprietor was his uncle, Senator William Alden Smith , to whom Jewell later served as secretary in 1914 and 1915. In 1915, Jewell worked briefly at The New York Tribune before becoming managing editor of

91-437: The untitled piece known as " Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall ". In 1947 the gallery hosted "Bloodflames 1947", a show organized by Nicolas Calas and designed by Frederick Kiesler which was the last collective manifestation of the surrealist exiles' group in New York. The exhibition included work by David Hare , Arshile Gorky , Roberto Matta and Isamu Noguchi . In April 1947, René Magritte had an exhibition at

104-679: Was a world federalist and once said, "It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it". In 1939, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin . In 1942, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society . Van Doren's study The American Novel , published in 1921, is generally credited with helping to re-establish Herman Melville 's critical status as first-rate literary master. He

117-737: Was an American newspaper and magazine editor, art critic and novelist. He was the New York Times art editor from July 1936 until his death. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan , E. A. Jewell was the eldest of four children born to Frank Jewell and Jenny Agnes Osterhout. After attending high school in Grand Rapids, Jewell studied at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Between the ages of 8 and 22, Jewell displayed intense interest in

130-518: Was book section editor for The Nation from 1920 to 1922. In 1912, Van Doren married Irita Bradford , editor of the New York Herald Tribune book review. They had three daughters together: Ann born in 1915, Margaret born in 1917, and Barbara (Bobby) born in 1920. The couple divorced in 1935. Van Doren married Jean Wright Gorman in 1939, but they divorced in 1945. Van Doren worked closely with Howard Henry Peckham on Secret History of

143-533: Was born on September 10, 1885, in Hope , Vermilion County , Illinois , the son of Eudora Ann (Butz) and Charles Lucius Van Doren, a country doctor. He and his younger brother Mark Van Doren (born 1894), were raised on the family farm. Van Doren earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911. He continued to teach there until 1930. He

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156-533: Was no funeral and Jewell's remains were cremated at the Fresh Pond Crematory in Queens. Carl Van Doren Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren . He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin . Van Doren

169-536: Was organized by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler , the editors of Surrealist magazine View . The Christmas show of 1945 called “The Poetic Theatre” included among others Salvador Dalí , Pavel Tchelitchew and Joseph Cornell . In December 1946, Joseph Cornell had a solo exhibitions at the Hugo Gallery named "Romantic Museum at the Hugo Gallery: Portraits of Women by Joseph Cornell". For this exhibition Cornell conceived one of his most ambitious works,

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