Sixty-seven years ago today: Adolph Gottlieb is the primary organizer of a protest with seventeen ot

Sixty-seven years ago today: Adolph Gottlieb is the primary organizer of a protest with seventeen other painters and ten other sculptors against an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum), who submit a letter of protest to the New York Times. The letter states, “…The organization of the exhibition and the choice of jurors by Francis Henry Taylor and Robert Beverly Hale, the Metropolitan’s Director and the Associate Curator of American Art, does not warrant any hope that a just proportion of advanced art will be included. We draw to the attention of those gentlemen the historical fact that, for roughly a hundred years, only advanced art has made any consequential contribution to civilization.“ The following day (May 23, 1950), the group of painters is given the name “The Irascible Eighteen” by the New York Herald Tribune, in which they are criticized for a “distortion of fact.” The letter sent to the Times is also covered in The Nation, Art News, Art Digest, and Time Magazine, followed by coverage in Life magazine (@life), for which “The Irascibles” are photographed by Nina Leen. (At right: photograph by Nina Leen, Reproduced in Life magazine, January 15, 1951)  -- source link

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