Art news Magazine December 1949 Art Illustrations Articles Magazine Back Issue

This is the December 1949 Edition, Volume XLVIII, Number 8, of ART NEWS Magazine. Founded in 1902, ART NEWS is the oldest and one of the most popular art magazines for artists, collectors, dealers, historians, and enthusiasts. A reproduction of a medallion scratched out of gold leaf, is on the cover.


Articles:

Rome in the Holy Year
Iran’s treasures escort the Shah by Laurence Binyon
Critics wrong; critic right by Alfred M. Frankfurter
The great Chase by James Thomas Flexner
Grosz paints a picture by Amy Robinson
Good form for ’50 by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
Design for royalty

Feature Illustrations:

Romain mosaic: Paschal Lamb, colorplate
Arnolfo di Cambio (?): St. Peter, colorplate
IX-century bronze: Cock
Roman mosaic: Magi before Herod, colorplate
Roman mosaic: House of Joseph, colorplate
Persian minature: Isfandiyar receives Rustam, colorplate
C.S. Price: Bird by the Sea
Guitou Knoop: Sea Thing
Walter Stuempfig: Self-Portrait

Departments:

Editor’s Letters
Art News of America
Art in giving
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