Bunce, Johnston, Mundt : new talent exhibitions in the penthouse, November 28, 1950-January 14, 1951 Date 1950 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3274 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history from our founding in 1929 to the present is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA 2016 The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art N ovember 28, 1950 January H, 1951 Bunce Johnston Mundt w Talent Exhibitions in the penthouse The second of the Museum's series of small experimental exhibitions in the Penthouse brings to the New York audience two painters and a sculptor from the West Coast. The New Talent shows are specifically designed to exhibit the work of artists who, in the opinion of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, are worthy of the attention of our members, but who have not yet received a major one-man show in New York City. The term "New" does not exclude artists who have shown elsewhere throughout the country or who are known for work in a different field and it does not imply an age limit. The Museum has always sponsored the work of artists who are not widely known and by these New Talent exhibitions it hopes to give a selection of them an opportunity to be seen in New York. All of the works of art in the exhibition are for sale and for the duration of the exhibition the Museum has arranged that they shall be available for purchase only to its members. The Museum takes no com mission on these sales and it is hoped that many of the works will find a place in members' homes. In order that all interested persons may see them the exhibitions will be open to the public on Mondays. Visitors are reminded that they are invited to become Museum members at any time.
Louis Bunce was born August 13, 1907, in Lander, Wyoming. He studied at the Portland (Ore.) Museum Art School and the Art Students' League in New York. During the depression he lived in Oregon, painting landscapes in the Columbia Basin. At that time he was influenced by Cezanne and Kokoschka. His work was first shown at the Seattle Art Museum in 1935 and he had his first one-man show there in 1936. In 1937 he did murals for the Federal Building in Grant's Pass, Oregon. In 1938 he painted on the WPA easel project and in 1939 returned to New York where he worked for the mural division of the New York WPA Art Project. At that time he became interested in serigraphy. During World War H he worked at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation as Production Illustrator and Supervisor of Assembly Engineering. Since 1945 he has been an instructor in painting, drawing and graphics at the Portland (Ore.) Museum Art School. His work has been shown fairly widely in the United States, but he is known in the East principally for his prints. Among other places his work is represented in the collections of the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum, the University of Washington, Seattle, the Seattle Art Museum, the Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the U.S. Department of State and in U.S. Army information centers in Germany, Austria and Japan. Ynez Johnston was bom May 12, 1920, in Berkeley, California. She studied at the University of California and received the Bertha Taussig Traveling Fellowship in Art for 1941 and 1942. She taught at the University of California in 1949 and 1950. She has had one-man shows in the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1943 and in the American Contemporary Gallery in Los Angeles in 1947 and 1948. She won the Anne Bremer Award in the San Francisco Museum of Art oil annual in 1949 and the First Award in Prints at the California Centennial Exhibition in Los Angeles in 1949. Her work is represented in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum, Dr. W. R. Valentiner and Dr. and Mrs. Leslie McKenzie Maitland, all of Los Angeles. During the past few months she has been traveling in France and Italy. She has just returned to Los Angeles. Ernest Mundt was bom October 30, 1905, in Germany. He studied art and architecture in Berlin and he practiced architecture in Germany and Turkey until 1939. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, and, since 1940, at the California School of Fine Arts, where he has just been appointed Director. His work has been exhibited in Detroit, St. Louis, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. His sculpture is represented in the Roothbert collection in New York, in the Crocker and Hunter collections in San Francisco and in the collection of the University of Oregon. Louis Bunce 1 DYING SEASON 1948 Oil and tempera on paper. 15% x 22%" 2 BAY BOTTOM, NO. 1 1949 Oil on canvas. 20 x 32" 3 BURNED LAND 1950 Oil on plywood. 15 x 28" 4 FISHING DOCK 1950 Oil on plywood. 26% x 18" $150.00 5 JETTY STRUCTURES 1950 Oil on canvas. 12 x 14" $50.00 6 ROCKS AND DUNES 1950 Oil on canvas. 13 x 30" $200.00 All works lent by the artist Ynez Johnston 7 DARK JUNGLE 1950 Casein gouache. 23% x 17%" $100.00 8 FANTASTIC FISH 1950 Casein on paper. 16% x 23" $65.00 9 FRAGMENTS FROM A MEDIEVAL CHAPEL 1950 Casein on paper. 16% x 22%" 10 THE LITTLE ZOO 1950 Casein on paper. 14% x 22%" $65.00 11 VOYAGE TO THE NORTH POLE 1950 Casein on paper. 15% x 22" 12 WHITE CITY 1950 Casein on paper. 17 x 22%" 13 JUNGLE VILLAGE 1949 Etching. 8% x 6-15/16" 14 SHIP AND STORM 1949 Etching. 6-15/16 x 8-15/16" 15 BULL FIGHT, No. 2 1950 Etching. 9% x 6%" 16 VOYAGE IN AFRICA 1950 Etching. 7% x 9%" Ernest Mundt 17 DESIRE 1948 Copper, brass and nickel. 15%" high 18 play 1948 Copper. 7%" high $75.00 19 GROWING CRYSTAL 1948? Brass. 10%" high 20 CRYSTAL 1949 German silver. 16" high 21 GENTLE GESTURE 1949 German silver. 24%" high $125.00 22 EVOLVEMENT 1950 Brass. 24" wide $150.00 All works lent by the artist All works lent by the Fraymart Gallery Catalog
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