780 Fifth *wenue* low Tork tfity

(For release March 18/80)

ho fourth exhibition of tho Museun of Modern ^rt It open to the public today from i

0 to *• and from 0 to 10 In tho ewenln:* in the Meojtsoher Building, 780 Fifth renne,

feiterday the invitation opening was held for friends and members of the Museum*

joulpture by Malllol and Letabrook f i l l s the eentral fiallerles* ^he resin gallery Is

filled by the retrospective exhibition of the works of Max eber, and the side gallery

rith the reoent work of laul Klee*

.ristide Malllol i s often spoken of as the greatest living sculptor* He Is repre­

sented by el :ht major works* of these the most imposing are the great bronse torso of

Stained i otlon lent by the vtetropolltan Museum of Art* and the famous early relief Desire

lent b the sculptor* Two othor bronse torsos are included* one of which has just been

given to the Museum by i t s president* A* Oonger Ooodyear* and another lent by Mr*

tenrioe 14* Btone* M&lllol's latest important work* a Venus in bronse* is lent by lift

John « Dunbar* Other Mai Hole are lent by Mrs* Oharlos J* Liehnan* Mr* Oarl Sigrosser*

md tne Detroit Institute of Arts*

tfllhelm kehmbrueK, foremost among modern German sculptors* committed suicide shortly

after the war* His most important works In the exhibition Include the heroic bronse

?tgnrs of s .7oman lent by Mr* Stephen 0* Okark* and two V%TJ fine stone figures* one lent

by Doctor ?• H* Hlrsohland* ^mailer works by Lehmbruofc are lent by Mrs* John K| Eooke-

filler* *7r*t Mrs* kdith ;re®or Hal pert, the Woyhe Oallcry* Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo*

and the Detroit Institute of Arts*

Max Weber Is one of .merlea's pioneer modern painters, hawing borne the brunt of n

long critical attack in the years before the «ar* Over ninety of his mrks are on en-

ilbition and Illustrate his development from early work done In Parle in 1907 through

virions ptoses of cubism and futurism* to his later and more personal style of the last

ten years* Faint In s by eber have been lent by Doctor ?• H» Hlrsohland* Mr* end Mrs*

SMMCI .i* Lewlsohn* iJroc Nathan J* Miller* Mr* J* B* Bsisasim* Mr* Julius o penheimer,

'ri. John *>• Rockefeller, Jr.* Mr* Albert Hothbart* Doctor B* D* Saklatwalla* Phillips

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Manorial Gallery of ashliigton* fhs Downtown Gallery, and the Newer* nanism Assenta­

tion*

Paul Kloe At the a n of fifty is new reoogalsed as oat of ths most original

and interesting. Karopeaa artists* Bon in >wltaorlaad ana now working in Romany

sis painting is aharaeterised Vy a renarnasls freedom* freshness, ima ination,

alth very littan referensi to aatnal faeta. Paintings V Kiss hare seen lent by

Hr* *e &• Gallatin of Ban fork* Mr* Philip 0# Johnson of Cleveland, and ths eyhe

Jellery of Was York* The iargs majority of Klaas wars aent from ^ensswj By ths

lean ths ia Gallery of Berlin* through the eourteey of tha J* B* Itsaainm Oallsry of

lew York*

?ha :*usetat's third exhibition, Painting In arts, closed rah BOO nd vrtth an

attendance of nearly €0*000 over a period of six weeks* In order to diminish tha

crowds daring the last two weeks an adnission oiiarge of fifty eents was mads from

12 M. to 6 F*M« This charge was nana necessary Because of the overcrowding of

elevators whioh interfered with the easiness of other tenants in ths Hoekseher

Building* In order to avoid ths necessity of again sharping an adnission fee the

public is urgently rogues ted to aona in the evening Between 8 and 10 whan heretofore

the galleries have seen very sparsely attended* If in the resent exhibition tha

galleries Become too erowded in tha afternoon It will again as necessary to charge

sa admittance fee*