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Holger Cahill

Icelandic-American curator, writer and arts administrator (–)

Holger Cahill
Holger Cahill on February 15,
Born	Sveinn Kristján Bjarnason 13 January Skógarströnd, Iceland
Died	8 July &#;() (aged&#;73)
Occupation	Art administrator Art curator Writer
Citizenship	American

Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarsson (January 13, – July 8, ), also acknowledged as Edgar Holger Cahill, was an Icelandic-American curator, writer and arts administrator.

He served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in the Merged States.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Cahill was born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarsson in Skógarströnd, Iceland on January 13, ^[1]

Cahill's Icelandic family migrated to Canada in about and then to North Dakota as homesteaders, anglicizing their mention to Bjornson and eventually, Johnson, although they continued to talk Icelandic at home.

Extreme poverty, lack of formal education and domestic strife marked Cahill's ahead childhood. When he was adolescent, his father abandoned the family and his mother sent the young Cahill to live and work on a farm owned by an Icelandic family 50 miles away where he was mistreated.

His mother remarried and had another child, Anna. That marriage also did not last. After two difficult years with the Icelandic farmers, Cahill ran away at first to neighboring farms where he found operate and eventually to Winnipeg, in search of distant cousins.

The cousins refused to take him in and he ended up in an orphanage. A Gaelic-speaking family in a nearby cooperative farm community adopted Cahill and he was able to be present at school regularly for the first time.

After several years with the Gaelic family, he returned to North Dakota in seek of his mother only to discover that his mother and step-sister had moved. Eventually he found them working on a nearby tenant farm in His mother had remarried to a younger man named Samson, and she and her son quarreled.

Once again, he left house and did not see his mother again for 45 years.

Career

Cahill's employment in the field of visual arts began in when he was hired by John Cotton Dana at the Newark Museum and the Population of Independent Artists to compose publicity about their activities.

As a former journalist and editor, Cahill had learned how to write effectively and he helped create new interest both organizations in the media. Through his friend, the artist John Sloan, Cahill knew many of the leading artists of the sunlight and he encouraged Dana to purchase works by contemporary artists for the museum’s growing collection.

After Dana's death in , Cahill organized the first major museum surveys of American Folk Art at the Newark Museum in ("American Primitives") and ("American Folk Sculpture"). While at Newark, he also published fiction, essays and short stories including art criticism for the magazines ShadowlandInternational Studio and the New York Herald Tribune.

He published a novel, Profane Earth in and, in , "A Yankee Adventurer" a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward and his role in the Taiping Rebellion of At Newark, he met his future wife, Dorothy Canning Miller whom he married in ^[4] Together with the galleries Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Cahill published a monograph on Pop Hart in , Max Weber in and Jules Pascin in Halpert and Cahill also launched a magazine called Space that ran for three issues in January, March and June,

In –33, Cahill served as acting director of the Museum of Modern Art when the founding director, Alfred H.

Barr Jr., took a leave of absence. He organized several notable exhibitions including American Sources of New Art, American Folk Art: Art of the Common Man in America and a survey exhibition, American Painting and Sculpture –.

In , he directed the First Municipal Art Exhibition at Rockefeller Center in New York; the exhibition coincided with the destruction of the mural by Diego Rivera and many of the artists threatened to withdraw. When Cahill left Newark, he employed Dorothy Miller as his assistant on his various projects.

At the First Municipal Art Exhibition, Miller stepped in as director when Cahill landed in the hospital and was unable to continue which led to her later position as curator at the Museum of Current Art.

From August until April , Cahill was the national director of the Federal Art Project, the role for which he is best known today.

His contributions to the explore, documentation and understanding of the visual arts in America were wide-ranging—from the earliest crafts of the Native Americans to the abstract expressionists. In the s, his early endorsement of American folk art as well as the early American modernists introduced their work to a larger public through exhibitions, catalogues and criticism.

During his tenure of the WPA, his oversight of the Index of American Blueprint established a greater understanding of the variety and quality of American iconographic imagery.

Cahill proved to be an imaginative, sensitive and skillful administrator.

Under his leadership community art centers were established in over towns and cities nationwide, murals drawing upon the geographical environment were painted in public buildings throughout the country, and some 10, artists and craft workers were sustained through the Great Depression.

An entire generation of artists was nurtured, their work exhibited, and an expanded public for art was created.

In , Cahill married Dorothy Canning Miller, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. The following year, he took a leave of absence from the WPA to stay in New York City and straight a large survey exhibition at the World’s Fair, American Art Today.

Through Miller, he continued to meet new artists and he was an avid and interested spectator of all of the programming at the Museum of Modern Art.

Writing

When the Federal Arts Project ended in , Cahill returned to Modern York to concentrate on writing novels and essays.

Hampered by various illnesses after his occupied tenure as Director of the Federal Art Project and a severe heart attack in , he managed to complete two novels, Look South to the Polar Star, in , and The Shadow of My Hand, in , set in the Midwest of his youth.

In the same year he began studying poetry with Stanley Kunitz, and taped a memoir for the Columbia University Oral History Project. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on his novel Stone Dreamer, which was left unfinished at his death in

Cahill died on July 8, , in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he is buried in the town's cemetery.^[1]

Bibliography

Shadowland magazine.

August "John Sloan: Man and Artist" by Edgar Cahill. pp.&#;11,
Shadowland magazine. December "A Steep Northern Renaissance on Iceland".
The Nation. August 17, (volume , number ). "Purity in the Sixth Printing".

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, reviewed by Edgar H. Cahill. pp.&#;–
The Nation, October 26, (volume , number ).
Holger Cahill was a novelist, art critic, museum curator, an authority on the folk art of the United States and the arts of Central America, and national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Projects Administration from to Cahill died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in Shortly after his birth the family emigrated to western Canada and later moved to North Dakota. His early childhood was blighted by poverty and domestic conflict.
"Artists and Business Men". Shallow Soil by Knut Hamsun.
New York Herald Tribune. November 27, "Hunger From Hamsun," Dreamers by Knut Hamsun reviewed by Holger Cahill.
The Bookman, January (volume 54, number 5).

"Icelandic Renaissance". pp.&#;–
The Fresh York Times Book Review. February 19, "Hanging out the Crepe for Europe". pp.&#;12,
International Studio. March (volume 75, number ). "America Has Its Primitives".
The papers chiefly document Cahill's career as a novelist during the s and s. They consist of general correspondence with writers, artists, publishers and others. There is also family correspondence,between Cahill and his sister Anna Johnson, his mother Vigdis Bjarnsdottir, and his second wife Dorothy Canning Miller, who was a long-time colleague at the Museum of Modern Art. In this series there is also correspondence of extraordinary interest between Anna Johnson and Dorothy Canning Miller which contains information about Cahill's birth, name and age, which is fundamentally different from the official biography.
pp.&#;80– (Article about the Pueblo-Indian art in the Exhibition of Independent Artists.)
Shadowland magazine. February "Ernest Lawson and His America" by Edgar Holger Cahill, pp.&#;23,
[Shadowland magazine. June "Bruce Crane: Master of Landscape" by Edgar Holger Cahill.

pp.&#;11, 70, 75 (with color reproduction).
Shadowland magazine. August "Bryson Burroughs" by Edgar Holger Cahill. pp.&#;11, (with color reproductions).
Shadowland magazine. September "John Costigan Carries the Flame" by Edgar Holger Cahill, pp.&#;11, 71 (with shade reproductions).
Shadowland magazine.

November "Hayley Lever, Individualist (The artist who believes that man may draw inspiration from all sources, but that the only deadly sin is imitation)" by Edgar Holger Cahill. p.&#;11, 77 (with color reproductions).
International Studio.

November (volume 76, number ). "Trygue Hammer's Sculpture". pp.&#;–
The Freeman. November 23, Article title unknown, by Holger Cahill, p.&#;?.
Shadowland magazine. February (volume 7, number 6). "Jonas Lie: Poet of Today" by Edgar Cahill.

pp.&#;11,
Shadowland magazine. April "Kenneth Hayes Miller Who Occupies the Place in the World of Art that James Branch Cabell Holds in Literature" by Edgar Cahill. pp.&#;11,
Shadowland magazine.

June "The Odyssey of George Hart — Who is the Dean of the Globe-Trotting Painters, and Whose Work Shows a Genuine Gusto for Life" by Edgar Cahill. pp.&#;11,
Shadowland magazine. September "Gaspard and America's Growth" (article about Leon Gaspard of the Milch Galleries by Edgar Cahill.
Tavern Topics.

April "Norsemen of Old Invade American Art, Viking Warriors and Traditions Embodied in the Pretty Decorative Motifs of New York's Newest Restaurant" by Edgar H. Cahill. pp.&#;17,

Paintings: Newark Museum, (Second List).

The Newark Museum Association. Newark, New Jersey; notes by Holger Cahill.
Profane Earth. The Macaulay Co., New York (book jacket drawn by John Sloan; dedicated the book to John Cotton Dana) (fiction).
New York Herald Tribune book review.

November 27, "Adventures in Lithography" George W. Bellows: His Lithographs reviewed by Holger Cahill.
George O. "Pop" Hart, The Downtown Gallery, New York, , 25 pages. Essay by Holger Cahill. Some editions of the book were published with an original lithograph in frontispiece.
Poster.

June "Poster Art in the Newark Museum" by Edgar Holger Cahill, staff member of the Newark Museum and the Newark Public Library.
Louise Connolly The Newark Museum, "Miss Connolly Continued Her Teaching in the Library and Museum" by Holger Cahill (small booklet published by the Newark Library and Museum at the time of her death.

JCD: "these notes on the existence of Miss Louise Connolly were prepared by Mrs. Henry B. Twombly of Summit New Jersey and by HC of the library museum and staff").
Contemporary American Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Atlantic City, New Jersey. (exhibition dates: June 19 — October 1, ).

introduction by Holger Cahill (Cahill listed as one of three on the Exhibition Committee.).
Creative Art. "The Museum and American Contemporary Art" (the Newark Museum issued a reprint).
Forbes magazine, August 15, "The Machine Industry's Demand for Art" by John Cotton Dana, in collaboration with Holger Cahill.
The Museum.

Newark, New Jersey. February (volume II, number 5)., "New American Paintings and Sculpture", pp.&#;34–
A Yankee Adventurer, The Macaulay Company, New York, [Fall].
Americana Illustrated. January (volume XXIV, number 1). "The Life and Work of John Cotton Dana", pp.&#;69– (by Edgar Holger Cahill).
Space.

Volumes — January , March and June (Cahill was editor in chief.)
Max Weber, The Downtown Gallery, Unused York, , 45 pages, 32 photographic plates. Essay by Holger Cahill. Some editions of the book were published with an original lithograph in frontispiece.
Modern American Watercolors, January 4 — February 9, , Newark Museum, introduction by Cahill, pp.&#;7–8.
American Primitives — An Exhibit of the Paintings of Nineteenth Century Folk Artists.

Newark Museum, Introduction by Cahill (pp.&#;7–9); descriptive notes by Cahill for "Portraits" (pp.&#;11– 15); "Landscapes and Other Scenes" (pp.&#;61–63); "Decorative Pictures" (pp.&#;69–75); and "Wood Sculpture" (p.&#;77). (exhibition dates: November 4, — February 1, ).
The Nation.

October 8, (volume , number ). "Early Lawlessness" The Outlaw Years by Robert M. Coates, reviewed by Holger Cahill. pp.&#;–

Jules Pascin, The Downtown Gallery, Fresh York, , Catalogue text by Holger Cahill.

There were also texts by Frank Crowninshield and Henry McBride. (exhibition dates: January 3–25, ).
William Zorach, The Downtown Gallery. Essay by Cahill in exhibition announcement. (exhibition dates: January 27 — February 15, ).
Atelier.

June , "American Primitives". pp.&#;–
The American Mercury. September (volume XXIV, number 93). "American Folk Art". pp.&#;39–
American Folk Sculpture — The Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Craftsmen.

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, "American Folk Sculpture" (pp.&#;13–18); "Wood Carving: Ship's Figureheads" (pp.&#;23–29); "Cigar Store Figures" (pp.&#;31–32); "Portraits" (pp.&#;38–39); "Eagles" (p.&#;48); "Schimmel Carvings" (p.&#;54–55); "The Pennsylvania Germans" (pp.&#;56 – 61); "Decoy Birds" (pp.&#;63–65); "Toys" (p.&#;68); "Work in Metal" (pp.&#;71–77); "Fire Marks" (p.&#;83); "Iron Stove Plates" (pp.&#;85–86); "Pottery and Plaster Ornaments" (pp.&#;93–96); "A Note on Stone Carving" (pp.&#;97–98).

(exhibition dates: October 20, — January 31, ).
Scribner's Magazine. September (volume XC, number 3). "He-Rain". pp.&#;– (fiction).
Scribner's Magazine. December (volume XC, number 6). "Fun (A Story)". pp.&#;– (fiction).
The American Mercury.

August (volume XXVI, number ). "The Life of Art". pp.&#;– (fiction).
Life in the United States — A Collection of Narratives of Contemporary American Life From First Hand Experience or Observation. Charles Scribner's.

New York. , Story by Holger Cahill He-Rain, pp.&#;79– (fiction).
Formes^{[clarification needed]}. March (number 23). "American Folk Art". pp.&#;–, a reprint of the article from The American Mercury.
Creative Art.

March "Bernard Karfiol". pp.&#;–
Parnassus. Rally (volume IV, number III). "Folk Art: Its Place in the American Tradition". pp.&#;1–4.
American Folk Art: The Art of the Usual Man in America, . The Museum of Modern Art, Modern York.

Essay, pp.&#;3– (exhibition dates: November 30, — January 14, ).
Creative Art. December (volume XI, number 4). "Early Folk Art in America" pp.&#;– (Reprinted from The Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue American Folk Art: The Art of the Ordinary Man in America, ).
America as Americans See It.

edited by Fred J. Ringel, Harcourt Brace, New York. (Cahill wrote "American Art Today", pp.&#;–, introduction by Henry McBride).
American Painting and Sculpture, . The Museum of New Art, New York. essay, pp.&#;9–22 (exhibition dates: October 31, — January 31, ).
American Sources of Modern Art.

The Museum of Modern Art, W. W. Norton and Co. Inc., Essay, pp.&#;5– (exhibition dates: May 10 — June 30, Cahill was director of the exhibition).
Holger Cahill | American art director | Britannica: Holger Cahill was a novelist, art critic, museum curator, an authority on the folk art of the United States and the arts of Main America, and national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Projects Administration from to
This book was also published as Aztec, Inca and Mayan Art by Garrett Press.
First Municipal Art Exhibition, foreword by Cahill. (exhibition dates: February 28 — March 31, ).
Arshile Gorky, Mellon Galleries, Philadelphia, essays by Cahill, Frederick Kiesler, Harriet Janowitz and Stuart Davis.
Art in America in Modern Times.

, Reynal and Hitchcock, New York, edited by Alfred Barr and Holger Cahill, (essays by Cahill: "American Painting " (pp.&#;7–50) and "American Sculpture Since the Civil War" (pp.&#;51–62).
Anne Goldthwaite, The Downtown Gallery New York essay by Cahill in exhibition announcement.

(exhibition dates: December 11–28, ).
Sculpture by Chaim Gross, Boyer Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Essay by Cahill in exhibition announcement. (exhibition dates: January 16 — February 5, ).
Art in America, A Complete Survey.

Halycon House, New York, Edited by Alfred Barr and Holger Cahill, (essays by Cahill: "Folk and Popular Art" (pp.&#;42–44); "American Painting " (pp.&#;65–); "American Sculpture Since the Civil War" (pp.&#;–)).
Federal Art Project Manual, U.S.

Works Progress Administration, Washington D.C. October Publication #

New Horizons in American Art. The Museum of New Art, New York, , Introduction by Cahill (exhibition dates: September 14 —- October 21, ).

Arno reprint in
American Art Portfolio, Series One. Raymond and Raymond Publishers. Introduction by Cahill. pp.&#;17– The essay was also published separately as American Painting, A Short Essay by Holger Cahill by Raymond and Raymond (unknown date).
Old and New Paths in American Design.

November (12 pages). Newark Museum. (Essay by Holger Cahill, pp.&#;3–10) (Text of address at Newark Museum, November 6, , on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition of the work of the FAP of the WPA held at the Newark Museum.)
The Nation.

October 10, Art: "Toward an American Art". (discusses FAP and exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.)
Architectural Record. September (volume 82). Design Trends, "Mural America". Essay by Cahill. pp.&#;63–
Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America (April 27 — July 24, ).

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with The Grenoble Museum. Chapter on American primitives "Artists of the People", pp.&#;95– by Cahill.
House & Garden. July (volume 74). Wellman, Rita: "American Design: Historic Examples from Index of American Design".

pp.&#;15–
Loren MacIver. East River Gallery. Essay by Cahill in exhibition announcement.
Cahill's Icelandic family migrated to Canada in about and then to North Dakota as homesteadersanglicizing their name to Bjornson and eventually, Johnson, although they continued to speak Icelandic at home. Extreme poverty, lack of formal education and domestic strife marked Cahill's early childhood. When he was young, his father abandoned the family and his mother sent the young Cahill to live and work on a farm owned by an Icelandic family 50 miles away where he was mistreated. His mother remarried and had another child, Anna.
(exhibition dates: Parade 29 — April 16, ).
New York Herald Tribune book review. September 4, "In a Native Tradition — A Subtle Research of One Artist Whose Roots Lie Deep in Old American Simplicities". Charles Sheeler, Artist in the American Tradition by Constance Rourke, reviewed by Holger Cahill, p.&#;4.
Reader's Digest.

November "Art for Our Sake" (Community Art Centers and the WPA).
American Art Today, New York World's Fair, National Art Society. Essay, "American Art Today". pp.&#;19–
Resources For Building America Number 15.

(The speeches contained in this booklet were delivered at the National Meeting in celebration of the eightieth birthday of John Dewey, New York City, October 20–21, ) American Resources in the Arts, pp.&#;?.
Parnassus.
Holger Cahill papers Archives of American Art. Details Related. Federal Music Project U. Federal Theatre Project U.
College Art Association, May (volume XI, number 5). "American Art Today" (reprint of the World's Fair essay). pp.&#;14–15,
The New York Times, June 18, (Sunday Gravure Picture Section). "Art: Yesterday Versus Today", Essay by Holger Cahill on the World's Fair exhibitions: "Moderns".

p. ____.
The Studio. June "Modern American Art".

The New Republic. September 14, The Faces of War — Men of the RAF by Sir William Rothenstein; War Pictures by British Artists: War At Sea; Blitz; RAF; Army' Reviewed by Holger Cahill p.&#;
John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum, A Museum in Action: Presenting the Museum's Activities.

Catalogue of an exhibition of American paintings and sculpture from the museum's collections, Newark Museum, Newark, Modern Jersey, (exhibition dates: October 31, — January 31, ). "Introduction" by Cahill (35th Anniversary Exhibition), pp.&#;?.
Canadian Art.

February–March (volume 1, number 3). "Art Goes To Public in the United States". pp.&#;–,
American Contemporary Art. November (volume 1, number 9). "The Museum and The Community". pp.&#;9–
USA: An American Review, Volume 2, #9, published by the U.S.

Office of War Information, "Government Art Projects" by Holger Cahill, p.&#;, ?
The League, Winter, , (bulletin published by the Art Students League of New York): "A Defense of the WPA Art Project". pp.&#;12–
Magazine of Art. May (volume 38, number 5).

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt". p.&#;
The Studio. July (volume CXXX, number ). "Artists in War and Peace". pp.&#;1–
Art News. October 15–31, "Stuart Davis". pp.&#;24–25,

Magazine of Art.

November (volume 39, number 7). "In Our Time". pp.&#;–
ALA News (Artists League of America). Number 1, "Can Art Survive with its Present Patronage?" (Excerpts from an address given to ALA on February 15, , at the ACA Gallery by Cahill.)
Look South to the Polar Star, Harcourt Brace and Company, Recent York.

January 23, (fiction).
Magazine of Art. May Book review by Holger Cahill of The Gathering of East and West by F.S.C. Northrup. p.&#;
Magazine of Art. November (volume 40, number 7). Principles of Chinese Painting by George Rowley.

p.&#;
Magazine of Art. March (volume 42, number 3). "A Symposium: The State of American Art". p.&#;
Magazine of Art, April (volume 42, number 4). The Painting of Max Weber, "Max Weber: A Reappraisal in Maturity" pp.&#;–
Magazine of Art.

May (volume 42, number 5) "Forty Years After: An Anniversary for the A.F.A.". pp.&#;–
The Index of American Design, Erwin O. Christensen, Introduction by Holger Cahill, The MacMillan Company, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
House Beautiful.

October "You Can Trace the Roots of the American Style to America's Folk Art". pp.&#;–, ,
Antiques. May "Folk Art Issue. What is American Folk Art?, A Symposium" (included Jack Baur, Holger Cahill, Edwin Christensen, Carl Drepperd, James Flexner, John Kouwenhoven, Nina Fletcher Little, Edgar Preston Richardson, Frank O.

Spinney, Janet MacFarlane and Louis Jones)". p.

Antiques. Pride (volume LIX, number 3). "Artisan and Amateur in American Folk Art". pp.&#;–
Minnesota History, , The French in America, , Detroit Institute of Arts Exhibition, reviewed by Holger Cahill.

p.&#;
Introduction to "Documentary Record of Fire Marks" published by the HV Smith Museum of the Home Insurance Company,
Magazine of Art. November (volume 45, number 7). "Niles Spencer". pp.&#;–
Downtown Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Niles Spencer, October 28 — November 15, , Essay by Cahill in the exhibition announcement (reprint of the above essay from the Magazine of Art).
New York Herald Tribune book review.

April 6, "Independent Citizen of the World of Art — An Understanding Monograph on the Rebel Painter John Sloan", John Sloan, by Lloyd Goodrich, reviewed by Holger Cahill.
Saturday Review. December 20, "War Photo Pioneers", Divided We Fought — A Pictorial History of the Civil War, by Hirst Milhollen, Milton Kaplan and Hulen Stuart, reviewed by Holger Cahill.

p.&#;
Morgan Russell. Rose Fried Gallery. Essay by Cahill in exhibition announcement. (exhibition dates: October 26 — November ).
New York Herald Tribune. "John Sloan". ?. p.&#;?.
New York Herald Tribune.

April 12, "Artists and Illustrators of the Old West", Fifty Pictorial Years of the Old West, by Robert Taft, reviewed by Holger Cahill, p.&#;4.
Saturday Review. November 7, "Still Collection". After The Hunt by Alfred Frankenstein, reviewed by Holger Cahill.

p.&#;
Art Digest., February 15, "Ancient Art of the Andes". pp.&#;7–9.
New York Herald Tribune. December 12, "A Witty Westerner on Chinese Painting". Aspects of Chinese Painting by Alan Priest, reviewed by Holger Cahill.

p.&#;3.
The New York Times Book Review. November 7, "Pathways to the Past". The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent, Indian Art of the Americas: North America, reviewed by Holger Cahill. p.&#;3.
50 Ans d'art aux Etats Unis.

Introduction by Cahill, dated February 16, (Exhibition held at the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris, France.)
New York Herald Tribune. January 2, "Serene Fields". Amishland by Kiehl and Christian Newswanger, reviewed by Holger Cahill, p.&#;4.
Saturday Review.

November 26, John Singer Sargent by Charles Merrill Mount, reviewed by Holger Cahill. p.&#;

The Shadow of My Hand. Harcourt Brace, New York (fiction).
Marg, A Magazine of the Arts, Volume X, December , #1, American Supplement: "Twentieth Century Art in the U.S." "Painting" (pp.&#;46–62) and "Sculpture" (pp.&#;63–67), illustrated.
Modern Art in the United States, a selection from the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, shown at the Tate Gallery, essay "American Painting and Sculpture in the Twentieth Century" by Cahill.
The New York Times Publication Review.

November 10, "Yesterday in the Middle Americas", Indian Art of Mexico and Central America by Miguel Covarrubias, reviewed by Holger Cahill.
New York Herald Tribune book review. December 6, "George Catlin: In His Art the Frontier American Indian Endures".

George Catlin and the Old Frontier by Harold McCracken; George Catlin: Episodes From "Life Among the Indians" and "Last Rambles" edited by Marvin C. Ross, reviewed by Holger Cahill. p.&#;?.
New York Herald Tribune book review. January 3, "The Rich Sweep of the Great Rivers He Painted Was in Bingham's Art", George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist by John Francis McDermott, reviewed by Holger Cahill.

p.&#;?.
New York Herald Tribune book review. July 10, "He Gambled and Pioneered, and Fathered a Painter", Son of a Gamblin Man by Mari Sandoz.

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