Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53d Street.

The Museum of ̂ odern Art announced today that its next

exhibition "The Art of the Common Man in America" will

open to the public on Wednesday, November 30. There

will be a preview for members of the Museum on Tuesday,

November 29.

Mr. A. Conner Goodyear, President of the Museum of

Modern Art said today: "The Exhibition includes both

painting and sculpture and is the first complete ex­

hibition covering the entire field of the art of the

common man in America from about 1750 to the close of

the 19th century."

The Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture,

1862 - 1932 will remain on view until January 31, 1933,

and will be open continually to the public, including

November 29th and 30th.

The Exhibition of Persian Frescoes will be on view

until November 26.

The Exhibition of "The Art of the Common Man in

America" will include 175 items under the following

classifications. (The name of the artist is in most

cases unknown.)

1. Oil paintings, including portraits, landscape

and genre, and historical, religious and allegorical

paintings.

3. Pastels, portraits and landscapes

3. Watercolors including a group of Pennsylvania

fracteur, a survival of the art of manuscript

illumination up to the time of the Civil War.

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4. Paintings on velvet, a. larce selection

5. Tinsel pictures and painting on glass

6. A design group, showing one design in 5 different methods.

7. Wood Sculpture, ships figureheads, cigarstore figures,

toys, whittler portraits, wbathervanes, wild fowl decoys.

8. Sculpture in metal, weathervanes, lawn figures, stove

plates of 18th century decorated in relief, fire

insurance emblems.

9. Plaster ornaments and a pattern group of 15 droll

designs for cookie moulds.

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