HARVARD SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART HAS DISPLAY

On November second the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will present its first exhibition of the season with a display of paintings, tracing the development of modern painting since Impressionism. The object of the exhibition is not so much to display individual paintings as to show the logical transformation in style since the end of the nineteenth century. Great artists who, by some specific contribution, pushed forward the new tradition will be represented by those paintings which best illustrate their place in the movement.

The history of the movement, as the arrangement of the paintings will show, is a history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings.

Plans for the year include a number of other shows which will subordinate the individual work and derive unity from some problem in painting. An exhibition of abstract and realistic painting will take up the question of the degree to which individual artists depend on external phenomena. "Qualities" will be an exhibition including all types of visual objects.