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Un-American Art: Auburn to gain collection from recalled 1947 exhibit
A traveling 120 work show Advancing American Art backed by the State Department was recalled in 1947 amid charges it was left leaning and pro communism. Auburn University bought 36 works for about 6.50 each. the rest were auctioned or bought by Oklahoma. The pieces, including works by Bearden and Gropper, will reach a permanent home at Auburn’s new museum in 2003, with many on display at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
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Montgomery
Ala
U.S. State Department
United States
Congress
Auburn University
Georgia O’keeffe
John Marin
Ben Shahn
Auburn
America
Taylor Littleton
McCarthy
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Michael
Hearst
de Marsche
Look Magazine
State Department
U.S
Fred Busbey
Illinois
House
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Truman
George Marshall
Caribbean
Europe
Prague
Czechoslovakia
War Assets Administration
University of Oklahoma
Louis Guglielmi
New York
Romare Bearden
Kandinsky
William Gropper
Philip Evergood
Jacob Lawrence
Harlem
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art
Mary Ruth Kirkland
Summerville
S.C
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art
Georgia O'Keefe
Ben Shaw