New Accessions

As contemporary paintings get less contemporary, U.S. museums are finding room on their walls for more & more of them. In Colorado Springs last week, the Fine Arts Center was showing its regular biennial loan exhibition, "New Accessions, U.S.A.,'' made up of modern canvases acquired by 33 U.S. museums.

One of the most popular pictures at the show was Kenneth Davies' Pocusmania, a fool-the-eye, symbol-filled closet of everyday objects weirdly misplaced. Also on hand was Davies' quieter piece of realism, The Bookcase.

Others with noteworthy pictures:

P: Ogden Pleissner, 47, one of the best-known U.S. realists: The Ramparts, St. Malo and The Arno, both examples of his regard for detail, color and mood.

P: Ben Shahn, 53, "protest painter," whose expressionism packs a wallop: Ave, Composition With Clarinets and Tin Horn, Epoch.

P: William Sanderson, 47, teacher of design at Denver University's School of Art: Composition With Fried Egg, a line-and-shadow oil of ranch hands at breakfast, typifying Sanderson's use of precise symmetrical design.

P: Karl Knaths, 60, Cape Cod abstractionist: The Moon, an angular farmyard scene in grey and lavender, and Salt Flats, a seaside scene in blues and greens.

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