Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embroideries, etchings by Gaya and Canal, prints by Durer and Holbein, a 3000-year old censer from Iraq and an antiphonary from Italy, partially represent the scope of an exhibition first opened at the Fogg Art Museum to display recent accessions...
...experiment adopted by the directors of the Fogg Museum in loaning pictures to students who wish to use them in decorating their rooms is in the nature of an attempt to popularize fine arts. Coming as it does close on the heels of the opening of the first exhibit of the Harvard Society for Contemporaneous Art, it is an encouraging sign to those who hope for more knowledge of the beauties of art among students...
...purpose of the innovation is to permit students to familiarize themselves with works of art and to give them the opportunity to form their own judgments on the pieces in question. It should encourage the development of appreciation of art, for a student is more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...
...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...
They will all be held in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock and are presented under the auspices of the School of Architecture and the Fogg Museum. The dates and titles are as follows...