Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George L. Stout, head of the Department of Technical Research at the Fogg Art Museum, and John S. Thatcher, Assistant Director of the same museum announced yesterday that the cross on Bishop Lawrence's chest in his portrait in Leverett dining hall is caused by variations in the moisture content of the paint and the support...
Even in small U. S. towns where ten years ago anything approaching an esthetic gesture would rouse the citizenry to barbaric yawps, dancing is a form of art now highly regarded, whether provided by the Ballet Russe or the Hopi Indians. In Manhattan this week the newly cosmopolitan art of the dance was honored in an ambitious exhibition of no less than 1,304 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, masks, dolls and costumes drawn from dancing in most of the nations of the world. It was the opening event in a no less ambitious festival called "Dance International," designed to keep...
...Peace. Miss Hoffman, who has sculped native dancers in Asia, Africa and the South Seas, thought so too. During the summer Miss Branch and Miss Hoffman traveled 12,000 miles by automobile through Europe, extracted from galleries, artists and officials every scrap that they could find of valuable art connected with the dance...
...William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental objects of art already contracted...
Professor Ames reported that "a prolonged illness, and impaired vision brought about by the exacting nature of his art, have compelled Mr. Blaschka to cease work indefinitely. Indeed it is doubtful that he will add materially to the collection to which he has devoted the major part of a long life. It is gratifying to report that Mr. Blaschka may look forward to a comfortable retirement through the generous terms of Miss Mary Lee Ware's bequest to the Botanic Museum...