Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dining halls and libraries as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where' tickets for football games are sold. To the rear of the Union is Warren House, where English A themes are turned in. Just to the north and also on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other up-&-coming schools promptly hired their own resident artists, not to teach art but to talk it, to paint while undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City...
Into the main station of Geneva, Switzerland one night in February 1939 crawled a train of 22 freight cars. Atop every second car sat a machine-gun crew, and as the train stopped, three French soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver...
Latest artist to move in on the campus is slight, baldish, bright-looking, tweedy Dale Nichols, 35. School begins for him this week at the University of Illinois, whose trustees, impressed because he won a $300 William Randolph Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...
Illinois's new resident artist boasts: "I never had any training in the fine arts or painting, thank goodness!" A member of the Sanity in Art Group, which considers "modernist" a synonym for "lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...