Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unique exhibition will shortly take place in one of the rooms of the Fogg Museum of Art under the auspices of the Department of Classics in Harvard University. This is a collection of casts of a score of the principal busts of Julius Caesar, gathered by Mr. Frank J. Scott, of Toledo, Ohio, the author of a work published in 1903, entitled "Portraitures of Julius Caesar." The originals of these casts are scattered in museums all over Europe, so that never before has the opportunity been afforded to study the portraits side by side, and thus to approach a solution...
...taught man many ways of petty meanness. Educated men, though infrequently possessing those personal qualities which enable them to exert immediate control over the wills of others, are able by their dispassionate criticism to rule in calmer moments. To bring things back to their proper perspective is the art of the learned...
Under the auspices of the Anthropological Society Dr. Clark Wisler spoke last night in the Fogg Lecture Room on "The art of the American Indian." Dr. Wisler explained, with the aid of the stereopticon, the several stages of transition in Indian art and the two theories upheld in regard to the development of existing designs. One theory is that present geometrical patterns are the out-growth of primitive realistic ideas, embroidered or carved on bone and Ivory: while another and less probable theory is that all designs which were originally in the shape of diagrams, have gradually developed into more...
...greatest living authorities on this subject and has spent several seasons in Montana and the Dakotas studying the Sioux and Blackfoot Indians. The purpose of the lecture will be to explain the designs used by the Indians in their ornaments and to describe the Indian conception of art...
...ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. "The Art of the American Indian," Dr. Clark Wisler (Illustrated by Stereopticon). Fogg Lecture Room...