Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three paintings loaned by Paul J. Sachs '00, of New York, have been placed on temporary exhibition in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. One of these is a portrait of Martin Luther bearing the date of 1546 and the dragon crest signature of Lucas Cranach, but in all probability is a work of his school. Although it does not possess the quality of the finest paintings by Cranach, like the Portrait of a Lady, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, it nevertheless is an extremely interesting characterization of the great reformer, and it illustrates the general...
Prominent among these is the Fogg Art Museum, which has just announced a special exhibit of famous paintings. A census of the students who will visit the Museum to see this collection, or, indeed who will visit it to see any collection, would undoubtedly bring out the fact that a pitifully small number of men are availing themselves of an opportunity which is at their very door. If there is a Harvard indifference, this is it, and in its worst form. Perhaps a better word for it is thoughtlessness...
...best way to overcome this disreguard of the extra-curriculum activities which are really valuable, is to get in the habit of going to the special exhibits at the Fogg and other art museums, to see concerts and recitals which Boston offers, and to the lectures and discussions in and about the University...
Professor George H. Chase, of the Classical Department will speak on "Archaic Greek Art" in the Archaic Greek Art Room of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts tomorrow at 4 o'clock. All men in the University interested in this form of art are urged to attend. Mr. Clinton H. Collester, English instructor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will also talk on Copley's painting of Mr. and Mrs. Izard in the gallery of early American paintings at 3.15 o'clock...
Bacchantes in Greek Art...