Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the generosity of Edward D. Bettens '73 the Fogg Art Museum has acquired an exceptionally fine landscape in oil by John Singer Sargent. It represents Lake O'Hara in British Columbia, with the mountains rising behind it. The picture is a memorial to Mr. Bettens' mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. The museum has also acquired as a gift from a group of people, one of the water colors which Mr. Sargent painted at the same time near Lake O'Hara...
...This acquisition of a distinguished modern work of art is an event of moment in the development of the Museum, which hitherto has received most of its enrichments in the field of the earlier masters. It is evident that the Museum can never be expected to compete with the large public collections of pictures. It may readily be seen, however, that a small, rigidly selective collection of paintings, representing the best in many schools, and periods, would add an element of high value to the courses of instruction in the fine arts at Harvard. The Sargent landscape marks a possible...
...Fogg Art Museum at the regular hours. Hemenway Gymnasium from 9 to 6 o'clock...
...picture now in the Fogg Art Museum is extremely beautiful in color. Mr. Berenson believes that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes, and of the color he said, he should be at a loss to point to any other. Italian work that is of a color at once so powerful and yet neither warm nor cold, but fused in a manner soft as harmonious...
Four members of the Fine Arts Department of the University will give several of the series of conferences which are to be held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from January to April, 1917. "Professor Arthur Pope '01 will speak on "The Use of Line--East and West," on February 8, "The History and Technique of Italian Painting" will be the topic of a lecture by Edward W. Forbes '95, director of the Fogg Art Museum, on March 1 and 8; Paul J. Sachs '00, assistant professor of Fine Arts, will hold a conference on "Engravings by Sixteenth Century...