Word: atheneum
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...Rembrandt portrait, probably of his son Titus, so little known that it has been overlooked even by most Rembrandt scholars, was purchased by the Wadsworth Atheneum of Hartford, Conn, for a price estimated...
Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage...
...Atheneum, started as a private library and art gallery, first opened its doors in Scollay Square in 1807. Sensitive to the rapidly changing character of Scollay, the library stayed only two years, moving to Pearl St. in 1809. After a short sojourn on Pearl St. the Atheneum was driven by the growing clatter of commercial Boston to its present site on Beacon...
...Atheneum is now run by one thousand and forty-nine shareholders who buy their shares on the stock market. Ranging between one hundred and seventy-five and nine hundred dollars, the price of shares goes up and down with the general trend of the market. Despite the rather forbidding notice on the door restricting the use of the library to shareholders, Walter Muir Whitehill, President of the Atheneum's Trustees and Senior Tutor of Lowell House, explains that the "barriers are raised only high enough to keep out the nuisances...
Presently, however, Atheneum officials have nothing but good words for the cemetery behind them. The expanse of headstone dotted lawn that houses the "tempestuous spirits" of the revolution has assured the library a refuge from the newer turmoil of Tremont St. Outside these spirits lie quietly; inside, aired on oaken frames, and in statue filled halls, they move again...