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Among the most important art objects added to the Museum collections were an Assyrian marble bas-relief of the 9th century B.C.; from the Antioch expedition conducted by a group of American universities and museums, a number of mosaics, among them a pool which may be installed in the Museum court; an unfinished painting by Piero di Cosimo, 15th century Florentine master, entitled "The Misfortunes of Silenus;" and a Siamese head of Buddha, in wood, of the 13th or 14th century, from the well-known Eumorfopoulos Collection, in London...
Three summers ago, San Francisco's Board of Education asked the WPA Art Project to provide a bas-relief for George Washington High School, on which construction was then beginning. The bas-relief was intended to be the world's biggest frieze: a panel 12 ft. high, 183 ft. long, set in a wall at the end of an athletic field, where spectators could view it. WPA agreed, under a standard arrangement whereby it would furnish the work, the board the cost of materials. The wall and bas-relief were to be poured as one concrete unit...
...Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. famed for his barrel-shaped steel statue of St. Francis (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937), was picked to do the bas-relief. Able, but alternately dreamy, impulsive and opinionated. Sculptor Bufano turned in an acceptable drawing of the frieze, began work on a 30-ft. clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt...
...years tireless, organ-voiced Bas com Anthony has called men to Christ. Nowadays he does much of his preaching and praying seated in an armchair, with his eyes shut, but the oldtime spirit is still there. Says he : "I like to think of the Lord standing right there. He's there but we can't see Him-I like to think of Him saying to me, 'How are you going to represent Me, Son?' and I'd say, 'Best I know how, Father...
...Hanover Indians will be starting the hard way when they tangle with Cornell. the Big Red, which shared the crown with Harvard in 1939 has made an auspicious debut. It bas won both games it has played, beating Pennsylvania by 21 to 5 and Harvard...