Word: bashford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skillfully animated toys, but there is an ancient artistic problem back of Calder's Mobiles: the attempt to capture the flash and beauty of bright metals and bits of color actually in motion. Ten years ago the same problem greatly troubled such an arch-conservative as the late Bashford Dean, curator of arms & armor at the Metropolitan Museum, who begged the museum trustees to allow him to put real men at arms stalking about the corridors in the belief that his beloved harnesses were empty shells unless worn by living models...
...Armor & Arms Club's first president in 1921 was the late Bashford Dean, arms curator of the Metropolitan Museum. Now numbering 50 men, probably its best known member is Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay who owns one of the finest private collections of armor in the world. The members are scholars who have written learned papers on almost everything from Japanese sword-guards to lobster-tailed helmets...
...ventail at Milan and the Tower of London. Last week the trustees of the Metropolitan unveiled a bronze tablet designed by Sculptor Daniel Chester French and dedicated a hall of armor to the memory of the man who, by giving the hall, made the Metropolitan armorially fourth -the late Bashford Dean, Curator of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan from...
...Bashford Dean was born in New York in 1867. Scion of frugal Dutch and English ancestors who had lived in the vicinity of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson since the 17th Century, it was his good fortune never to want for money. His wealth was lucky for him, for no one has ever yet made a fortune from either of Bashford Dean's hobbies, ichthyology or armor...
...soon as he was big enough to turn the pinion wheels of a microscope, small and studious Bashford Dean began to study natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched...