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This medal is awarded to that school which, in a given year, has shown the best record of accomplishment in the teaching of architecture along the lines followed by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The award is made not simply on the actual record of the men in competition in the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. The Harvard Schools does not enter these competitions regularly and usually sends drawings only two or three times a year. The award is made partly on the basis of drawings sent and partly on a careful investigation...
...period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever given in Chicago, one, we are told (not to be comparative but to give a stamp...
...noted authority on French Sculpture and painting, and former professor of the history of sculpture at the Louvre, will give a public lecture on Contemporary French sculpture in the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this evening. Reau, in addition to being a contributor to the Gazette des Beaux Arts, has been a lecturer, in St. Petersburg and Vienna. The lecture, which will be illustrated is given under the auspices of the Alliance Francais, and is open to the public...
...Museum, at The Museum on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. M. Reau has had a wide experience in the field of sculpture and related arts and besides being at one time professor of sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre, was a former editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. The public is cordially invited to attend his talk in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
From needlework Aristide Maillol turned to painting, studied under Cabanel at the Beaux Arts in Paris. For ten years he slaved over an easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...