Word: binyon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...
...Laurence Binyon will lecture on "The Spirit of Man in Asian Art" at eight o'clock tonight in the New Lecture Hall...
...Laurence Binyon, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, and author and formerly Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, will give two special lectures this week in connection with the exhibition of English Water Colors at the Fogg Museum. The first is "English Water Colors of the 18th Century," today at 4 o'clock; and the second, "English Waters Colors of the 19th Century," Thursday, also at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...Binyon has just published "Landscape in English Painting and Poetry," and "English Water Colors...
...Genesis of Poetry" will be discussed by Mr. Laurence Binyon, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in the Senior Common Room of Kirkland House, Monday, December...