Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering Harrison Gulch to be a typical "Poor Young Men's" camp, permit me to point out that out of 165 enrollees two-thirds of them are taking correspondence courses which are offered by the California State Department of Education. One-half of the enrolled body are interested in completing their high-school work. They will receive credit for work done in camp through the local high school...
Renaissance. Safe from fire or quake in one of the fairground's two permanent hangar buildings was the biggest, choicest exhibition of art ever shown in California. To select its gallery of contemporary paintings and sculpture, meditative Roland McKinney, onetime director of the Baltimore Museum, had traveled 30,000 miles and peered carefully at the handiwork of 350 U. S. artists. To assemble a central gallery of decorative arts, smart San Franciscan Dorothy Liebes whizzed through Europe last summer visiting ateliers from dawn to dusk, enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra...
...exhibition that San Franciscans crowed over most-and with good reason -was the Old Masters show. California is far from overstocked with masterpieces of the great artistic periods, and California artists are the first to admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from...
Lucky wangler of this terrific haul was Ski-enthusiast Walter Heil, Director of the de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (an art gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
...refer to these people as just Indians. It doesn't make sense. Nowhere in Europe can you find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware...