Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Wins a Prize? "It is as much a mistake to accept a thing without understanding it as to reject it without understanding it," Sculptor Jo Davidson wrote at the time when Manhattan's famed 1913 Armory Show plunged the U.S. headlong into modern art. Davidson's counsel was still being pondered this week as museum doors opened on the two biggest prize-giving events of the year. Washington's 25th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago's 62nd American Exhibition of Painting...
...Brown, 14 to 13. In 1951, Harvard won three, lost five, and tied once, taking victories from Springfield, Army, and Brown. Harvard compiled its first winning season in six years in 1952, when Jordan won five and lost four. The wins were against Springfield, Washington University, Colgate, Dartmouth, and Davidson...
...when Dick Clasby was captain, the Crimson won six and lost two. The wins were over Ohio University, Colgate, Dartmouth, Davidson, Brown, and Yale...
...student in France. He kept to himself, sketching and painting along the Seine and in the parks. "I had heard of and knew about Gertrude Stein," he recalls, "but I wasn't important enough for her to know me. About the only important person I knew was Jo Davidson, and he was willing to look at me only because I knew the girl he was going to marry-met her on the boat going over...
Paul Striker outpointed Frank Davidson, 8 to 1, in the 137-pound class for a decision to bring the Crimson edge to 11 to 0. In the 147-pound section, exfreshman Crimson captain Joe Noble picked up five points on a forfeit by Indian Jim Young...