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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Careful revision of courses on Design and Construction and the addition of four new courses next year have been brought about by a reorganization of the curriculum of the School of Architecture. The changes were made to keep abreast of progress in architecture, and to increase graduates' opportunities for professional employment by offering a broder and more advanced course for future architects...
...Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...
...foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full 35 ft. by 42. He sent this model to Brussels in 1931 to be cast into bronze. It is still in Brussels. But in his big white Manhattan studio, as clean...
...great deal of time and effort. In spite of this, or perhaps partly because of this, 1a is a splendid introduction to the field of Fine Arts. The lectures during the first half-year, given by Professor Pope assisted by Mr. Feild, outline the principles of drawing, painting, and design in a concrete and intelligent fashion, and they establish the vocabulary which is used in the later part of the course in analysis of the great masters of the historical schools of painting...
...great masters, leading one from China and Japan, through Greece and the Renaissance down to Turner almost in our own day gives one a tangible and permanent understanding and admiration of their greatness. In addition to copying one is also required to put into execution the principles of design and color which one has studied in theory in the lectures. Besides its value as a preparatory course for those who are going further in Fine Arts, 1a is the best of the introduction courses for those who only want to acquire an intelligent and critical attitude toward painting...