Word: designations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum there is a unique and little-known display of drawings, diagrams, paintings in oil and water color, designs and photographs, all of which have been collected and given to the Museum by Denman W. Ross '75. The purpose of this interesting collection is to demonstrate the theories of design, composition, and color, and they are much used by Professor A. Pope '01 in his fine arts courses...
...collection begins with a series of diagrams which illustrate the principles of design--the harmonious division of areas based upon geometric forms. Next in sequence are considerations of design in its relations of light and dark color, and color intensity. The examples of this include some very entertaining drawings by children, in which their powers of representation are enhanced by their having taken into consideration in their pictures the first simple principles of design...
Other examples of color and its value in design are furnished by copies of textiles, mostly by students of Dr. Ross. Finally these theories are carried into the field of representative painting in which Dr. Ross used his color scale and palette entirely. Most of the canvasses are small sketches but some are larger and more finished pictures...
...sport here, however, was without organization, without elaborate rules, and without formal competition, until William S. Gummere of Princeton and William J. Leggett of Rutgers arranged the Princeton-Rutgers game of 1869, and drafted a special set of rules to govern its play. Those rules, either unconsciously or by design, followed the "association" style of play, for soccer, even in these early days, was an established institution...
Professors George H. Chase '96, John S. Humphries '93, and Arthur Pope '01, of the Department of Fine Arts, who have been acting as judges in the Dramatic Club poster competition, have unanimously accepted the design of Nathaniel Choate '22 of Framingham Centre as the winning poster. The design is a striking masque which suggests the change in the type of play offered by the club this year, the production being in a considerably lighter vein than heretofore. The poster will be on view within a week...