Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present quarters. In the library stack rooms and two open shelf rooms, space is provided for 526,760 volumes. But the building will be plain. Said Mr. Gilbert: "There has been no intention of finishing the interior . . . with elaborate and expensive marble-work and excessive decoration, the design rather relying upon fine proportions and simplicity for the monumental effect desired...
Winner Reichardt had, in the opinion of the judges, turned in the best design for the problem: "A church and parish house of a style in harmony with the traditions of early America." Explaining his adeptness with pen and brush, he told newshawks that he had been drawing since he was eight years old. "My father, who is a designer of architectural woodwork, used to give me his drawings to copy. He used to give me $1 for each copy I made. It made me feel pretty important. I didn't realize that his real object simply...
...design said he: "My inspiration for the church spire came from the fine spire of the old North Church in New Haven. I was afraid all through that one of the Yale boys would also work from that, but none of them did." Well might Winner Reichardt have feared the Yale threat, for in the past four years two Yale men from the recently enlarged art school at New Haven have won the Prix de Rome for architecture. Schools with the greatest number of fellowship winners are: 1) Columbia; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) M. I. T. and Yale...
...England before the conquest. This series includes the coins of Canute, king of Denmark and England. He was the king of whom the story is told that he commanded the tide to stop rising. His coins show a feature common to this series, a voided cross on the reverse design. The purpose of this cross was to afford a convenient gauge for cutting the coins into halves and quarters as the practice was then to make change by cutting the penny. A half penny so cut is shown among the coins of Canute...
...invitation of Professor Norton, in 1874, he gave a course on the Principles of Design, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1895 he was made Curator of the Fogg Museum and a year later the Director, remaining as professor of Fine Arts until his resignation in 1909. Professor Moore's wide reputation as a scholar and writer came principally from his study of Mediaeval Architecture, the results of which are embodied in his book, "The Development and Character of Gothic Architecture...