Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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...
...came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world, by Mexico's Miguel Covarrubias...
...thing people must learn," said he, "is not to 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...
Leader of this motley crew now is broad-beamed Dr. Mark Arthur May, a psychologist, expert on educational movies and onetime theology instructor. Dr. May, who has been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...