Word: displays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Thomas Eakins' widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models...
Practice was carried on in routine fashion yesterday afternoon as Coach Dick Harlow handed out the final dose of hard work to his men in preparation for tomorrow's game. There was the customary display of Cadet plays and formations, the usual amount of hopeful pass offense, and finally some signal drills...
Blond, clean-cut young Yaleman Eugene Kingman, Philbrook's director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...
...scoreless nature of the second half might indicate a dull gridiron display, but the ball, the breaks, and scoring opportunities changed so swiftly that both stands were constantly brought to their feet...
Against the feared ravages of war, most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...