Word: dreifus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Society continued their involvement in the arts. "These men who were in the Society--one of them went on to found the New York City Ballet, and they were responsible for a lot of foreign artists immigrating to the United States. So they were real revolutionaries," Dreifus says...
Once she finished researching the project, Dreifus had to decide what to display. "We were going to be exhibiting materials from the archives, but we also wanted to show the kinds of works [the society] exhibited at the time...So I went through the catalogs at the Fogg and picked out things for the exhibition and then did research on those works of art and the artists, so I could write the text for the labels on the walls...
Entitled The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, 1929-1936, the exhibition includes works by Picasso, Matisse and Lachaise--artists whose talents were first introduced to Boston by the society. Dreifus also incorporates brochures printed by the society, newspaper articles about their exhibitions and correspondence between members of the society and their influential patrons. Dreifus' texts are intriguing and descriptive, giving visitors a glimpse into a more idealistic world...
...thing missing from the display is photographs of the society's actual exhibitions. Dreifus asked John P. Coolidge '35, who was one of the Society's undergraduate executives, about the lack of existing photographs. "He said, `Well, you know, Joanna, if you were to go to the athletic building right now for a swim or something, would you take a picture of it?' It [was] just something they were doing...They didn't realize at the time how historic it would be, or how revolutionary...
...Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, 1929-1936 is well worth seeing, if not for the art itself, then at least for its Harvard connection. Dreifus' exhibition is as much the story of a few Harvard kids struggling to bring a new vision to a resistant world as it is a moment in the history of modern...