Word: durer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show displays both the medium's instruments--etching needle, drypoint needle, copper plate--and demonstrates the distinction between etching and other printmaking processes. In three sixteenth-century works by Albrecht Durer, the differences between etching, engraving and woodcut printmaking are evident. The woodcut is cruder, with broad areas of black and white, and the well-defined line necessarily supercedes tone and mood...
Many of those collections rank among the best in the America if not the world, and have given Harvard museums the status they currently enjoy. From Europe, the Fogg logs over 60,000 prints, including over 300 by Durer, 200 by Rembrandt and another 300 by Goya. Its watercolors by Blake are unrivaled outside England, while its drawings from Gericault and David are the most comprehensive collections outside France...
...visionary collectors and benefactors, the Fogg set up a special exhibition in late September of this year entitled, "Heavenly Twins': Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection." The exhibition draws from works the two men acquired over the years and features drawings by Corot, Durer, Degas, Picasso and many others...
Which they certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange and funny novel. Here's the hero, learning by the succession of paintings in his office that his position in a Manhattan bank is shaky. First his Rembrandt is replaced by a Durer: "Within a week, however, it too was gone, replaced by a Monet ... If someone were trying to send a message to me, they were being incredibly subtle. In fact they were. The next day, the Monet was gone and a Vuillard was in its place ... It was clear that all was not well." Wit at this level...
...Russian field engineer named Victor Baldin was poking through the cellars of Karnzow Castle, just north of Berlin, where he and other Soviet Army officers were billeted. By the dim light of a candle, he found several bulging portfolios of drawings and watercolors. Their names leaped out at him: Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Amazed at the discovery, Baldin begged his officers for transport space to carry this abandoned trove back to the Soviet Union-to no avail. There was no room on the trucks, and the brigade was pulling out in the morning...