Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every week the Thursday Afternoon Art Society of the Women's Club of Dover-Wellesley visits the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for lectures, tours and special exhibits. Last Thursday the Society went to the photography exhibit entitled Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light. Two ladies stood before a four-panel, seven-foot screen of "The Clearing Storm" in all its mammoth glory. After a suitable pause for appreciation, Dover turned to Wellesley and announced, "We stayed at a little motel up above it and we could see those lights...
There is little warmth, however, to relieve the glare of what God hath wrought on the great North American continent and what Ansel Adams hath done to drive it all home. The cumulative effect of the Fine Arts exhibit is somewhat akin to that of being dangled over a chasm for several hours. You admire it, but it scares hell...
Really, though, the BMFA exhibit is too much of a good and powerful thing. By the time you are facing "Mount Williamstown, from Munzana" (1944); on the last wall of prints, you hardly register the now-familiar enormities around you. You almost pass by untouched, but a piercing ray of sunlight glints off the center middle ground. You look again at the terrifying array of boulders marching out at you. There is a start of recognition...
Unfortunately, this section also houses a sadly inevitable crowd of young hangers-on and would-be-professional musicians. These are the people who feel compelled to exhibit the superiority of their musicianship to that of the performers on stage by means of a running commentary of giggles, frowns, snickers and between-the-movements explanations of how that melody really should have been phrased...
...confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some 8,000 visitors, and resulted in the rediscovery of 30 Salmons by dealers and Boston families...