Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this one, with magnificent wings, a beard, three sets of horns and five legs. But an unmistakable bull it is. Even as U. S. tycoons...
...collection of Japanese art on exhibit in the Fogg Museum through the month of December is a remarkable collection of Japanese mirrors and scrolls and pottery lent by Charles Bain Boyt, who arranged the exhibit for the Museum...
...Japanese exhibit, which opened yesterday, consists chiefly of tempre paintings and block prints, the majority of which were lent by Yamanaka & Co. Other prints, some Italian pottery, and other art objects were loaned to the museum by Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works...
...following description of Bellini's "Madonna and Child" in the Fogg Museum has been written for the Crimson by an officer of the museum. The article stresses the recent movement to place on exhibit in a conspicuous place a single picture...
...what the present director characterizes as the "museum habit," a wide-spread and natural tendency to visit the gallery without considering the financial burden necessary to maintain it. The Society was organized three years ago by a group of Harvard undergraduates and has been supported both in exhibits and money solely by contributions from New York. These contributions which have only recently been cancelled because of the depression, were rapidly being superceded by Cambridge and Boston aid which has, however, been found insufficient. The last exhibit, which attracted 1500 persons, was staged at a cost of $350 which...