Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess). Last...
That was that. But the catalogue of the new gallery contained a one-paragraph foreword written by O'Keeffe which told something more about the Stieglitz approach to art education. The collection had been given to Fisk, she wrote, "with the hope that it may show that there are many ways of seeing and thinking, and possibly, through showing that there are many ways, give someone confidence...
McNear was climbing in France with Irving L. Fisk '50, James Sprek of Chicago, and a Dartmouth man. According to mountaineering practice, McNear and Sprek were tied together by a long rope, and only one man would climb at a time...
VARSITY SKIING--Minor H--Gordon Abbott, Jr. '50, Irving L. Fisk '50, Gerald Y. Genn '48, Lawrence L. Griffin '48, Donald K. Justus '50, Skiddy M. Lund '51, Rodger P. Nordblom '50, Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '49, James K. Weaver '51, Manager George L. Seldon...
When Louis was five his mother took him away from Jane Alley, moved some 18 blocks to Liberty Street, near Perdido in the old third ward. Socially it was the shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where he learned to read & write, and honky-tonks like Sicilian Henry Matranga's place and thickly packed Funky Butt Hall, where both the syncopation and the dancing were strident and brassy...