Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esthetic freshmen haven't been slighted in the new plans, Peterman pointed out. Professor John P. Coolidge '35, of the Fogg Art Museum helped with the remodeling by lending ten contemporary American watercolor paintings for the main Common Room. Also a new Steinway grand piano will be moved into the Upper Common Room...
Newberry lent the drawing, "View of Rhenen," to Fogg last year for the exhibition "Seventy Master Drawings." It gives a panoramic view of the old walled town of Rhenon, near Arnhem, with the spire of an ancient church on the right and the lower Rhine on the left. The work of Aelbert Cuyp, the drawing is considered large for its period...
...only extant photographs of the ancient mural paintings in the Golden Hall of the Horyuji Monastery in Japan went on display in Fogg Museum yesterday morning. Fire, which swept the monastery last Wednesday, destroyed virtually the entire collection of original murals...
Museum officials say the destruction of the Golden Hall murals is as much of a loss to Oriental art as the art treasures of the Sistine Chapel would be to Western art. The photographs on exhibition at Fogg are the only full-scale pictures of the series that exist in the Western world...
Eleven of the 12 murals were burned in the fire. Fogg obtained the series of the rare photographs from the noted philanthropist C. Adrian Rubel. Several large colored reproductions of the paintings are also being shown...