Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Fogg to Moscow, Van Gogh's paintings were sought and photographed. The camera could not adequately show his thick daubs of paint, but it does capture his magnificent coloring, including the electric yellows with which he described a world he thought illuminated by the brilliant light of God and His sun. Cinemascope and Metrocolor are also superbly used to recreate the scenes of his paintings. They trace his life from the family home in Holland to Borinage coal district in Belgium, where he served as a minister, and finally to sun-swept Arles where, during one of his attacks...
When first approached, Shahn had misgivings about fulfilling the lectureship requirement that he live in Cambridge for the academic year. The Fogg Museum, however, has arranged for a studio. Shahn said yesterday that he is painting with less distraction than at home in New Jersey...
...Overseer's Committee to Visit the Department of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum issued an annual report last week that points toward a large scale reorganization in the University's facilities for the study...
Included in the report were listings of the estimated funds needed by the Fogg Museum and the proposed Design Center. Immediate improvements at Fogg Museum, the report said, require $100,000, while an additional long term endowment of $1,350,000 is needed to provide for the costs of additional maintenance and increased staff for the Museum and the Department of the History...
Ruth V. Cook (right), retiring after 36 years as librarian of the Design School, examines the itinerary for a round-the-world tour on which Design School alumni are sending her. Presented with close to $2,400 at a reception in Fogg Museum yesterday, Miss Cook was "speechless with surprise and pleasure," and said she would need some time to decide exactly where to go on her trip...