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...since 1961. Like his predecessor, John Kenneth Galbraith, the most visible member of the Economics Department, Moynihan has added New Delhi to the well-tread Cambridge-Washington route. If he follows Galbraith's lead as the art collector by bringing back more Indian miniature paintings from his jaunt, the Fogg will welcome him home...
...FOGG. Mountains of the Mind: Rockscapes by C.C. Wang and Earlier Landscapes from His Collection, thru April...
...FOGG'S current show of drawings by the young Ingres is of interest chiefly to the expert, but juxtaposed with some of the excellent later paintings and sketches also on display, it also adds a new element to any general understanding of the French master. Discovered by Phyllis Hattis, a graduate student in Fine Arts, the drawings were apparently done when the artist was 12 and 13, and have never been displayed before. They are mostly studies of plaster casts of Greek statues and represent the beginning of Ingres's "sculptural" style...
Another show opened at the Fogg Thursday: a collection of contemporary Chinese landscape paintings by C.C. Wang and a number of earlier works from Wang's own collection. Meanwhile, the Busch-Reisinger plans to inaugerate a show of drawings by the Danish artist Jan Groth today; the next major show there will be works of Ferdinand Hodler, a now "re-appreciated" German painter of the nineteenth century. That show moves here from New York at the beginning...
Robbins said the Museum's policy is to lend fairly liberally. "The idea is to have people live with art, rather than having it stored away at the Fogg. If such incidents continue, however, paintings will no longer be allowed to hang in the Houses," he added...