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...annual report of the director of the Fogg Art Museum, enumerating recent additions, states that the collection of classical antiquities has been enriched by a fragment of a fourth century Greek marble head in the style of Scopas, a gift of E. P. Warren '83. Four examples of Gandhara sculpture were bought by a few friends and given to the Museum, and two others were received from B. A. G. Fuller '00. A gift of money for the collection of classical antiquities in memory of G. G. Van Rensselaer '96, enabled Dr. Chase to buy a Greek head...
...conference on the Gandhara sculpture now on exhibition at the University will be held by Mr. Langdon Warner '03 in the east room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...
...Fogg Art Museum announces an exhibition of Gandhara sculpture, to be shown in the same room with the Oriental paintings during the next two weeks. The exhibition consists of fragments of sculpture made for the most part in the Punjab region of India. The work is done by the descendants of Greek sculptors brought by Alexander the Great to the Punjab at the time of his invasion. These artisans have been employed by Buddhist priests for hundreds of years to decorate temples and shrines in India. All of the work shows a Greek influence which the ages of Oriental schooling...