Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan Collection of Manuscripts is the only one of its kind and scope in this country; none but the great libraries and cathedral treasuries of Europe contain such splendid works, covering nearly every school of illumination, from the eighth century to the end of the Gothic...
From France of the same century comes a manuscript of black outlines, strong reds and blues and formal figures, evidently based on Gothic stained glass. Of the thirteenth is a fragment of one of the immense "Moralized Bibles," so seldom completed. It is opened at the page showing the youthful St. Louis and his mother, Queen Blanche of Castille, and it was made in their lifetime. These eight leaves were taken from the Bible which is still preserved in the Chapter Library of the Cathedral at Toledo; it is reassuring to read in the Morgan Catalogue that they were already...
Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
...first picture in what has become the recognized Wood manner was a portrait of his mother holding a potted sansevieria. At her throat is the identical cameo which he put on his sister and used with such effect a year later in American Gothic. Iowans liked his work. He won the art contest for a sweepstakes prize at the Iowa State Fair, continued to win it year after year...
...took a bicycle trip through southern France, assembled an extraordinary collection of medieval sculpture. Selling most of it to dealers, he made enough to keep his 15 workmen employed in his huge studio near Paris. With what he did not sell, he started the finest private collection of Gothic and Romanesque sculpture in the U. S. This he placed in a private museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated money to buy the entire collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortnight ago came news of more Rockefeller munificence...