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...Cloisters would never have been built but for the acquisitive energy of the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard (TIME, May 2). In France before the War, Sculptor Barnard kept his eye peeled for fine examples of Gothic stone work. He brought back to the U. S. large sections of the cloisters of four great, abandoned monasteries, installed them with other medievaluables in a gallery next to his studio. In 1925 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought this collection for $600,000, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, added gifts of his own. When he gave Fort Tryon Park to the City...
Designed with notable-sanity by Boston Architect Charles Collens, The Cloisters escapes the clutter of ornate neoGothic, spaciously integrates a whole 12th-Century chapter house, three open cloisters, Romanesque and Gothic chapels, a refectory and several long galleries of superb sculpture and tapestries. First visitors last week could trace, in an hour's attentive ramble, the progress of medieval art from the devout symbolism of the 11th Century to the tender realism of the 15th. Biggest & best show piece: the unsurpassed Flemish tapestries of the Unicorn Hunt which Collector Rockefeller bought in 1923 for a reported...
Died. George Grey Barnard, 74, U. S. sculptor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. George Barnard learned taxidermy and engraving before he studied sculpture. In Paris, where he all but starved, his critics compared him to Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored...
Barlach's reaction to his environment is vigorous and positive. Unlike the other two, he is essentially a carver and, like his late Gothic German predecessors, is a carver of wood. His peasant men and women are emotional creatures, strangely Slavic in character, clad in roughhewn garments that are subtly expressive of the figures' mood. They have the same subjective intensity that is found in the strange dramas written by the artist...
Reviving the musical atmosphere of medieval society, the Fiedal Trio from Munich will play troubadour and minnesinger pieces on violins fashioned according to the ancient Gothic "fiedels" at a free public concert in Paine Hall on Friday at 8:30 o'clock...