Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard has a new tree, sans root, fruit or leaf. Overnight it sprang to its full height of 27 feet in the new graduate-center quadrangle. Walter Gropius, famed professor in Harvard's department of architecture, designed the center and commissioned the tree from Richard Lippold, a Manhattan sculptor. Constructed of steel rods, it is intended to represent nothing less than "the world...
...thoughts of Mr. Gropius, This cosmic hatrack is the dopius...
Architects Collaberative, Gropius' firm, commissioned Miro to do the painting a year ago. He replied last spring from Barcelona that he had started working on it. Nothing has been heard from Miro since late this fall...
...Gropius wrote Henri Matisse in Paris and asked him if he had heard anything from Miro. Matisse answered that he would look for his follow artist, and then nothing more was heard from Matisse...
...desperation, Gropius cabled the Paris gallery where Miro had said the work would be shown before being sent to America. Its reply did not indicate how authorities there knew the mural was finished, nor did they know when the mural would be sent to their gallery...