Word: guggenheims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes, 1,375 pages, weight: 7 Ibs. Two concluding volumes are promised for next spring...
...spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
...daring dean of modern architects announced last week that he had completed plans, and secured backing (a million dollars), for the long-contemplated Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Painting.* It sounded like a jumping-off-place for Buck Rogers, the man from the 25th Century. "It will outdo in bizarre appearance any other building in the world," was the verdict of one appraising eye. Fiery old (76) Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who designed it, proudly says that it will be the first building ever conceived in the form of a true logarithmic spiral (descending spiral, widest...
...site, already bought and paid for, is Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, hard by the conventional Metropolitan Museum. The Guggenheim collection has been housed for six years in a temporary, rented building...
Fellowships of the Guggenheim Foundation, which was established in 1925 by Senator Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to his son, John, are awarded to scholars and creative workers in the arts to assist them in their work of research and artistic creation...