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There is now on exhibition in the Grace Horne Gallery an exhibition of water colours by Professor J. J. Haffner. These were made during his sabbatical leave, last year, when he travelled extensively in North Africa, and especially in Morocco...
Practically all the subjects are Moorish. There is some work in opaque colour, but most of the sketches are in transparent water colours of unusual brilliance. Professor Haffner's water colour technique has always been marked by especial breadth and sparkle. This tendency was stimulated by the brilliant light in the districts in which he has recently worked. Some, like the three water colours framed in black mats, in which there is almost no colour so that the paintings might be called "symphonies in white light," are extraordinary examples of a technique which though fundamentally the old one, seems...
...public will be admitted if there are any vacant seats after ticket-holders have been seated. There will be no admission charges as expenses are being borne by the patronesses. The Cambridge and Boston sponsors are headed by Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. J. J. Haffner, and Mrs. E. X. Rand...
...Haffner; Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture, will be absent from the School during the second half year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...
Next Monday, January 26, the students at the School will give a tea in honor of Professor Haffner, and to welcome the visiting professor, while on the following Wednesday night, January 28, a dinner will be given for Professor Haffner by the members of the Pen and Brush Club at the Hotel Kenmore...