Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum a collection of drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, lent by Scofield Thayer '13. A number of modern prints, most of which were lent by Frederick Keppel & Company, are also part of the exhibit. The others belong to Professor Sachs, to the Museum Collection, to Julien S. Levy '27, and to Alfred Barr...
Evidently the atmosphere of the convention had laid heavily upon Dr. F. P. Keppel,* President of the Carnegie Corporation. Perhaps he felt that in such density there was no chance for the proverbial spark that might set the world afire. He therefore rose and told the assembled 299 in words plain, blunt, humorous : "Imagine a group of librarians or college professors or Presidents here spontaneously bursting into song or dancing, or both. Yet that is just what we need to break through our self-consciousness and our patterns of convention. This is fundamentally what the arts...
...Keppel served from 1910 to 1918 as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Columbia University. He resigned to become Third Assistant Secretary of War under Newton D. Baker. In 1919 and 1920, he was Director of the foreign operations of the American Red Cross...
...preliminary to the forthcoming International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, Paul Albert Besnard, who is to serve on the jury there, is holding exhibitions of paintings at Knoedler's, and etchings at Keppel's both in Manhattan. Besnard, little known to Americans, is considered by many to be the Dean of French painters. In 1890 he seceded from the Société National des Beaux-Arts-from the Société des Artistes Français; thus he was considered a radical, although he was carefully trained in technique. Besnard is President of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts...