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Charles L. Kuhn '28, curator of the Germanic Museum, disclosed over the weekend that the gradual reconversion of the museum, from a wartime school for chaplains and military governors is now complete. Work was begun late...
...gothic structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity avenues reopened to the public shortly after the Army moved out three and a half years ago but not until last December was Kuhn able to open all the rooms in the building and even then his refurbishing job was not finished...
Since December, Kuhn has been making visits to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and the Fogg Museum to borrow items for his rennovated exhibit. "I found the museums, especially Fogg, tremendously cooperative," Kuhn said, "and the exhibition which we finished preparing last week will be more or less permanent...
...early if I want to paint," Kuhn says. "When I come up here and start in, the weather's gotta be right, I gotta feel right, and the model's gotta feel right, too. I don't do much work from sketches, because unless the thing is there in front of you, you can't get the discipline. But don't get me wrong, I'm not a realist; painting is not that easy, it's not copying. Why, if I do one good picture in a year I'm tickled...
Which of the 14 oils in his show-all done in the past three years-were good ones? "That," said Kuhn cagily, was for time to decide, "and I don't mean TIME Magazine...