Word: kunz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union League members viewed nude Paul Robeson with horror last week, rushed with complaints to portly, whitechinned Dr. George Frederick Kunz, gem expert of Tiffany & Co., chairman of the club's art committee, who summoned Sculptor Salemme...
...beautiful piece of art," said Dr. Kunz, "but such realism is out of place in this salon...
Salemme's Robeson was removed the night before the exhibit opened. To reporters suave Dr. Kunz explained that the statue had not been removed on racial or physiological grounds. "It wasn't that at all," said...
...casual observer, knowing the taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual observer would be wrong. Resident Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists...
Platinum Pieces? Among the over-produced metals is platinum, selling at $34.50 an ounce against $62.50 a year ago. Last week in The Mineral Industry Dr. George Frederick Kunz, gem specialist with Tiffany & Co., suggested that platinum be stabilized by the Government at $50 per ounce, used as currency. A $20 platinum piece would weigh 20% less, be 30% smaller than a $10 gold piece...