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...city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pa. plodding grimly before the various entrances. Their signs proclaimed that "New York has 36 WPA art exhibits in one week -Philadelphia only ten in a year." That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project...
...invitation to all members of the Museum to come out to Lynnewood Hall for a look at his renowned Van Dycks, his Raphael Room, his magnificent Rembrandts. Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum...
Glad to escape from the "congealed" atmosphere of Merion, Pa., cantankerous Albert C, Barnes, inventor of Argyrol and No. 1 U. S. modern art collector, dined with the neighboring Narberth Fire Company, compared museum directors to "cheap politicians like the Mayor of Philadelphia," firemen to true artists who "translate ideas into action and emotion into practical experience...
Leading this outfit out onto the courts will be Dick Dorson, another of the outstanding string of crackerjack Harvard squash players. a member of the "A" team last year, Dorson went down to the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia recently to take part in the National Intercollegiate Championships. Great was the general surprise when this capable senior following in Germaine Glidden's footsteps, walked off with the championship, to become the fourth Harvard man who has gained the honor in the last six years...
...care for them. With Mrs. Rockefeller leading, 160 members produced $630,000, including $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. Promising the other $120,000 the Museum found itself the proud owner of a collection of Cezannes equaled only by those in Moscow and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the finest group of Seurat drawings in the U. S. and 59 other important works. In 1932 the Museum moved from the Heckscher Building around to its present quarters on West 53rd Street...