Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Pitman models on the same floor show University and town buildings around what is now Harvard Square as they were in 1667 and 1775. Nearly 900 hand-carved buildings in the 1936 miniature stand on a 100 pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses...
...measure of the artists' accuracy appears in University Hall's ivy which follows the pattern of the living vine. At the rear of the Hall, the Yard's lone pine tree stands among the familiar elms, oaks and maples. Both the positions and the species of the model's 2,500 trees were mapped by student workers...
Pitman remembers a woman who came into the studio to see the model before it was completed and was thrilled at discovering the reproduction of her own house. "She also noticed," he recalls, "that we had put one of her trees in front of the wrong window...
Architectural students made several photographs of every building to be included in the modern model, but pictures for the earlier scenes were more difficult to obtain. In many cases neither sketches nor blueprints could be found...
...great fear was art that did not honestly jibe with its model, life. "Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and, I think, Japheth. The only thing Ham noted was that his father was a drunkard; he completely lost sight of the fact that Noah was a genius, that he built an ark and saved the world. Writing people ought not imitate...