Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Mumford will speak tonight in the New Lecture Hall on "Economic Backgrounds," the fifth in the series of six lectures on "The Background of American Architecture...
...Lewis Mumford, historian and critic, will speak on "Cultural Backgrounds of American Architecture" in the third of a series of public lectures on backgrounds of American architecture this evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
WHISTLER'S MOTHER-Elizabeth Mumford-Little, Brown...
...Pennell and his wife was published in 1908, five years after Whistler's death. Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable. If Biographer Mumford† had had the style to confine her monograph within 200 incisive pages, she might have added something to literature. By being half again as long as that, and by a dutifully winsome acceptance of Anna McNeill Whistler at face value, her book achieves another kind of effect: the case...
Implicit in Mumford, this interpretation of the saintly old figure is rudely expressed in Albert Parry's biography of her husband, the great but forgotten Major George Washington Whistler. Biographer Parry has a lively if somewhat insistent irreverence for the Motherhood which the Major's wife exuded throughout life and continues to symbolize in paint. As he reads the evidence, she snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry...