Word: murillo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week to the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery went Mr. & Mrs. Henry Holiday Timken (roller bearings) of Canton, Ohio bearing as gifts three large and very expensive oil paintings: a Penitent Magdalen by the 17th Century Spanish sentimentalist Murillo; a Sybil by Murillo's contemporary Ribera, exhibiting his usual spotlight effect; and largest, most expensive of all, a Holy Family presumably from the brush of Peter Paul Rubens. Because Rubens is known to have employed a factory of pupils and assistants, and every Rubens painting is suspect, the usual battle of Rubenographers arose last week. Two similar Holy...
...same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives and other Flemish and Dutch works are also included in the bequest...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
...results of the elections are as follows: For President Robert Saltonstall Jr. 1744 Roger Haydock Hallowell 2192 Clarence Cecll Pell 2439 George Quincy Thorndike 2786 John Richard Wink 2928 Donal Mark Sullivan 2962 Charles Harold Skodol 3574 For Vice-President Joseph Rotch Frothingham 2297 Waldo Hawley Holcombe 2443 George Murillo Bartol 2502 Ralph George Coburn Jr. 2623 James Richards Leonard 2856 Pat Orr Johnson 2862 Theodore Havemeyer Coogan 2923 For Secretary-Treasurer Leon Adams Francisco 1767 Alfred Kidder Jr. 2035 Eliot Miller Wadsworth 2095 Albert Pratt 2284 William Andrew Schrooder 2485 Edward Yeomans...