Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance to Naval Science students in the University will be the address to be given at 12 o'clock today in the Old Fogg Museum by Captain W. R. Van Auken...
This review of the exhibit of French paintings now on display at the Fogg Museum was written by a member of the Staff of the Museum...
Last Thursday the Fogg Museum opened an exhibition of French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is of significance not only for Harvard but for all followers of art in the neighborhood. Its importance lies in the fact that approximately one hundred paintings and one hundred and twenty-five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir...
...directors of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, in attempting to popularize fine arts, have recently adopted a highly commendable experiment to loan paintings to students to decorate their rooms. It is their contention that real beauty of a painting can better be found while observing it in one's own rooms in surroundings of comparative comfort, rather than in the severe background of a museum...
Died. Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, 83, of Berlin, famed German art expert, longtime director general of the royal museums (1905-20), founder and onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found...