Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening the second series of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures, Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, C.B.E., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will deliver tonight his first lecture on the History of Italian Sculpture...
They learned that it had been loaned to the Museum by noted art patron and collector Jacob Epstein*; of Baltimore, onetime street peddler, now a millionaire. His agents had discovered its whereabouts. He bought it at the sale of the owner's estate in France, brought it to the U. S. in August without attracting publicity, without even disclosing how much he had paid...
Frank Crowninshield, famed editor of Vanity Fair, Forbes Watson, editor of The Arts, William Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,† lyn Museum of Art, Art Critic Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,* famed sculptor, agreed that "The Bird" was a worthy example of fine art. Most emphatic was Sculptor Epstein, who brought with him to court a 5,000 year old piece of stone, reputed to be an Egyptian representation of a hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements...
Birdmaker Brancusi's U. S. attorney said: "Brancusi takes this action against "The Bird" as a challenge to all his art and to his reputation." Director William Henry Fox offered to buy "The Bird" for the Brooklyn Museum, "if the funds and the sculpture were available...
...Spanish Gothic Painting," Professor Post, Fogg Museum, small room...