Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning today and extending through December 18 there will be two exhibitions of reproductions of prints by Durer, Brueghel, Holbein, and modern masters, held in the seminar room, third floor, of the Fogg Museum. Particulars concerning the purchase of these reproductions may be had at the place of exhibition...
...general, the surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period...
...governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal to the purely technical and somewhat Carlylian brilliance of his style as a writer, his individuals bear resemblance to queerly grouped and overstuffed animals in a museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive, Author Bolitho's writing does live, very noisily indeed. A journalist, 39, he is a regular colyumist on the New York World, a resident of Southern France, the author also of Leviathan and Murder...
...panel from the "Reformer's Window", soon to be placed in the new Riverside church in New York City, which is being built for the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D., by John D. Rockefeller, has been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum...
...panel which is on exhibition is a single medallion from the window devoted to the lives of the reformers, and depicts St. Francis of Assisi renouncing his riches. The panel, which has been lent to the Museum by Messrs. Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock in connection with the lectures on stained glass which are being given by Professor Marcel Aubert, is on exhibition in Gallery IV, and in order that the students may more conveniently see the construction, it has been placed at the eye level...