Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment it is rumored that $1,000,000 is the final goal for which the authorities are working. If this total can be raised the interest from it should be sufficient to cover the large running expenses which have increased greatly with the expansion which the Fogg Art Museum and the Department of Fine Arts have undergone during the past few years...
...Harvard X-ray expert, making use of a system of identifying paintings which was originated and developed by the Fogg Art Museum, is likely to prove the deciding witness in the $500,000 art trial which has been waged in New York for the last four weeks over "La Belle Ferronniere...
Yesterday morning a witness testified that there was in the possession of the Museum here an X-ray picture of the Louvre copy of the disputed painting. Supreme Court Justice Black, desiring to hasten the conclusion of the case, urged that an air-plane be dispatched to bring the negative to New York, where, by a comparison with Mrs. Andree Lardoux Hahn's copy, it might decide which is the original...
...obtain permission to submit the Fogg picture as evidence, it was necessary to call up the Louvre Museum in Paris by trans-oceanic telephone. At 1 o'clock the important negative left Boston, and will be offered today by Alan Burroughs '20, X-ray expert and head of the identification department at the Fogg...
...gift of $500,000 for a permanent endowment of the Fogg Art Museum, made by one of the departments of the Rockefeller Foundation, stands out as one of the most intelligent pieces of philanthropy by which the University has benefitted in recent years. Such far sighted action, however, is not surprising, coming as it does from one of the most progressive bodies in the United States...