Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Payne Whitney, financier, sportsman, offered last week to give $750,000 to the American Museum of Natural History for the construction of a new wing to house collections of bird life, if and when New York City contributes an equal...
...some time past, the bouquets hurled in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan) have been of the variety vulgarly known as Irish. Harsh words have been spoken, epithets employed. Among the multifarious ail ments reported has been the predominance of academic works, the paucity of moderns...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
...Havemeyer died. To the Metropolitan Museum (which now lacks the space properly to exhibit the works) were bequeathed all objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...
...take over the triangle between Broadway and Cambridge Street, it was announced yesterday at the Mayor's Office. The Holmes Place is now city territory, while on the present University property, where the City plans to erect a fire station, stands the Rogers Building, which was the old Germanic Museum and is now a store house and carpentry shop...