Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again with a museum collection of Ministers. The Catholics and Socialists promptly sent them back to gather more dust...
...Maritimes, townspeople and fishermen streamed across the Place Henry Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried just two years. Four thousand miles away, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, some of Henry Clews's countrymen also paid their respects, by viewing a memorial exhibition of his sculpture...
...best, of course, were tiger pictures, and the best of the tiger pictures was the vast 0 China, Roar Like These Tigers panel which last spring crowded 3,000 visitors into the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, helped bring its creator a decoration from President Lebrun of France. Its 21 down-leaping tigers represent China's war-awakened provinces. Of their models, said Chang: "It is just as well about the tigers' dying. I am an old man and tigers need a strong master; hereafter I paint from memory...
Meanwhile Director Dana had brought art to the people by such further innovations as museum branches (in his own branch libraries), free tours for school children, exhibitions of well-designed articles bought for a dime apiece in the city stores, a "lending collection" of art objects ranging from Tibetan to Pennsylvanian, packed in neat boxes and borrowed like library books. When John Cotton Dana died ten years ago this month, he had coaxed the annual city appropriation from $10,000 to $150,000, upped annual attendance to 125,000, won the title of "Newark's First Citizen...
Since then the Newark Museum, under Director Dana's devoted successor, Beatrice Winser, has gone through lean years and come out with no activities lost. Meanwhile, the rest of the country has been catching up with it. Museum workers trained in Dana's "apprentice classes" (another first in the U. S.) have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first...