Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting were done by a brush alone instead of the individual holding that brush, Winslow Homer's watercolors, now on exhibit in Fogg Museum, would justly deserve to be called great art. In fact, if his paintings were the only ones being shown; if there were no means of making a comparative judgment, it is possible that a person could be fooled into believing that Homer, the old American stand-by, was equal to his popular reputation. There are a few works by other painters in this collection of watercolors, however, and it is upon the shoulders of Marin...
...clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's paintings. His clear, cloudless skies, fresh grass, and firm buildings, make a person momentarily forget that he is inside a museum...
...annual event since the founding of the society in 1895, the dinners always consist of speeches by members of the University and the singing of Harvard songs. The Colonial silver of Harvard, brought from the Fogg Museum for the occasion, will be used on the table. Most valuable piece in the silver collection is the "Great Salt" dating from...
...outset student opinion has been nearly unanimous in his support. Eighty per cent of the undergraduate concentrators in Fine Arts petitioned the Administration to reinstate him. But not a word of explanation, let alone any hint that the request might be granted, has been heard in the Fogg Museum or University Hall. Probably this plea too, will fall on deaf ears...
...Feild must go, the Fogg will stay though condemned by its students. Despite its brilliant exterior, it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...