Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gift of a $2,000 annual fellowship in modern art to the Fogg Art Museum by an anonymous donor, for the advanced study of 20th century painting, sculpture, architecture, the motion picture or other art forms either here or abroad, was announced yesterday...
...Museum officials stated that all college graduates are eligible to compete for the award and that applications with plans of study for 1939-40 must be filed at the museum by May 26. The purpose is to enable scholars of proved ability to complete advanced studies in modern art as an aid in obtaining permanent posts in the field...
World-famous, world-visited are the marvelous glass flowers in Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Each year 250,000 people Oh & Ah at the 847 unique and perfect models which a father and son, Bohemians Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, fashioned during half a century. Much has been made of their "secret." Beyond patient observation, incredible sensitiveness of touch and infinite pains, they had none...
...Meadows, there were still no plans for exhibiting U. S. art at the New York World's Fair. Alarmed artists' associations all over the country started pounding at Grover Whalen. Eventually Mr. Whalen announced that, under the chairmanship of A. Conger Goodyear, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Fair would put on a big contemporary U. S. art show...
Contemporary German art on exhibit in the Germanic Museum comprises one of the most startling and diverse collections that has been presented in Cambridge this year. The group as a whole will provide ample food for thought in a surprisingly forceful manner for anyone interested in deciphering the hieroglyphics of contemporary European trends in art. Obvious lack of feeling is the essential characteristic of most of the pictures. But in place of deep and reverberating content, harshness and vigor often bordering on sensationalism is found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point...