Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights gleaming over the marquee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...
Prospective stock-takers puzzled by any or all of the show's 362 items could resort to a hefty catalogue by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the museum's director, whose running commentary under a great batch of reproductions served as a lecture tour through the galleries...
...Picasso's work up to the present, the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective show omitted only his student output and his recent sculpture (whose casting for the show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, K.C.M.G., founder of the Grenfell Mission to Labrador, will speak about that organization's work tonight at 8 o'clock in the large auditorium of the Fogg Museum...
...this work has forced upon Vag an irrepressible desire to learn more about it. Partly for this reason, partly in tribute to a great leader, Vag is going to hear Sir Wilfred Grenfell speak this evening at eight o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum...