Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the instinct of a patrician grandmother, Boston has taken to its bosom all that is dated and fine and foreign in the way of art. The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University is the liveliest school of art history in the U. S.; the Fine Arts Museum is eminent for its scholarly array of Oriental and other treasures; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is probably the choicest large-scale clutter among U. S. private-made-public collections. From these institutions, however, few people would get the idea that there are artists alive and sweating...
...present, facilities for the appreciation of Romance culture are scattered throughout the University. In spite of the fact that Romance Languages annually attract a greater under of students than the German Department, nothing comparable to the Germanic Museum exists. A student interested merely in French civilization must visit five buildings: French art is displayed at Fogg, French music is available in Paine Hall, French literature high up in Widener, French phonograph records at the Union, and French movies at the Geographical Institute. Nowhere is there a permanent exhibit of French photographs, maps, sketches, statues, or paintings; nor is there...
Only a comparatively small outlay would be necessary. To be sure, no Latin Croesus willing to endow such a Center--as a friend of the Kaiser endowed the Germanic Museum--appears on the horizon. But Hunt Hall, previously Fogg Museum, is admirably suited for such a use. At present Hunt is employed as an office and lecture building, but the Public Administration offices it now houses will soon be transferred to the Littauer Center, the Regional Planning offices could probably be transferred to Robinson Hall, and the Naval Science classes might well be conducted in Sever. Thus although some outlay...
From Fogg Museum itself a number of loans have been made. Prominent are two fragments of fresco from a cave at Tun Huang in Western China:--a Head of a Bodhisattva, and Three Old Men. These two paintings have that strange, unmistakable violet hue which results when the flesh tints have faded. From Mr. Warner's own collection a number of items are being displayed. In addition to a Japanese priest's mask and two gilt bronzes, there is a T'and painting (or print) of the priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism...
...four buildings of the Graduate School of Engineering opposite the University Museum on Oxford street, will be open to visitors and faculty members. Student guides will be on hand at all the points of interest to explain the exhibits...