Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special committee appointed by George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency: Franklin C. Watk.ins of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Radford Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; and Sculptor Theodore Roszak of Sarah Lawrence College...
...Goya had a love affair with the duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing finger is a ring inscribed with Goya's name. On her middle finger is another ring inscribed with...
Last week museum officials announced that cleaning had uncovered another hint that peasant painter and noble model were indeed lovers. There was a second word, preceding Goya, that had been covered over with paint long ago-presumably by the artist himself. That word is "Solo," Spanish for only...
MANHATTAN'S Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's richest, recently decided to remain closed on Mondays because the city had withdrawn $35,000 a year from its contribution to the museum's maintenance and operation costs. From Tuesday through Sunday this week, the Met proudly displayed its latest major acquisition, proving that it suffers no lack of purchase funds. The well-nigh priceless St. John's Vision (see color), by El Greco, was bought from the estate of Spanish Painter-Collector Ignacio Zuloaga. And although Director James Rorimer kept the price to himself...
...Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million to $15 million ) collection...