Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darlington's allegations were in the form of a damage suit for $100,000, filed Tuesday of last week, charging the President and Fellows of the College with breach of contract and conversion. The charges claim that the painting, which was turned over to the Fogg Art Museum for examination to determine its authenticity, was, without authority, delivered to a Newbury Street art dealer, and subsequently disappeared...
...uneasy task of assembling the show was slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
...Louis' right fist, in plaster, became a Manhattan museum piece. The American Museum of Natural History added it to its comparative anatomy collection...
...Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity of music, and in each the melody of line and color meant more than the bones, blossoms, skyscrapers, barns, crosses and canyon walls she used for lyrics...
...Keeffe's art, says Museum director of painting and sculpture James Johnson Sweeney, in a forthcoming Museum book on O'Keeffe, is "stark but always constrained. . . . And the way she came to this was by the severest self-stripping." O'Keeffe, a thin, austere-looking woman, has been stripping herself for a long time. Born 58 years ago in the small town of Sun Prairie, Wis., she decided to paint as she pleased, because "it seemed to be the only thing that I could do that did not concern anyone but myself...