Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officially, it was merely on loan. But the Toronto Museum had prepared a permanent place for it in its collection of royal robes...
...knew it, but Britons who used the Aldwych station in London's Underground (subway) to hide from German bombs had classical company. Workmen last week began removing some $16,000,000 worth of ancient heroes & heroines from an offshoot of the Underground station. The ancients were the British Museum's famed Elgin Marbles, plucked from the Parthenon (in 1801) by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin...
Gauguin without Maugham. A Manhattan gallery last week put on the best Gauguin show yet seen in the U.S. (including 40 paintings and 44 prints and drawings). Not included: the Boston Museum's 14-by-5-ft. masterpiece entitled Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Whither Are We Going?, which Gauguin painted on burlap sacks after trying to poison himself...
...keeper of Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum knew just what he wanted: $7,500,000. Last week the Met's chubby Director Francis Henry Taylor set out to get it. To open the Met's Diamond Jubilee building campaign (the Museum will be 75 next February), Taylor persuaded General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower to come to Manhattan to receive an honorary life fellowship in the Museum, because "through [his] wisdom and foresight many irreplaceable art treasures were saved...
...first visit to the Met since his cadet days: "Even the roughest soldiers feel more sympathy with ancient Egyptian art when they view a graceful column rising into the sky than from all the descriptive matter written on the subject." Said Director Taylor: "This is not an art museum in the ordinary sense. It is a visual library recording the whole history of civilization from ancient times to the present...