Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deaf, weary, unkempt man of 66 died of myocarditis at the little coastal hospital in Ellsworth, Me. in September 1943, and only other painters made much note of the news that Marsden Hartley was gone. But when 111 of his 700-odd works were seen in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's current Hartley exhibition, many critics began to feel that they added up to a major U.S. artistic achievement...
Expressionists. But as he aged he produced tough, vivid pictures in a manner entirely his own. His subjects were Maine mountains, fish, flowers, ropes, shells, and harsh, haunting portraits, painted from memory, of men who were his spiritual heroes. Among the Museum's most striking Hartleys...
...heart thus honored was that of Brazil's pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle, France in 1906 was the first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold, now colorless heart of Santos-Dumont...
...told to Dr. Paulo da-Rocha Gomide, advertising manager of Panair do Brasil (Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary). Quick to see the chance for a graceful bow to the memory of Brazil's most famed airman, he persuaded the Government to accept it for its Aeronautic Museum. The designer of the container was bearded, 37-year-old Erico Monterosa...
Letter from Home. In the Grotto, where the Nudist Colony had sported during the Exposition, men sat around working with plexiglass and leather, boisterously joking. A Catholic chapel has been built in the basement of the old anthropological museum. There a boy in Navy uniform knelt at a golden altar, his new artificial leg stuck out behind him at an awkward angle. In a smoke-filled billiard room in the old California Tower Building a marine with a black patch over one eye cocked his head back so he could use his good left eye for sighting...