Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings may some day hang in a Museum of War Art - alongside 200 can vases already earmarked for the Government by LIFE. (An exhibition of the best of these 200 - done by the nine artists whom LIFE has sent to cover the battlefronts in the past two years - opens at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week...
Erudite Director Alfred Hamilton Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art once asked this question, writing in the days (1930) when the surrealist movement direly needed an apologist in the U.S. Last fortnight, Barr's Museum acquired one of the most important early surrealist paintings. The picture was 55-year-old Italian Giorgio de Chirico's Delights of the Poet, painted...
Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum's scholarly Curator of Prints William M. Ivins Jr., writing of one of the most nobly illustrated volumes in the world. The book is Andreas Vesalius' The Fabric of the Human Body, printed in Basel just 400 years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...
...Deer was nine months old. Joe Patterson himself had fondly named her. She was the only new comic strip he had bought in nine years. The Deer herself was a beauteous Egyptian princess who in the fourth installment suffered death, then awakened 3,000 years later in a U.S. museum. From there she fared forth to undergo some of the dullest adventures ever seen in a comic strip...
Holden Chapel long ago outlived its religious function. Perhaps too, it has now passed beyond its active stage as a general handy room. Its main value now is that of a relic, a museum which exists in semi-obscurity, mainly in the minds of antiquarians. To the few odd souls, however, who appreciate its architectural qualities, there comes the hope that some day it may be restored to its original beauty and dignity...