Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a description of the work of the late great Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, one of whose pictures was on view last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Spatially speaking, Figari was only a single small item in a splendiferous show of the Museum's 224 new acquisitions of modern, Latin American art.* No institution has a finer collection of work from south of the border...
...Gathered by Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; also by Lincoln Kirstein, the museum's consultant on Latin American art, who wrote the above comment on Figari. He is now in the Engineers Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir...
...other signers of the letter are Gilbert Murray, Regins Professor of Greek, Boars Hill Oxford, Eric Maclagan, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and A. M. Hind, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum...
...beginning of the first, spring term of the school, the men will receive all their academic instruction in the morning, leaving the afternoon clear for drill calisthenics, road marches, and field work in map reading and similar courses. Instruction for the morning hours will be concentrated in Semitic Museum and Sanders Theatre...
...party, which arrives in Boston this evening, will visit the Medical School, and the Observatory, members of whose stuff helped to plan and construct the new Mexican national astrophysical observatory at Tonanzintia, on Wednesday afternoon, and then attend a reception at the Fogg Museum, where the Glee Club will present a brief concert...