Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Coast's most striking artists got blackballed last fortnight by the streamlined and businesslike Los Angeles County Museum. He promptly raised a willywaw, of the sort that gets pictures talked about. The man who raised the rumpus is Hilaire Hiler, whose great sleek murals of subsea fauna and the oceanic origins of life are a feature of San Francisco's handsome public bathing pavilion in Aquatic Park (TIME...
Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
...Prewar U.S. precedent: In January 1930, a crowd of 4,000, trying to squeeze into 1,400 seats at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History for a showin of a film on Einstein's relativity theory, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...
...trip has been arranged to the Gardner Museum for the wives of officers in Engineering 260, 270, and the Army Soil Engineers. The date is Thursday, April 8, and the meeting place will be the platform of the Boston subway at Harvard Square at 1:30 P. M. Arrangements are under the direction of Mrs. Albert Haertlein
...trip has been arranged to the Gardner Museum for the wives of officers in Engineering 260, 270, and the Army Soil Engineers. The date is Thursday, April 8, and the meeting place will be the platform of the Boston subway at Harvard Square at 1:30 P. M. Arrangements are under the direction of Mrs. Albert Haertlein