Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days of investigation have convinced detectives that a professional art thief is responsible for the disappearance of two Rembrandt etchings and a Degas drawing from the Princeton Art Museum Saturday...
British connoisseurs were appalled by the fakery (see cut). In a joint letter to the Times, Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria' & Albert Museum, and other esthetes spluttered: "Reductio ad absurdum of the mania for the fake antique. These cars are ridiculous." Moaned the Manchester Guardian: "There are times when the British love of tradition seems not merely exaggerated but quite...
Other Rockefeller family gifts to Harvard during the last half century include funds for the Medical School, Divinity School, Fogg Art Museum, Germanic Museum, and Law School, as well as the University as a whole...
This year's trip the twenty-eighth for MacMillan, is being sponsored by Bowdoin College, for the purpose of obtaining specimens for its proposed Artic Museum...
...Metropolitan had bought the picture (for a reputed $200,000) from Knoedler's, a 57th Street gallery which had bought it "deliverable in Manhattan" from "someone" abroad. The diplomatic exchanges would take some time. Meanwhile Knoedler's wasn't saying who the "someone" was, and the museum held on to its saint...