Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pitman Studio grew out of a hobby twenty years ago when the Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum asked Pitman to help him construct an Indian model for the Buffalo Museum of Science. At first, Pitman worked only nights and week-ends but soon he became so fascinated by the work that he gave up his regular business in Boston to devote his entire time to the making of models. The Buffalo Museum liked the first production enough to order a complete set of Indian models and, with this contract, the Pitman Studio became a full time operation...
Much of Pitman's work has been for the University. Not only has he made the two Harvard models (plus a third yet to come of the University in 1677) but also the various models in the Peabody Museum--the Hopi Indians, the cliff dwellers, and the 23 models for the Harvard Forestry Department. These forestry models were Pitman's biggest job; in one series, he had to exhibit the changes in the vegetation of a typical New England farm from the Seventeenth century to the present. In each of the models, the trees and shrubs had to be perfectly...
...branch was to be started. Each time they opened up one of these stores, a Pitman model would be on display. The miniatures are now used to illustrate historical lecture series sponsored in the towns by Filene's. Presently, Pitman is working on a job for the Museum of Science in Boston which will open in about a year. It is a model to explain how the pyramids were constructed and is one of the most interesting engineering problems Pitman has come across. He is trying to show how it was physically possible to haul the huge blocks...
Exchanges in cultural matters eventually evolved into an actual exchange of students in the late 30's. Miss Alice M. Maginnis, a Radcliffe graduate and an instructor in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, won the first fellowship to Kobe from Radcliffe. She was spending the summer of 1937 in Japan and China as a member of the study group under Robert K. Reischauer of Princeton University and was to study in Kobe that September...
Down on the ground floor, there are exhibits from the Museum's collection of German medieval and renaissance painting and sculpture. In the last two years, the Museum has developed a flair for the modern, supplementing its Gothic saints and saviours with shocking heresies like the recent exhibit from the Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander...