Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
...Fogg Museum's latest and largest gift, $2,000,000 worth of priceless art objects from the collection of Grenville L. Winthrop '86, has finally been completely catalogued five years after the 1943 bequest...
Philadelphia Museum...
...museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, own Lawrence Kupferman's precise drypoints of decaying Victorian mansions. So far as Kupferman is concerned, these pictures are just museum pieces now. At 39, he bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...
Kupferman himself is no scientist. The son of an Austrian cigarmaker, he put himself through art school by soda-jerking in Boston's North Station, and graduated to become a guard in the Boston Museum (which now owns several of his works). Kupferman drinks coffee by the potful in order to keep painting far into the night. He spends his days teaching and banging the brasses for modern art. "I used to be an introvert," he confesses, "but now I even talk to people on streetcars...