Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent addition to the collection of sculpture at the Fogg Art Museum is a statue of the Virgin and child--the gift of J.V. Demotte--which has been placed in the sculpture gallery on the ground floor. The statue is a work of the French School of the sixteenth century, dating probably between...
...appreciation of the "training and inspiration" that he received here as an undergraduate, famous Detroit art collector John S. Newberry, Jr. '33 is loaning part of his collection of drawings and water colors to the Fogg Museum. The exhibit will open on February 12 in Galleries II and III at the Museum and will continue throughout the month of March...
Most of Mr. Newberry's collection, which he began as an undergraduate in the College, has never been exhibited in any museum in the east. A few of the works have been loaned for special showings in galleries such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, but this will be the first time so many paintings will be seen east of the Mississippi...
Energy from Hope. Amid the ruins of Kiev, they found German prisoners helping clear up the rubble. "One of the few justices in the world," wrote Steinbeck. "And the Ukrainian people do not look at them. They turn away. . . ." At the museum there were crowds staring wistfully at plaster models of the future Kiev. "In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year . . . the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took energy from hope...." In the fields around shell-pocked Shevchenko, they found cheerful bands of women...
...pressing financial needs of the graduate schools must soon be relieved. Looking backward, Mr. Conant points with pride to the University's fine teaching record in the Humanities; to the Society of Fellows; the new, improved library system; and the magnificent but generally ignored art collections in the Fogg Museum...