Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven...
...earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
Expeditions sent from the American School of Prehistoric Research located in the Peabody Museum, have been working in the northern part of North Africa analyzing the successions of cultures that preceded the known civilizations there...
Director Rathbone seemed to be getting the mass appreciation. At week's end, visitors were packing into his museum at a faster rate than at any time since last winter, when 228,000 came to see the traveling exhibit of Berlin art masterpieces. Rathbone's exhibit was also getting huzzas from other museum men. Said a visiting expert from Louisiana: "It should be shown in every city on the Mississippi River...
...pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...