Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front page, jailbirds are turning their cells into studios. Last week modern Mexican Painter Rufino Tamayo (TIME, Feb. 17), who now teaches art in Brooklyn, was combing Mexico's prisons for new talent. Tamayo was sure he would find enough for a fall show at the Brooklyn Museum Art School...
...universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Rear-Engined Ballyhoo. On the first day of its New York showing, Preston Tucker's rear-engined, carburetor-less (fuel injection) Tucker '48, once called the Torpedo, drew some 15,000 paying spectators (40? for adults, 25? for children) to Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features...
...Rostow of Oxford are lecturing on economics and economic politics; Miss Elspeth Davies of Sarah Lawrence, Neal A. McDonald of the New Jersey College for Women, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, are in charge of the government field; James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, is lecturing on various phases of American art and architecture; anthropologist Margaret Mead is handling the field of sociology; and Richard Schlatter of Rutgers is giving a course on American historians...
...exhibit at San Francisco's De Young Museum were 440 watercolors from the days when the scientific picturing of flowers was an art, not a craft. The water-colors were the work of a talented early 19th Century French painter-naturalist, Pancrace Bessa...