Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press reports as especially popular in the nation's bookstores for Christmas "Touched With Fire," the Civil War diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Hintorical Anthology of Music," and the comprehensive two-volume edition of "Drawings in the Fogg Museum...
When the final winners in each of the University art exhibits sponsored by the Houses, Yardlings, and Commuters are determined, a showing will be held in the Fogg Museum after the Christmas vacation...
...National Gallery last week: 48 canvases by 16th and 17th Century Dutch artists. They were part of an elaborate bread-&-butter letter the Dutch Government had written the U.S. Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine at Alt Aussee...
...took any more trouble to save the Last Supper, which was left exposed to rain, wind and sun. When the last of the sandbags was removed in the summer of 1945, an Allied Commission reported that the painting was in good condition. Says associate director of the Worcester (Mass.) Museum Perry Cott (who, as a member of the commission, ordered the sandbags removed): "The Last Supper may be getting worse and it surely isn't getting any better. It is a miracle that it was saved...
Hildburgh, a shy, spry antiquarian who has the jutting, chiseled features of a grandfatherly Dick Tracy, has spent 30 years astride his hobbyhorse, hunting English alabasters, recently presented some 200 of them to London's Victoria and Albert Museum on his 70th birthday. They were on exhibition in London last week...