Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's art, unlike its music, is not widely publicized, and an outline of the considerable felicities of local museums and galleries should prove helpful to the many newly arrived in the city. Cambridge's Fogg Museum is, itself, an unvalued jewel to many. The museum maintains a permanent collection of remarkable worth, particularly in Italian primitives, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French painting, oriental art, English watercolors, and prints. It has frequent loan exhibits, a distinguished example being the Maurice Wertheim collection of post-impressionists and modern French painting shown this summer. At present Fogg is displaying its own fine...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts, despite its plethora of Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Boston's favorite John Singer Sargent, is second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
With the Harvard Dramatic Club's "Adam the Creator" going into final rehearsals Henry W. L. Dana, an authority on Slavic drama, will lecture to the club and others interested in the theater on "The Work of the Capeks and their Influence on Czechoslovakian Drama" this afternoon in Fogg Museum...
...heaviest losses in Europe's art museum had been architectural. Considering the hail of shot & shell, bomb and superbomb that pocked the face of Europe for six years, the treasures still surviving were a lot to be thankful for. But much of the best in Western civilization had been blown apart, and what was gone was irreplaceable...
...Dunster and Kirkland House exhibits which were held last week are expected to be announced tomorrow. The nine winners who were chosen from the list of entries in the initial competition in Winthrop House were declared eligible for the final shorting to be featured in the Fogg Museum at the end of the fall term...