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Last Thursday the Fogg Museum opened an exhibition of French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is of significance not only for Harvard but for all followers of art in the neighborhood. Its importance lies in the fact that approximately one hundred paintings and one hundred and twenty-five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir...
Among the volumes being shown, all of which were published in the early years of the nineteenth century, are "Annals of Sporting" by Caleb Quizem, and "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen...
...gigantic resident of Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...
There will be a private view of a loan exhibition of paintings, at the Fogg Art Museum, on Wednesdays afternoon, March 6, from 3 until 6 o'clock. Nineteenth and twentieth century works, of a group of famous French artists, will compose the exhibit...
...those whose works are to be chosen. The absence from the exhibition of paintings by Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Bracque is explained by the fact that their work will be included in the display of the Fogg Museum, inasmuch as these artists fall on the border line between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Directors hope to have by the end of the week a complete list of the works which will constitute the display...