Word: oils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Music Building, was damaged to the extent of $300 or $400 by fire yesterday afternoon. The fire started in a workman's locker about 5.15 o'clock, probably from spontaneous combustion. The smoke soon attracted attention, and an alarm was turned in. The smoke from the paint and oil was very dense, but the fire was confined to two rooms, and did not reach the adjoining office in the passageway to Lawrence Hall, where preparations had been made to remove the more important papers...
Through the generosity of Henry Smith Bowers '00, of New York, the Department of Fine Arts announces the following prizes to be awarded for drawing and painting: A prize of $50 for the best original painting in oil or water color painted by an undergraduate in any of the Fine Art courses during the year; a prize of $25 for the best drawing in pencil, pen, or wash, done directly from nature of an architectural, landscape, or figure subject by an undergraduate in any of the Fine Art courses during the year. Neither prize is to be awarded...
...have been added to the loan exhibition of Dutch paintings, now on view at the Fogg Art Museum. These are Rubens' splendid "Meleager and Atlanta," and "The Lace-Maker," by Nicholas Maes, a characteristic genre picture of his best period. The paintings which remain on exhibition include one in oil by Rembrandt and one by Franz Hals. There is also an excellent Van Ostade of a group of peasants playing cards, illustrating well the remarkable skill of the Dutch masters of that period in genre painting. These pictures are loaned through the kindness of Mr. Henry Goldman, of New York...
...special collection of Dutch paintings is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Mr. Henry Goldman, of New York, has loaned eight fine Dutch pictures. The two most important of these are an oil painting by Rembrandt and one by Franz Hals. There is also an excellent Van Ostade of a group of peasants playing cards, illustrating well the remarkable skill of the Dutch masters of that period in genre painting. Five small pictures representing the five senses, by David Teniers, the Younger, all signed by the master, are good examples of his work...
...same class with younger men. The term of the school is from three to four months. It meets in the main offices of the company, 26 Broadway, New York City. Directors and managers of the company give talks and read papers on phases of the oil business and there is also a considerable amount of supplementary practical work. During the progress of the training course each student receives $17.50 per week. If candidates do not fulfill requirements they are dropped...