Word: plumer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the familiar evidences of European foreboding, this quiet emigration of paintings to Philadelphia ranks as a minor but interesting portent. Both loans were arranged by the Pennsylvania Museum's young, socialite Assistant Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny. Young Mr. McIlhenny was tipped off to the nervousness of young M. Gangnat last summer...
More than any other great 19th Century French artist, Daumier has been imitated, forged and mistreated. One aim of the Pennsylvania Museum and of Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, who assembled the present show, was to admit only those Daumier items whose authenticity is 100% established. So hard did young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood...
Research is being conducted on a set of Chinese mirrors sent over by James M. Plumer '21, now in the employ of the Chinese Customs Service. This 'disease' has long puzzled archeologists, and it is hoped that chemical analysis will not only disclose the cause of this metallic 'alment', but that the actual rate of decomposition will also be discovered, providing a fairly accurate test...
...Henry, Plumer McIlhenny, Arnold George Malkan, David Leonard Marks, Roland Maycock, Morton Alexander Mergentheim, Albert Merriman, Jr., Ames Samuel Pierce, Francis Powell, Jr., Albert Pratt, Robert Hugh Prew, William Carroll Quigley, Edwin Carter Rae, Earle Stanley Randall, Alfred Hertz Rosenthal, Jacob Elliott Rubinow, William Henry Schofield, Theodore Winston Sharp, Edward Pease Shaw, Ralph Edmund Shikes, Abraham Solomon Silin, William Sowden Sims, Jr., Charles Sumner Spalding, Francis Van Vanice, Leo Waitzkin, George Beard Walker, Arthur William Well, Jr., David Maxwell Well, Seymour Joseph Wener, Charles Wiley Williams...