Word: ruskinism
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...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by he director, Edward W. Forbes, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. The Museum has received the following additions to its permanent collections of works of art: two water color drawings by John Ruskin--"Convent and Alpine Pass," and "Pass of Faido"--presented by friends of Professor C. H. Moore, the first director of the Fogg Museum; from the French government, eight pieces of Sevres porcelain; a Japanese painting by an early Ukiyoye master from Mr. Owen Bryant '04; and thirty-six plaster casts of Arretine moulds from...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently received two beautiful water-color sketches by Ruskin, one of the Faido Pass, the other of an Alpine Pass and Convent. These drawings have been given to the Fogg Museum by friends of Professor C. H. Moore h.'90, the first director of the Museum, in recognition of his long service to the University...
...loan exhibition of early Italian paintings has now replaced the Ruskin exhibition in the Fogg Museum, although several of the Ruskin drawings are still on exhibition in the Photograph Room. The exhibition of Italian paintings will last about two or three months...
...exhibition of drawings, sketches, and etchings by John Ruskin is being held in the Upper Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The collection illustrates the intimate friendship of Ruskin and Norton, which extended over a period of more than forty years. The various specimens show Ruskin's workmanship in pencil, wash, and water color, and the exhibit includes some of his remarkable architectural drawings, hasty sketches of landscape, and careful and detailed studies from nature...
...whole exhibition offers an unusually comprehensive view of the work of this brilliant and erratic artist-writer on the side not generally so well known. Ruskin was primarily a writer, and he almost never attempted to make a real picture from the artist's point of view. His drawings in this collection, therefore, are in many cases mere studies, some very slight, mere notes with a pencil, some with bits of wash or color in places, others highly finished in wash or color though hardly any really complete...