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...patriarchs and presidents, it is surprising that a completely non-representational painter such as Rothko would receive approval from the Corporation for such a prominent display. On the other hand, Pusey had demonstrated his tolerance for modernism by giving university projects to Graduate School of Design Dean Josep Luis Sert, and by commissioning Le Corbusier to design the university’s new Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...though a dining room was likely not the best setting for these paintings, which both Sert and Pusey observed as soon as they were installed, it is quite remarkable that Rothko was chosen at all. The commission represented a progressive step in the direction of modern art, and a willingness to depart from Georgian traditionalism, on the part of the Harvard Corporation...
Sekler also spoke of the last time he saw Sert before he returned to his native Spain...
...symposium is just one of a series of tributes to Sert this fall...
...Josep Lluìs Sert: The Architect of Urban Design 1953-1969” is showing in the Gund Hall Gallery through Nov. 19. “Josep Lluìs Sert: Architect to the Arts II” is showing in the Sert Gallery of the Carpenter Center through...