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...exhibit was assembled for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, mostly from the Kunsthaus in Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive...
...William T. Hornaday Memorial Foundation) has left its mark on scores of communities. In 1943, Forbes blew into Nashville, helped raise $15,000 to open a junior museum in an old stone house, started it off with exhibits from Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution. Then he moved on to Jacksonville, Fla. and Charlotte.N.C...
...first stop was a glass enclosed, five-foot model of the U.S.S. South Dakota, soon to be shipped to the Smithsonian Institute. On this particular model, however, the Ensign Jack is upside down. None of the officers noticed this miniature distress signal until the postman, an ex-enlisted man, mentioned...
...Congress should appropriate funds to enable the Smithsonian Institution to buy paintings by contemporaries. Warned Committee Member George Biddle in a pointed aside: "As long as these selections are made through political agencies or individual caprice . . . the Government will continue to get adequate work by second-rate artists...
...year old who had died something like 70,000 years ago. The child had lain there while dirt, rubbish and broken utensils covered it deeper and deeper. The whole sweep of human development was enacted over its skull, culminating at last in modern technological man: Ralph Solecki of the Smithsonian...