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...Guards for El Greco. Duncan Phillips was above all else the single-minded connoisseur. His goal: "To stand sponsor especially for the lonely artist in quest of beauty, independent of all cliques and movements." Art, he felt, was to be shared as he had experienced it best, in "an intimate, attractive atmosphere that we associate with a beautiful home." Grandson of a Pittsburgh steel tycoon and independently wealthy, Phillips, after Yale ('08), turned to art. One of his initial loves was Daumier. He bought the French caricaturist's Three Lawyers in 1919, the first of what became...
Asked to propose other programs the Institue might sponsor, several students suggested summer internships in political offices. The Institute has already considered this idea...
Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School, has informally proposed that the school sponsor special exhibits in the Fogg Museum and the Visual Arts Center. According to Crooks's plan, the two centers could coordinate these shows with events in theatre and music, arranging them around a single theme...
Sweatshops & Justice. Federal support of art got its start when George Biddle, now 81, an artist and Harvard law graduate, urged President Roosevelt to sponsor mural painting with a Government program similar to that in Mexico. F.D.R. was interested, but, he cautioned Biddle, he did not want "a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin's head on the Justice Building." Nonetheless, many of the program's finest murals contained notes of social protest. Even Biddle titled his own fresco for the Justice Building The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow...
Count Gerard de la Villesbrunne, counselor of the French embassy. will speak on "De Gaulle, NATO. and the Common Market" at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson 210. The speech is sponsor...