Word: widenere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I was very much surprised by the patronizing release made to The Boston American by Mr. Potter on the CRIMSON editorial concerning the Sargent murals. Everyone recognizes that as works of art they are disgraceful. Many critics feel that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but...
Mid the dusty stacks of Widener
Others beside the CRIMSON have called the Widener murals glorified war posters, but hitherto these persons have avoided being heralded as boyish, mayhap because of their rather obvious graying hair. Few will question the aptness or the simile who have not been prepared for the first sight of these works...
The recent editorial attack the Harvard Crimson on the mural paintings by John Singer Sargent which adorn the walls of the Widener Memorial Library is just a "foolish, boyish article", and official Harvard intends to ignore it.
The editorial condemned the two noted paintings which have hung in Widener's walls for the past six years, and were placed there as a war memorial, on the grounds that they are "merely war posters," and symbols of a war hatred "for which there is no place in the...