Word: decorator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size of a spacious city of 15,000 inhabitants, [Harvard] is built like an imaginary city in an eighteenth century Dutch of French painting, set in a decor of the Russian opera. The trees and walls are real, and the buildings are built of wood--like all houses in New England; but the wood is laquered, and waxed and varnished. Harvard may well have had a two or three hundred-year history, and the list of alumni may grow longer on the plaques in the Houses: but no one fears the past. The four million books in Widener Library...
Easily a favorite in the whole Cambo bequest is Goya's classical allegory, Cupid and Psyche. It displays against the neoclassic decor the same kind of full-bosomed, dark-haired beauty that Goya showed as his feminine ideal in his famous Nude Maja. The scarlet-draped Cupid, with muscular body yet almost feminine features, complements her as the idealized lover...
Virginia Museum Director Leslie Cheek has no doubt that the museum's new Watteau will be a smash hit. Says he: "Virginians traditionally have a fondness for 18th-century decor and architecture." And in Watteau they are getting what Director Cheek calls "probably the most important work of art the Virginia Museum has ever acquired...
...Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
Stage Magic. The Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing spent most of his money and effort on sets and costumes (by Rolf Gerard), and for once the decor onstage was brighter than the intermission melee in Sherry's bar. Highlights: ¶ Living murals in the opening tavern scene, with a pair of bacchantes astride barrels, pouring wine and beer into golden goblets and steins waved by bare, disembodied arms...