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...books on exhibition are nearly all from the library of Philip Hofer '21, of New York. These are supplemented by a dozen Sacre Rappresentazioni, printed in Florence, which belong to the Harvard College Library, and a few books from the Print Collection of the Fogg Museum. On the wall above the cases containing the books, cuts taken from books have been hung. Books and single cuts together give a very comprehensive idea of book-illustration in the sixteenth century...
...prologue has ended; a century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese walse to give it soul...
Goya's prints and drawings will be on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum from February 24 until April 1. Philip Hofer of New York, and W. G. Russell Allen of Boston have lent fine impressions of Goya's most important prints, and in addition, proofs which are so rare that the catalogues call them "Introuvable." All but a few of the subjects will be shown. Of those which are lacking, many are to be found only in European collections. All of the great series will be on exhibition--The Caprices, Disasters of War, Proverbs, and Bull-fights. The Bulls...
Several important additions have been made to the exhibition since it was first put out. A series of water colors and prints which were loaned by Wellesley College, Philip Hofer '21, Lessing Rosenwald, Mrs. Roger Warner, and Owen D. Young are among the later exhibits. According to officials at the museum, this show is one of the most important of the museum...
Married. Frances Louise Heckscher. granddaughter of Charitarian August Heckscher, and Socialite Philip Hofer of Cincinnati; in Manhattan...