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...Gogh said, "damned good." The museum's researchers have tallied references to more than 1,100 artworks in Van Gogh's copious correspondence: 485 paintings, 52 drawings, 567 prints, 10 sculptures and three murals. The large number of prints reminds us that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator...
Jerome H. Buckley, a renowned expert on the Victorian era and a former Leverett House master, died Jan. 28 of respiratory failure...
That same year, he became master of Leverett House, a position he held until...
...Jerry was a devoted member of our Senior Common Room,” Leverett House Master Howard Georgi wrote in an e-mail. “He and his wife Elizabeth came to many events and their connection with the House and its students was very important to them...
...community advisory closer to the time of the stabbings would have led to real, simple improvements in the safety of those making the trek to and from the Quad. After the advisory was finally circulated, Cabot House Master James H. Ware told his students “to walk home with friends or take the shuttle after dark.” But for the six days between the first attack and the advisory, students had no reason to think these potentially-inconvenient steps were necessary...