Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Joseph Pennell well-known artist, illustrator and author will give a lecture in the Fogg Art subject will be "The Wonder of War Work," By his paintings and pencil illustrations Mr. Penneli has won distinction both at home and abroad. He has received the Grand Prix several expositions, and other honors have been conferred...
...paintings and pencil illustrations Mr. Pennell has won distinction at home and abroad. He received the Grand Prix at the St. Louis Exposition, 1905; at Milan, 1906; at Barcelona, 1907; and at Brussels, 1910, in addition to numerous other honors conferred upon him in recognition of his artistic attainments. As a writer he is known chiefly by his articles contributed to a number of leading magazines...
...first two acts were rather pretty, but the last one was pretty near the line. Censoring may redeem it, but it will take broad sweeps of the blue pencil. For the story is of Ann, a seminary girl of a century ago in Bath, England, who marries an absorbed astronomer and finds herself running a poor second to the constellations, even before her honeymoon is over. She sets about to bring her husband from lethargy to loving in that third act, and her methods caused nobody to ask how old was Ann. They all knew she was extremely wise...
There is now on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum a collection of pencil drawings by Kenneth John Conant '15, Rogers Travelling Fellow from the University at the American Academy in Rome. The series consists of 73 drawings, chiefly of street scenes, and notable buildings in Rome and Florence. Sketches of the Temple of Concord in Sicily are particularly well drawn. The only large pictures in the collection are two drawings of designs for the facade of St. Peter's in Rome. These have already been reproduced with comments in the American Architectural Magazine for August. The sketches will...
...addition to these gifts the Museum has acquired by purchase a water color drawing, "The Matterhorn", by John Ruskins; and a head pencil drawing, "Edinburgh", by J. M. W. Turner...