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BOSTON,DECEMBER,1942
XL,
NUMBER212
DetailfromSacrificialStoneHouse
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PUBLISHEDQUARTERLY
SUBSCRIPTIONONEDOLLAR
XL, 116
BULLETIN OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Mr. Dunham Appointed Curator
ON
November 12,1942, by action of the Committee on the Museum, Mr. Dows Dunham
was appointed Curator of Egyptian Art. Actually,
as Associate Curator, he had been doing the work
of Curator since 1936. H e entered the Museum
service as a member of the Egyptian Expedition in
1914-16. From I9 1 7- I9 he saw active service
in the War, and returned to the Egyptian Expedition from 1919 to 1923. From 1924-25, he
was in the service of the Egyptian Government as
excavator at Saqqarah, and from 1925-27 he returned once more to the Museum’s Expedition.
Since then his work has chiefly been in the Museum.
H e was appointed Associate in the Department of
Egyptian Art in January I9 15, Assistant Curator
in 1920, and Associate Curator in 1936.
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The BULLETIN
of the Museum
AS
an economy measure, for the duration of the
war, the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts
will be issued four times a year instead of six. This
will mean the omission of the April and August num-
bers, and issuing the BULLETIN
in February, June,
October, and December. These are the months
when there is apt to be most material, and when
the BULLETIN
is most apt to reach the greatest number of our members.
G. H. EDGELL.
Members of the Staff in the
Armed Services
members
TheMuseumwould like to pay tribute to those
of its Staff who have left us for the
duration of the war in order to enter the Armed
Services of their country. At present the list is the
following:
GRACEE. BISSELL
U. S. N. R.
BARBARA BRADFORD
W. A. A. C.
CHARLESC. CUNNINGHAMU. S. N. R.
CHARLES E. FRANCIS
U. S. A.
HOWARDL. HORTON
U. S. A.
JOHN A. HYNES
U. S. M. C.
NICHOLAS JEON
U. S. A.
DAVID B. LITTLE
U. S. N. R.
ELIZABETH
PRATT
U. S. N. R.
WILLIAM S. SMITH
U. S. N. R.
BERESFORD M. WATSON
U. S. A.
Acquisitions, September 12 through November 12, 1942
Asiatic Art.
Coins, Japanese.
42.516. Gold, of twenty yen denomination, 1870; 42.517.
Silver, of one yen
denomination, 1884. .............................................
Gift of Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld.
Copper, South Indian.
Res. 42.32. Plate, nineteenth century.
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Gift of Samuel H. Gurvitz.
A.D.. ...........................
Gift of Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld.
Classical Art.
Coin, Bronze, Roman Empire.
42.529. As, Maximinus 11, 305-307
Coins, Silver, Roman Republic.
42.526. Denarius, M. Fourius Philus, head of Janus, 93-92 B.C.; 42.527.
Denarius, Cn. Lentulus Marcellinus, Genius of Roman People, 76-72 B.C.;
42.528. Denarius, Caius Renius, head of Roma. 154 B.C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gift of Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld.
Decorative Arts.
Coins, Gold.
42.5 18-525. Eight, European, 1799-1876. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gift of Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld.
Ecclesiastical Ornament.
42.458. Byzantine (Greek) diptych, fifteenth century.
Furniture, American.
42.460a-b. Pair of wall sconces, ca. 1790
Metalwork.
42.530. Gothic lock in wrought iron..
Pottery.
42.531.
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Gift of Miss Mabel H. Cummings.
Gift of Mrs. Horatio A. Lamb.
Gift of William Emerson.
Jar with relief decorations, seventeenth century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gift of Arthur
Pottery, Italian.
42.439. Jar, Sienese, ca. 1500.
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M. Horne.
Arthur Mason Knapp Fund.
Pottery, Spanish.
42.461. Glazed and decorated bowl, Talavera ware, ca. 1675. . . . . . . . . . . . Gift of Miss Rosamond Lamb in memory
of Miss Rose Lamb.
Sculpture, French.
42.466. Tiger Attacking Antelope, bronze, by Antoine Louis Barye..
Gift of Mrs. Richard M. Saltonstall.
42.493. Stone relief of an angel, end of thirteenth century.. ............... Purchased.
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