SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1960
Weinberger
Forgeries of
Although forgers of art are great technicians, they will always lack an understanding
of art and a feeling for taste. Martin Weinberger, distinguished visiting professor in art and
architectural history, said in a lecture last night.
The forger will always be a hit-or-miss type of artist, he said, but although every
co py i s a forgery, not every copy is a bad work of art.
The art of forgery arose in the beginning of the 15th century, when people first began
to pay money for old things, he
said. The market for collectors
items has been so great, Wein
berger said, that if all the sup
posedly• authentic English and
French furniture appearing in
the museums is actually real, ev
ery Frenchman and Englishman
between 1600-1700 must have had
at least three writing desks and
several dining room suites
Chess Team
To Compete
At Princeton
Penn State will become the
1960 National Intercollegiate
Chess Team Champion if it
can beat players . from New
York and the University of
Chicago, Mordecai Treblow,
director of the tournament,
said yesterday.
The National Inlercollegiate,
biggest tournament in college
chess, will be played on Dec. 27-
30 at Princeton .University.
It will be a' seven-round Swiss
team tournament in which teams
will play opponents with the
same win and loss score without
any team being eliminated. The
tournament is open to any full
time college undergraduate.
Treblow, said he thinks Penn
State can beat its leading oppon
ents, the players from Harvard,
Columbia, City College of New
York, Fordham and the Univer
sity of Chicago.
Represeriting Penn State at the
tournament will be Anthony Can
tone, first board, and Richard
Sommerville, second board. Play
ing the other two boards and act
ing as alternates will be. Harry
Mathews, Anthony Poulos, George
Djurjevic ,and Eugene Grumer.
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long since ended L-when the na
tion might have been able to af
ford the luxury of summer-long
"holidays" from learning.
"What is needed, obviously, is
a fundamental shift in the public
attitude toward college-going.
Whereas now it is the "regular"
student who attends college nine
months out of every twelve for
four years, and the "irregular"
student who also attends in the
summer, it should actually be the
other way around, with the "reg
ular" student attending on a year
round basis. The exception must
become the rule."
John Wanamaker would wait
early at the door to his depart
ment store. To all late department
managers he would merely smile
and say "Good morning." Nothing
else happened, but nobody was late
a second time
Discusses
Masters
By ELLIE HUMMER
The curator of a museum or
a connoisseur of art must face
many different types of for
geries, Weinberger said. These
people fear a work that has
been patched up more than one
,
that is an outright lake from
the beginning, he added.
I The work may be a copy of an
original by the actual artist of
,the original, he said, and many
lof these workshop pieces may be
'very good. Another copy may be
by a contemporary of the artist
and at • least have the general
'feeling of the period, he said. A
forgery by a later artist is per
haps the easiest to detect because
it is more removed from the orig
inal.
Very few forgers last more
than 30 years, Weinberger said.
He explained that when the
mannerisms of the particular
period the forger lived in have
died away, it becomes apparent
that the work has mannerisms
of the forger's own contempor
ary period.
To illustrate this point, Wein
berger showed a slide of a statue
'of supposedly ancient Roman
origin. Although the trained eye
'could pick out the technical faults
'of the work, he said, any one
•knows the ancient Romans did;
.not wear the trunks which are;
very .evident on this work.
Another example of this ten
dency of a forger to put his own
period in the work was the coffee
pot which appeared on a work
which was to have been of a time
previous to the modern coffee pot,
Weinberger pointed out.
The three main techniques of
forgery are the simple copy, the
composite and the sublime meth
od, he said.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Kleenex Kaper
Plays Part
in Horse Show
Common facial tissues played
an important part in the , Riders
Club annual Fall Horse Show
last weekend.
The "Kleenex Event" was one
of 14 classes presented. Partners
on horseback held a tissue be
tween them cantering, trotting
and walking their horses as di-,
rected.
The length of the tissue remain
ing intact determined the win
ners as Dora Ann McKenzie,
senior in elementary kindergarten
education from Montrose and
president of the Riders Club, and
her partner Donald Ferry from
Roaring Springs.
About 100 entrees participated
in the contest.
In the Burlap Bag Race the
participants had to ride to a pile
of burlap bags, dismount, climb
into bags, remount and ride to
the finish line. Barney Derstetter,
a 4-H member from Tyrone took
first place in this event.
Bareback Horsemanship was
judged on' form and was won by
Jane Clarke, freshman in agri
culture from Centre Hall.
FIRESIDE FORUM
on India with
MR. AND MRS. CHAUNCEY LANG
SUNDAY 6:30 P. M.
Wesley Foundation 256 E. College Ave.
The best tobacco makes the best smoke!
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winiton-Balein. N. O.
Yale Prof to Speak
At Chapel Service
E. William Muehl, professor of practical theology at Yale
Divinity School, will speak for the University chapel service
at 10:55 a.m, tomorrow in Schwab. His topic will be "The
Dark Reflection of God."
A lawyer by training, Muehl is considered an authority
on homiletics, the art of preach-I
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ng. He received his bachelor
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!arts and his bachelor of law de-1
agrees from the University of;
Michigan and an honorary mas- .
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ter of arts degree from Yale.
In addition to being a member for ' Proj ect Joey'
;of the Michigan Bar Associationi
The Independent Students As-
Muehl belongs to the Amerioanl
sociation will place posters in the
Arbitration Association and has .
indepe
served as arbitrator in New Eng-.
residence halls asking
!ents and student groups to sind
gn-
land labor management disputes.up to help ISA with Project Joey,
Members of the University
Susanne Bolich, project co-chair--
;
Chapel Choir and the Meditation man, said yesterday.
Chapel Choir will sing for the! . Those who sign up for the proj
service, with James Beach con- ,
C',CL Nvill help give a Christmas
ductjng. !party on Dec. II from 1-6 p.m.
Speaking at the Protestant ‘vor-tin the He.tzel Union Building.
ship service at 9 a.m. tomorrow in;About 80 children from the St.
the Helen Eakin EisenhowerNary's and St. John's orphanages
Chapel will be The- Rev. Donaldand the Blair County Children's
Mcllvride, Presbyterian chaplain? Home will attend.
,
to the University. ! Each child will be the personal
Rev. Mcllvride, who will speak guest. of a student for the party.
on "Pushing to the Extremities."! Movies will be shown and a
came to the University in 19.5615ing will be held in the HUB
after teaching in the Michigai - Oallroom. All the children will be
public school system. Ile is also treated to a special Christmas din
director of the Westminsterlner in the HUB Terrace Room.
Foundation: 1
He is a graduate of Western
Michigan University and received
his bachelor of divinity degree
from Union Theological Seminary
and a master of arts degree from
the University of Michigan.
The Meditation Chapel Choir,
directed by Willa Taylor, will
sing for the service.
In 1924 attendance figures
shoWed 3320 undergraduate stu
dents at the University with men
outnumbering women by more
than eight-to-one.
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