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OLD MASTERS Ture in Which Great Depth and Richness ART Are Achieved with a Restricted Range and ANCIENT of Color Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in the World This article is one of nearly 500,000 scholarly works digitized and made freely available to everyone in the world by JSTOR. Known as the Early Journal Content, this set of works include research articles, news, letters, and other writings published in more than 200 of the oldest leading academic journals. The works date from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. We encourage people to read and share the Early Journal Content openly and to tell others that this resource exists. People may post this content online or redistribute in any way for non-commercial purposes. Read more about Early Journal Content at http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early- journal-content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Enee ma 'VOL.XXI, NO. 12-WEEKLY NEW YORK, DECEMBER 30, 1922 0., uecndeActas ofmarch 3, RC 1 ET AMERICA TO SHARE A Bodhisattva, Brouight to America, and Its Ori;ginal HIome WATER COLOR SHOW IN EGYPTIAN RELICS SEASON'S LARGEST But Not Unless the Government JointDisplay of American Society of Egypt Will Permit Removal and New York Club, 565 Pic of Sufficient Luxor Treasures tures, Is of a High Average ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-,' . .* . The Metropolitan Museum of Art in The annual combined exhibition of NewYork and other American museums the American Water Color Society are expected to receive some of the and the New York Water Color Club, articlesdiscovered in the fabulously rich which is on view in the Fine Arts tomb of King Tutankhamon by the Earl Building until Jan. 9, including Sunday of Carnarvon and Hovard Carter, but afternoons, is the largest show of the season. theamount which the Egyptian govern In addition to 565 pictures there mentwill permit to be taken out of the are forty-four sculptures, making the extraordinary total of 609 works; country,if any, has not been decided. AThe New York World printed a and if the fifty-one paintings of the New York Society of Painters in the specialcable despatch from London to Academy Room are added the visitor the effect that Lord Carnarvon would who is hungry for art will have every sendsome of the treasures to the Metro opportunity to satisfy that need. politan if the Egyptian government The general average of the water would give consent, and the 'New York colors is ritnespublished a wireless despatch from very high, both technically Luxor saying that the government had and pictorially, and the admirable- cus tom laidclaim to in the tomb of grouping the works of individ everything be ual artists the earl had been as adds much to the interest cause quoted saying Df the show. under his contract with Among the painters that it, all wa'c whose work is thus bis because the tomb had been grouped are G. entered Glenn Newell, Jane Felicie byrobbers. The government's was Poupelet, rep'y Waldo Howell, Eliza Buffington, W. that it held the tomb to be royal and not ABOVE-It was from. this Yunit-Kantg temple grotto, tnear Pekin, Granville Smith, A. Schille, Charles violated. It is expected, tlhaf however, a Warren Eaton, Hobart Fred thegovernment will act that stonte Bodhisattva of the Wei dynasty, recently acquired Nichols, generously and * the was takent. It can be erick Frieseke, Jane Peterson, Edmund recognizeAmerica. by Metropolitan Museutm, identified in the middle of the top row. The is taken from Greacen, Hilda Belcher, H. Knighton Two of the objects most recently reproduction * Chavanncs' Mission Archeologique. Hammond, George Elmer Browne, described are coats of armor fashione ; Chauncey F. of Ryder, Edgar Cadmus, entirely turquoise and with an artistry George Hart, Kenneth G. How, Oscar far of AT LEFT-This is the Bodhisattva itself, carved from the livintg surpassing anything the kind ever * Julius, Eliot W. Emerton Heit foundin Greece. rock int the Fifth centurry A.D., which; was takent froni its place Clark, recent war and removed to Paris. It is now in land, Kenneth Hartwell, William ,.The opening of the tomb shows that durintg thte Rooms E-ii at the Metropolitant. Starkweather, George Pearse Ennis, even in Tutankhamon's time there were Edward Dufner and George H. Hallo religious rivalries, and one question well. whicharcheologists will have to settle is To Hallowell has been assigned the whetherhis majesty died in the Aten or SCULPTORS FOSTER JONAS HAS PRAISE place of honor in the Vanderbilt Gal te Amen Americans to See faith, hieroglyphics of each BASEBALL STATUE lery where his four Maine woods win havingbeen found on the walls of the FOR AMERICAN ART ter scenes richly deserve that place, royalmausoleum. Germany 'sNVew A r8. particularly in the exquisite beauty of Edward Robinson, director of the National Society to Prepare Plans French Expert Says Chicago's An the "Violet Morning" and "Winter's Metropolitan, announces that the mu Exponents of Expressionism, Lead End," this being a logging scene with 1-seum'sexcavators working in the for $100,000 Memorial of Game's nual Show Was Finest Display a sunset neigh ers of the Teutonic background of wonderful boringvalley Dehr-el-Bahri, have- been Originator in Nation's Capital Renaissance, of Modern Work He Has. Seen depths of purples and deep reds. gpitedby Lord Carnarvon, to help him to Show at Anderson Galleries Mr. Ennis' group of six Maine coast 0n-prosecutinghis scenes are filled with the usual life and discoveries, and that WASHINGTON -The National PARIS-M. Edouard Jonas, art 'theyhave accepted the invitation. Ar color of his oils; Mr. Starkweather's Sculpture Society has allied itself with BERLIN-The exhibition of Ger dealer and expert, 'who just re t>ngements for this co-operation were ha$' "Apple Tree in Bloom" and his artists ,madeby Albert M. Lythgoe, the Metro the movement which is to place the man works of the modern school in turned from a trip to the United sketching are two varieties of realism, ;politan'scurator of Egyptian art. With national game of baseball op the very the Anderson Galleries in New York States, says that he found a more each happy of its kind; and Mr. Hart 'Mr. well's little Venetian and Lythgoe in Egypt are H. E. Winlock, same plane with military triumphs, is assured. The pictures and sculp widespread interest in art in America Taormina .at Luxor; Arthur C. Mace, at Luxor scenes show novel vistas in these two with heroes and gods and with the alle tures are already on the way to New than exists in France. "In the small 'andLisht; Wallace Hauser, much-painted places. architect; York. They amount to the 4lindsleyHall, draftsman; N. de Garies gorical representations of justice, truth large num est towns they have museums, and the Oscar Julius shows once again how Davis, artist, who has reproduced in and all the other attributes of human ber of seventy oil paintings, seventy inhabitants are profoundly in earnest thoroughly he knows the life of the five water fcolor the decorations on the walls of the and superhuman perfections. It will colors, thirty s'culptures and about the pictures and statues in the Gloucester fishermen in his four pic -tomb; H. 125 graphics. Mr. Moeller, of the Gal tures, the "Furling the Jib" having a Burton, photographer, and prepare the program for the competi collections," he said in an interview. from350 to 500 natives. Whatever part lery Moeller in Berlin, who courteously decidedly modernistic sea; Kenneth tion for the $100,000 monument which took care of the arrangement and the "In the mass of the people this inter G. How's two city scenes and two of this force Lord Carnarvon desires will the Washington club of the American ,workwith him. commercial part, emphasizes that nev est is very strong. flower studies form a notably happy Baseball Association has undertaken er ' Mr. Winlock in Cairo before has an exhibition of this rank "I was much impressed by the prog group; and George Hart's West In has issued a to set up in Potomac Park as a me been ,protest against the proposal of the put together in Germany. dian scenes are quite the finest water morial to George Chadwick, of Provi The leading ress of American artists. In Chicago colors he "governmentto declare all archaeologi artists among the Mod has ever shown. dence, R. I., who originated the game. ernists were invited by Dr. William I saw the finest exhibition of modern Among individual pictures that calfinds to be the property of the state. art that I have ever seen. There was Clark Griffith, president of the Valentiner to join in this undertaking. stand out even in this large number 'Heasserts that such a decision would the man a portrait of Mrs. Frank Logan by the endall Washington club, is, behind The readers of THE AMERICAN ART are the "Summer" by F. J. Spicuzza, excavation in Egypt inasmuch themovement to immortalize the American painter Seyffert, which was as this bene NEws know his enthusiasm for the in which the texture of the wave work, which for years has factor of American youth-and interesting because the same subject maintained the villages along age-7 works of the Modernists, particularly breaking over the two girl swimmers the Nile, and the thousands of admirers of has been painted by a celebrated is-supported by public the the Expressionists, and it is due to his is beautifully rendered; Rose Nedwil's subscription, "Senators," as the local team is called, French artist.
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