I Have Juet Returned from Mexico to Find Your Invitttijn to . the Opening
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May 20, 19^U Mr. Sanford Low, Dirsctor Art Museum of the flew Britain 1 ' 56 Lexington Street Nev Britain, Connecticut Dear Mr. Low. I have juet returned from Mexico to find your invitttijn to . the opening of your exhibition ARM IK AMERICA on this Saturday, May V to be present at a luncheon in honor of Mr. and Mre. Thonas Hart Benton. I asi sorry thct it vill not be poMlbl* for me to get up xo sew Britain on . kty but than*; you for your kind thought of . oincev x •cis Hf Dirt ctor ART MUSEUM OF THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE 56 LEXINGTON STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT SANFORD LOW MRS. WILLIAM E. BENTLEY R. E. PRITCHARD DIRECTOR CUSTODIAN CHAIRMAN ART COMMITTEE RECEIVED WAY 111954 DIRECTOR Mr. Francis Henry Taylor Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 28, New York Dear Mr. Taylor: The Board of Directors of the New Britain Art Museum, invites you to the opening of the Thomas Hart Benton Retrospective Exhibition, featuring the recently acquired Whitney Museum Benton Murals, ARTS OF LIFE IN AMERICA, on Saturday, May 22nd. We plan to honor Mr. and Mrs. Benton at a buffet luncheon to be served at the Art Museum ($6 Lexington Street, New Britain) that day at twelve-thirty o'clock. We find it necessary to set this early hour for luncheon because of the formal opening and tea that same afternoon at three. We sincerely hope that you can be with us and would appreciate receiving word from you as to whether or not you can attend. Cordially, CUU M- Sanford Low, Director May 6, 19$h THE ART MUSEUM JANUARY 1, 1950 LIST OF THE COLLECTION OF OIL PAINTINGS AND WATER COLORS OPEN DAILY 2:00 TO 5:30 P.M. (EXCEPT MONDAY AND HOLIDAYS) FREE TO THE PUBLIC 56 LEXINGTON STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT ADDITIONS FROM JANUARY 1, TO MAY 1, 1950 PAINTINGS IN OIL * Artists represented in list before January 1, 1950. ADAMS BRANDEGEE, ROBERT B. Paintings in Oil Water Colors Still Life with Herring Miss Porter 23 /a x 19 /a and Shrimp 11x14 Portrait of Henry Stanley 27 x 22 ALLEN, JUNIUS BARTLETT, CLAY Lengthening Shadows 11/a x 15/> Rutland Fair 12x18/ ALLSTON, WASHINGTON BRUSH, GEORGE DEFOREST BARNETT, JR., BION H. BREININ, RAYMOND The Trout Stream 13/a x 11 /a Artist's Daughter Sally 37 x 27 Cove Near Carmel 13/a x 15/a Circus (gouache) 19 3/4 x 28 / BALLINGER, HARRY R. BIGGS, WALTER CADY, HARRISON Digging for Bait 24/a x 29/a BUNCE, WILLIAM GEDNEY Springwood 11 /a x 15/a Labor in Vain-Bridge 17 x 27 Venetian Marine 29 x 37 BROWNE, SYD COWING, WILLIAM BEAL, GIFFORD The Spring's Depths 14/a x 21 Winter in Central Park Rodeo 19x24 CARLSON, EMIL CARROLL, JOHN FITZGERALD, EDMOND J. Clearing Off 25 x 30 Portrait of the Artist's Wife 44 x 34 Along the Tukon 14x21 BELLECOUR, E. BERNE The Samovar 28 x 26 /a The High Line 14x21 DUBOIS, GUY PENE "1870" 16x22 •Girl with Red Hair 25 x 20 FREDENTHAL, DAVID The Road to Egreville 16 x 11 CARR, S. S. Manhattan and Me 18^x24% FLANNERY, VAUGHN Winter Landscape 21 /a x 35 /a BELLOWS, GEORGE Stable Cats 10x14 HYND, FREDERICK The Pirates 21 !4 x 293/4 The Big Dory 18 x 22 HOMER, WINSLOW CHASE, WM. M. KARFIOL, BERNARD *Butterfly Girl 37/a x 23/a BERMAN, EUGENE Portrait of a Child 13x8 Model in Repose 10 x \2Vs Portrait—John B. Talcott 48 x 36 MARTINO, GIOVANNI Salute to Evening 17x21 Morning Light 8/axl7 KINGMAN, DONG North of Fulton Market 21 x 29 MORELAND, GEORGE BIERSTADT, ALBERT COLE, THOMAS Landscape ll?4xl4H LUKS, GEORGE Wasatch Mis. Wind River The Clove, Catskills 25 x 33 *Dock Scene 1472x1972 County, Wyoming 26 /a x 40/a MOSER, FRANK The Road Home 12x16 MARIN, JOHN COOPER, COLIN CAMPBELL *Notre Dame 16x13 BINFORD, JULIEN On the Rhine 25 x 33 NORDHAUSEN, A. HENRY The Needle Woman 20 x 14 Sara Mulligan 24 /a x 19 /a PENNEY, JAMES Gray Day 17x22/a COOPER, MARGARET PENNEY, JAMES BLAKELOCK, RALPH A. Cooke's Tavern 24 x 36 Rocks and Sea 12x16 PIERCE, WALDO The Encampment 10 x 13 Cider Press 14'/a x 2034 Fishing Boats—Nova Scotia 25 x 30 REINDEL, EDNA The Hunter 10x13 PLEISSNER, OGDEN M. *Summer in Menemsha 9/a x 11'/a CORBINO, JON *Villeneuve de VAvignon 12x22 BOUCHfi, LOUIS RICHARDSON, CONSTANCE Bleachers 20 x 24 Sunday Visitors 11 /a x 21 City of Detroit 20 x 28 PRENDERGAST, MAURICE Queens Landscape 12 x 20 The New Hat 28x16 *New England Village 13x19 SLOAN, JOHN *GirlinFurHat 31/ax25/a ZERBE, KARL BOUDIN, EUGENE COULAND, M. Modiste (gouache) 19/ x 27/a TUCKER, ALLEN Cole de Normandie 9/ x 15 Into the Fold 16 x 25 Landscape 20 x 24 ZORACH, WILLIAM EAKINS, THOMAS Approach to Kennebeck BRACKMAN, ROBERT DAVIES, ARTHUR B. River 15/4x22 *The Timer 14xl0/4 The Bather 15x11/2 Hylas and the Nymphs 17 x 39 A Market Woman 39/a x 34 Remembrance 22x17 HENRI, ROBERT *An Imaginative Boy 23/a x 19/a DAVIS, CHARLES H. FISHER, ALVAN HARTLEY, MARSDEN INNESS, GEORGE Conquering Light 29 x 36 Waiting for the Stage Coach 24/ x 35 Maine Islands 19/ x 11 Late Afternoon 8x11/ In Wales by the Sea 25 x 30 Roman Campagna 20 x 30 Little Homes—Twilight 17x21 FLAGG, CHARLES NOEL St. Peter's—Rome 29 x 39 HASSAM, CHILDE Moonlight 25 x 30 Portrait—D. N. Camp 27 x 22 Sunset Glow 17/x25 Le Jour de Grand Prix 36 x 48 The Oak 29 x 36 Portrait—C. B. Erwin Woodland and Distant Valley 16 x 24 Oyster Sloop 24 x 22 The Poke Bonnet 23/a x 19 DEWING, THOMAS W. JOHANSEN, JOHN C. Portrait of a Lady 19x15 FOOTE, WILL HOWE HAWTHORNE, CHARLES W. Portrait— Wm. F. Brooks 37 x 30 Jamaica Woman 29 x 29 The Sailor Boy 38 /a x 38 / DICKINSON, SIDNEY E. JOHNSON, EASTMAN Portrait—A. W. Stanley 36 x 30 FORAIN, J. L. HEADE, M. J. Hollyhocks 25x31 Woman Consulting Chevalier of the order of the Her Attorney 14/xll Rose or Sunset 6/x 12/ DOUGHTY, THOMAS KELLER, HENRY G. Evening in the Horse Barn 30 x 40 Landscape 18 x 24 FRIESEKE, FREDERICK C. HELIKER, JOHN EDWARD The Bird Cage 31x31 DUBOIS, GUY PENE Beach and Driftwood 18 x 24 KENSETT, JOHN F. Boatyard in Spring 30 x 40 New Evidence 18x22 Rondout Creek 15x24 FULLER, GEORGE Immersion 29/ x 21 / On the Bridge 22x18 Yvonne Posing 18 x 26 Isidor Pelfresne 18x24 KENT, ROCKWELL HENRI, ROBERT Toilers of the Sea 38 x 44 GAERTNER, CARL F. DUBOIS, YVONNE Chareton Bridge—Rainy Day 9/ x 7 The Suburb 15x21 KLITGAARD, GEORGIANA Balcony 20 x 24 Spanish Girl of Segovia 40 x 32 The Search Begins 28 x 48 Boatyard 11x17 The Colt 24 x 36 Third Ave. Elevated 20 x 24 HENRY, EDWARD L. GLACKENS, WILLIAM J. KOCH, JOHN Off the Main Road 10x14 Cannes 12/a x 16 Portrait of My Wife 30 x 24 EAKINS, THOMAS Le Baou 15 x 18 The Florist 48 x 60 Old Lady Sewing 13 /a x 9/ Washington Square 25 x 29 HIBBARD, ALDRO T. West River Valley, Vt. 30 x 60 KUHN, WALT GLEITSMANN, RAPHAEL EARL, RALPH Clown with Drum 12x10 Portrait of a Gentleman Medieval Shadows 24 x 40 HIGGINS, EUGENE with Negro Attendant 30 x 25 LA FARGE, JOHN The Rookery 11x15 GORSLINE, DOUGLAS Lady of Shalott 9x14 ETNIER, STEPHEN M. Mrs. Burling 36/ax31 HOMER, WINSLOW Laying the Keel 25 x 30 LAWSON, ERNEST GRANT, GORDON Skirmish in the Wilderness 18 x 26 Spring Tapestry 40 x 50 Arrivals and Departures 30 x 40 Spuyten Duyvil 20 x 24 FARNSWORTH, JERRY HUNGERFORD, MARIAN Truro Child 18x15 HALBERSTADT, ERNEST LEVI, JULIAN E. The Cove—Lyme 24 x 30 Poker 20 x 27 Old Bulkhead 23 x 28 FAUSETT, WILLIAM DEAN Mt. Anthony in Storm 30 x 40 HARNETT, WILLIAM M. IBSEN, ERNEST L. LIE, JONAS Nude 10x8 Still Life with Violin 20 x 24 Portrait—E. H. Davison 48 x 36 The Moors 24 x 36 LOW, SANFORD MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY ROBINSON, THEODORE SLOAN, JOHN Country Estate 30 x 40 At the Well 20/a x 15 Along the Stream 24 x 20 Main Street—Gloucester 26 x 32 LUKS, GEORGE MUNSELL, RICHARD ROSE, IVOR SMIBERT, JOHN Cabby at the Plaza 12x10 Rhoda 40 x 26 Granite Walls 10x14 Portrait of Benjamin Colman 50 x 40 Nora Brady 30 x 26 Wine Jug 14x10 Pals 30 x 25 MURPHY, H. DUDLEY SMITH, FRANK VINING Peonies and Deer 29/a x 24/a ROUSSEAU, PIERRE ETIENNE Passing Clippers 30 x 40 McENTEE, JERVIS River Landscape with Figures 10 x 13 Autumn Landscape 19J/a x 35 MURPHY, J. FRANCIS SMITH, VERNON RYDER, ALBERT P. New England Meadow Goat Girl 18 x 24 McMANUS, JAMES GOODWIN in Spring 16x22 Woman and Staghound 12x6/a Wide Connecticut 34 x 40 RYDER, CHAUNCEY F. SONNTAG, WILLIAM LOUIS MYERS, JEROME Lyndboro Brook 25 x 30 A View in Vermont 26J/2 x 39/a MARTIN, HOMER D. Paris Market 25 x 30 The Old Red Bam 24 x 29 Landscape 10 x 12 Normandy Coast 13x22 NETTLETON, WALTER SAMPLE, PAUL SPEICHER, EUGENE MATSON, GRETA January Morning 17x13 Norris Dam 32 x 44 Red Scarf 20 x 20 Looking Forward 20x16 Pat 34x27 /a SARGENT, JOHN SINGER NEWMAN, ROBERT L.