New-York tribune., 1906-04-20
FOR ART EDUCATION.
Nezc Gallery at VI. VI. H. Designed
for Students.

Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to-
day may enjoy an exhibition IN Gallery "a which
has been arranged as a temporary effort toward a
more appropriate classification ana display of the
pictures n the Museum. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke,
director Of the Museum. has aimed to bring to-
gether those pictures likely to be OF interest 70
serious students of art Hs wishes to recommend
them to study of thoss who without having any
specis, knowledge. msy Vet desire TO become more
intimately acquainted VITA the great expressions of
creative thought IN painting.
For this purpose ST. Purdon. with the co-opera-
ton of Edward Robinson. the assistant director.
and Roger E Fry, the curator Of paintings. has
brought together in this gallery works of all periods
and OF all schools.
A number of the pictures shown at a press view
yesterday acquisitions. and others were
lent by private Mr. Fry and Mr.. Robinson
said the choice OF pictures had been made, so far
possible. aesthetic grounds but considerations
of space and of the harmonious effect OF the room
a whole were less disturbing factors
which could not however. be neglected.
Conspicuous among the paintings loaned is a
Classical Landscape" by Richard Wilson. lent by
]. Pierpont Morgan. president OF the Museum An
other noteworthy canvas. loaned by Henry g
F'rick. a Portrait OF Petro Aretno," by Titan
new acquisition OF the Museum shown yester-
day for the first time painting of the Dutch
school-"Kitcfeu Interior by Jan Steen. 1t was
bought with the income from the Rogers fund from
the collection of Baron Van Loo.
In the of the gallery the table consists OF
two seventeenth century supports and block or
Cipollino marble. lent by Eugene Glaenzer. Upon
il stand two bronzes. by Rodin. reduced versions
OF his large bronzes, Age d'Atrain' and st John
the Baptist lent by Mrs. John W. simpson
over each doorway Of the gallery three PAN
els from series which originally decorated a room
I'm the castle of San Martino di GOnzaga.
Mantua which belonged TO the Csonzagas. Several
parts OF this frieze in the Victoria and
Albert Museum London.
Among the forty or more pictures hung in his
gallery may be mentioned a haIf-Iength portrait OF
Christopher Columbus. by Sebastiano del Piombo.
the gift OF Mr.. Morgan years ago. The Holy
Family" by Rubens, and the two paintings by
Rembrandt a Portrait of Man. half length
wearing a large black hat. black coat and linen
collar and long hair, and another Portrait of a
Man.. bust. full face. wearing large black hat
and golden brown coat the gifts OF Henry q.
Van Dyck is represented by Portrait of James
by "saltash," the River Tamar in the foreground:
1iepolo by Triumph of Ferdinand ILL.," and Mu-
chased with the Rogers Fund F1
One example of Frans Halls is 'HiIIebobbe van
ward, with her hands crossed upon a table, and
anionheg IS q portrait OF a woman. with distant
Manet Is represented by Boy with Sword:
an idyIlic Landscape. with three fsures W of women
in the foreground and Gilbert Stuart by Portrait
The public shortly will also have an opportunity
to admire at the Museum the famous Canessa col
trustees, and about which little has been puhlicIV
disclosed These vases are about three hundred
in the south gallery the first hOor by Edward
Robinson the assistant director, and Miss Richter
This collection is In lire with an attempt by the
Museum 10 build up collections OF classical antlqui
ties In their principal epochs
On the invitation OF the trustees last evening the
members 0t tnT MnSeH s enIIYe9 ana go b ervIe View OF
lection OF Greek vases.