New-York tribune., 1910-07-13
MANY NEW ACQUISITIONS
Metropolitan Museum Gets
Works Collected by Clyde Fitch.
MORE LOANS OF PAINTINGS
Coming Special Exhibitions
Changes and Promotions
Among Curators.

shortly before the death of the late Clyde
Fitch the dramatist expressed the wish
that some of the works of art he mad
collected be placed permanently II the
Metropolitan Museum of Art Some OF
these works were placed on private view
yesterday, together with d number of other
acquisitions.
The Fitch collection, presented by Cap
tain and Mrs ". G. Fitch in memory OF
their dead son. includes painted wall pan
els of a small French room of the First
Empire period. These are not yet on exht-
btton. but will be placed in a part Of the
building now under construction. A number
of small eighteenth century sculptures in
wax which were highly priced by Clyde
Fitch will be shown
The museum authorities are very proud
of nine pieces of Wedgwood obtained re-
Gently. Some specimens in black basalt
were presented by Ferdinand Hermann. and
two other large vases are in blue and white
jasper and ceIadon green jasper. A collec-
tion Of American-made glass is also shown.
Five pieces came from the factory of
Baron William Henry StiegeI. which for
merly stood at Mannheim. Lancaster Coun-
ty. Penn. Stiegel was German who found
ed his plant in 1853. and although al one
time he was such a prominent citizen that
guns were fred whenever he left or re-
turned TO his mansion and his fellow towns
men annually presented him with a rose,
he failed in his work, and his enormous
factory finally came to be known as
''StiegeIs Folly" He is supposed to have
died in q debtors prison.
A portrait by Joseph Ames of James
Topham Brady. a former member of the
New York bar. and the gift of Francis
Lynde Stetson; and a reduction Of a statue
called the Mounted Amazon, by Edward
Arnhold of Berlin. presented through David
J. Hill. Amba ssador TO Germany, are on ex-
hibition. The museum has purchased a
collection of locks and keys dating from
the third century. A. D, to the present
time. A Polish carpet made in the first
half of the seventeenth century. two tap
estries woven by Wilhelm Pannemaker and
a collection of japanese art and European
china and glass presented by the late Mrs.
John Stemme in memory of her husband
are also mentioned in the museum bulle-
tin.
Recent loans Of paintings include THE
Guitarist-" by Edouard Manet and two
paintings by Monet, all lent by William
Church Osborn, and a large painting The
DeSpOllmenL OF tnrlSt, DE ii Greco
Archer NJ. Huntington has lent portraits by
GOya, Zurbaran an Ell Greco.
The museum announces that next sea
son it viii again hold special exhibitions
extending the time to ten weeks. One of
these will be an exhibition of rugs in No
vember, the other collection of arms and
armor in January.
Miss G. NJ. a. Richter has been advanced
TO the place of assistant curator in the de-
partment of classical art, and Miss Frances
Morris to the same place in the department
of decorative arts. Miss Caroline Ransom
Phi. D, has been appointed assistant cura-
tor in the department of Egyptian art. She
studied in the University of Chicago and the
University of Berlin. and was later in the
Berlin Museum and then in Egypt. Later
she became head of the department ot
archaeology and arts at Bryn Mawr. She
is the author of Studies in Ancient Furni
ture-" Dr. Charles R. Gillett has resigned
his place as assistant curator in the
museum.