New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-06
HEARN COLLECTION GROWS
Five Paintings Bought from Fund
by Metropolitan.
MUSEUMS TASK LIGHTENE0'
Gifts Number 81 and Purchase
of Representative Contempt
rary Works Is Made Possible.

Among other recent acquisitions which
were announced yesterday at the Metropolis
tan Museum OF Art was that OF the pur-
chase OF five paintings out Of the Hearn
fund They include THE Chinese Statu-
cite" by Richard f.. Miller; Christ Sitting
the Tempest by Elliott Daingerfed:
Passing of Summer" by Henry w. Wa
trous: metropolitan Tower" by Guy Z.
Virgins. and Morning Light" by Eugene
Specher.
In the monthly bulletin Of the museum.
which will be issued to-day. the rapid
growth Of the Hearn collection OF American,
pictures is reviewed. Since the reception OF
, the Hearn fund, i'm 1906, the total number'
of purchases 10 date has been twenty-six..
These purchases the bulletin says, are overs
Swallowed by the importance Of the giftal
received from Mr.. Hearn for the COLLEGE,
ton. which have numbered fifty-one paint-j
ngs 1t is said that by these gifts Mr.l
Hearn has lightened the museums task inl
forming representative contempol ary]
American collection Of the most difficult and1
expansive part Of the work. and has END
abled the income Of the fund to be concen1
trated on the acquisition Of current proc
ductions.
W. iluSfull has purchaser a POlypeySiSl
representing the life Of st. Godeeve. II isl
a product OF the Bruges school OF the latSi
fifteenth or early sixteenth century, and wasl
bought At the dispersal OF the Dollfus cold
lection i'm Paris. The altar piece CONSISTED
Of five parts. The large centre panel isI
nanked on either side by two hinged shut<l
ters.
The museum has in its recent accessonS g
room q terra Gotta relief by Donatello rep<
resenting the Madonna holding the Chiidd
II was purchased at the sale Of the u
Hampden Robb collection. II is known al
the Veroneso Madonna.
"rhe Portrait Of A Man" by the mastery
Of the Holzhausen Portraits Conrad von}
CreuznachD. has also been acquired by ths1
museum Another recent purchase Is thad1
Of German altar shrine. with painted
doors dating about 1900. The shrine ind
closes "A high relief in wood Of the virgin3
The paintings on the doors represent four
saints
The arms and armor collection has beeu1
added 10 with Russian. Italian and Dutch3
examples Of the fifteenth century and lster4
drawing by Charles Francis Daubignya
The Valley Farm Is another purchase. AL
were ten English engravings of the nine-3
teenth century. To the costumes in th.45
museum was recently added through thai
gift Of Miss +. Draper the wedding dresSa
of Mrs Simeon Draper Gs11-ia05). Z
Among the loans is 4 painting. The
Guitarist" by Edward Manet which haS]
been placed on exhibition In the museum by]
William Church Osborn.
Major o Creighton Webb. ~ .. Ockersyi
| Lieutenant Commander e. u. Stearns andj
A. T Clearwater were among those Who'll
made loans 10 the classical antiquities and;
the metal work collections Mrs. Tnderhil1
A Budd lent a portrait Of Sir William Pep<]
perell. by John Symbert, which has not.
been placed on exhibition Yet
The additions to the museum library IN;
| the last month were 1876 volumes. Of which,
| thirteen were gifts. Those who gave books1
10 the library included Mcpougall Hawkes.
General Rush G. Hawkins. NJ Kroedler &
Co. Mr.. Lair Dubreuil Miss Florence ~.
Levy J. Pierpont Morgan. Miss Frances
| Norris r Muller & Co. Bernard Quaritchs
| p F. Schofield and Frederick !. Waugh.
The attendance during tho month was
1919