New-York tribune., 1920-05-08
Metropolitan's
Half Century
Exhibit Opens
Many Loans From Private
Collections Add to the
Value and Beauty of the
Works of Art Shown
Recent Accessions Seen
American Paintings Have
Been Placed in Four
Large Adjacent Galleries

The fiftieth anniversary exhibition
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will
open this morning. A private view Of
the exhibition was given yesterday.
The exhibition, marking a half GEN.
tury Of service of the institution, is
OF a unique character. Loans from
private collections in and about New
York, made for this special occasion,
are intermingled with it's own per
manent possessions. In addition to
these loans, the museum IS presenting
special features such as recent acces-
sions which have not been shown hith
crto, new arrangements Of certain gal
leries and the like.
Among the most striking feature of
the exhibition are the paintings in the
Marquand Gallery. Among them are
works by the most celebrated artists.
including such painters as Leandro
Bassano, Giovanni Bellini, Adriaen
Brouwer, Hans Holbein, Titan, Veneto
and Van Delft.
Early Northern Schools.
Early paintings of the northern
schools include works by Gerard David,
Simon Marmion, Hans Memling, Mar
tin Schongauer, Van der Weyden and
Leonello d'Este.
Among Italian paintings of the thir-
teenth and fifteenth centuries which
the public will be permitted to view
for the first time are works by Gina
bue, Bernardo Daddi, Gentle da Fa-
briano, Piero della Francesca. Man.
tegna, dai Libri, Botticelli. del Cas-
tagno, di Giorgio and Vivarin.
Spanish painting is represented by
works by Goya, Ell Greco and Velasquez.
Dutch painting is represented by
Franz Halls and four paintings by Rem
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn and one by Mrs.
Henry E. Huntington.
There is a group of English paintings
of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen
turies.
French painting of the modern
schools is particularly we'll represented
Among the works are some by Paul
Cezanne, Corot, Daumier, Degas, Gau-
gum. MaAet, Monet. Pissarro. Redon,
Rencir, Rousseau and Van Gogh.
Other French paintings include works
by Fragonard, Greuze. Quentin, Natter,
Pater, Peronneau, Poussn ("Orpheus
and Euridice" and "Orpheus Asking the
Way to Hades"). Louis Gustate and
Vatican.
American Paintings
BY a recent arrangement four large
adjacent galleries have been set aside
for American paintings. The series
begins with Gallery 16, where formerly
the William H. Vanderbilt collection
was shown. The galleries contain
works by Epes Sergeant jr., Mrs. Epes
Sergeant jr., John Singleton Copley,
Arthur B. Davies, John II. Twachtman,
Whistler and others.
Among those who have loaned paint
lngs for the exhibition are: George
and Florence Blumcnthal, Carl ".
Hamilton, Michael Friedsam William
K. Vanderbilt, Henry Goldman, Charles
NJ. Schwab, Mrs. Henry Z. Huntington.
Michael Dreicer, Miss Lizzie P. Bliss,
John N. WHY'S, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto II.
Kahn, Dan Fellows Platt. J. Horace
Harding, Mrs. Eugene Meyer jr, John
Quinn, George +. Baker, Adolph Lew
lsohn, William Church Osborn, Jules
S. Bache, Mrs. S. r. Bertron, S. w. de
Jongc, Mrs. George II. Clements and
Charles A. Platt
In the gallery of drawings, in addi-
ton to those from the museum collec-
tion, there are many borrowed from
private collectors. among whom are j.
l.. Redmond and Mortimer L. Schitf.
Recent Purchases
In the Perpont Morgan wing, con-
tanning works of European sculpture