The New York herald., 1921-12-25
Notes and Activities
In the World of Art

The Brooklyn Museum has purchased
twenty-four water colors by American
artists from the exhibition which closed
on Sunday. December IS. These will
be added to the collection already made.
of which the groups of Winslow
Homers and Sargents form the nucleus.
Eleven other water colors were sold
during the exhibition. The list of those
purchased by the museum follows here:
Mango Trees and "Ramapo Hills"
by Clifford Beal; February Thaw." by
Charles Burchfield: "Old French Mar
ket, New Orleans" by George Hart;
Lake Asquam." by Charles Hopl1in-
Child" by Rockwell Kent; Cape Cod
In Autumn. Mexican Kitchen" "Sand
Dunes. Cape Cod" Mexican Hut and
''The Thaw," by Dodge Macknight;
Rubber Neck Boats" "Oil Fire."
"Woolworth Building and after SUM-
set" by Joseph Pennell; "A Little
American" and Cottage Window" by
Mary Rogers; Morning, Grano
Canyon" Afternoon, Albuquerque,
Landscape. New Mexico" and "The
Sunlit Mesa" by Herbert B. Tschudy;
THE Corner" and Gypsy Dancer" by
Claggett Wilson.
The sales at this years winter exhi-
bition of the National Academy of De-
sign are far in excess of those for sew
eral years past. The Ranger Fund pur-
chased 1.-THE Fall Roundup" by Carl
Rungius (the picture selected by the
jury for the first Altman prize. but
which proved ineligible because the
artist was not born in this country; ;
CLOSE of Evening"" by Ben Foster
Forest Primeval," by Charles S. Chap
man and wilton Hills" by Roy Brown.
Other sales included Sunrise" by
Arthur Speer; 1.-The Invalid by MUIR
ray Bewley; THE Tang JAR" by Doro-
thy Ochtman; "Harlequins In the Gar
den." by Helen K. Mccarthy. and a
picture by Chauncey F. Ryder. Twen-
ty-four prints were sold from the black
and white section and five copies of
the fascinating piece of sculpture
Little Miss Hootch." by Alfred Lenz.
The we'll known poem, 'In Flanders
Fields" by the late Lieut-Col John
MacCrae, of the Canadian Expedition
ary Force. has just been issued as an
attractive little book. with illuminations
by Ernest Clegg. late of the Bedford
shire Regiment, by the Rudge Press Of
Mount Vernon. The illuminations are
planned upon the form of those In the
old missals and provide tasteful set
ting for the touching words of the poem.
The little book. which Is excellently
printed. also has a preface by Bishop
Manning briefly recounting the story of
Lieut.. MacCrae's life.
One OF the notable pieces Of sculpture
In the winter exhibition of the National
Academy of Design, just closed is the
model by Robert l. AitlSen. N. A, of
the George Rogers Clark Memorial. an
equestrian statue with accompanying
figures. which won for the distinguished
sculptor the Elizabeth Watrous Medal.
What Is not generally known by the
public Is that Altken originally designed
that medal. The Academicians were so
greatly pleased about this that, after
Aitken has been awarded the medal In
the regular way, they decided to have
another party to do him further honor.
Edwin H. Blashfield, president of the
Academy; Francis C. Jones. fits treas
urer, and others foregathered and made
n special presentation with compliment
tary remarks not only about the work
winning the prize. but also upon the
medal which rewarded 1t.