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great museum. where they are told
stories. shown pictures and conducted
through the galleries by experts in
the museums employ.
The School Art League of New
York, in cooperation with the Metro
politan Museum and the Brooklyn In
Stltute, renders much the same serv-
ice to Greater New York's little citi-
zenS. who respond most heartily. at
tending the talks and story hours in
swarms and later visiting the mu-
seums on their own initiative and
bringing friends and parents.
The Chicago Public School Art So
ciety directs its effort along rather
} different lines. placing, as does our
Washington School Art Society. pic
lures in the schools, circulating ex-
hibitions, offering prizes for essays
and the like. 1t also purchases paint
ings from Chicago artists for replace
ment in the schools. thus rendering
double service and directing the at
tention Of the school children to the
work of local painters
Toledo has done more. perhaps, and
accomplished larger results than any
other city. its museum being the
headquarters of activity with the
children. There not only are the
story hours and gallery tours. but
various organizations with headquar
ters at the museum. such as the Boy
sign. The children of Toledo have,
Indeed, been made museum guards
upon occasion. and have thus been
taught to properly prize and rever-
ence the museums possessions.
When Anna Milo Upjohn'S pictures
of children were on exhibition at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art last spring a
special invitation was issued to the
school children Of Washington to
visit them and the attendance mount
ed in less than a fortnight to more
than $4,000. This alone would indi-
cate local receptivity in this direc-
tion.
The interest in portraiture is un-
doubtedly increasing, due somewhat
to the fact that personalities have
loomed large in recent years and that
the value of portraits by the masters
of earlier days has been especially
emphasized through salesroom rec
ords.
When Philip de Laszlo was here in
the late spring and early summer he
painted a series of notable portraits
of Washingtonians and of prominent
officials of the government. Among
the latter were President Harding
and tho Secretary of State, Mr..
Hughes. Neither of these portraits
were publically exhibited. but were
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all, however, was the portrait sketch
that Mr.. de Laszlo made of Mrs.
Harding in appreciation of the cour-
tesy shown him by the President and
Mrs. Harding during his stay in the
city. 1t is portrait full of character
and of charm, very simply rendered
and very lovely. Never did the great
portrait painter produce finer work,
More recently Secretary Hughes has
been painted here by Giuseppe Trotta,
for the Italian-American Society, OF
which Secretary Hughes is president.
And now Robert T. Lincoln has been
painted by Emile Fuchs for the Elk
wanok Club, of which Mr.. Lincoln Tor
seventeen years has been president.
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1t is now reported that the Blue
Boy" by Gainsborough, purchased by
the Duveens recently from the Duke
of Westminster for f170,000. is to go
to Henry E. Huntington of New York,
who, in 1919. acquired the "Beckford
Children" by Romney, which was
formerly in the Duke Of Hamilton's
collection. Mr.. Huntington is col
lector of rare books, his library OF
English literature is only rivaled. 1t
is said, by that of the British Mu-
scum. This library is in California.
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