Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-27

Bert Phillips of Taos is here for
several days and has arranged for
sending east several of his large
paintings that have been on ex-
hibit at the Museum. Instead of
going to Phoneix with his family
this winter, he remained at Taos,
although he spent some time in the
Arizona capital installing fine mu-
rails just completed. MIR. and Mrs.
Walter Ufer, who also have been
in Taos all winter instead of going
east in late fall as has been their
custom, will be in Santa Fe during
the next few days en- route to New
York City. MIR. Ufer is continuing
his successes at eastern exhibits
and the art journals in practically
every issue refer to his pictures.
c. l.. Simpson of Kansas City the
past week purchased at the Mu-
scum paintings by Sheldon Par
sons. Gerald Cassidy and Miss Olive
Rush He is a connoisSeur who
counts among his treasures works
by many of the best known artists
of this country.
Warren Il. Rollins, who has been
seriously i'll at st. Vincent's sani-
tarium, has passed the crisis and
is now on the road to recovery.
Mrs. Rollins, who had been in New
York City with her daughter, re-
turned hurriedly in order to be
with her husband.
Director Edgar l.. Hewett re-
turned Friday night from San
Diego in order to appear before the
legislature finance committee in
the hearing on the Museum budget.
He Is rearing in San Diego work
similar to that of the Museum In
Santa Fe. 1t is a tribute to New
Mexico that men like DIR. Hewett,
CSrlos vierra. Gerald Cassidy, Wes-
ley Bradfield, Jean Beman Smith,
Col. r. e. Twitchell and others
connected with the Museum here
have given the proud City of the
Sun in California the impetus for
the work now Furnishing so beau
tifully in Balboa Park. Said the
San Diego Union in reference to
this few days ago:
A Lost Civilization.
1.-THE dedication of the California
Dullulllk III bdlDOd PAL fAOiltOlIu Wv
afternoon will mark a new era in
the history Of civic activities. The
state has already expended $780,
900 in the erection and decoration
of the building, and it stands SUI
perb amid the clustered beauties
of the park, a fitting repository
for the priceless treasures of an
ancient and cultured civilization of
which the modern world has but a
vague and uncertain knowledge.
upon the facades of the build
ing comprising the California quad
rangle is written the history of
more than half millennium: with
in the walls of these buildings is
the record of civilization older
than the pyramids, a civilization
which persisted centuries before
the conquistadores of Old Spain
brought a wonderfully beautiful
architecture to the new world and
planted it besides the towers of
Palenque, the temple of Chichen
liza, and the palaces of Uxmal.
1t is in its general effect an ex-
emplar of the Spanish renaissance,
the general style being of the eigh-
teenth century cathedrals of Mex
leo and Central America. Back of
this ancestry is an artistic lineage
conceived in the genius of Spain,
Italy and the Saracen. The COM
bination under the guiding hand
of an American artist is a MASTER
piece of symmetry. proportion and
adornment. There is nothing com
parable with it in any country, be-
cause it is the product of one mans
inspiration from diverse material,
each beautiful in itself but SUI
premely beautiful in this combina-
ton"
How far-reaching and varied the
publicity that New Mexico gets
through the activities of the Mu-