New-York tribune., 1922-03-19
Seventy Thayer
Pictures 10
Be Exhibited
Memorial Showing With Pri-
vatc View for Members
and Their Friends Opens
al Museum. Tomorrow
New Tapestries Obiained
Stone Fig re of Virgin and
C''ild l. Among Recent
Metropolitan Access.ons

The Abbott H. Thayer memorial ex-
hibitson. which opens tomorrow at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, with
private view for members and their
friends. Is the event of chief interest
and attraction this month at the mu-
scum. According to the March bul-
letin, issued yesterday. the exhibition,
WHICH WAS in preparation for several
months. includes, with the exception OF
the Freer collection at Washington
nearly ali the pictures of impo rtancc
painted by the artist Private owners
and pubic institutions have cooper
ated with the museum in bringing to-
gether about seventy examples illus
trative 81 The artists various stages of
development in the large gallery Of
special exhibitions on the second floor
The Boston 'uscum, the Worcester
Museum, John Gellatly, Mrs William
T. Milton, Miss Alice l. Sand, Miss
Ellen =. Stone. Victor G. Bloede and
William Wallace Tenn are among these.
A group Of the artists drawings also
will be shown in Gallery % The ex-
hibition is reviewed il the magazine
section of this edition.
Among the recent accessions re-
ported is a stone figure of the Virgin
and Child work of the French school
Of Picardy from the late thirteenth
century, which formerly was in the col
lection OF James Stillman. 1t was OBJ
tained many years ago from the ancient
abbey a. Breteuil-sur- -Noye, and typities
tie tull development of the Gothic
style. 1t is from the same anonymous
donor whose various contributions OF
tapestries, sculpture, painting and
other works wese reported last month.
Three lntere sfing late Gothic tapes
tries, two of them presumably from a
larger set relating to the history Of
Noses. the third unusually large and
lllus traIng the Coronation of the
Virgin, have been lent anonymously ~
and now may be seen in galleries H
thirteen and fourteen The tapestries
are French, the cartoons being in the
style of the early sixteenth cent.fy
though woven later in the century.
1he museum reports, as result of
the recent annual meeting of the
trustees, the reelection of its five Of
,
Tlihu Root and Henry Walters, vice
presidents; Howard Mansfield treas
urer. and Henry W. Kent, secretary.
Charles D. Norton was added to the
executive committee and Elihu Root
Edward s. Harkness and Lewis Cass
Led ard trustees Of the outgoing class
of 1922 we're reelected as the class of
1929.
The trustees recently created new
grade in the staff of the museum that
of associate curator. which ranks
close though subordinate to the posi-
ton Of curator. Appointments Of as
sociates now announced for the first
time are Herbert L. Winlock and
Arthur c. Mace in the department of
Egyptian art; Miss G. NJ A Richter
in that Of classical art. and Miss
Frances Morris in that of decorative
arts. H. Z. Wehle. department of
raintings, Ambrose Lansing and Mrs
Rernice Richardson in the Egyptian
department, and STEPHEN V. Grancsay
in the department Of arms and armor
have been advanced from the grade OF
assistant to that of assistant curator