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| met with immediate approval on the
| part of the director, president and
| trustees of our local institution, who
| saw in II not only an opportunity TO
| put further into effect the gallery's
| esta blished policy of advancing Amer
| lean art but a chance of bringing to
/ the people of Washington most no.
| table exhibition. In order to do this
| 1t was necessary for the Corcoran
| Gallery to change the dates of its
| next biennial. which, under ordinary
| circumstances. would have opened
| early in December, 1925. So as not to
| conflict with other exhibitions, such
| as that of the Pennsylvania Academy
| of Fine Arts, the regular exhibition
| of the National Academy of Design In
| New York and the annual exhibitions
| of the Art Institute of Chicago and
the Carnegie Institute OF Pittsburgh,
the probabilities are that the biennial
| will be in April, 1926-a month, by
| the way, when the Corcoran Gallery
| has, and has had for many years. the
| largest attendance of any month In
| the year; an attendance between two
and three times as large as in the
| months of December or January.
The National Academy of Design
was founded in 1925 in New York
| City. which was then, as now, the
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| States. The history of the National
| Academy of Design is the history of
! the development of art in America 1t
| has listed among its members the
! leading American painters and sculp-
| tors of the past 100 years The COM
| mittee of organization for the ami
| versary exhibition proposes to secure
| one or more examples of the work of
| each OF its members from the early
| days of 1925 to the present time. Such
| an exhibition Will occupy all Of the
| gallery space that the Corcoran CAL
| lery Of Art has at it's disposal, which
| will mean that the permanent collec-
| tion of paintings will temporarily be
| entirely replaced. 1t will bring to
| Washington, however. an extraordf-
narily interesting, noteworthy colec-
! ton, and give Washingtonians the
| opportunity of a complete review of
| the development and achievement of
| American art in this field. This is
! one of the most important happenings
] that during the past 20 years the
writer has been privileged to record
| In these columns.
| A MOTHER uncommonly important
| n event, and one which promises
! scarcely less interest, is a loan eXhi-
/ bition of works by master painters
!
| committee on Washington loan exhi-
| bitions, of which Mrs. William Cor
coran Eustis is chairman, and of
| which brief tentative announcement
| was made at meeting held at Mrs.
Eustis' home early in December.
| Originally II plan was to include
| in this exhibition not only paintings
| by great masters-hgure paintings,
| landscapes, etc-but also portraits
| n-fr roi n
| early colonial times to the present
! day Because of the unexpected
amount of available works discovered,
! it was decided at a recent meeting OF
| the executive committee that there
! was material here for two exhibit
| tions. rather than one, and it was de-
| termined to assemble the one this
| Spring, the other some time dur1ng
I the>season of 1925-26. Both are to be
| shown in the galleries of the National
Museum Building, set aside at present
! for the use of the National Gallery of
| Art. In fact, one object of these eX-
| hibitions is to increase interest In the
| DEVELOPMENT of our national. gallery
| and to urge upon the people the i'm
/ portance of a building purposed to
house International gallery collections.
Duncan Phillips heads the sub
! committee in charge of the exhibition
! he has offers of cooperation and
loans from such we'll known Wash
| inGton collectors as the Secretary of
the Treasury, Mrs. George Vanderbilt.
Mrs Eugene Meyer, Mr.. Parmelee and
/ others.
| The executive committee consists Of
Mrs William Corcoran Eustis, chair
| man; Frederick Brooke, vice chair
! man Mrs, Porter Chandler, secretary:
| F A Delano James Parmelee, c.
| Powell Minnigerode, Mrs. Corcoran
| Thorn, Mrs. George Vanderbilt, Mrs.
| X. McCook Knox, Mrs. William Penn
| Cresson, William H. Holmes, Mrs.
Duncan Phillips and Miss Leila
/ Mechlin.
| This exhibition will be held in the
| National Gallery of Art in late March
or early April
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LIRE, little exhibition of water colors
by modern painters which opened
In the Phillips Memorial Gallery last
week and has two more weeks to run
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