Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
CHICAGO BECOMES
ART CAPITAL AGAIN
Famous Pictures Assembled
for Reopening of Century
of Progress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Chicago
Art Institute is ready again to become
the Nations art capital for the encore
of Century of Progress Exposition
this Summer.
Encouraged by the more than
million persons who visited last years
art show, directors of the institute
have set aside 43 galleries for the
exhibit this year.
Announced to open June /, the in
stitute presents busy scene, with ia
nous paintings arriving daily from
private collections throughout the
land.
DR.. Robert B. Harshe, director Of
the institute, says this years art ex-
hibit will not be a repetition of the
1888 show, but he says 1t will be equal
in quality.
Famous Paintings.
Whereas the piece de resistance In
1888 was Whistler's famous Mother"
portrait, borrowed from the Louvre in
Paris, DR.. Harshe says the choice this
year promises to lie between two
widely divergent subjects.
One is the Rembrandt, Joseph Ac-
cused by Potiphar's Wife" and the
other is ''Dempsey-F irpo Fight" from
the brush of George Bellows.
The Bellows painting depicts that
moment in the historic encounter
when Dempsey was knocked over the
ropes into the laps of the amazed
sports writers.
The Rembrandt has figured in his
tory through the ages and once was
the prize of the Hermitage Galleries
in st. Petersburg when Russia was
ruled by the Cars. 1t was painted
about 1854 and is being loaned to
Chicago by the Knoedlers Of New York
City.
Americans Represented.
Among other pictures being as
sembled for the Worlds Fair are
many by American artists. Besides
the Dempsey Firpo Fight" several
others by Bellows, described by Dr.
Harshe as the most vital and force
full of all American artists" are in
Guided
They are THE Execution Of Edith
Cavell' and THE TRANSPORTATION, 4"
both ranked among the late artists
greatest achievements.
While Whistler's Mother" has been
returned to France, an entire room
has been devoted to his works this
year. The pictures obtained include
Il Anduze," a full-length of a Span
ish girl, and Woman in White" The
latter. claims DR.. Harshe, is superior
to the famous Mother"
Another American artist to whom
a room is being dedicated is Winslow
Homer The most famous of his
paintings to be shown is The Fox
and the Crows" loaned by the Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Sargent Included.
Other Americans to be presented
include John Singer Sargent, Robert
Henri, Maurice Stern, Mary Cassatt
and Thomas Eakins.
OF the Eakins paintings. DR.. Harshe
says he expects THE Agnew Clinic"
loaned by the University of Pennsyl-
vania School of Medicine. to be the
most popular. 1t stands Is feet high
and depicts a medical clinic.
While works of American artists
are being emphasized, the exhibit will
not overlook the old masters, says DR..
Harshe. There will be representative
works of Angelica, Cranach, Anto-
nello da Messina, Botticelli, Titan,
Rubens, Ter Boch, Gainsborough and
many others.
Nothing is being overlooked, says
Dr. Harshe. to guarantee the safe
keeping of these art treasures. and
one, Portrait of Young Man." by
Antonello da Messina, already has ar
rived from Philadelphia, insured for
S250,000.