Evening star., 1935-12-22
Religious Art
Exhibited for
YuleV Visitors
"The Great Chalice of
Antioch" Shown
in Brooklyn.
BY the Associated Press.

N YEW YORK, December 21.-
N Christmas week visitors to
VI New York interested in art
4 will have more than a score OF
shows from which to choose. among
them several of outstanding interest
Intimately connected with the holiday.
An exceptional exhibition arranged
by the Pierpont Morgan Library opened
last week and will continue until the
end Of January. 1t consists of price
less Illuminated manuscripts and
drawings dating from the ninth to the
sixteenth centuries illustrating the
Christmas festival.
The Brooklyn Museum will continue
to exhibit "The Great Chalice of An
tioch." The object shown under this
title is a crude silver cup of a capacity
of little more than half gallon in
closed in an elaborate silver f1ligree
holder into which are worked the fig
ures of Christ and the apostles.
Experts have estimated that the
outer holder was made not later than
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the inner cup must be still older. 1t
was found at Antioch in 1910 by agents
of the present owner, an antique dealer
who has published long monograph
on its possible origin.
BY many Of the devout who go daily
to view it at this season it is accepted
as the long-sought Holy Grail" the
cup from which Christ and the apostles
drank at the last supper.
"A MONG recent additions to the Met
ropolitan Museums collections,
placed on public view this month, is a
twelfth century crucifX regarded by
experts as one Of the finest pieces OF
wood sculpture of that period. The
Prick art collection, publicly opened
for the first time last week, contains
a number of religious subjects, includ-
ing a Bartolommeo Vivarini painting
Of the Alteration of the Magi," ac-
Quired last year from ]. P. Morgan.
ConnoiSseurs have declared them
selves unable to place a value on the
collection, and have said only that the
closest figures would be in the tens
of millions"
The bulk of the paintings are by
Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, German and
italian masters of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, with some works
Of eighteenth century British artists.
If the collection can be said to con-
tain any single piece de resistance 1T
probably would be Rembrandt's self
portrait, done in the loneliness of the
painters waning years.
Also on display will be three Franz
Halls canvasses.
Gainsborough's THE Mall" consid-
cred by many critics to be the artists
best work, hangs in the British Sec
ton of the collection along with five
Romneys and four Reynolds.
Among the American artists work
included are a number of Whistlers
and bust of Washington by Gilbert
Stuart, for which Mr.. Prick was tn-
derstood to have paid $4,000.
VISITORS from various sections of
the Nation interested in scenes
reminiscent of back home" also will
find much Of interest in current art
exhibitions.
For example:
The National Committee on Folk
Arts in the United States is continu-
ing its loan exhibition of Nantucket
Island folk arts. The downtown gal
lery is showing "MuralS of the South"
by Anne Goldthwaite, a native of
Alabama. Paintings from Mexico by
Caroline Durieux are on view at the
Marie Sterner Galleries. Gordon
Grants paintings of "Ships and the
Sea" are shown at the Grand Central
Art Galleries on Fifth Avenue and at
the Kennedy and Co. Galleries there
is an exhibition of whaling prints and
scrimshaw work. Nineteenth century
painting and sculpture is featured in
the American folk art exhibition also
at the downtown galleries.