Evening star., 1938-02-27
Boston Celebrates
TUo Hundredth Anniversary
OF CopIeu'S Birth.

UO HuHQTeQCH ANNIVERSARY
OF Copley's Birth.
THE Museum of Fine Arts. Boston,
is holding at this time very note
worthy exhibition of paintings by John
Singleton Copley in celebration of the
200th anniversary of the artists birth.
Strangely enough. this event was cele-
brated by the Metropolitan Museum
last year, which, with other irstitu-
tions held that Copley was born July
8, 1897. The Boston Museum however.
on the basis of statement made by
the artist in letter written in 1866,
| declared this an error, and is celebrat-
ing now.
The current exhibition lays special
| emphasis on paintings made by Copley
in America, that is, during the first
half of his career. but included in the
exhibition is the magnificent painting
of the Copley Family. made in Eng
land about ITS, owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. Copley Amory of this city and
Boston, and lent by them last summer,
, and up to the first Of this year, to the
Corcoran Gallery Of Art. The Cor
coran Gallery is fortunate in the pos
session of two distinguished portraits
by this remarkable painter: one gift.
the other an indefinite loan.
England claims Copley as Of the
British school, and it was only through
special act of Parliament that loans
were made of his most famous works
to the Metropolitan Museum for its
commemorative exhibition last year.
The reason Great Britain makes this
claim is that Copley spent the latter
half of his life in London, but he was
essentially product of America. born
here. and pupil of his step-father.
Peter Pelham, the well-known mezzo-
tinter. There are those who feel that
Copley's American portraits are more
marked by his personality than those
painted in England, when he became
more sophisticated and was Influenced
by the glamour Of the great British
school.
Adrienne L. Lou to Exhibit
Paintings in Women'S City Club.
| A DR1ENNE LOUISE LOW. a mem
Der of THE Star Family"-con-
sisting of all Star employes-who
painted the portrait OF Theodore
w. Noyes, for many years editor Of
The Evening Star, presented to Mr..
Noyes by the Star Club on the recent
occasion of his sOth birthday ami
versary, and which has since been
| hanging in the business office, will
hold an exhibition Of her paintings in
the Womens City Club during the
month of March. Miss Low and
group of her associates exhibited last
summer in the Brook Tea House in
| Chevy Chase, and she has individually
shown, from time to time, in local
exhibitions. There is no pleasanter
| place to exhibit paintings than in the
homelike yet dignified reception rooms
Of the Women's City Club. and to be
invited to do so is, in itself, a tangible
compliment.
Paintings By Great Masters
Brought from Abroad.
|ON MARCH 4 q notable collection
Of paintings by great masters is
to be sold at auction by the American
Art ssociation-Anderson Galleries.
New York-following a weeks exhibi-
ton. This sale gains significance not
merely through the character Of the
works to be disposed Of, but from the
fact that they have been brought here
for this purpose from abroad. the
consignees being the international
Galleries, Ltd. of London and Paris.
A year ago our American art collectors
were taking the works which they de-
sired to dispose Of abroad for sale-the
tables seem to be reversed.
Included in the collection which
will be dispersed on March are two
great portraits, one Of "Alfonso d Este"
by Titan: the other of Man With
Red Beard" by Lorenzo Lotto, both
Of which are accompanied by GER
tificates of authenticity and merit from
the leading art authorities Of Europe.
The collection also comprises an El
Greco and Goya, the latter from the
collection of the Duke Of Valencia.
It is through such opportunities as
this now offered American collectors
that Mr.. Mellon, wise, alert and keen.
was able to secure for the National
Gallery collection the great MASTER
pieces that less than year ago he
gave to the Nation. During these
troublous times in Europe the drift OF
masterpieces Of art to this country
has been greater than many know. and
through 1t both our public and private
collections have been enormously en-
riched