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...Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms, 22 excellent native interiors faithfully rebuilt in the museum; a modern watercolor collection scarcely to be equalled anywhere (much notable work by Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Hawthorne, Davies, Demuth. etc., etc.); a collection exhibiting the history of costume in the U. S.; the 461 famed water-colors of the Life of Christ by the late James Joseph Jacques Tissot. Friendly, white-haired William Henry Fox, director since 1913, has wisely chosen to supplement rather than...
Draper. In 1849, when Zachary Taylor became president, Joseph Home began a store which as Joseph Home & Co. was to be Pittsburgh's oldest department store. Shortly he took on as partners C. B. Shea and A. P. Burchfield. Their business grew. Their children went into the business. Burchfields married Homes. Grandchildren of the first partners received their schooling and joined their parents in the Joseph Home Co. Joseph B. Shea, son of Joseph Home's partner, C. B. Shea, is now president of the company...
...annual exposition of the Salons of America opened at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Among the works that rise above the level of mediocrity, Charles Burchfield's Scrapped Locomotives invites a second glance. It is an artistic treatment of a mass of bent and broken pieces of steel- a subject that has not as yet become hackneyed. Others that stand out are the lithograph, Mother with Child, by 17-year-old Pamela Bianco (TIME, March 24), an expressive piece; the Lady in Yellow, by Leo Katz, a classic portrait of Mme. Archipenko clad in voluminous drapery; a barnyard scene...