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...adjoining room are a selection of Greek vases, mainly from the Hoppin Collection. Outstanding is the great amphora that was a Panathenaic prize. Across the room are decorative arts from Mediterranean lands. Terra cotta figurines from Tanagra, phials of Roman glass, and Tuscan gold earrings are preeminent in this group...
...from sacred but often fine were the 142 examples of U. S. ceramic art with which the Whitney Museum opened its season this week. Assembled last year by the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts for showings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and England, the collection included sculptures in terra cotta and enamel by the artists who have revived ceramics as a fine art in the U. S.-Waylande Gregory of Metuchen, N. J., Henry Varnum Poor of New York, Cleveland's Russell Barnett Aitken, whose Europa, a jolly maiden atop a jolly, ogling bull, well illustrated the fresh, light-hearted...
Under the presidency of "Stog" Stokes, the Pennsylvania Museum has equired a $20,000,000 building, topped with a huge pink terra cotta Zeus, and collections with an estimated value of between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. Besides a very respectable list of Old Masters, it includes New York's beloved Madison Square Diana, and the finest collection of the works of Thomas Eakins in the U. S. But less than 20% of the interior of the tremendous
...mystical Welshman, Arthur Davies was so stirred by every form of artistic technique that his widow found works in 20 different media: paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, wood & ivory carvings, tapestry, rugs, stained glass, terra cotta and colored enamels. The only technical idiosyncrasy of George Bellows was a fondness for the cheap board on which the U. S. Government prints penny postcards. For his lithographs and drawings he used to buy reams of it, uncut, from Washington...
...Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...