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...National Institute of Arts and Letters, and its more exclusive offspring, the American Academy of Arts and Letters (nearest equivalent to the French Academy) held their annual meetings. The Academy is limited to 50 members. To the vacancy left by Elihu Vedder, classical painter, it elected John Charles Van Dyke, demolisher of the Rembrandt tradition (TIME, Oct. IS). Professor Van Dyke was also elected a Vice President of the National Institute, along with Louis Betts, painter, and Robert Aitken, sculptor. Arnold Brunner, the medallist, was made Treasurer of the Institute. The Institute may have 50 members. Each year it awards...
...Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin museum director responsible for many of the traditional Rembrandt ascriptions, replied to Dr. Van Dyke's charges. The cables quote him as saying there were probably 300 or 400 actual Rembrandts extant. If this is not a misprint, Dr. von Bode has come down from his original...
...Sundry personages came to the aid and comfort of Dr. Van Dyke, including George B. McClellan, former Mayor of New York, now professor of economic history at Princeton; George H. Kendall, President of the New York Bank Note Co., a collector; Peter Thelen, Belgian antiquarian. Others ridiculed the charges...
...Professor Van Dyke held his ground. The number of genuine Rembrandts he placed at 48, not 35 as originally reported-a number amply large, he said, for a careful painter's life...
TIME was in error last week in stating that Dr. John Charles Van Dyke (Rutgers College professor) was no relative of Dr. Henry van* Dyke, famed author, statesman, professor (Princeton University). The van Dykes are second cousins, once removed. Dr. Henry van Dyke: " I cherish the connection because I love the man and admire his courage. But about his views on Rembrandt, I have nothing to say because I have not studied the subject...