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From the Long Island home of smart, slim Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Utilities Corp., leisurely thieves took four prized paintings, frames and all. Among them: a Gainsborough, a Watteau, a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by Richard Wilson, valued to gether at about $50,000. Detectives ar rested a butler and cook recently dis charged by the Odiums, recovered the paintings...
...thing in common: none needed special advertising; all were eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like...
...Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker of Yale, Fogg Museum yesterday opened its major exhibition of the year to visitors. The display, which includes representative work of eighteenth and early nineteenth century English artists assembles some of the most famous examples of the school which began with Hogarth and includes Reynolds. Gainsborough. Romney, Raeburn. Turner Constable and Lawrence...
Other important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...
Work by the outstanding artists of the great tradition of this age and school, beginning with Hogarth, and including the pictures of Reynolds, Romney, Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, and Lawrence, will be shown. During the second half of this year students in the Department of Fine Arts have studied the works of these men under the guidance of Professor Tinker, who is a visiting lecturer here at the present time...