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...certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...
...Norfolk, Virginia, the team will play three matches, starting with William and Mary on Tuesday, April 14. Two days later the University racquetmen will play the Norfolk Country Club, and on the seventeenth they will meet the University of Virginia on its courts. On the way north the team will stop off at Annapolis to play the Naval Academy on April 15. A match with Princeton on the twentieth will end the spring vacation schedule...
Wildenstein and Company of New York has sent a brilliant Picasso and a fine Benoir. The works of Odilon Redon, the mystic, as well as that of Magnet, will be shown through the courtesy of M. Knoedler and Company of New York, who are also contributing two seventeenth-century flower paintings showing the Dutch tradition as practiced in England and France. Arthur Edwin Bye, of Philadelphia, is lending both a monumental Van Huysum and a canvas of unusual historic interest, containing a medallion by Van Dyck enclosed in a flower wreath by "Velvet" Breughel...
...loan exhibition of drawings by the "little Dutch masters" of the Seventeenth century will be held at the Germanic Museum from Wednesday, March 25 to Saturday, April 25. The purpose of the show is to supplement the exhibition of Rembrandt etchings held at the Fogg Museum, and to illustrate the artistic activities of Rembrandt's contemporaries. The works of these artists have been sadly neglected by American collectors and as a result, in spite of their great charm, they are exceedingly rare. The Germanic Museum has gathered together a notable group of over fifty drawings from public and private collections...
These drawings illustrate the great variety of artistic activity that was taking place in Holland in the Seventeenth century. It was a time when no phase of Dutch life was too insignificant to find a place on their canvases. A suspicious wife, the visit of an amorous doctor, neighbors gossiping, a bit of landscape, friends playing cards, peasants drinking and quarreling, ships riding at anchor, a vase of flowers, all were depicted with great keenness of observation, sympathy, and consummate skill...