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DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, APKIL 5, 1939
NU adds popular works to its art collection
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Selections chosen
from 82 pieces
in art exhibition
With the close last Sunday of
one of the most successful art
exhibitions in the history of th.'
Nebraska Art association, tl.
University of Nebraska announced
the purchase of four outstanding
paintings by famous artists anil
two popular pieces of sculpture,
shown here,
A total of 57 paintings wen
on display this year in the Mor
rill hall galleiitts. and 25 pieces
of sculpture. Of this number, art
patrons voted 45 of the canvases
' favorites." Only 12 failed to re
ceive any voles, Indicative of the
high quality of the show.
Hall gifts aid to standing.
Much of the fame that has
come to the university ait gal
leries is entirely due to the gen
erosity of the late Mr. and Mrs.
1 M. Hall, Lincoln art patrons,
v, ho left their entire estate to the
mplitution. Interest from this es
tate is used each year to make
purchases lor the galleries.
In the ten years that the uni
wis'.tv has ha 1 the bequest, Ne
Vvr.skans have had unusual op
)eitunily to lenin how to jud;,'e
; ':; buy good works of art, and
v -i-.cn they visit the annual e
);!il;on niiist of them are inter
i.'tid in "selecting" the pictuies
that might well
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".gi i ly discuss.
::.;' day. Voter
b Ncs provided
br.iska Art
r.ienmeis are ;,s:u
liiviuual st a lenient
be added to the
This qui st ion i"
I from the open
are cast in the
in the galleries,
association board
to t inn in in-
as to their
: i fei i i'.c .;. Members of the fir.e
;.;t si.. iff are quizzed as to what
Jhi y consider good choices. Kvcr
public seh.o 1 children are listened
to. Kir.al division rests with two
critics who aie chosen each year
miikr the terms of the bcijuest.
The critics consider the prefcr
i liccs that have been expressed
liuiing the exhibition.
P.crcrs, Cardncr judge pieces.
Txperts chosen this year were
I 'eyrie Kogers, director of the
City Art Murrura of St. Louis,
: "d Baul Gardner, head of the
William Kockhill Nelson Memorial
(..al!cry in Kansas City. They
M idied the H..11 collection, con
dcred its present value and its
future neeiis. They studied the
vol ks of ait in the Nebiaska Art
.association's exhibition. And they
c -i)sidi'ied the votes which ait
pat ions had east. Results indi
cated that the exhibition, arranged
by L'wight Kiiseh, chairman of
the fine arts department;
Hairy Grainger, and Lowell II.
King, assisted by Maynard Walk
er of New Yoik City, was a great
tucee ss.
After Mr. Rogers' enthusiastic
tribute at an ail symposium two
weeks ago to Charles She-cler's
'Barn Reds," no one will lie sur
prised to learn that it headed the
list of works recommended.
Neither should one be surpiised
that Alexander Brook's "Peggy
Bacon and Metaphysics" is here
to stay. John Flanagan's solid
little stone carved elephant that
meets all the dictates laid down
for good sculpture centuries ago
by Michaelangelo will remain, as
will Morris Kantor's "Sand
Dunes" a "painter's" picture but
nevertheless an arresting and
beautiful canvas.
Rondout to stay.
Lucile Blanch's unforgettable
Impression of Rondout, a small
town in New York state from
which her canvas gets its title,
will be added to the permanent
eollection. The other piece of
sculpture chosen for the galleries
Mahonri Young's bronze figure
of "The Laborer," will also add
considerable interest to the Hall
collection.
These newly acquired pieces
bought with the income' provided
by Mr. and Mrs. Hall, will meet
the most critical tests as exquisite
works of art, critics declare. They
are net dependent for their value
on the prestige cf the artists who
created them. The name of Al
exander Ereok, however, is an im
portant one, and the university is
glad of the oppoitunity of adding
one of his canvases to the perma
nent collection. Winner of many
' prizes, his paintings are repre
sented in the Whitney Museum of
American Art in Kew York City,
the Metropolitan, the Art In
stitute of Chicago and many oth
ers. The portrait of his well known
wife, Foggy Bacon with her cat,
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For the years to come, the F. M. Hall collection
will be the richer for having "Sand Dunes," Morris
Kantor, upper left; "Barn Reds," Charles Sheeler,
upper right; "Rondout," Lucille Blench, center
above; "Elephant" (stone), John Flanagan; "La
borer" (bronze), Mahonri Young, and "Peggy
Bacon and Metaphysics," Alexander Brook, lower
right.
Metaphysics," is Brook at his
best.
Luicle Blanch well known.
The name eu Lucile Blanch
first woman artist tc have a paint
ing sold to the Hall collection since
Olive Rush's "Feod Bearers" was
purchased in 1932 is well known
in American art. She has also won
many prizes and awards. Including
a Guggenheim fellowship.
John Flanagan, sculptor of the
steme elephant, has work on ex
hibit in many galleries in this
country in Europe. He is a leading
figure in the field of numismatics
and designe-d the "Medaille de
Verdun" which was voted by con
gress and presented by the presi
dent of the United States to the
City ef Verdun.
Charles Sheeler, pointer of
"Barn ;?ds," has canvases in
many important eastern art rnu
suems in the country, and is rep
resented in the Detroit Institute
of Arts, and the Arts Institute of
Chicago. Sheeler has made a repu
tation for himself in photography
as well as in painting.
'Sand Dunes' attracki interest.
Morris Kantor's "Sand Dunes"
excites the interest of all those
who are especially sensitive to
paint and canvas. Kantor, like Al
exander Erook, has the distinction
of having won a $2,500 prize and
Logan medal in the Art Institute
of Chicago show for 1031. He is
well u-presenled in eastern gal
leries. Mahori Young, member of the
well known Young family of Utah,
is the d signer of the "Sea Gull
Monument" proudly pointed out to
al! visitors to Salt Lake City.
Young is an etcher as well as a
sculptor, and has won re-cegnition
in both fields.
'Roadmenders Camp' now out on
loan.
There may be some regrets that
certain "favorite" paintings er
sculptures were not benight for the
collection this year. Seime voices
were raised in protest a few years
ago when John Stuart Curry's
"Koadmendcrs' Camp" was ac
quired. Nearly everyone, now, is
proud of having it in the univer
sity galleries. Repeatedly re
quested for loans to other gal
leries, it is at this moment on
loan to a Chicago gallery. The
same is true of several other pur
chases made in recent years.
Show announcements
.. Sample copies of the senior
commencement announcements
are now available at Co-op
and Long'c bookstores. They
will be on display until April
25th.
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