ADDITION TO ART DEPARTMENT

The College recently made a valuable addition to the equipment of the Fine Arts department by the purchase of a photogravure reproduction of the Van Eyck, more familiarly known as the Ghent altar piece. The Ghent altar was painted in the early fifteenth century by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, and today, after various lodgments, part of it rests in the church at Ghent for which it was originally painted, part of it is in the Berlin Museum, and part of it is .in the museum at Brussells. It is only recently that photographic copies on this scale have been made, and the ones to conceive and to execute this idea were the Berlin Photographic company. As it comes to the College, the picture is a winged altar piece, three-tenths the size of the original, inclosed in a gilt wood frame closely resembling that of the one at Ghent. There are counterparts of this photogravure in several of the European museums.

The purchase of this reproduction of the Ghent altar piece was made from the income of the Moore fund, "the gift of $5,000 from Henry Lynn Moore of Minneapolis, as a memorial to his son, Guernsey Center Moore, who died in 1901 in the midst of his college course, the income from the fund to be used for the purchase of objects of artistic merit and value."