WORK OF BOSTON ARTISTS EXHIBITED IN ROBINSON HALL

An exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and etchings by leading members of the Guild of Boston Artists on view in the Little Theatre in Robinson Hall, Jan. 7-16, under the auspices of the Department of Modern Art, was pronounced the finest exhibition presented in Hanover since the works of the Cornish artists were displayed in 1918.

Eighteen artists were represented, of whom the best known were John Singer Sargent, Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and Joseph DeCamp. By the latter were shown the portrait of Professor John K. Lord, recently presented to the College, and his latest Dartmouth portrait, that of Edward Tuck. The Tuck portrait was painted in Paris while Mr. DeCamp was in that city on commission to paint the portrait of the peace conference, and was presented to the College by Mr. Tuck.

There was also shown the work of four women painters, Mrs. Lillian Wescott Hale, Mrs. Marie Danforth Page, Mrs. Adelaide Cole Chase, and Miss Gertrude Fisk, and one woman sculptor, Miss Baska Paeff. The department was also fortunate in securing Mr. Hermann Dudley Murphy, who was one of the exhibitors, to speak at the opening of the exhibition.

By actual count over 1300 people visited the exhibition. Many of the spectators were, of course, townspeople and members of faculty families, but it is safe to say that about one-half of the entire student body were among the 1300 to disprove the statement that the undergraduates have no interest in cultural things. Sargent's impressive "Lake" O'Hara," Hermann Dudley Murphy's "Monadnock" and "Mt. Adams," and William Kaula's "Vermont Hills" were favorite pictures.

In commenting on the exhibit in The Dartmouth, Professor F. P. Emery said: "Such an exhibition does great credit to the taste, energy and painstaking care of Professor Zug, to the Department of Modern Art, and to the college. But it was more than merely creditable as an end in itself, it was in addition really educational and instructive. It offered to many the opportunity of studying fine examples of line and color and atmosphere, of learning how to appreciate the pictorial and plastic arts, and particularly of lifting and purifying the imagination and spirit, which is one of the objects of all great art. That this opportunity was utilized and improved by many students is manifest to the English Department in the essays and themes and the numerous questions asked about the principles of aesthetics, and in renewed and more awakened interest in matters artistic. To the college as a whole the need and value of such exhibitions can hardly be overestimated, especially for young men who are preparing to live and to help realize the ideal of a renewed world in which science, art, and business shall walk hand in hand."