Colt '26 Exhibits Paintings

A crowd which filled the large delivery hall of the new Baker Memorial Library attended the opening of the exhibition: "Highlights of the American Art of Fifty Years" on October 15. T. C. Colt, a Dartmouth graduate in the class of 1926, of the Rehn Galleries, New York City, who is acting as agent for the college, borrowed from the leading artists and collectors of the country nine canvasses, sculptures, six water colors, and a group of drawings, lithographs and etchings which represent all aspects of American painting in the last 50 years. Mr. Colt met several classes in Art during the week and he has spent his afternoons at the exhibition where students and faculty members interested in painting talked with him.

Mahonri Young, famous sculptor and painter, arrived in Hanover and he put his time entirely at the disposal of Prof. Artemas Packard, chairman of the department of Art, for conference work with students and informal gatherings with those interested in sculpture and painting. He used Mr. Colt's exhibition as a basis for his lectures and informal conversations.

The aim of the Dartmouth exhibition was to show in nine picked canvasses, the finest work of the finest artists, the trend and movement in this country's art since Inness reacted from the artificializing Hudson River school. In the ten years following Inness, American art was trained largely in European centers where Chinese art was then enjoying considerable admiration. The first of the century saw a reaction from the sort of work that found impressionistic inspiration in nature. Both method and viewpoint became freer. Luks, Sloane, and Henri lead this revolt. They were supreme individualists. The pupils of these revolters were Bellows, Speicher, and Hopper.

Dartmouth is fortunate in having the finest examples of the work of the leading men of this period on exhibition. The canvasses total in value $10,000. The artists represented by paintings and the titles of their works are: George Inness, "An Indian Summer Day"; Twachtman, "Melting Snow"; George Luks, "Man With a Cockatoo"; George Bellows, "Dempsey Through the Ropes"; Eugene Speicher, "Double Portrait"; Leon Kroll, "Cathedral Heights"; Edward Hopper, "The Manhattan Bridge Loop"; Charles Rosen, "Barns and Silos"; John Carroll, "Young Girl." Mahonri Young's "Right to the Jaw," a bronze, was very popular with the students.

Dartmouth has been done a good turn by one of her younger sons. The college and the Hanover community would welcome more exhibitions of art of the quality of the one brought to Hanover by Mr. Colt.