Carpenter Art Show Displays Old Masters

ONE of the most distinguished collections of paintings ever shown at the College was placed on exhibition in the Carpenter Galleries last month and will continue there through the month of June. Loaned by Richard H. Rush '37 of Washington, D. C., the exhibition includes two works by Raphael, a Rubens portrait, a Manet landscape, a Renoir, and nineteen other paintings by recognized masters.

In the foreword to a catalogue specially printed for the Dartmouth showing and containing reproductions of all the paintings, Prof. Churchill P. Lathrop, director of the Carpenter Art Galleries, writes: "It is with great pleasure and considerable pride that Dartmouth exhibits the Richard H. Rush Collection of fine paintings. Rarely today, except in the large urban museums, can we view so choice and interesting a group of sixteenth and seventeenth century pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish and Dutch Renaissance."

In the exhibition are Madonna andChild with St. Jerome by Giampietrino, Descent from the Cross by Perugino, SaintMichael and A Saint by Raphael, Madonna and Child with Two Angels by Francesco Verla, Madonna and Child by Caccia, Tobias and the Angel by Carracci, Baptism of Jesus by Pietro da Cortona, Madonna and Child with Saints by Luca Giordano, Biblical Scene by Castiglione, The Death of Saint Francis by Magnasco, a pair of altar panels by "The Master of 1518," Portrait of Nicholas Rockox by Rubens, The Liberation of St. Peter by Dirck van Deelen and Jacob de Wet, River Landscape by Frans de Hulst, Harbor Scene by Michau, Winter SkatingScene by Aert van der Neer, The Declaration of Love by Jan Steen, Portrait of aGentleman by Vaillant, Portrait of aYoung Lady by Verspronck, BiblicalScene by Jacob de Wet, Saint Francis by Zurbaran, Garden Landscape by Manet, and Afternoon Fishing Party by Renoir.

Also being exhibited is a large oil painting, Jason and the Golden Fleece, by the 17th century Flemish painters Jan Wildens and Abraham Diepenbeck, two pupils of Rubens. This was given to Dartmouth last fall by Mr. and Mrs. Rush.