Art Collection Enriched
THE Dartmouth College Collection of original works of art enjoyed an impressive growth during the year 1959-60, both in the number of gifts and purchases of prized items and in the value of the collection. The addition of 227 items with an appraised value of $154,553 made this the second best year in the growth of the collection - not as rich as the previous year's all-time high of $172,683 but far above the annual average of $55,197 for the five-year period from 1954 to 1959.
Shown on this page and the next two are reproductions of some of the important acquisitions of the past year. All these items are part of the current exhibition in the Carpenter Galleries at the College.
In addition to the ten items pictured on these pages, major art gifts to the College recently include a Gustave Wiegand oil, Autumn Trees at LakeSunapee, given by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. DeVoe '16 of East Hampton, N. Y.; sixteen oil illustrations for Pilgrim's Progress painted by Thomas Stothard, the gift of William B. Blatner '05 of Chicago; a 19th century oil landscape by Paul Emit Guigou, given by Milton J. Blume of New York City; an oil by John Singer Sargent, ThreeVenetian Saints, given by M. R. Schweitzer of New York City; a Roland Dorcely tempera, Coin de Terrace aParis, given by Prof, and Mrs. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of Norwich, Vt.; two T'ang Dynasty tomb guardians in glazed pottery, given by Mrs. David A. Smart of New York City; twelve oils and pastels by Howard Giles and nine oils and watercolors by Emil Bisttram, given by Mrs. Howard Giles of South Woodstock, Vt.; two African landscape watercolors by Sanford Ross, given by Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Terwilliger of New York City and South Woodstock, Vt.; three paintings and an ink sketch by Robert Kaufmann, given by The Arts Fund of New York; a casein, Hillside, Knossus, given by The Arts Trust Fund, New York; and an Allen Tucker oil, Pot of Gold, given by The Allen Tucker Memorial of Dorset, Vt.
In addition to their gifts pictured on these pages, Mr. and Mrs. Hazen gave Cubist Portrait, an oil by Jean Metzinger; and Mr. and Mrs. Jaffe gave four other items: a Jacques Lipchitz oil and gouache, Seated Man with a Guitar; a Serge Poliakoff oil, Composition; a Ming Dynasty porcelain temple bowl, and an 18th century Chinese imperial incense burner in cloisonne on bronze.
"Rain in the City," an oil by William Sanderson, was given by Mrs. Hart as a memorial to her husband, Milton Nuveen Hart '25
"In the Park," an oil by Robert Phillip, is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe of New York, donors of many other art items and of the Jaffe-Friede Gallery to be built in the Hopkins Center.
Modie J. Spiegel '22 of Chicago is the donor of "Island in the Wind" by Georges Schreiber
"Maine Woods" by Howard Giles has been given by Mrs. Giles as one of a group of 12 oil and pastel paintings by her husband.
"Broncho Buster" is one of a pair of Frederic Remington bronzes given to the College by Lawrence Marx Jr. '36.
These three Chinese ceremonial vessels dating from the first millennium B.C. are the gift of Mr. and Mrs. D. Herbert Beskind '36 of Scarsdale, N. Y.
Bernard Buffet's "Juggler," given by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen of New York
