Paintings Given to the College

Two contemporary paintings have recently come as gifts to Dartmouth, both constituting major additions to the College Art Collection. One, presented by an anonymous donor in honor of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller '30, is a mural by Fritz Glarner entitled "Relational Painting #88." This is a study, in three sections, for the mural in the lobby of the Time-Life Building in New York. Completed in the year 1958-59 by this noted Swiss-born artist who has spent most of his working years in the United States, the painting is 90 inches high and some 200 inches in width. Its size, however, is minimized by the artist's special ability to integrate his geometrical mural paintings with modern architectural settings. "Relational Painting #88," strikingly effective in the primary colors of blue, red and yellow most often preferred by the artist, was included in the Venice Biennale in 1959.

Although he works primarily as an individualist, Fritz Glarner's paintings have been notably influenced by his association with the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, the acknowledged leader in the '20s of a new constructivist art, devoted to conveying reality by means of abstract forms.

The second painting, "Embrujo," is a gift to Dartmouth from the artist, the Spanish-born painter Jose Guerrero, who divides his time between New York and Madrid. Internationally known through his group and one-man exhibitions, he is also represented by works in major museums, galleries, and private collections in Paris, London, Madrid and the larger cities in this country. "Embrujo" was executed in 1965 in the bold forms characteristic of the artist's abstract expressionist style.

Both gifts were exhibited in the Beau-mont-May Gallery in Hopkins Center.

The mural study "Relational Painting #88" by Fritz Glarner, presented by an anonymousdonor to the College Art Collection in honor of Nelson Rockefeller '30