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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Of the important new acquisitions that one finds in the renovated gallery, the first and foremost is the significant, dignified, and simple "St. Dominic" of the rare artist, Guido da Sienna. A little to the right of this larger work is a small 14th Century painting of the Italian school...
Valuable Print of Durer
In the print room is found a series of important original drawings by old and modern masters. One of these is a portrait drawing, formerly known as the "Princess Hohenzollern," by Albrecht Durer, dated 1525. This portrait drawing, for the possession of which scores of museums and private collectors have...
Other acquisitions which are as yet not on public exhibition, owing to the hopelessly inadequate exhibiting and working space of the museum, are pieces of early Persian pottery, and a Greek 4th Century, marble "Head of a Youth." The latter work has been known to collectors for a long time...
"America to England, 1670-1920" will be the subject of the poems for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize this year. The prize consists of $125 and a silver modal for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department...