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JEditor's Note:,Thiýs i thie fsecond and Iast of the revleWs of the exhibition of paintings ln the 1934 Century of Pirogress show, by Miss Clara MacGowan, professor of art at Northwesterfl university. Last weelc Mi" MacGowan reviewed the. Amer jean divi- sion, and this week she b' describing the European section of the exhibit. The, Enropean* masters f rom the l3th tbrough the 18th centuries.ag,,ain reveal their characteris- tic "genjus. There *are the chgrming "Double Portrait," husband and. wife, by Jean Bourdicbon and thé "Young Noblewo.man" by Lucas Cranach. Supplemnenting 'these are the mnatcbless primi- tives owned by the Art. Institut e. Fra Angelico'ebs 'Annunciation" and- Gozzoli's, "Madonna and- Child," both of wbicb are rare examples of tbe work of these artists. come f rom tbe, collection of Edsel B. Ford. 0Of later Italians, "The Doge of Mocenigo" by Gentile Bellini bas neyer.before been seen in Chi-, cago. Veronese's "Repentant Magdalene" stands out as a tremendous work. Abeautiful Botticelli, inaddition to Mr. Max Epsteins group, is the "Ma- donna and Cbild, St. John and the Angel." Pemru- ginos "Madonna Adoring Angels" and Uccello's ~Portrait of ac Girl". are. two otberý remarkable paintings.. The Spanisb room, as ini the past year, Is buit around that towering genius, El Greco.., Added to tbe Institute's own collection of works of this master are two new ones: "Christ on tbe Cross with the Virgin" and "St. John." Their peculiar, qualities of form and color have an irresistible charm. The Avala Altarpiece from the Charles Deering collection of the Art Institute is also a great example of Spanisb artistic genius. Especiallv interesting in the room of Flemish and Dutch primnitives are, the rarely seen "Por- trait of a Man Wearing a Red Doublet" by Petrus Christus and the works of Rogier van der Weyden and, Moro. The l7th century Dutch painters present__a brilliant spectacle. l'le 1new, and priceless -aï- tractions include Rembrandts "Josepb and Poti- phar's, Wife," Ter Borch's "'Music Le-sson," Ru- ben's "Portrait of an Old Man" and Sustermans' "Gian Carlo de Medici." Poussin witb his "Birth of Bacchu$s and Char- din with bis "Soap Bubble", and "StilI I.ife" in- dicate that conilination of power and-charin .st cbaracteristic of French expression.- WatteaUeS -L1e Mezzetin" is another masterpiece onl% e-> cently brougbt from Russia byv an Amierica,î tirni Hogarth, that tower of strength in Englisb art, enlivens inimensely the Englisb art rooni with bis paintings, especially with his ý"Portrait of Mrs. Butler."* The genius of Gain sborouei11 i revealed by bis portraits, of which "Mlrs. Philîp ted oy tne nsttutes ownl art treasures. -eatly to the 1934 show. Ily, loyers of prints will flnd the exhibition itexnporary prints selective and extensive, ,ng the workç of Europeans and Ameicans. is also, by the way of paying hornage 'to' lem, a one-nian show of bis. graphic work. Catherine t.he Great, Empress of Russia, was a patron of the arts. It was she who began a collection of works by famnous painters and whose efforts resulted, in the acquisition of a group of Rembrandts, unequalled by any Museum in. the world.. These were lodged in what is knoWn as The H4ermitage, then. in the city of St Petersburg, now Leningrad. Three of the paint- ings from that collection will be, at AÀ Century of Progress Exhibition of Fine Arts, ini the: Art Institute 'of, Chicago. One of thé flneést ex- amples of Rembrandt's mature, style is among themn. It is called Joseph and Potipbar's Wifé," whicli was paneDn15, the year before his distressing finanicial 'troubles, forced him. into bankruptcv. Another isý by. Terborch, the Dutch painter. anid is called "The Mu sic I.essoti." 'l'ie third is b)v Watteau (French 1644-1721) and is cntitled "Làe Mezzetin," a ter m difficuit .to trans- late, but which eas haracter at once h and byold.,timid an(l arrogant. Two othei-s, form- erly owned b)v the Museuni of Western Art, M\osctowN, will al.so l)e in this exhibition. Onie is aL fine portrait I .)yCezai'ie, of his wi fe, and the other "Le Cafe du jNulit.".i5 by Vincent van G 'o'ghi.' Flarshe, Art Instutute, ILirector, Gets Hedal The Amierican Art D)ealers association lbonored f our men for their outstandiing contrib)utions Ini the fild of art, at a recent meeting in New York. Robert B. Harshe, director of the Art Institute. .vas given a gold medal for bis labors in assenib-ý ling the great Cenitury of Progress Exhibition of, Art in .1933. In passing it may be said th atbit basassetnbled for, the 1934 exhibition in the Art Institute an equally :important and imipressive exhibition of masterpieices.. The aw.ar(I ias made to Mr. Harshe "as h recognized dean of Ameriçan painting... for the .highi sta ndard of lofty ambitio.n liebas achieved in al media." Hc was hailed "as the Museum. Director ,Nho bas given ourw country that great evidence of the success. of art collecting tbrough the exhibition of fine arts at the, Chicago Art Institute durin.g the Century of Progress." John Taylor Amins, Childe H-assam and Walt- Disney were also White Girl," the beautiful môdel who posed for Whistler in a number of bis greatest pictures "Thet White Girl," an example of the artist at bis best, is now banging in Gallery 41 (the Whistler Roorn) in A Century oùf Progress ýExhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. No* that "Scenes from 'Little Wonien'," lier tenth and latest opera, is published, Eleanor Everest Freer lias undertaken another and en- tieydifferent lind of work-a Russian Ballet Fantasy. ,That she bas the flair for ballet music can be senbv su ch numbers -in bier operas. To take a ballet libretto of an entirely1 new character is but indicative of bier fearless pen. Mrs. Freer. writes mer.ely because sbe loves work-feeling that the-opportunity for the Amne r- ican composer of serionis music is, to.date, nerelv a possibility, not a certainty). But as thbis comn- poser, bas bad the praise of musical authorities for tbirty yersler musical al)ility is tiot to l)e doubted. The ballet libretto, to which Mrs. Freer is now writing -the. music, . as brougbt' to lier, by Olga Valentine, a' gifted youig. Americani of Russiani parenitage,..\Irs. Freer locked throughî it-tlici hegan. Th e comiposer of ten operas, numnberless sotig: and part-songs. plino wOrks and othier mhaterils' receie(l. thîe irllowling, critiýciîsm 0f the late Bem i- liwrd, Ziehun: "She-has the miost prolific musiçal mind I have ever. encounitered.". Hem carlier teacher,,Bejamin Godard.,(Qf Paris) suggestCd,ý when she, was but twentv,,tlhat heem inii Paris :and devote lier life to composition. And suci are the talents with us that we.ovrlook- letting the y-ears pass, unitil foreignriers wonder wliere our tliiinkigne raterial lies !-for.r. Vreer lias received iinany enlogies f romn Europe as to the exçelletice of bier mutsical creations. SaIvu's Sister unHarp Recital Uniqu iij Ill hotel usî1tertaitnînent feattîres torý guests 's the plaý-îng of Aidja Salvi, hîarpist Ini thxe Ilbhv of'the BIim'rck liotel, for sce-tràl blour., cadiî eàrl\,c eeinjjg. I sSalvi I)rescett b- arp, intisic fmorîî S to 7 o'lock in the \\aluut Roomi diîriîîg the iîîteriiîlissiorî of thîèe(lance orchestra. Miss. Salvi, Miose brothier is the inoted Alberto Salvi of Wîlmettc, acclaiitned as onc of the world's outsvanding hiarpists, received a great part of lier musical educationi fronm ler brother. approacnecj by a mem ber of the Wornan's'-Campaign comnittee for the Chicago Symphony orchestra. and who is interested in subscribing to the Tuesday afternoon or TIiursday evening concerts, is asked to communicate witb Mrs. 'William, Sherman Hay, Winnetka 1610,, chairmgn. of the Winnetka an'd Glencot comtnitteei I