Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 45

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He was actively painting at the ripe age of 99 LIST OF ARTISTS (Subject to Change) Courbet Daumier Monet Degas Homer Vermeer Eakins Hals Cassatt Rembrandt Benton Reubens Renoir Cezanne Van Gogh Gauguin Da Vinci Turner Titian Bonington Michelangelo Gainsborough Raphael Reynolds Boucher Matisse Greuze Pi o Fragonard Derai Watteau Mare Breughel Holbein Diirer Massys David Delacroix Corot Millet Curry Wood Burchfield Hopper El Greco Caravaggio Lorrain Velasquez “To have faithfully studied the honor- able arts softens the manners and heeps them free from harshness.” —ovID beautiful reproductions of PAINTINGS eath week For your convemence o <coupon appears each day on page 2 of The Evening and Sun- day Star (46c by mail.) when an epidemic of plague carried him away. e ——————————— SPONSORS AvrFrEp How James H. H MatTiE Horace H. . Heiex Jon Director, American School of the System ntator arnegie Corporation LEINSMID, Preside. University of e Secretary, College Art Association T oran Gallery of Art College Art Education, t Gallery, Mills College Grinnell College ity of Colorado e Memorial Museum, ry, San Diego eorge Walter Vincent . husetts NATHANIEL P/ 3 d Artists of Today ©. C. PRATT, Superintendent of Schools, Spokane. MarioN REgp, ctor of Art, Omaha Public Schools MeyRIc R. Rog L MNSAMM oE G. SC BERGER, President, The Wichita Art ssociat MARTHA E Warter H CHARLOTTE Mrs. MARROW J. W. STUDEBAKER, U. FREDERICK A. SWEET, ) "WooD, Art Supervisor, Spokane Public Schools incinnati Art Museum Supervisor, Board of Education, Atlanta SMITH, Art Director, Norfolk Public Schools Commissioner of Education ctor, Portland (Ore.) Art Museum S. TAYLoR, Department of Art. Brown University SiecrRIED R, WENG, Director, The Dayton Art Institute A. H. WENTWORTH, Director of Art Education, New Haven JAMES L. WICK, Director, Appreciation RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Pres PROPEsSOR Wi ational Committee for Art nt, Stanford University 1 CLEMENT C. WiLLIAMS, President, Lehigh University Mary E. WooLLEY Puiie N. Youtz, Director, Brooklyn Museum J.F. ZIMMERMAN, President, University of New Mexics ART PICTURES Sets Number 1, 2 and 3 Now Available NY one is entitled to one week’s set of Four Pic- tures in the Art Appreciation campaign of The Star upon payment of only 39c at the Art Counter in the Business Office of The Evening Star. By mail—inclose 46c (stamps not acceptable), addressed to the Art Appreciation Counter, The Evening Star, Indicate desired set—No. 1, 2, 3. The pictures shown on this P page are not the actual size of those you will receive. Each reproduction is large, measurimg about 11 x= 14 BH inches, the right size for the modern home.