New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 13

* « "’ STALE' GALLERY OF FINE ARTS LARGER Early American Rooms Opened at University New Haven, Nov. 23 — A further section of the first unit of the new Yale Gallery of Fine Arts, consist- ing of three rooms devoted to the art of the American Colonial and carly Federal periods, was opened to the public today. Two of these rooms | dave the original panelling, and| ‘woodwork of a house built in North Branford, Conn., in about 1710, and are known as the “Branford Rooma.” The house, threatened with demolition when the New Haven Water company began to construct its new reservoir, was purchased by the university two years ago. The plans of the new gallery were modi- fied to accommodate the two prin- cipal rooms so that the four win- dows and staircase could be installed in their proper relative positions. The reerection was carried out un- der the supervision of J. Frederick Kelly, of New Haven, architect, au- ther and authority on early Connec- ticut domestic architecture. The house was built a few years after Governor Gurdon Saltonstall's | mansion at Branford, and probably in emulation of it. Like many old houses it went through many vicis- situdes, and was finally wused by workmen on the reservoir. All of the panelling, however, had been re- ypainted ,and was therefore protect- ed. It also had been papered a num- ber of times by occupants of the house, so that it was necessary to| scrape off a quantity of old wall- paper and remove many layers of white paint to get down to the bare unstained white wood panelling in one room and to the original green- blue ‘stain in the other. Through the generosity of Fran- cis P. Garvan, Yale '97, of New York [nial painter, Ralph Earl. city, the well known collector of Americana, the two rooms have been furnished completely with early Con- necticut pieces. On the walls hang a pair of portraits of Queen Anne and her consort, George of Denmark, ex- ecuted by a Colonlal coach painter apparently after engravings. Here aiso are portraits of the Rev.Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Yale 1745, and of John Davenport, the first minister of Center church. The rooms thus reflect the home surroundings of a well-to-do family in Colonial Con- necticut, two centuries or more ago. The large adjacent gallery con- tains a greater and more varied col- lection of portraits, for many years the property of the university, and is embellished with English and Amer- ican furniture also loaped by Mr. Garvan. The room is consider quite different from the usual for- mal museum gallery,as the furniture is not only most interesting and pleasing in fitself, but affords a natural setting for the paintings. Prominent among the portraits is one of George I, painted in 1714 by one of the artists employed in the popular studio of Sir Godfrey Knell- er. It was presented to Yale in 1718 by Governor Elihu Yale. On the op- posite wall hangs the large portrait of Elihu Yale himself, painted in 1717 by the English artist Enoch Zeeman. A rather stiff and primitive portrait of Gurdon Saltenstall, the Connecticut Colony's governor who was largely responsible for the re- moval of Yale to New Haven, hangs next to three portraits by the Colo- Among these is a painting of Roger Sher- man, Yale Hon. M. A. 1768, one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence. One side of the room is dominated by the well known por- trait group of Bishop Berkeley and his family, painted by the trans- planted Scotch artist, John Smibert. It is dated 1729, and said to be the |first painting executed in this coun- try in which more than one figure was introduced. The portrait of Ezra Stiles, seventh president of Yale painted by Smi- bert's second son, Nathaniel, is also included in this important group of early American artists. John Single- ton Copley is represented by the S NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928, IMONROES 28 Alexander McWhorter portraits, and Samuel F. B. Morse, Yale 1816, by six portraits. The best known of Morse's paintings are those of Whitney, Yale 1792, inventor of the cotton gin, and of Mr. and Mrs. | David DeForest. Professor Theodore | Wools | before publicly exhibited. Among are included those of the author, | James Fenimore Cooper, who at- {tended Yale, and William Leffing- well, Yale 1786, Gilbert Stuart, the | centenary of whose death |commemorated this year by museums throughout the country | represented by four portraits, which are those of |Humphreys and Captain Charles | Knapp. A small portrait of I'rofes- sor Benjamin Silliman, Sr. Yale 1796, by the New Haven painter, George W. Flagg, is included. A re- plica of the famous battle picce, the »eath of General Wol by {expatriated American painter, min West, the gift of Professor | William Loring Andrews, is hung on | the same wall with drawings by the | English painters Racburn and John Downman, loans from James W. | Barney, of New York. | B. Greene, of Cleveland lived and died at Wrexham, Wales, | the birthplace of Elihu Yale. The pictures on exhibition were {cleaned and revarnished by Charles Durham, of Boston. who undertook | the reconditioning of the Yale Titian !some months ago. Many of the | portraits have heen their mid-nineteenth century frames and put into frameg corresponding in style to the period of the pictures. The museum staff was aided by the advice of John Hill Margan, of New York, the authority on early Ameri- can art, The room containing Col. John |Trumbull's portraits and battle | pieces, and mahogany furniture of the period also loaned by Mr. Gar- van, will be opened in a few weeks. The installation of the balance of the mid-winter, READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | the |within the industry, Ben- | Los Angeles being the incumbent. and Bdward | T] Downman | taken out of | gallery will not be completed until | Want Coolidge to Head Petroleum Institute w York, Nov, 23 P—The New York Herald Tribune says a move to offcr the presidency of the Amer- ican Petroleum institute to Presi- v, of Yale, ha® loaned for the | dent Coolidge at the institute’s an- | occasion a Morse self-portrait never nual meecting in Chicago December -6 has been started by officials | the portraits by John Wesley Jarvis | powerful in the industry. The New York Times quotes W. R. Boyd, ir, assistant general sec retary of the institute, as saying: “The names of President Cool- is being |idge, General Pershing, Vice Presi- art | dent s [have been among {tion but nothing General David [about it, and, so far as 1 know, the Dawes and Owen D. 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