SPANISH RESEARCH BODY FORMED AT ART MEETING

At the annual meeting of the College Art Association of America held during the past week at Harvard, the establishment of a Spanish research committee to encourage guide research in Spanish art and archaeology and initiate an extensive series of authoritative publications was decided on.

Plans to put the project into immediate effect were arranged. Dr. W. S. Cook '11 will lead the work as Research Fellow of the College Art Association. Dr. Cook is a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts of New York University and formerly taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard. He has spent much of the last few years abroad and has done a great deal of research work in Spanish art, about which he has published several volumes.

Professor John Shapley of New York University, president of the association, stated that the plan is similar to the American foundations which have operated for some time in Rome and Athens, but the funds will be devoted to students and the books and material they will require. The students will be chosen from those who have had a year of graduate training and who wish to do original research for their theses.

Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville, each situated in districts rich in art and archaeological material, have been chosen centers for the work in Spain.

Professor Shapley said that the works of art of the medieval period in Spain are buried, for the most part, in the small museums, churches, and cathedrals. Dr. Cook is the first American scholar to call attention to these hitherto unknown Spanish paintings, frescoes, and illuminated manuscripts.