MODERN AMERICAN ART EXHIBIT STARTS TODAY

The twenty-second exhibition of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will begin today in rooms 207 and 208 of the Harvard Cooperative Building with a display of oil and water color paintings by American artists.

The exhibit, which lasts four weeks, includes works by John Carroll, Louis Eilshemius Howard Gibbs, Morris Kantor, Benjamin Kopman, Reginald Marsh, Henry Lee MacFee, Elliot Orr, and Mark Tobey. None of the works of these artists have been displayed before by the society.

All but 12 of the 33 paintings on exhibit are loaned by the artists themselves, the others being parts of the collections of the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, the J. B. Neuman Gallery, Mrs. Muriel Draper, and Charles Hopkinson. Most of the them are for sale at prices varying from $40 to $3500; the latter amount is the price put on John Carroll's oil painting entitled. "Two Figures."

This exhibition marks the second anniversary of the society, which was organized in 1929 for the purpose of holding displays of contemporary painting, sculpture, and decorative art that are frankly debatable, and would otherwise be difficult for people of greater Boston to see. The exhibits are open to the public and especially to art students at Harvard and Radcliffe.