EXHIBITION OF DEGAS OPENS AT FOGG MUSEUM

Under the direction of a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students an exhibition of 25 paintings, pastels, drawings, and monotypes, by Degas (1834-1917), is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, to remain until Saturday, May 30. The showing, items for which have been lent by prominent galleries and collectors in the east, has been made as complete in range as possible, presenting the late French master in all his various phases.

Contrary to most exhibitions of the work of Degas, emphasis has been laid not on his studies of the ballet and of the race-track, but upon his endeavors in the line of portraiture. Another feature of the show is a large unfinished canvas, "Woman at the Bath", which has been lent by an anonymous collector, and is on exhibition for the first time.

Degas' genius as an artist, and range as a technician, is particularly marked in this, his most recent showing. Trained in the tradition of Ingres and familiar with the methods of the impressionists among whom he worked, his work soon reached out into new fields and he combined his peculiar gift of almost geometric design with brilliant studies of occupational scenes and actions. Among those who have contributed to the exhibition are: Adolph Lewisohn, Knoedler and Company, Dur-and-Ruel Incorporated, H. J. Sachs '10, Jacques Seligman and Company, and Wildenstein and Company.