Collections and Critiques

There are two exhibitions now to be seen at the Fogg Art Museum which are of considerable importance. One of these, an exhibition of drawings from the collection of Dan Fellows Platt, loaned to the College Art Association, will be on display at the Museum through December 12; the other exhibition, a collection of Japanese prints, tempre paintings, and pottery, will be shown throughout the month of December.

The drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe.

The Japanese exhibit, which opened yesterday, consists chiefly of tempre paintings and block prints, the majority of which were lent by Yamanaka & Co. Other prints, some Italian pottery, and other art objects were loaned to the museum by Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works of art were made by monks in temples and sold at the doors to the people, who took them home as sacred relics.