Art: Never Before

John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson.

Edsel Ford last week purchased Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of Major-General Henry Dearborn from the Enrich Galleries in Manhattan. He had the picture hung in the office of the Ford Motor Co., at Dearborn, Mich, where he works.

More than a hundred portraits of women were hung up last week in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. The portraits—by Sargent, Zuloaga, Poole, Bellows, Orpen, Sorine, Zorne and many another—had in frequent case never been exhibited before. The sitters—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such—had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings which it contained; also because no art gallery has ever before held an exhibition of the portraits of Women without men.