Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 7 | American Art Collection Buys Famous Statue

I I Art Buys Fatuous Famous Statue f I y- y By C. C P. P WILLIAMSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON Aug 2 More Moie of E England's England's En En- glands gland's priceless art treasures and old masters will shortly be sent to the United States The moat most prominent of these will willbe willbe be original marble of ot Washington which was cut bythe by bythe bythe the famous sculptor at the end of the eighteenth c century following a vl visit lt to the United States The bust has been bought here from Hou Hou- doms dom's descendants by John McGurk New York art connoisseur and agent for a private collector in America The only other work by of Washington is a life size marble marble marble mar mar- ble now in the capitol at Richmond Rich Rich- Richmond mond Va The marble in m Richmond Richmond Richmond Rich Rich- mond portrays Washington in an angry mood while the one which McGurk purchased is said to be bethe bethe bethe the best likeness in existence of Washington's natural expression spent five days at Mount Vernon in 1706 1796 studying his subject before returning to Paris to cut the bust Among the other art treasures which McGurk will send to AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica is a famous Rembrandt and although McGurk refuses to divulge 1 1 v the subject of the portrait or the buyer the United Press learned authoritatively authoritatively authoritatively au au- au- au that it is one of the best known of Rembrandt's works A famous Raphael and several works of at the Italian schools will be among the collection England possesses the greatest art treasures In the world McGurk McGurl McGurk Mc Mc- Gurk Gurl told the United Press but the people are parting with them very fast Most 1 private collectors here many of whom have had their paintings in their families for many years wait until they are hard pressed for funds before belore they part with these works Some of these people become desperate and knowing that works of ot art are re the quickest assets to realize on want to sell seH at a moments moment's moments moment's mo mo- ments ment's notice with no idea of ot the actual value of paintings They usually place a dollar mark and figure and add as many zeros as they need to cover their wants The National art gallery at Washington is more of a national disgrace than an art center and every time It is mentioned here It brings a good laugh Very few people actually know we have such sucha a thing but those who do know it apparently know that w we e have nothIng nothing noth noth- nothing ing worth while in it I