Show Yale Canvasses Country For Col Trumbull Canvas A wide nation hunt for the paintIngs paintings paintings paint paint- ings of ot John Trumbull visual recorder recorder recorder re re- re- re corder of the American Revolution has been instituted by a Yale pro pro- fessor Theodore Sizer professor of the history of art ort at Yale Issued the call for Information about the Trumbull paintings in the Yale University Library Gazette The first such request for lor assistance was made by Professor Benjamin Sillman in 1382 1882 in the American Ameri can Art Sizer working under a Guggenheim Guggenheim Guggenheim heim fellowship is a n noted authority ty on the patriot P patriot artist l artist triot artist He has compiled the first thorough check checklist checklist list of Trumbulls Trumbull's works and the recent acquisition by the Yale li library ii- ii of Trumbulls Trumbull's notebook containing containing containing con con- a list of the artists artist's earlier works has encouraged Sizer to seek elsewhere for further tion Uon Col Trumbull was responsible for tor the design of the original Yale Gallery the first such art museum in the United States connected ed with an educational institution The purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of the search is to complete a 8 check list of ot his works and discover their location Col Trumbulls Trumbull's paintings are richly steeped in the tradition of Yale New Haven and Connecticut as well as the revolutionary period According to Prof Proto John Marshall Phillips director of the Yale art gallery the artist seemed to have havea a faculty for appearing on the scene of action just as history was being made He th therefore gave the U. U S S. S many pictorial records otherwise unobtainable of this country's early back background |