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Show Yale Canvasses Country For Col. Trumbull Canvas . A nation-wide hunt for the paintings paint-ings of John Trumbull, visual recorder re-corder of the American Revolution, has been instituted by a Yale professor. pro-fessor. Theodore Sizer, professor of the history of art at Yale, Issued the call for information about ' the Trumbull paintings In the -"Yale University Library Gazette". The first such request for assistance was made by Professor Benjamin Siliman, 2d, in 1882 in the "American "Ameri-can Art Rveview". Sizer, working under a Guggenheim Guggen-heim fellowship, is a .noted authority authori-ty on the "patriot-artist". He has compiled the first thorough check list of Trumbull's works, and the recent acquisition by the Yale library li-brary of Trumbull's notebook, containing con-taining a list of the artist's earlier works, has encouraged Sizer to seek elsewhere for further information. informa-tion. Col. Trumbull was responsible for the design of the original Yale Gallery, the first such art museum In the United States connected with an educational institution. The purpose pur-pose of the search is to complete a check list of his works and discover their location. Col. Trumbull's paintings are richly steeped in the tradition of Yale, New Haven and Connecticut, as well as the revolutionary period. According to Prof. John Marshall Phillips, director of the Yale art gallery, the artist seemed to have a faculty for appearing on the scene of action just as history was being made. He, therefore, gave the U. S. many pictorial records, otherwise unobtainable, of this country's early background. |