Show SCANDAL CAUSES paintings withdrawn from corcoran art gallery new york may 15 an art scandal begun early this month with the withdrawal of three paintings from the corcoran art gallery at washington D C led to the arrest of william clausen an east thirty fifth street dealer today the pictures withdrawn the collection of fifty presented by william T evans a well known art collector to the proposed national gallery they were withdrawn by the donor after much gossip attacking their authenticity clausen was arrested on an order granted by supreme court justice darts in a suit brought by evans to recover paid for the three paintings ball was fixed at 2500 clausen maintains that the paintings are genuine the canvases in dispute are late afternoon at medfield sold as the work of the late george inness and old mill near st cloud and near newport sold as the work of the late homer D martin the three pictures have been exhibited in various of artistic resort and have won encomiums fram eminent critics they are said to be intrinsically beautiful otto T karch and charees graeser Grae formerly employed by clausen havo made affidavits concerning the can vases which affidavits are attached to the plaintiffs complaint |