To Corcoran

Last week the Corcoran gallery of Washington accepted the famed $3,000,000 collection of the late William A. Clark, onetime (1901-7) U. S. Senator from Montana. The collection had been refused by the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, which was unwilling to comply with Mr. Clark's condition that his rugs, tapestries, paintings, statuary must be shown as an integral exhibition, or not at all. Jubilantly the trustees of the Corcoran gallery commissioned Architect Charles A. Platt of Manhattan to design a new wing.

The Collection. Under a ceiling by Fragonard, 22 paintings by Corot, 23 by Cazin, 21 by Monticelli, others by Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Van Dyck, Hobbema, Terborg, Rousseau, Diaz, Millet, Degas, Fortuny will look upon statuettes by Rodin, Fremiet, Donatello, which--unclothed in the Brussels lace that litters glass cases nearby, and equally disdainful of the fawns and peacocks of the incomparable tapestries from Gobelin and Beauvais, or the stiff, tarnished furniture in which the porcelain mistresses of Louis XV and XVI rested their little red heels--will glimmer coldly in the discreet light of the new wing of the Corcoran Gallery when Architect Platt has finished it.