A gift of great importance to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, is announced. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest have presented a new wing to be devoted exclusively to American Art of the Colonial, Revolu- tionary and Early Republican periods. The new wing will be connected by a passage with the present Morgan Wing. In the Museum Bulletin Dr. Robinson, the Director, thus writes of the importance of the gift, which will "teach the present and future generations of our people that the men to whose struggles they owe the foundation of the American Commonwealth *ete refined in their taste and by no means indif- ferent to beauty. Though for the most part they neglected the arts of painting and sculpture, their instinct found its expression in the houses they built and the furniture they bought for daily use,"
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