A nude female figure, sitting on a donkey, holding a dove in her hand, is the symbolism of “Peace” by which Arthur B. Davies has won a $2,500 prize.
The prize was offered (TIME, Nov. 12) by the National League of Women Voters for the best design for a Christmas postcard to symbolize peace and to foster international cooperation.
Artists invited to compete were: Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Albert Sterner, Tony Sarg, Arthur B. Davies, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri, William and Margaret Zorah.
The committee of selection included Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.
Citizens may purchase the prize postcard next Xmas.
Peter Newell
Pictures of Alice in Wonderland and her contemporaries in The Rocket Book, The Hole Book and Topsys and Turveys, not to mention the St. Nicholas Magazine, made Peter Newell famous to the juvenile reading public. He died last week.
Peter Newell began by drawing funny pictures for his children, one of whom, Clendennis, was later killed in the War. He was “discovered” by Harper & Bros., and thenceforward devoted his life to drawing and painting.
Metropolitan
President Robert W. de Forest presented the annual report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, showing an attendance, 1,036,703, the greatest on record, and a deficit of $335,136.09.
The record-breaking attendance of people from every State was attributed in part to the new interest in Egypt.
To run the Museum cost $888,767.53, toward which the City of New York gave $300,796.69.
The report stressed motion pictures: “Recognizing the great importance of the moving picture in educational methods, as well as its place among recreational plans, and through the active interest of the Chairman of the Committee on the Cinema, George D. Pratt, progress has been made in the preparation of films specially suited to the use of museums, art schools and societies, and these will be lent at a nominal fee to those desiring them.”
Films made at the TutankhAmen tomb were shown to the trustees, but will not yet be given to the public. Another film showed the practical uses of mediaeval armor.
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