NEW HANDBOOKS OF PAINTINGSSource: Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, Vol. 5, No. 2 (APRIL), p. 20Published by: Detroit Institute of ArtsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41934274 .

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20 BULLETIN OF THE DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART

ACQUISITIONS. Friends of Charles Caryl Coleman

purchased and presented his painting, "Garden of the Villa Castello, Capri."

Mr. William VanDyke, loaned a paint- ing, "Dutch Interior," by B. Valken- burg.

Smith G. Gould loaned: Three pound shell fired from Dew-

ey's flagship Olympia at Manilla Bay, 1898.

Brass shell weighing one pound fired from a Spanish ship at the Battle of Manilla.

Chinese cash sword. Philippine dagger with wavy blade. Pair old style handcuffs. Dagger with brass handle, leather

scabbard. Colt revolver, percus- sion cap.

Rifle after the style of Čolťs re- volver, six-shooter, percussion cap.

Old style breech-loading . revolver and holster.

The War Department gave Volumes I and II "Uniforms of the United States Army," with plates of all the uniforms from 1776 to the present day.

Congress loaned the silver service of the U. S. S. "Detroit" until such time as another ship shall be named after the city.

Frank Napolitano gave an Arabian Fan.

Mr. O'Brien gave a specimen of alum- inum as it comes from the smelter.

PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES OF THE PAINTINGS.

Through the courtesy and co-opera- tion of the Detroit Publishing Co., many of the paintings of the permanent collection have been copied, and excel- lent photographic reproductions of them are on sale at the entrance and in the library. The prints are sepia in tone, suitable for framing, and make a splendid and inexpensive souvenir. The price is 60 cents each.

NEW HANDBOOKS OF PAINT- INGS.

It has been several years since the issue of the Handbook of Paintings, and the many additions to the permanent collection in that time made k seem advisable to issue a new one. Inas- much as the paintings by the Old Mas- ters are added to infrequently, while modern paintings are acquired quite often, there are two parts to the cata- log; viz., a "Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters" and a "Handbook of Modern Paintings." Through the courtesy of the Detroit

Publishing Co. we were able to illus- trate these handbooks with splendid half-tones of a number of the paintings, making them very attractive as a sou- venir of the institution.

Much of the credit for the artistic appearance of the Handbooks is due also to the splendid presswork of the printers, the Chas. F. May Co.

The price of each is ten cents.,

OBITUARY. The friends of the Detroit Museum of

Art together with many other citizens learned with regret of the death on March 1st of Mr. H. P. Baldwin. While Mr. Baldwin was never a member of the board of incorporators, he had at several times as a city appointee served on the Board , of Trustees, and in that capacity had given the museum and those associated with him much valu- able service. Even after his retirement, made necessary by his removal to Grosse Pointe Farms, he still kept up his personal interest by frequent visits to the various exhibitions and events, at which times he expressed his appre- ciation of what was being done and the progress made by the institution.

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