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...
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