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The pictures which Mrs. Rockefeller has given the Museum and which were put on view last week in such a way as to play-down the name Rockefeller, had nothing of equal importance to such Bliss bequests as Cezanne's Man in a Blue Cap, Gauguin's The Moon and, the Earth, or Daumier's Laundress. Still, if the Museum ever finds the additional space for a gallery in which the masterpieces of its permanent collection can remain permanently displayed, there are at least four of Mrs. Rockefeller's pictures that should remain on its walls: 1) Alexander Brook's oil portrait of Artist George Biddle playing a silver flute in a pair of bright red socks (see cut);
2) Otto Dix's portrait of a fat little German girl holding an equally fat little doll;
3) Charles Burchfield's study of a frightened old lady in the yard of a haunted house; 4) a self-portrait of hollow-eyed Vincent Canade.
*Christened Lizzie, Miss Bliss preferred to be called Lillie.