Notes

Part of the $3,000,000 collection of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan.

Achille Chiesa of Milan was a shrewd business man and a great lover of the arts: his son, Achillite, while inheriting his father's taste, proved to be lamentably without his shrewdness. To liquidate his debts his executors offered the renowned Chiesa collection for sale. Last week part of it-- 63 paintings by Flemish, Dutch, Italian masters, and a show of old armor, basinets and brigandines, a Castilian chapel-de-fer, a Venetian salade, some great two-handed swords from England--was put on exhibition in the American Art Galleries.

Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, creator of "Civic Virtue," effigy in City Hall Park, Manhattan, declared last week that he had learned to like the nickname, "The Rough Guy," which newspaper wits bestowed upon his statue. "I have suffered much," said he.

Titian's "The Temptation of Christ," recently on exhibition in the Reinhardt Galleries, Manhattan, was sold to the Minneapolis Museum for $200,000.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road

Healthy and free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library.