Never Before

John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson.

Edsel Ford last week purchased Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Major-General Henry Dearborn from the Enrich Galleries in Manhattan. He had the picture hung in the office of the Ford Motor Co., at Dearborn, Mich, where he works.

More than a hundred portraits of women were hung up last week in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. The portraits--by Sargent, Zuloaga, Poole, Bellows, Orpen, Sorine, Zorne and many another--had in frequent case never been exhibited before. The sitters--Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such--had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings which it contained; also because no art gallery has ever before held an exhibition of the portraits of Women without men.