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Sarah Newmeyer
5 Patchin Place
New York City

Telephones:
Office: Circle 7-7473
Home: Gramercy 7-3849
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DECORATORS PICTURE GALLERY
554 Madison, New York City

March 1938 EXHIBITION
of Rooms Designed as
Backgrounds for Paintings
March 3 through March 30

[[underlined]]EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH BEDROOM[[/underlined]]
by Diane Tate and Marian Hall, Inc.
(Lighting by Thomas S. Kelly)

created as a background for the following paintings:

Kanelba, Raymond
- "Captain of the Home Guards"
- "The Bugler of the  Klan"

de Vlaminck, Maurice - "Banlieue"

Rousseau, Henri - "Banlieue de Paris"

Terechkovitch, Constantin - "The Cadet of Sainte Cyr"

Kane, John - "Juanita River"

Picasso, Pablo
- "Oceanic Mask, No. 1"
- "Oceanic Mask, No. 2"

Grigoriev, Boris - "Birds from Brazil"

The focus of this room is the beautiful wrought-iron bed in which it is said one of Napoleon's marshals slept. The framework of the bed is designed in strong, simple, yet very graceful lines; the simplicity is not at all marred by a delicate pattern of gold leaf traced on the wrought-iron frame. A gilt crown is suspended above the center of the bed by four slender, arched, wrought-iron rods branching from the corners of the bed. From this crown a cream net canopy, edged amusingly with small brass rings, is carried gracefully to headboard and footboard. The Napoleonic influence, in its military aspect, pervades the room. A drum to which the Little Corporal's soldiers marched appears as a small table, a leather cartridge case is used as a waste basket, and glass sabres make brevet-like lines above the fireplace at either side of the oil by Terechkovitch, "The Cadet of Sainte Cyr".

Other items of interest in the room are:

Wall -  painted cream

Ceiling  - " "[[ditto for painted cream]]

Floor  - "[[ditto for painted]] dark walnut

Rug - cream and gold hand-hooked rug

Windows
- cream celanese ninon curtains with hand-blocked gold
- bees and  border
- black wrought-iron poles

Geographical Globes, Pr. -  mahogany bases, flanking desk

Desk - Louis XVI, mahogany, hand-tooled leather top, draw shelves at each end; on it, carved wood clock with figure of Napoleon, pair of brass and black tole lamps

Desk Chair - round back, upholstered in cream and blue striped satin