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[[image - photograph inside the MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS]]

Supported by city and private donations, the Minneapolis Institute spends up to $100,000 annually on its purchases, and concentrates on encouraging local talent. Last year it bought 31 objects, of which 22 (valued at more than $100,000) are shown at left along with its director, Russell A. Plimpton. At right stand six terra cotta Chinese statues of the T'ang Dynasty. The swashbuckling figure at top of the group represents a guardian of the Buddhist heaven; the two below, Chinese dignitaries; while the horned, lion-headed image, at left of the camel and horse, symbolizes Chinese earth spirit.  At bottom of the wall hang two paintings by great 19th Century Frenchmen: Cezanne's Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan and (above) Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape.  At left of the landscape is a 16th Century English silver-gilt saltcellar. Almost all the other pictures were painted by local artists: in top row (left to right), Central City by Robert Kilbride, Reid Hastie's Forbes Field and Raymond Parker's Industrial Implements; in second row, Paysage (far left) by Henriette Diebold and Eighth Street (far right) by Bernard Arnest. The two small engravings in between in the second row were done by 16th Century Europeans: Albrecht Durer's Small War Horse (left) and Queen Elizabeth by Woutnelius. Four paintings grouped under the engravings, all by Minnesotans, are (top) Beaver Bay by Elof Wedin and (right) Norris Johnson's Spring; (bottom) Jean Duncan's Fish House and (right) a view of Main Street by Francis Meisch.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 

New York's Museum of Modern Art has long been the country's most influential showcase for avant-garde painting and sculpture and for 20th Century designs of all shapes, sizes and purposes. Privately endowed, it paid over the last year $90,000 for 481 diverse objects. At right, the museum's scholarly director of collections, Alfred Barr, sits with 48 of them. In foreground (left to right) are screwdrivers, plastic-handled kitchenware, a glass-fiber armchair designed by Charles Eames, photographs, prints, an Italian typewriter, films for the museum's movie theater, Italian bowls and a set of tiny crucibles next to a mother-of-pearl stamp box. In middle foreground (left to right) stand a tubular-framed chair designed by the Dutchman, Mies van der Rohe, a cherry wood desk designed by Hector Guimard and an abstract statue, The Fish, by the Romanian modern, Brancusi. The bronze wrangle of horns and spikes at extreme left in background, conceived by Theodore Roszak, represents the Spectre of Kitty Hawk. Below it (front) is an abstract picture by Arshile Gorky, Agony, while behind it on left wall hangs Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting. Pictures on back wall are (left to right) Picasso's Three Musicians, Reclining Nude by Amedeo Modigliani, The Red Studio by Matisse, a drawing called Muscular Dynamism by Umberto Boccioni and (upper right) Marc Chagall's Anniversary. Screen at the extreme right is decorated with colored lithographs by the Frenchman Pierre Bonnard.