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RANGER ASSISTS ARTISTS IN WILL
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N.Y. Tribune Nov 18. 1916
Academy of Design Receives $213,000 Estate of Artist
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The entire estate of Henry Ward Ranger, landscape painter, who died on November 7, is left to the National Academy of Design, in his will filed yesterday. The estate is valued at $213,320, and with it a fund to aid American painters, both through encouragement and reward, will be established.
Mr. Ranger provided in his will that the residue of his estate "shall be kept invested and the income spent by the council of the Academy in the purchase of paintings produced by North American artists, at least two-thirds of the income to be spent in the purchase of works by artists who are forty-five years of age or over."
Under this clause it is optional with the council to spend the remaining one-third in the purchase of works by younger artists.
It was further provided by Mr. Ranger that the pictures acquired out of the fund were to be given to art institutes in North America, or to any library or other institution maintaining a gallery open to the public. However, such gifts are to be made under the condition that the National Gallery at Washington, administered by the Smithsonian Institution, shall have the right without cost to reclaim any pictures within the period of five years beginning ten years after the death of the testator.
If this right is not exercised by the National Gallery the pictures presented are to remain the property of the institution receiving them.
Mrs. Helen Endora Ranger, wife of Mr. Rangers, who was to have his estate for life, after which it was to pass as it now does, died before him. His sister, Miss Edith F. Ranger, is not mentioned in the will. William Macbeth, art dealer, and Charles Henry Phelps are named as executors.


Morning World
16. Sat. Nov 18, 1916
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ARTIST LEAVES $213,320 TO PURCHASE PAINTINGS.
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H.W. Ranger Directs That Two-Thirds of These Be the Work of Americans 45 or Older.

Henry W. Ranger, landscape painter, who died on Nov. 7 last, provided that the income from the principal of his $213,320 estate shall be spent by the Council of the National Academy of Design in buying paintings produced by North American artists.
The will, filed in the Surrogate's Court yesterday, directs that two-thirds of the paintings bought shall be the work of artists who are forty-five or older. All paintings are to be distributed among North American art institutes and public galleries. But within a five-year period, beginning ten years after Mr. Ranger's death, the National Gallery at Washington, administered under the Smithsonian Institution, shall have the right to claim any of the paintings that have been bought and distributed.