Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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1938] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 6l I erning it, and selects the winners. Its nominations are subsequently reported to the Board of Trustees. Mr. Plym suggests that the present method of selecting winners and handling the awards be followed in the future. This report was received for record. GIFT OF MR. AND MRS. MERLE J . TREES (45) In accordance with the general offer of November 29, 1937, which was presented to the Board on December 3, and in accordance with the terms of the resolution of the Executive Committee of the Board adopted on December 18, accepting this offer, in the terms of which resolution Mr. and Mrs. Merle J. Trees have formally indicated their concurrence, they have presented the following paintings for the year 1937: Painting Valuation School of Holbein "An English Lady" $ 7 500 00 Mabuse "Portrait of Thierry of Ligne" 8 000 00 Jacque "Sheep" 500 00 $16 000 00 The valuation indicated in each case is based on an appraisal made by the late Robert B. Harshe, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, on December 28, I937These paintings have been accepted and now become the property of the University, but in accordance with the provisions of the resolution of the Executive Committee adopted December 18, 1937, Mr. Trees has been requested to keep them in his custody until such time as the University is ready to display them. In the meantime, the University has insured them at their appraised value at a premium rate of $54.96 a year. The complete collection of paintings which Mr. and Mrs. Trees expect eventually to turn over to the University is as follows: Barbison Group Name of Artist Title of Painting Charles Francois Daubigny On the Marne Jean Charles Cazin Isolated Haystack Charles Theodore Frere Sunset on the Nile Emile Van Marcke Cattle in Meadowlands 1 C. E. Jacque Sheep Diaz Landscape American Albert P. Ryder Winslow Homer Ralph A. Blakelock Childe Hassam George Innes Homer D. Martin Alexander H. Wyant Tryon James Francis Murphy Artists White Horse French Farm Landscape Central Park New York The Coming Storm Crepuscule Montivilliers Landscape Sunrise Landscape Sixteenth Century—Old Masters Murillo Madonna and Child Pieter de Hooch Genre Scene Conti Madonna and Child 1 Mabuse Portrait of Thierry of Ligne Count of Falkenberg 1 (Holbein School) Portrait of English Lady 'Presented to the University in 1037.
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