Arts: Ill Advised

Zuloaga, famed Spanish artist (TIME. Dec. 29, Feb. 2) offered, some weeks ago, the sum of $5,000 to start a memorial fund for George Bellows, famed U. S. artist, who died on Jan. 8 of acute appendicitis (TIME, Jan. 19). He suggested that the money—when other friends of Bellows, of Art, had swelled his benevolence—should be used to buy Bellows' Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12) for the Metropolitan Museum. The offer was made on the day of Bellows' death. On that day, Zuloaga and Bellows were both exhibiting in Manhattan. It...