The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 21

THE BAYTOWN SUN Monday, December 24, 19M 5-AA Jm tm Merry Christmas From All To ou Directory: 1. Apartment Center 10. Rollingbrook Place 2. Baker Downs 3. Bay Oaks 4.

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I. hope you have a nice Christmas this year. Kimberly Zeno Tree of angels fills museum hall with joy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What may be one of the most beautiful and most elaborate Christmas trees in the country is the one which stands in the Medieval Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for almost a month before Christmas. The 30-foot artificial balsam is decorated with more than 200" 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs. It is a gift to the museum from the late Loretta Hines Howard, an artist and a collector of creche figures.

It is an unusual gift in that the donor not only provided the rare and valuable ornaments, but also supplied the many weeks of labor required to set up the tree in all its splendor. Mrs. Howard contributed the unique method of displaying the angels, devising a way of putting the figures into the family Christmas tree when they arrived from Italy in 1952. The effect was so spectacular that she was asked to recreate her "angel tree" at the Metropolitan, which she did for the first time in 1957. In 1964, she gave the figures to the Metropolitan for its permanent collection.

Since 1965, the tree has been a fixture at the museum. It is believed that as many as 8 million visitors have seen it over the years. Mrs. Howard died in 1982, but her daughter, Linn Howard, and others who have worked on the tree from the beginning have continued to donate their time to decorate it. We caught up with Ms.

Howard several weeks before the scheduled unveiling Dec. 1. Activity behind the improvised wooden screen was, in a quiet museum-like way, at fever pitch. Ms. Howard, Enrique Espinoza and Susan Roschen, all of whom worked with Mrs.

Howard over the years, were hard at work, assisted by museum painters, electricians, carpenters and riggers. Besides the angels and cherubs, the tree is festooned with electrified candles. At the tree's base are a series of landscapes and architectural backdrops which recreate the landscape of Bethlehem, as imagined by 18th- century Neapolitans. Scores of 18th-century figures are placed in these landscapes to re-enact the events of Though each of the figures is interesting in itself it is the combination of all the elements which stimulates the exclamations of awe and pleasure when viewers first catch sight of the towering tree. One of the hallmarks of the tree is its perfect symmetry.

All the figures are arranged so that every eye appears to be turned toward the base at which the Christ child lies in its cradle. To position these figures and install all the elements is a full- time labor for many people over a period that may range from two to four weeks. She said the effects had been achieved through the invention of a variety of special devices and lighting by Espinoza. The angels, for example, are all on adjustable swivel mechanisms so they can be repositioned. The angels' silken robes are wired at every edge so they can be rearranged.

Each year, the tree is photographed, and Ms. Howard makes annotated sketches indicating where each figure has been placed. However, no attempt is made to duplicate the arrangements since new figures are often added. Work begins at the top of the tree as the gold-and silver- plated, copper and lucite tree ornament Espinoza designed is placed at the pinnacle. The electrified candles are then installed and the angels, starting with those at the top, are arranged on the tree.

Shielded spotlights hidden in the tree's branches illuminate each of the approximately 20-inch-long angels. The "Hying" angels have bodies of straw, painted wooden hands, feet and wings, and painted terra cotta faces. Though they appear to be flying, the illusion is created by their position and the drape of the silken pastel robes in which they are clothed. The goal is to create a series of perfectly straight diagonal lines from the top of the tree to the base, said Ms. Howard.

The goal, said Ms. Howard, Is perfection a goal which she says she inherited from her mother..