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VOL. XVIII. No. 34 * Entered as second class mail matter, NEW YORK, JUNE 12, 1920 VOL. ~~~~~N. Y. P. 0., under Act of March 3, 1879. N W Y R,J E12190SINGLE COPIS1'ET
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The American Art News will be
published this year-departing from precedent-through June, and will ap pear on Saturdays, June 5, 12, 19 and 26. This will give its readers and pa trons two issues, to replace those of
Oct. 11 and 18, 1919, missed through the printers' strike, the customary mid June issue, and an extra issue June 26.
L. C. TIFFANY FOUNDATION Eight students have been accepted at the
Louis C. Tiffany Foundation at Huntington, L. I., and are prepared to show an interest ing exhibit of sketclhes, etchings and paint ings. The art gallery, containing modern
ATnerican, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese paintings, is open to students, as well as the art library. Mr. Tiffany's colle-ction of bronzes, ceramics and Oriental carpets is also open to the students, who are not hampered by academic rules in studio work. Each may express his talent in his own way. -Artists of established reputationi will be asked to visit the school from time to
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AT THE RAILWAY STATION W. P. Frith, R. A.
At Kabatzchneck Gallery, Boston
time to advise and criticise the students' work.
The first period of the school will close on August 1 and the second will continue from that date to November 1. No student
will be accepted for less than three months. The period may be extended to six. Only men are received but during 1921 provision will be made for women. The resident director of the school is Stanley Lathrop, formerly connected with the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, and until recently .lecturer on fine arts at the American Acad emy in Rome. The erection of the studio building at Laurelton Hall was done under his supervision.
When Mr. Lathrop receives applications, they are to be accompanied by letters from three or more well-known artists, with opinion of eligibility, and an illustrative specimen of work. An advisory art com
mittee which will pass on applicants. in cludes Cass Gilbert, Harry Watrous, Robert
Vonnoh, Paul Manship, Frederic. Wilson and Barry Faulkner.
ARCH CUBISTS RECANT? "So competent a student of art, a friend of
Renoir and Cezanne, as is James G. Huneker. considered the 'Cubists' as quite dead years ago," says Mr. Harvey Watts in the Phila. Public Ledger, "while Dr. A. C.
Barnes pronounced a post-mortem in 1916 and the confused public and the bewildered students, in 'the face of this galvanized ex hibit, may well ask what does this argument so laboriously worked out in the north gal leries of the Academy's present display of 'Modernist' art lead to? That it leads no
where except into the mire is likely to be the conclusion, particularly if the serious but broad'ly humorous hint that comes fresh from Alexander Harrison in Paris that Pi casso and Piccabia have now forsworn their futurism and are painting portraits in the normal should prove to be true. Why not? There are others of the ilk who have con fessed behind the scenes that the game is about up."
LITERARY IMPORTS GROW
American imports in the classification of books, music, maps, engravings and other
prinited matter rose from $295,445 in Feb, 1919, to $565,600 for Feb., 1920; and for the eight months ending March the increase has been from $2,072,000 to-$4,090,695. Of this 75 per cent. was non-dutiable. The inicrease is largely due to the heavy importation of rare books.
- O'CONNOR'S LINCOLN HEAD
A new head of Abraham Lincoln, carved. in Indiana limestone, recently completed by
Andrew O'Connor, has been placed on view temporarily in the hall of sculpture at the
Metropolitan Museum. It is destined for the Chicago Institute, where it will be in stalled later. Lincoln is represented at the time of his first election, when fifty-two.
The head is based upon studies made in the President's native town and resembles the statue designed by Mr. O'Connor for the State Capitol at Springfield, Ill.
RARE BOOK TRADE ACTIVE In a recent catalog Maggs Brothers of
London include a complete set of the Kelm scott publications at ?1,200.
Importations of rare books from Europe contiinue to be very heavy. Two single trade purchases last month reached nearly $100,000 each. American collectors are buy ings heavily in Eniglish auctions. English catalogs are widely circulated here, and some booksellers print their prices in
American money instead of pounds and shillings. Taken in conjunction with the activity of American auction rooms and booksellers, the indications are that there is ani unprecedented volume of rare book
business being done at the present time.
NOTED VICTORIAN PAINTING "A hunman interest picture which may be
called a good example of the British illus trative school is W. P. Frith's large 'Rail
way Station'?" (now at the Kabatzchneck Gal leries, Boston, and reproduced on this page), says Mr. W. H. Downes in the Boston Transcript, "with its score or more of fig ures in a. waiting room, where the bustle and confusion of arrivals and departures are depicted in an interesting mannier, remi niscent of the artist's 'Derby Day' and other similar compositions, which have enjoyed
considerable popular fame in England. 'The Railway Statioin,'" continues Mr. Downes, "was first exhibited in London in 1862, and the artist is said to have received $45,000 for it. It was shown at the Ameri can Centennial Exposition at Phila. in 1876. We find in Clement and Hutton's 'Artists of the Nineteenth Century' a pas sage quoted from John Ruskin's 'Modern Painters' in which Frith's 'Derby Day' is commented upon by the distinguished critic in these terms: 'I am not sure how much
power is involved in the production of such a picture as this; great ability there is as suredly, long and careful study, consider able humor, untiring industry. all of tlhem oualities entitled to high praise, which I doubt not they will receive from the de lighted public. ... The drawings of the
distant figures seem to me especially dex terous and admirable; but it is very diffi cult to characterize the picture in accurate general terms. It is a kind of cross be ,tween John Leech and Wilkie, with a dash of daguerreotype here and there.
SIGNS AND PORTENTS 'Both Prince Albert and Mr. Pennell are
justly worried over public signs and bill boards," says the N. Y. Times. "Mr.- Pen nell at the recent convention of the Ameri can Federation of Arts and Prince Albert at the Royal Academy dinner expressed themselves convincingly, though with dif ferinig degree of fervor. Billposters are al
ways with us, and hence, of course, demand immediate and violent attack-which they received from Mr. Pennell. But Prince Al bert's modest little suggestion that sign boards might to our profit be more with us than they are, is worthy of much considera tioin. Never in history has there been such
widespread effort to publish information by means of public placards, and never has the language of design been cruder or more poverty stricken in this kind. Preaching, condemnation, discussion, are useless. The onily method of reform is to produce good work and excite the spirit of emulation and competition. Somewhere down in Green wich Village is a rough, bold sketch on brown paper of a design by Hunt Diederich serving as a shop sign. It is in the line of
descent from Holbein, who, in his laborious youth, made tno scruple against painting a jolly and clever signboard for a Basle school
master. Among moderni Frenchmen who are not ashamed of turningC their skill to this account are Willette and Mercier. Mil lais painted a sign with 'St. George and the Dragon' for an inn at Keston. Fa
mous Englishmen of an earlier period, old Crome, Morland, Beechey, even Gains borough, have examples of sign painting to their credit. With these illustrious prede cessors in mind, why should the modern artist shrink from this respectable branch of art? What Prince Albert said in London about village signs is equally pertinent to America. 'The development of motor trav eling,' he said, 'has brought back to our highways some of the importance which they enjoyed in the old coaching days. I feel sure that many of my comrade motor ists would welcome the revival of the village sign or emblem lettered and conspicuously displayed-a welcome guide to the visitor in a strange land.
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Visitors to N. Y. this summer will find an interesting exhibition on at the Milch Gal leries, 108 \V. 57 St. With care and knowl edge of the varied qualities of each artist, the pictures have been selected to present a harmonious showing of the work of the ablest men. Among the painters are those exploited by these galleries during the season, with an addition of several names
with which the public is fast becoming ac quainted. Gari Melchers' "Black Fan" is given a prominent place. It is one of the few figure pieces in the collection and an interesting and able canvas. George Inness is represented by one of his early works painted during his residence in Montclair, "Landscape, Montclair," a canvas of tone and distinction. Childe Hassam's large "Beacon St., Boston," is here, and there are two examples of Maurice Fromkes, "Lily
Pads" and "Princess Lointaine." F. W. Kost's "'Salt Haymakers" has color, design and poetical feeling. One of W. L. Metcalf's best pictures, "Breath of Spring," adds in terest to the group, and Robert Spencer's
well-known "Green River" scintillates with
Babcock Summer Exhibition A distinguished group of works by Ameri
can painters make up the Summer show at !the Babcock Galleries, 19 E. 49 St., on through Sept. 1. All three galleries are filled and some 50 works of good quality cover the walls. There is an- admirable example of Albert P. Ryder, "Adrift"; an early but thoroughly representative Twacht
man, "Old Oyster -Market, W. 110 St."; a beautiful "Moonlight" by R. A. Blakelock; a fine Winslow Homer, "French Farm, Ver ney, La Ville"; an interesting example of
Henry G. Dearth, "Cattle Grazing"; and examples of such well-known painters as J. Francis Murphy, represented by "The
Afterglow," a truly poetical canvas; Henry R. Poore, who displays "Fox Hounds"; George H. Bogert, "The Last Rays, Venice"; Ernest Albert, "Autumn"; Mur ray Bewley, "Morning"; Joseph Boston, "Adirondack Mountains"; Bruce Crane, "The Rainbow";- Maurice -Braun, "Early
Moonrise"; Irving Couse, a typical Indian subject, "Moccasin Maker"; John F. Carl son, a virile example, "Quiet Glade." "Homeward Bound," by Albert P. Lucas, is a poetical work of quality.
There is an interesting New England landscape by George M. Bruestle, a good shore picture, "The Green Boat," by Henry S. Eddy, two fine examples of Eugene Hig gins and one of E. A. Kramer's poetical landscapes, "The Lure of the Valley." Glenn
Newell's "Autumn Gold" is one of his best works, George H. Smillie's "A Gray Day" is typical, Fred Wagner's "River Front" is strong and true, and there is a good ex amnle of Homer Martin, "Scene in Keene Valley."
The exhibition is enhanced by examples of Elliott Daingerfield, Paul Dessazr, Vic tor Higgins, F. Tenny Johnson, John N.
Howitt, George P. Ennis, C. C. Curran A. R. Freedlander, Frank DeHaven, Albert Gross, Richard Kimbel, F. McG. Knowles, Louis Kronberg, Hayley Lever, Luis Mora,
W. R. Leigh, E. Luther, Thomas Moran, G. Lawrence Nelson, W. M. Post, E. H. Potthast, J.- H. Sharp, Gardner Symons, E. C. Volkert, E. McG. Knowles and A
Windmaier.
HOLLAND LETTER The Hague, June 1, 1920.
At' the galleries of E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co. there was recently a comprehensive show of the paintings and drawings by W.'
Witsen, a prominent contemporary Dutch artist who began his career in London.
Witsen has worked in various countries and some half dozen etchings exhibited here
were done while he was serving as a mem ber of the Art Commission at the San Fran cisco World's Fair. With his strongly de veloped draughtsmanship, Witsen expresses himself in many moods and styles which showed to advantage in the eighty examples displayed. The large oil, a nude girl reclin ing on a marvelously painted white cover, levealed the painter's ability. Among a dozen portraits, a small one of Mme.- van R.-S., was the finest. In two small pictures,
Witsen resorted to vernis, attaining fine hazy effects, which reminded one of the fact that Whistler sometimes used this
medium. The Society of St. Lucas, another long
established artists' organization, under the patronage of the Queen, is holding its 29th annual show in the galleries on the upper floor of the Municipal Museum. Modern
Dutch painters exhibit little that is bizarre. The impression one has in looking over the 225 examples shown, is one of solidity of workmanship and beauty of color. True to tradition, these young artists paint' local scenery or still life in the spirit, though not in the style, of their illustrious countrymen of the past.
Prof. J. H. Jurres of Amsterdam, whose work is known in America, contributes only one canvas, rather different from those of his colleagues. It represents a scene frorn Don Quixote, and is done with much -feel ing for motion and color. Herman Heijen brock's opalescent color effects in his de lightful picture of a blossoming fruit tree in the evening light are also rather excep tional. Some strong striving for decorative effects is evinced by the paintings of Mon nickendamm and Meurs, while Wester
mann's work points toward the modern French s-chool, and Arondens harks back to the primitives. Bueno de Mesguita has sent two good portraits of women. Among the sculptures, the best pieces were those carved in wood by Mr. Vreugde and Albert Termote.
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Oeuvres de Bellotto, van Ceulen, Coypel, Deshays, Ducreux, Eisen, Grimou, Lepicie, Leprince, Monnoyer,
Natoire, Pater, Perronneau, Prud'hon, H. Robert, Tocque, L.-M. Vanloo, Watteau, etc., etc. Corot, Monticelli, Regnault, Vollon, Ziem, etc.
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LONDON- LETTER May 29, 1920.
The sale o.f the Heseltine collection of engravinigs at Sotheby's, June 7, will have occurred ere this reaches you. It includes many examples of the early Italian school as well as. some fine -examples of Durer and
Aldegrever. The collection is an especially catholic. one, since in addition to fine im pressions of the Old Masters, there are a number of interesting examples of XVIII century French masters, of the. British school, and of modern artists, such as D. Y.
Cameron, Zorn and others. Among other forthcoming sales is that
of the stock belonging to the late Mr. Asher Wertheimer at Christie's. and which will
include furniture, porcelains and miniatures, as well as a number of pictures by British and foreign masters.
A dispersal arranged by Puttick and Simpson for this last week of May was that of the furniture collected by the late Lady
Wolseley and belonging mostly to the Queen Anne and William and Mary periods. A good deal of fine lacquer furniture finds a place in the collection, as do also some interesting clocks, boasting a large reper toire of tunes and some ingenious mechani cal figures which perform their various feats' upon the dial. Some beautiful needlework of the Stuart era is among the many good things in the collection.
The Salesroom Ring The- press has lately been busy with the
question of the salesroom "ring", and with pos sible suggestions for minimizing its activities in the direction of the reduction of vendor's profits. But since no force can prevail.to mnake a member of the public bid if he pref-ers to remain silent, or to frustrate his afterwards
*entering into a pecuniary arrangement with the 'party who ultimately secures something that he, himself would like to acquire, there
would seem to be no effectual way -of puttinig -an end to the' practice. But -deaiers them selves are asking whether the salesroom au thorities are not equally culpable in regard to their action in those -cases in which a reserve price has been fixed by the seller. By declar ing this reserve sum as a public bid, the audi ence is deceived into believing that competi tion has sent the price up to that aniount, a
false and misleading impression as to its mar ket value being, thus encouraged. This, they declare, is no less reprehensible a practice than that of the much-abused "ring."
Some Fine Persian MSS. There is likely to to be some keen bidding
at Sotheby's this week, when some 70 Persian and Indo-Persian miniatures and MISS. from the collection of M. Claude Anet, are to be disposed of. Of' primary importance,' and among the rarities are an unique leather bind 'ing, signed by its artist, and early texts of the Rubaiyat; The minriatures belong to three XV Century MSS. of the "Marvels of the
World" by Kasvini. Many of the items have had inlteresting careers, as for instance, a XVI Century MS. of a poem, which at one time figured in the collection of the famous Shah Abbas, and various other MSS. carriedI out for-Moguls and Emperors. Some stag gering prices are anticipated.
The Sykes Romney 'The depression, of which I1 have alread3
Written, as attributable to the burdens of taxa tion and a probable capital levy, must have beer partly responsible fior the failure of Romney's "portrait of ~Sir Christopher and Lady Sykes to reach more than 27,000 gns. at Christie's
This is no mean su1m, especially whenl one re flects upon the 140) gnlS. paid the artist for it, yet when one remembers the 54.000 gns ~paid for the "Beckford Children."
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ters will share with the Horse Show the in terest of members and visitors at the South Shore Country Club next week. There is prolbably no better place in the country, for the showing of art works than the famed
Passagio of this beautiful Club. Along the several hundred feet of this stately prome nade from the dining to the ball room are beautiful paneled spaces that have always seemed to be waiting for fine pictures. It has remained for Messrs. L. L. Valentine,
W. T. Cresmer and Ralph Cudney, all noted collectors and prominent Club members to arrange that these spaces be filled, at least temporarily, with choice examples of mod ern Americani art.
These discriminatinig connoisseurs have contributed some of their own most valued treasures and supplemented them with choice selections from the various dealers. There will be 42 canvasses in all, each a gem. Mr. and Mrs. Valentine have con tributed 19 canvasses, amoing them a fine example of F. Ballard Williams, two- good Potthasts, three Lachmans, two Higgins, two Emersons, two Krafts, a- fine William
M. Howe, and two of the latest and best examples of Ossipe Linde.
Mr. Ralph Cudney's collection will be represented by a superb C. W. Eaton and a Carleton Wiggins. Mr. William T. Creamer offers Raniger's 'Mason's Island" and the "Solitude" of Win. Keith. Mr. Paul Schulze will exhibit the Charles M. Davis he recently acquired in the east and not seen here before. The Anderson Galleries have loaned a large and important Dainger field and a Bruce Crane of first rank. Car soIn, Pirie, Scott and Co. enter a large Bal lard Williams, a Henry G. Dearth, a Blu
menschein and an Ufer, the latter from their recent Taos slhow. R. C. and N. M. Vose of Boston have sent oni L. P. Dessar's "Close of Day," a figure work by Wm. J.
Whittemore, a large marine by Wm. Rit schell, a J. Francis Murphy of rare quality, a Daingerfield sunset and a Carl Kohler.
Mr. J. W. Young enriches the collection with one of the largest and finest still lifes ever executed by the late W. M. Chase,
Harry Watrous' "Bird Tamer," and a char - acteristic' Couse. M. J. O'Brien and Son present two fine examples of the work of Louis Betts in portraiture, "The Yellow Rose," which is a beautiful woman and the other playfully called "The Ten Cent Ap ple," a lovely study of chilhood.
The' exhibition will be enthusiastically re ceived. It is planned to show American Classics -next, Inn-ess Keith, Wyant, Blalt lock and the like as represented by the finest of their works to be found in the west.
A movement is also under way to purchase suitable paitings for the noble wall spaces of the Passagio.
The idea of making art exhibitions a rec ognized feature of the social life of a great city seems to have had its origin here anid too much stress cannot be laid upoIn its im portance.
The Arts Club has a considerable show ing, of new and itnteresting things in art among them being the watercolors and drawings of Jan Matulkas, Amanda Coom araswamy and Awa Tairch. These with the paintings and drawings of William Simon
Mondzain, make up its present exhibition. Jan1 Matulka represents Czechoslovak art of today, Amanda Coomaraswamy the modern tendency to impressionistic drawing, Awa
Tairch the awakening of thle American In dian of the old Pueblos to a new interest inl art, and Mondzain the ultimate in French
modernity. With the Dealers
The galleries all report good business dur ing May and Mr. J. W. Young starts the suommer season with the- sale of his rare collection of cartoons used by The Knights of the Golden Circle against Abraham Lin coIn in a campaign of '64. These were pur chased within a few hours after being placed on display for Convention week and will gc into a famous collection. Among the his toric portraits whichl also form a part of the ,Convention display are two rare and beau tiful examples of Gilbert Stuart, small heads of George and Martha WVashington, which came to Mr. Young direct from the great grandsoni of the man to whom Stuart him self presenlted themn as a wedding gift. Geo.
H. Storey's Lincoln portrait and Jesse At iwood's Lincoln, painted trom like, together lwith the only portrait of Grant ever painlted from life prior to his taking entire com
manld of the Unionl armies, are also inlterest ing historic works.
"The Pumpkin Girl," by Victor Higgins~ which formed a part of the Carson, Pinie SRcott Taos shlow has been purchased by
"The Frienlds of American Art" for the riermanlent collection of the Art Institute.
Alnother Higgins was also sold from these oCalleries this week. An exhibition of Minia tures by Anlna Lyn1ch is now the centre of nlterest in these galleries. Evelyn M. Stuart.
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PARIS LETTER Paris, May 29, 1920.
The Senate has not yet begun to discuss the insufficiently-considered bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies levying a tax on, the importation and exportation. of art
works but it will certainly do so very short ly. Collectors and dealers should mean
while be patient for there is every reason to believe that the majority in the Upper
House have understood the issues at stake and that the bills will not be passed without
many amendments. It will, therefore, be returned to the Lower House for revisioni and, while the principle of a tax upon art exports and imports will be maintained and which seems justified by the present rate of exchange with the dollar and pound sterling-the question will be closely ex amined and a figure will be fixed which should not be a hindrance to trade.
Rare Tapestries at Louvre The twelve marvellous tapestries after de
signs by Bernard van Orley, the great Flemish master who had met Raphael in Italy, illustrating the Emperor Maximilian's hunting parties in the forests of Belgium, are now at the Louvre where they are shown in the Salle Lacaze. Each tapestry is repre sentative of a month in the year and it is
wonderful how the color typical of each sea son has been observed. These tapestries are certainly among the most wonderful extant and are in perfect condition.
War Memorial for Senlis A committee has just been constituted with
the purpose of collecting donations for a memorial to the war in the town of Senlis, the French Louvain. Of all the martyred cities of France, Senlis, which served as dyke to the advancing German hordes, is one of the most significant. On September 2, 1914, Senlis-witnessed the change in von Kluck's tactics which saved Paris, while it was again on November 8, 1918, at Senlis that
Marshal Foch received the wireless asking for an armistice. Thus Senlis was the scene of the war's first as of its last act.
Fine Engraving Show Several butstanding names are met with
at the Exposition de la Gravure Originale (Galerie Simonson). Positions of honor have been reserved for works by members who died during the war-years: to Rodin, hon. president of the society, Michel Cazin, Grotlillier, Lechat and Oudart. All that can be said about Rodin's etchings has been said already; Cazin one is glad to see again; G. Bruyer is an excellent xylographer and his Italian views are agreeably reminiscent of old-fashioned landscape work; H. Cheffer's portraits are true to life; the Armenian art ist, Edgar Chahine shows characteristic figure-work; Gobo, is broad and free;
Tigi'ane Polat has illustrated P. Chaine's "M6moires d'un Rat," one of the best war books; Hallo's and M. de Lambert's wood blocks are in the right tradition, while the American artist, Robert Logan, shows a set of admirable prints of the Cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres, and of Notre Dame and St. Julien le Pauvre, in Paris.
Painters in Fresco Two painters in fresco at the cur
rent Salon are Paul Albert Baudoin and Eugene-Jean Chapleau, both worthy to reprsent this interesting, important re vival of fresco painting which has an other supporter in Gaudissart, that rare specimen: a sensible "Orientalist" and a great decorator, Besnard, Raffaelli, Rene
Melnard, Lucien Simon (with a most curious tableau de imoeurs in Brittany), Dauchez, Le Sidaner, Baertsoen, Alfred Smith, Mine. Galtier-Boissiere and Florence Este, are to the fore. James Wilson Morrice and Ethel
Carrick Fox represent Great Britain bril liantly, the former especially with his "Tra falgar Square," the latter with a clever ren dering of crowvds inl Australia. Dorignac is, considering his powerful talent, coming, none too quickly, to the fore; Lebasque is beneath his usual standard; Boutet de Mon vel's group-portrait of Dunoyer de Se gonzac and Boussinguet, his confreres, is loose and flat; Harold Speed, Beatrice How.
Bernard Harrison, Bertha E. Shore, Mabel Harrison, represent England, and Brun elleschie, Italy, with portraits of royalties;
Mine. Coulin's babies are good, and Laurent Gsell is a good decorator. Maurice Denis and George Desvallieres lead .the way as they always have, in the attempted revival of religious art.
Arts and Crafts Work In the Arts and Crafts section one finds
Raymond Bigot with his birds in wood carving and aquarelle; Berthe Cazin, with her hammered silver-work; Jean D)unand, with his metal-work; Louise Germain, Hilda Hart and Rene Kieffer with leather bindings; Andre Helle, illuminations; Jessie M. King, a student of the possibilities of Batik; Mine. Pangon's well-known specialty, and Rivaud, the excellenlt jeweller.
Publishers and dealers in prints are form ing a syndicate for the defence of the en gravers' art and the interests of its members.
EMILE PARES Importation et Exportationl
Objets d'Art, Tapissenes, Sculptures, Pierre, Bois, Meubles et Soieries
15 QUAI VOLTAIRE - - PARIS
The Gorham Foundries give to the casting of life size, colossal and small statuary that painstaking and sympa thetic handling which alone in sures the most successful result.
E4Particular attention is being given to the patining of statuettes. 41 The Gorham Galleries are a
continual exposition of every thing new in contemporaneous sculptures.
Correspondence Solcited
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BOSTON At the Twentieth Century Club Benjamin
J. Bowen has been exhibiting 80 or more of his oils, the work of the last ten yearss in Brittaniy and on the north coast of
Africa. His subjects have been happily chosen for their human interest, especially' those depicting the domestic life of the
Breton peasants. The most pretentious of his canvases is "The Reprimand," at one time exhibited in' the Paris Salon. The scenes in Tunisia are unique, for it is sel dom one chances to see, in our local gal leries, oils of the homes, customs and life
of the Arabs. The opalescent hues of early eveninig, peculiar to Algeria and with which the artist envelopes his street scenes give an atmosphere of mystery and charm that is refreshing.
For their late Spring show Doll & Rich ards are showing a group of paintings by American and European artists. The exhi bition covers a wide range of names and subjects. Noticeable among the best can vases are two examples of Washington All stoni, Fritz Thaulow's "Venetian Scene," "Return from Work"' by Fritz von Uhde, "Morning Mist" by Jean Beaudin and Jules
Rolshoven's' genre "A Song Without Words." This last, surrounded as it is by many worthy 'landscapes, portraits and symbolical paintings, -manages to retain a distinction aind charm of its own.
Elizabeth W. Roberts announces an ex hibition of her oils at her studio, Concord,
Mass., to June 13. The 44th annual exhibi tionl of the School of the Museum was held June 2-4 and the New School displayed the
work of its students at its rooms on Boyl ston St.
Governor Coolidge of Mass. has'a-ccepted. for the Commonwealth-a gift of the bronze statue of Anne Hutchinson by Cyrus E.
Dallin, for a time on exhibition at the Mu seum. The statue will be p'laced just out side the Hall of Flags in the State House, at the foot of the staircase leading to the
Hall of Representatives; but the plaster cast of the statue will be installed there tem porarily, making a silent appeal for the com pletion of the statue fund. There is histori cal justice in the emplacement decided upon, since it was the General Court which, i'n 1637, condemned the apostle of free speech for women to exile and martyrdom.
The movement to provide this monument tv, Anne Hutchinson was started some years 'ago, and' Mr. Dallin modelled the statue in 1914. He placed alongside of the figure"of
Anne Hutchinson that of her little daughter, and represented the mother standing and clasping to her breast a Bible. The cos tume of the early XVII century was'found to lend itself with peculiar effectiveness to the requirements of the statue. The lonlg cloak and the hoodshaped cap, with the full skirt and the basque, are picturesque and agreeable in their lines, from a plastic point of view; and the two figures together
make a composition of interesting charac ter, one of the best of Mr. Dallin's works.
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Oct. 11 and 18, 1919, missed through the printers' strike, the customary.mid June issue, and an extra issue June 26.
FRIED LANDER-BROWN Arthur R. Friedlander, of 200 W. Fifty
eighth St., and Mrs. Edna Kellogg Brown were married Wed., last. Mrs. Brown is a soprano, known as Edna Kellogg, a widow, and is 25 years old. She has been with the
Metropolitan Opera Company. Mr. Frie d lander is 47.
COFFIN-STARR Miss Frances Starr, the actress, was mar
ried last week to -William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, at the Church of the Heavenly
Rest. Among those at the ceremony were Mrs. Leopold Gladwell, Miss Starr's sister; Mrs. Willard L. Metcalf, and Leopold God owsky.
Evelyn Longman will be married June 27 to Mr. A. V. Benedict. She will spend the
Summer at her fine new studio at Wind sor, Vt.
Elmer Schofield left his studio in the Na tional Arts Building on May 7 and sailed for England to remain until the autumn.
. KLEINBERGER GALLERY CHANGE The F. Kleinberger Galleries, Inc., of 725
Fifth Ave. have leased the ground floor of their gallery building at that address to a firm of silversmiths from Oct. 1 next. The art firm will retain its galleries on the uIpper floors of the building, with an entrance on
Fifth Ave.
THE FOREIGN ART SEASON
Notwithstanding the recent levying
of a heavy import and export tax on art
works of value by the French Govern
inent-the true reason for which has
not as yet been fully explained, al
though it is generally conceded that
the measure was due to that Govern
ment's desire to stop the already large
and growing drain of the country's art
treasures at bargain prices, due to the
depreciation of the National currency
the important art sales, scheduled for
May and early June in Paris-with the
single exception of the Willems sale,
called off on account of the new tax,
appear to have b)een successful, even
beyond expectations. The good 'and high prices for pic
tures, prints, art objects, furniture, rare
books and even stamps, as recorded in
the Paris art journals and in the letters
from our Paris correspondent, pub
lished in preceding, issues and in this
issue of the ART NEwS, prove that there
is no diminution, but rather an increase
of interest among collectors and art
lovers in the activities of the French
auction marts.
The London salesrooms and dealers'
,alleries have been somewhat affected
of late, like those of New York by the
agitation caused by the new French
art tax, but this depression would seem
to be only temporary, and'the more re
cent sales have showed climbing prices.
The coming sales at Sotheby's, Lon
don, described-with illustrations on an
other page of this issue, and especially
those of the ninth part of the great
Huth Library and of the Wellesley'art
properties, are of unusual interest and
will cause lively competition, while
other sales, announced for July in Lon
don and Paris should attract the nu
merous American art lovers and collec
tors n-ow on the other side.
BRINGS RARE MSS.
After paying a record price of $25,000 for original MSS. by Charles Lamb, Charles Sessler of Phila. has returned bringing his prize with him. During Mr. Sessler's stay in Europe he purchased original MSS. to the amount of $325,000, included among
which were some letters that had been writ ten by Charles Lamb to Samuel T-aylor
Coleridge.
GUTZON BORGLUM SUED M rs. Dorothy~ Payne Whitney Straight,
widow of Willardi Straight, has begun suit as executrix of her husband's estate to recover $3,151 from Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor. Mrs. Straight alleges that Mr. Borglum
gave her husband a note for $5,651 in 1917 and at the death of Mr. Straight the amount she sues for was still unpaid.
IN THE STUDIOS
At his studio, 20 E. 80th St., Henry Caro Delvaille is painting three decorative panels for the Calumet Building at Ottawa. He has recently completed decorations and gen eral interior ornamentation, including drap eries, flower panels and the entire color scheme for Mr. Harry Collins.
At her Carnegie Hall studio Susan Ketch am held an exhibition last week of her re cent marines and landscapes painted at her Summer studio at Ogunquit, Me. Long a student and lover of the sea, she paints the ocean and shore with decided sympathy. Her compositions are always attractive and selected with care and good taste. She is a good colorist and her work is varied in sub ject and interesting in design.
Murray Bewley has recently purchased a house at 114 Waverly Place which he pro poses remodeling for a permanent home and studio. He will spend the Summer at
Masons Island, Conn.
OBITUARY George Woolliscroft Rhead
George Woolliscroft Rhead, R. E., died in London May 6 last. Born at Newcastle,
Staffs, in 1855, he served a probationary pe riod at Minton's China Works under W. S. Coleman, who was interested in the im provement of ceramic decoration. Coleman was appointed director of the Minton studio, and Rhead, theni a boy of 16, accompaniied him. In 1875 the studio was burnt to the ground, and it was not reopened. After two years' study at the Royal Training College Mr. Rhead travelled in France and Italy and produced a series of studies of Norman and Breton peasant life, which were exhib ited at the Royal Academy and other gal leries. For a time he was engaged in de signing for stained glass, and made designs for windows in Chichester Cathedral and other public buildinigs. He became knowni also for his black and white work, for which study under Ford Madox Brown and Pro fessor Legros specially fitted him. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and a regular contributor to its exhibitions in Trafalgar Square. Besides a number of original etchings, he reproduced important works by Holman Hunt, George F. Watts, Marcus Stone, and Ford Madox Brown, ilncluding the latter's fresco, "The Romans in Manchester," in the Manchester Town Hall.
As a painter he did much mural decora tion, and examples of his work in this di rection are at the Holloway College, the
Guildhall, and the Falstaff Club. He was a, more or less regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy for 40 years, and is represented this year by an oil, "The Advent of Winter."
His chief easel pictures are "O Salutaris Hostia," "Vespers," "The Wise and Foolish Virgins," and "Full Fathom Five," all of which have been engraved or reproduced in various forms. Besides miscellaneous drawings for the magazines and art Press,' he illustrated (chiefly in collaboration with his brothers Frederick and Louis) Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Mr. Badman" and Tennyson's "Idylls of the King." He wrote a number of books, including "Studies in Plant Form," "Chats on Costume," "The
Treatment of Drapery in Art," and "The History of the Fan," which led to his de signing Queen Mary's Coronation fan. In pottery his chief works are "Pottery Marks," "Staffordshire Pots and Potters" (in col laboration with his brother Frederick), and a recently published book, "The Earthen
ware Collector." At the time of his death he was engaged on a work on "Porcelain" and a "Studio Potter's Manual," both of which will be finished by F. A. Rhead.
He was headmaster of the Putney, Bor ough Polytechnic, and Norwood Schools of Art, a member of the Art Workers' Guild, a member of the Council of the Arts and Crafts Society, and an examiner under the Board of Education.
COPLEY'S (?) MAJOR ANDRl, "The appearance of a portrait attributed to
J. S. Copley, and claiming to represent Major Andr6 (1751-80), at the sale by the American Art Association of N. Y., on April 23, of the collection of pictures formed by the late Frank Bulkeley Smith, of Wor cester, Mass., raises a point of very great importance, .-literary as well as artjstic,
British as well as American," says the Lon don Times. "The curiously inconsistent fact is that while Andre, an officer in the British
Army, was captured and executed as a spy by the Americans, everything concerning him possesses an inifinitely more absorbing interest and value to American collectors than to British. In June, 1905, the late
George D. Smith purchased privately, and sold almost immediately to an American bibliophile 'for a sum said to be the largest price ever paid, for an autograph possessing American interest,' one of Andre's letters. This letter, dated.N. Y., September 7, 1780, was signed 'John Anderson,' the name used by Andre in his correspondence with Bene dict Arnold with a view to handing over
West Point- to the British. "The subject of Andres portraits," con
tinues The Times, "is rather difficult and complicated, partly because his tragic end excited so much interest in- England that, had there been no authentic portraits of him in existence, portraits of some kind would have to be invented, as in fact they were. And so most of those which have passed as representing him have no more historic value than that of him in the group of 'Major Andre taken Prisoner' in Cornick's 'HistQrv of England,' 1796 (III. 287); and nearly all are due to the ipse dii-it of catalogs or dealers. The only exhibited portrait of him at all likely to be authentic was a miniature on enamel in the Royal Academy of 1781, No. 324, by William H. Craft. who was an exhibitor from 1774 to 1795. but of whom nothing is now kniown. If this enamel could he traced it would have an important hear ing on all so-called portraits of Andre. for the assumption is. that if-it was not done from life. it was done from an authentic original. Perhaps it wa-s copied. also on enamel, manv- vears afterwards by William Corden
1797-1867). for a portrait on enamel of Maior Andre bv him was exhibited at Derby
in 1870 by Mr: W. Bemrose. Jun. "Andre has been described as a gzood
irtist, and there are at least three portraits Df himself which claim to be by him. The. slightest but most interesting of these is the pen-and-ink sketch, done on the morning of the day before his execution, now at Yale
College; it is a clever sketch, and has been reproduced, notably in 'The Century' of 1894 (p. 684). The most frequently engraved self-portrait of Andre shows him in uniform
with a wig and white ruffles (no hat), a good looking young man. It was originally engraved by J. K. Sherwin in 1784, and fre quently reproduced since; as Andre joined the army in March 1771, this portrait must have been done between thien and 1774, when he left England. The third portrait is a silhouette in profile, 'cut by himself for Miss Rebecca Red-man in 1778,' and reproduced in Winsor's 'History of America' (VI. 452) and elsewhere, but it is of very little value - in an inquiry of this kind.
"The most absurd of the many so-called portraits of Andre is one ascribed to Sir joshua Reynolds and frequently reproduced in books and articles on Andre. There is no record whatever of Sir Joshua having painted Andre; but one claimed to be by him was lent to the National Portrait Exhibition of 1867 (No. 648) by Sir R. Shafto Adair. This portrait was in the E. W. Lake sale at Christie's on June 11, 1845 (lot 15), as a Reynolds, but 'A Military Officer' was the only identity giveni in the catalog, -and it sold for 14 gns.; on May 1, 1852 (lot 39), it again came up for sale, and was bought by Sir Shafto Adair for ?5-10.
"In Lord Borthwick's sale, Jiily 12, 1859 (lot 1,211), a rival Reynolds portrait of
Major Andre sold for 105 gns. to Mr. J. R. Haig, and, from the price, was doubtless a good picture, but as a portrait of Andre it is' probably no more authentic than its rival. Curiously enough, there is in the Public Library, N. Y., a drawing which claims to be of Major Andre, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which had once, belonged to Dr., Thomas Addis Emmet .(1764-1827). Two beautiful little miniatures, one by Samuel Cotes (1734 1818), in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the other by James Scouler (1741-1797) in Mr. Francis Wellesley's collection, may be mentioned here 'without prejudice.'
"So far as the Copley portrait is con cerned, and apart fr6m the costume, which suggests that it is an early 19 C picture, it :
may be mentioned that Copley arrived in London on July 10, 1774, and left for- Italy on August 26 of the same year, -remaining there until 1776. Andre was with the army in Canada in 1774; doubtless the exact date of his leaving England could be ascertained. But the point is this: the only time at which Copley and Andre could have met, if -they ever met, was between July 10 and August 26, 1774, where Copley was in London en route to continue his studies in art in Italy, and when, as may be seen from Mrs.
Amory's Life of her grandfather, Coplevy was too busy seeing the 'lions' of London
-o do any painting. That Copley should have painted the portrait of a young and> - obscure British=officer who in six-years' time was to become the most tragic figure in the revolt of the American Colonies is Qne of - those coincidences which never happen."
WITH THE ARTISTS
"Whispering Woods," one of the last can vases painted by the late R. M. Shurtleff, was sold recently by Mrs. Shurtleff to ~~a prominent N. Y. collector for a price well: into the thousands. She has also sold sev eral watercolors, one of the most important England. He expects to go later to the South of France where he will spend the summer, and will return in the late autumn.
May Fairchild sold two landscapes last recently to Mrs. Raymond Healy, daughter in-law of Mr. Augustus HIealy, "Dogwood" and "Little White Church." At her Sher
wood studio she recently completed a minia ture for Mrs. Carol Goodwin.
At her studio, 212 West 59 St., Irene Weir arranged an exhibition through May of the work of the fifty pupils who attend- her school.;
The picture entitled, "Wet'Snow," by Vic tor Charrenton, recently sold by the Duden singt Galleries to the Brooklyn Museum,
was an oil, in which medium the able artist paints exclusively.
Rome Academy Prize Winners The American Academy in Rome an
nounlces as winners in this year's competi tions for the prize of Rome: Painting
Carlo A. Ciampaglia, Hoboken, N. J.; sculp ture, Gaetano Cecere. N. Y.; hon. mentionl.
Edmond R. Amateis, -N. Y. Th e appoint ments are for three years. The-fellows will report in Rome on October 1.
The annual art scholarship of the Pulitzer Foundation at Columbia College to the most deserving art student has been awarded to Frederick C. Freder, 25 y-ears old, a stuodent at the National Academy.
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MIatisse, Picasso, Derain, Vlaminck, Marie Laurencin, Modigliani, Renoir, Gauguin
. Monet, Manet, etc. FINE NEGRO ANTICS
-.P, - rAUL GUILLAUME 108 Faubourg St. Hono e
WALPOLE GALLERIES A Small but very fine-Private.
Collection
Japcanese Prints To be sold by Auction
Monday Evre., June 14, at 8:15 o'clock
10 East 49th Street -New York
Illustrated Catalogue and Exchibition Now
ART AND BOOK SALES
Conway Library Sale A sale of selections from the library of
Eustace Conway, including books and MS. of the late Moncure D. Conway, brought $7, 545.90 at the Anderson Galleries, June 7 last.
Mr. M. J. Gannon paid $4,000 for the ori ginal MS. of the first story in Rudyard Kip ling's "The Jungle Book." It contains the author's inscription on the first page, "Su san Bishop from Rudyard Kipling, Febru ary, 1893," and the most important Kipling Ms. ever offered at auction. This ver sion differs from "Mowgli's Brothers," as published in "The Jungle Book," to such an extent that it is practically a different story. It was evidently Kipling's first conception,
which he afterward condensed and changed throughout.
Mr. P. 'Sawyer gave $825 for the original MS. of Mark Twain's English edition of "Tom Sawyer." Moncure D. Conway rep resented Mark Twain in the publication in England of "Tom Sawyer." The American edition was- issued about a year later. Mr.
W. W. Cohen secured for $135 a collection of autograph letters,-portraits, etc., of Con cord celebrities, including six pen-and-ink sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Old
Manse." G. A. Baker & Co. paid $600 for the first issue of the first edition of Walt
Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," with a letter of Whitman to Moncure D. Conway, in closing his copy of Ralph W. Emerson's letter to him, highly commending the book.
v~~~~ HENRY REINHARDT & SON
Old and Modern
PAINTING GS
Aew York Chicago Paris
565 Fifth Avenue 536 S. Michigan Avenue 12 Place Vendome
HUTH LIBRARY SALE The ninth and final part of the famous
Henry Huth collection will be sold at Sotheby's in London on June 22 and the three following days. The library was formed by the late Henry Huth and main tained and augmented by his son, Alfred H.
Huth. The catalog can be seen at the ART NEWS office.
Its dispersal was begun in 1911. The eight parts, comprising 7,842 lots, took fifty days to disperse and realized about $1,174, 670. The collection included autograph let ters, which brought $65,455, and engravings and woodcuts, which sold for $72,200. This
makes the total thus far $1,315,000. This amount does not take into account the price paid privately by Quaritch for the Shake speare Folios and Quartos, now housed in the Elizabethan Club Library at Yale Uni versity.
Many Rarities for Sale In the coming sale are many rarities,
amffong them being "The Life and Acts of the Most Famous and Valiana Champion, Syr William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie:
Maintainer of the Libertie of Scotland," printed at Edinburgh by A. Hart in 1618. It is the only known copy extant. There are editions of Walton's "Compleat Angler," including the first issue, 1653, and the rare second edition.
It is believed by soome experts that Shakespeare had a hand in the composition of an old play, entitled "A Warning for Faire Women, containing the most tragicall and lamentable murther of Master George Sanders of London, merchant, night Shoot ers' Hill. Consented unto by his owne wife.
Acted by M. Browne, Mistris Drewry and Trusty Roger, agents therein: with their severall ends." It is the rare original edi tioni of 1599. There is also one of the two known copies of William Warren's "A Pleasant New Fancie of a Foundling's De vice: Intitled and cald the Nurcerie of Names, wherein is presented (to the order of our alphabet) the brandishing brightnes of our English gentlewomen.
Among the other rarities are John Weever's "The Mirror of Martyrs," first edition, 1601, and his "An Agnus Dei," 1606, a thumb book, the only copy known; "Westward for Smelts," written by "Kinde
Kit of Kingstone," 1620; Alexander Whit aker's "Good News from Virginia," 1613; "Virginia," by E. Williams; Caxton's "Dictes or Sayings," 1477; Robert Greene's "The Scottish History, or James the Fourth Slaine at Flodden," and a series of Masques by well-known XVII century dramatists.
Sale of Early English Works The same firm will sell on June 14 and 15
another part of the Britwell library, the property of S. R. Christie Miller. It is rich in early English tales, novels and romances.
Among them are seven works which ap parently are the only copies known. These are: W. Bettie's "The Historie of Titana and Thesens," 1608; "Syr Degore," a metri cal romance printed by Wynkyn de Worde; "The Dystruccion of Jerusslem," also printed by de Worde in 152&; "Mary of Nemmegen," printed at Antwerp; "Ye Byrth and Prophecye of Marlyn," printed by de Worde in 1510; "Haigh, of Devon shire," by Henry Roberts, 1600, and "Valen tine and Orson," printed about 1530.
SALES AT PITTSBURGH
Sales of paintings in the In.ternational Salon now on at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, have passed records of previous years. Some 46 pictures and six of the Rodin bronzes have been disposed of. Among the pictures sold are 17 of the 22 by Menard. About 45 of the works in the exhibition are not for sale, having been loaned by galleries or collectors.
Other than the Menard pictures, those -sold are by M. P. Bewley, Olga Boznanska (two). Paul Chabas, Paul Dougherty, Flor ence Este, Alice Fanner. W. R. Flint (two),
Walter Gay, Maurice Greffenhagen, Albert I. Groll, Juliet W. Gross, James Knox, Sydney Lee, H. Lerolle (t-wo), Henri Le Sidaner (two), Menet, R. I. E. Moony, J. W. Morrice, F. H. Newberry, Julius Ols son, R. X. Prinet, Alexander Roche, John S. Sargent, George S. Watson and T. Williams.
RECENT PARIS ART SALES Paris, June 1, 1920.
The first session of the famous Beurdeley collection consisting of old and modern
masters and objets d'art was anticipated with great curiosity as it was the first big sale to take place since the passing of the tax bill in the Lower House, and every one
wondered what the effect upon prices would be. There was no effect at all and the sole result was excellent with a grand total far beyond the "experts' " estimations. It has been argued that this sale had a character of its own, that the purchasers were chiefly private collectors and that it had a pecu liarly French appeal. But these distinctions
-between French and foreign appeals-are not as real as they would have one believe. Certain, it is that there are many collectors in France and that they suffice to ensure a sale's success. It is also true that there are still more in England and the States and that valuable and beautiful works are sought after everywhere. As has been anticipated large crowds invaded the Petit galleries on the- two days during which the sale lasted.
The modern pictures were dispersed May 6, and the old masters and objets d'art on the 7th.
The prices secured by Me. Lair-Dubreuil, who was the auctioneer on the first day, reached a total of 1,141,515frs., 855,OOOfrs. having been ask-ed. The highest figure was obtained for Daubigny's "Les Bords de l'Oise," bought by M. Courve for 55,OOOfrs.,
Delacroix's "Patre 'a la Campagne Ro maine" went to the Christiana Museum for 42,000frs. (135,OOOfrs. having been asked for it, as did also Courbet's "Le Ruisseau de la
Consolation" for 29,000frs., 15,000 fr. only having been asked.
It was interesting to note that the prices given for-the Barbizon Master's works are constantly on the increase and to observe a steady rise in the values of the works of, Chasseriau, Monticelli, Tassaert and Fo rain. A Monticelli "L'Assemblee au Jar din," doubled the figure asked for it, ob taining 27,000fr., while the Leda by Tas saert an XVIII Century petit maitre who, after meeting with success fell into such oblivion that he first gave up art and then committed suicide, valued at 15,OOOfrs. was knocked down for 31,OOOfrs. instead of 460frs. in 1893. A beautiful Ziem, appraised at 3,000frs. rose to 3,700frs.
The sale of old masters on the next day drew still larger attendance. Me. Henri Baudoin, the auctioneer, harvested 1,446, 580frs. in the two days. The bids were very close and certain works brought double the price asked for them. The highest figure went to a big picture "Venus et l'Amour," attributed to Fragonard, which fell at 175, OOOfrs. to Mr. Hodgkins. A fine Boucher, valued at 80,000frs. fell at 106,000frs. to MM. Paul and Marcel Jonas. A small and charming picture by Moreau le Jeune (30cm. x25cm.), starting -at 60,000frs. fell at 83, OOOfrs., a big pri'ce. Two small panels by Guardi rose to 4,600frs.; a Ribera, "St. Luke Painting the Virgin Mary's Portrait," valued at 30,000frs. fell at 40,lOOfrs. to M. Feral, while the "Presumed Portrait of Robert Merry the Poet," by Reynolds, doubled the starting price, M. de Causon buying it for 60,500frs. At the sale of the Cte de Bryas's collection in 1905 it brought only 12,500frs.
A fine Murillo, the presumed "Portrait of the Artist," realized 34,OOOfrs. an admirable "Christ Crowned with Thorns," by Bouts, 15,200frs; a large Jan Fyts, "(Chasseur at Chien," 12,500frs.- a portrait by Lepicie, 23, lOOfrs.; a Nattier, 29,OOOfrs.- "Jeune Hom
me dans Un1 Parc," by Shall, 18,500frs. and the "Marquise du Chatelet"' by Largilliere, 28,S00frs.
The sculpture sale was very successful and a terra-cotta by Clodion, "Nymphe et Satyre," fell at 136,O00frs. to M. de Causon. Two busts in marble by Carpeaux, "Sum mer and Autumn," rose to 7,700frs., and two fine XVIII Century Brussels tapestries brought 107,OQOfrs.
Beurdeley Print Sale On May 19 and 20 M. Beurdeley's famous
collection of modern prints was sold by Mes. Lair-Dubreuil, Henri Baudoin and Loys-Delteil at the Hotel Drouot. The total re-alized for the two 'days was 752,346 frs., probably the highest figure ever obtained in two sessions for modern prints.
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Meryon's works are still to the fore and his "L'Abside de Notre Dame, 4th proof before letters, fell at 30,600 frs. to M. Del etil. "Le Stryge" (4th proof) brought 8,500 frs., "La Tour de l'Horloge (3rd proof) 7,000 frs., "La Morgue 7,010 frs., "Le Pont Neuf" 5,400 frs., the "Pont au Change"^ 9,500 frs., and the "Petit -Pont" 3,000 frs.
Among the Goyas, "Les S;eenes Popu laires" fetched 3,200 frs. "Les Caprices" (80 etchings) 6,100 frs., and "La Tauromachie" 4,600 frs. The Whistlers realized very high figures. "Garden," a. fine but unspecified proof, brought 14,000 frs. Other <figures were: "Becquet" 3,205 frs., "'Rotherhithe" 6,100 frs., ditto 3,000 frs., "Old Battersea Bridge," 5,950 frs., "Little Venice," 7,100 frs., "Little Mast" 4,000 frs., "The Palaces" 6,10z0, "The Doorway" 9,100, "The Piaz zetta" 3,300, "The Traghetto" 7,000, "The Riva" 6,600, "Two Doorways" 3,550, "The Beggars" 8,000, "San Biaggio" 7,000, "The Riva" 5,010, "The Balcony" 8,100, "Ponte del Piavan" 3,100, "The Priolto" 6,400, "A Fruit Shop" 1,900, and "High Street" 3,000. frs. Among lithographs by the same artist the delicious little "Nude Model Readinlg" fetched 9,00)0 frs., "Red House, Paimpol" on Japan inl three shades, 10,000, and "Yellow House, Paimpol," on Japan in three shades, 12,100 frs. Fine proofs of etchings by Sey
mour Haden also sold well. "A Sunset in Ireland" attained 6,200 frs., "Mytton Hall" 3.100, "Thames Fishermen" 4,800, and "Shere Mill Pond" 4,600.- "Le Toast," by Zorn, two plates of third proofs, fell at 18,000 frs. and an Ernest Renan, third state on Japan, 17,000 frs. Zorn was, so to speak, discovered by Beurdeley, who made a point of bringing up his prices.
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Ainslee Gallery, 615 Fifth Ave.-Paintings by George Inness, A. H. Wyant, Homer Martin, Winslow
Homer, J. Francis Murphy, and the Barbizon, Modern Dutch and Early English Masters.
Babcock Gallery, 19 E. 49 St.-Summer show of American Paintings.
Bourgeois Gallery, 668 Fifth Ave.-American Paint ings and Sculpture through the Summer.
Daniel Gallery, 2 W. 27 St.-Group of Painters of Today, to Sept. 1.
D; B. Butler & Co., 601 Madison Ave.-Decorative Paintings.
Ehrich Gallery, 707 Fifth Ave.-Old Masters and Decorative Paintings by modern Americans.
Ferargil Gallery, 607 Fifth Ave.-Summer show of American paintings.
E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, 647 Fifth Ave.-XVIII C. illustrated by Kate Greenaway, Caldecott, Crane.
Grolier Club, 47 E. 60 St.-Etchings by Mahonri Young, to June 30.
556 Fifth Ave.-Selections from the Duncan Phillips Collection of Washington, D. C. Works by modern French and American masters, through the Sum mer.
Jumel Mansion, 160th St. near Amsterdam Ave. Loan Exhibition of Revolutionary and Colonial Relics.
John Levy Gallery, 550 Fifth Ave.-Foreign and American paintings.
Kennedy & Co., 613 5th Ave.-Old English Colored Engravings, Flower Pieces by Florence Gotthold and Drawings by W. D. Paddock (sculotor) through the month. Dry Points -and Etchings by Frank Benson.
Kingore Gallery, 668 Fifth Ave.-Rare Rugs, Tapes tries, Old Masters, Decorative Paintings and the Sculpture of Hunt Diedrich, to July 17.
Macbeth Gallery, 450 Fifth Ave.-Paintings by Amer ican Artists through the summer.
McAlpin Hotel, Senor Vizarra's Apartments-Sum mer exhibition of paintings- by Velazquez, Murillo. etc.
Metropolitan Museum, Central Park at E. 82d St. Open daily from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M., Saturday until 6 P. -M_, Sunday. 1 P M. to 5 P. M. Ad
mission Monday and Friday, 25c. Fiftieth Anni versary great Art Loan Exhibition to last through the Summer.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair. N. J.-Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by artists of Montclair and vicinity, to July 11-and Sept. 8-19.
Museum of French Art, 599 Fifth Ave.-Spring Loan Exhibition of XVI French Art, Portrait Engraving on Copper, to July 1.
N. Y. Public Library, Fifth Ave. and 42d St. Annual Exhibition of Recent Additions to Print Collections. Including the Mielatz Etchings, Sam uel Colman's Etchings and Color Prints by the late Helen Hyde.
Frank Rehn, 6 W. 50 St.-American paintings.
Scott & Fowles, 590 Fifth Ave.-XVII and XVIn Century Portraits by English and American Paint ers.
Society Anonyme, Inc., 19 E. 47 St.-First Exhibi tion of Modern Art, to June 15.
Staten Island Public Museum, St George-Paintings, Miniatures and Sculpture; to June 30.
Tanagra Studio, 33 W. 54 St.-Sculnture by Sherry E. Fry, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Anna V. Hyatt, Clio Bracken, Cecil How ard, Hunt Diedrich and Eugenie Shonnard, to June 19.
Howard Young Gallery, 620 Fifth Ave.-American and European i'aintings.
Washington Irving High School-12 Murals by Barry Faulkner.
Yonkers Art Association, Yonkers, N. Y.-5th An nual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists.
ART AND LITERARY AUCTION SALES
Anderson Galleries, 489 Park Ave.-Library of Thomas H. Moynan of N. Y. C., etc.; June 14, 15 and 16. Afts.
Walpole Galleries, 10 East 49 St.-Japanese Color Prints, June 14, eve.
Abastinia St. L. Eberle was recently made an associate Academician. Although suf fering for years from inflamrmatory rheu
matism at her studio, IO60 W. 13 St. she] has remodeled some remarkably fine sculp tures. Most of her work is done on her couch as she is obliged to lie down the greater part of the time.
ARTISTS' SUMMER FLITTINGS Willard L. Metcalf will leave his 67 St.
studio next week for his summer home at Kennebunkport, Maine, where he will re main until the late Autumn.
Valentino Molina is spending the summer at his studio, Ayer's Cliff, Canada.
Royston Nave will spend the summer at York Harbor, Maine, where he will paint until the Autumn.
Antonio Salemme and his bride will spend the Summer at East Gloucester.
Bert Phillips has gone to Phoenix, Ari zona, where he will remain painting his
well-known Indian and Western subjects un til the late Autumn.
Charles Woodbury is at Ogunquit, Me., where he will hold his usual classes and paint marines through the Summer and
Autumn.
Irving R. Wiles will go to his summer home at Peconic, L. I., as soon as he com pletes portrait commissions now in hand.
Janet Scudder sailed last week for her Paris studio. As she has recently purchased a home in the French capital, she will spend the greater part of her time in France from
now on.
During -the past Winter Robert Henri painted 36 portraits. He will go to Buffalo next week to paint a portrait, after which he contemplates resting for the remainder of the Summer at Cape Ann.
Wayman Adams recently returned to his Sherwood studio after some months spent in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, where he
painted several portraits.
After a successful exhibition held in Chi cago, Walter Ufer has returned to N. Y. for a brief season. He will spend the summer at his studio at Taos, N. M.
August Franzen sailed last week for Paris, where he will spend the greater part of the Summer;
Matilda Browne has gone to Lyme, Conn., where she will paint landscapes and flower subjects until the late Autumn.
Bruce Crane has left his studio at Bronx ville and has gone to his Summer home at Lyme to paint until the Autumn.
Frederick W. Kost is painting at his home at Brookhaven, L. I., where he now lives permanently, coming only occasionally to N. Y. to attend to the sale of his pictures.
Frederic Macmonnies has recently re turned to N. Y. after a prolonged visit to
Calif., where he was engaged on some im portant sculpture work.
John Fry sailed for Europe last week. He intends to spend some time in Paris, after which he will go to Italy to look after his interests in Florence, where he has a home and studio. This he expects to dispose of, as it his intention to reside permanently in
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Notable Paris Print Sale The sale of the stamp collection made by
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will hold the following important Sales during June and July,
each Sale commencing at 1 o'clock pre isely:
ELIZABETH RUSSELL John Russell, R. A.
In Sale June 28
Tuesday, June 15, and following day Fine Engravings, including a remarkable collection of the Works of Robert Nan teuil; all fine Early Impressions, many being in the fir4t state of the-plate; an extra illustrated description of the Villa of Hor ace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, with, one hundred and eighty-nine engravings and seventyrnine original water color drawings, inlaid and bound in a volume, the property of C. Constable Curtis, Esq., of Langford Hall, Newark Notts; a selection of engrav ings from the Taunton Heirlooms at Over stowey, Bridgwater, the property of Col. E. A. V. Stanley; also fine engravings, printed in colors; mezzotints after Morland, Naval Engagements, and American Mezzo tint Portraits. Illustrated Catalogs, conI
taining eight plates, price Is.
Thursday, June 17, and following day Valuable Old English Glass, comprising the collection of Mr. John Lane, and other im portant collections, and including a large quantity of colored Nailsea and Bristol
Glass, among the latter being an exception ally fine pair of candlesticks, probably painted by Michael Edkins; a tall and very remarkable goblet, engraved with a ship in full sail, a figure of Britannia, the words "Rede" and "Fiat" and a profile portrait; a wine glass, engraved with the portrait of Prince Charles Edward and the motto."Au dentior Ibo"; fine old sweetmeat glasses, candlesticks, etc.
Illustrated catalogs, price Is. each.
BARBARA VILLIERS Duchess of Cleveland
H. Byrne In Sale June 28
Tuesday, June 22, and three following days-THE NINTH AND FINAL POR TION OF THE HUTH LIBRARY, com prising the letters W to Z; also the Ad denda and an extensive collection of Sale Catalogs, and including a number of Works in Early English Literature of great inter est, such as "The Life and Acts of Sir Wil liam Wallace, Edinburgh, 1618"; a fiine set of the first five editions of Isaac Walton's "Compleat Angler," 1653, 1676; Johii
Weever's "Mirror of Martyrs," 1601. Also important early Americana, such as Rev.
Alexander Whitaker's "Good News from Virginia," 1613, and Edward Williams' "Vir ginia Richly Valued," 1650. Illustrated Cat alogs, price 10s. 6d. each.
Monday, June 28, and four following days -THE WELL KNOWN AND VALU ABLE COLLECTION OF PLUMBAGO, PEN AND INK AND COLORED PEN CIL DRAWINGS AND MINIATURES,
the property of Francis Wellesley, Esq.,
PRINCESS LOUISE OF STOLBERG
Wife of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Samuel Shelly
In Sale June 28
comprising choice examples of the works of many of the most famous masters of the English and Continental Schools of the XVII and XVIII centuries, including an ex traordinary series of plumbago drawings by
Faithorne, Faber, Forster, Loggan Nanteuil and Robert White; very fine portrait draw ings by Dou, de Keyser, Holbein, Matham, de Visscher, Clouet, de Heere. de Bray, Ap piani, Hoet, van Slingerlanidt, Goltzius, Ger bier, Hoethe, Clodion and other foreign art ists, also by Englishmen such as Gainsbor
ough, Downman, Edridge, Paton, Dance, Hoppner, Humphry, Lawrence, Vertue and Jackson; Superb Miniatures by Smart, En gleheart, Plimer, Humphrey, Shelley, Lens, Romney, Hoppner, Daniel Gardner, Hil liard and Alexander Cooper, etc.; also a
very notable collection relating to Cosway, including some extremely fine miniatures by him; an extraordinary series of portraits of the artist and his wife and of prints in rare
states after his portraits; some very im portant autograph letters by him and his wife; the catalog of his sale, with an auto graph letter in it sent by Reynolds to the painter, and the account book of John
Conde, the engraver; also letters from Hor ace Walpole and from Gainsborough ad dressed to Cosway; also a notable collec tion of portraits of the Duke of Wellington and other members of the Wellesley fam ily; one of Russell's sketch-books; a pre cious MS. of 1640 relative to nminiature painting; a wonderful sketch-book of Stuart period portraits; a Downman volume with 33 of his original drawings, and the only letter of his known to exist; a volume of sketches by Goya and other artists; over 400 drawings by THayter, Mrs. Delany's sketch-book, in which all her drawings of famous houses and gardens in England and Ireland are signed and dated; many draw ings by Shelley, etc. Illustrated Catalogs, containing about 60 plates, price 7s. 6d. each.
Thursday, July 1, and following day Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Auto graph Letters, the property of His Grace, the Duke -of Marlborough, including a
number of books in elaborate inlaid mor occo bindinigs, by the most famous Parisiafn binders of the XIX century; also fine Eng lish and French bindings of the XVI cen tury; books with colored plates; XVIII century French books; books from Robert Browning's library; first editions of Char lotte Bronte and Rudyard Kipling, etc.; autograph letters by Joseph Addison, Dan iel Defoe and Sir Richard Steele; historical
papers relating to America, mostly ad dressed to the Third Earl of Sunderland, and relating to the projected expedition against Canada in 1709; a Proclamation printed in New York by William Bradford, 1709.
Also Books in fine bindings and collected editions of modern authors, the property of Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill. A selection of books from the Rowfant Library, in cluding large number of presentation copies of works, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, Illustrated Catalog, price 2s. 6d.
Monday, July 5th and two following days -A very exceptional and important collec
LADY EMILY MacLEOD George Romney
In Sale June 28
tion of books illustrated by George, Isaac and Robert Cruikshank, and of caricatures by the same artists, the property of A. M. Cohn, Esq., the author of the Cruikshank Bibliography.
LATER SALES IN JULY WILL IN CLUDE-A Very Important Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts, the property of a Nobleman, comprising Manuscripts of Dante, Froissart, Lydgate and Boccaccio; Chronicles of France, etc. Illustrated Cata logs, containing about 24 plates, will be issued-price 10s. 6d.
Highly Important Heirlooms of an Old English Family, consisting of oil paintings, including a famous picture by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, works by Titian, Fra Bartolomeo, Greuze, Bonnington, Wouvermanns, etc.; SCULPTURE, including a famous portrait bust of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and fine works by Thorwaldsen, Canova, etc.
A Series of Most Important Tapestries, from other sources, executed by William
Morris from designs of Sir Edward Burne Jones; a beautifully decorated Royal Sword,
made by Clemens Horn of Solingen for James I; the famous picture of Colonel
Mordaunt's Cock Fight by John Zoffany; an important Venetian picture by Canaletto.
Dates and further particulars will be an nounced later; orders for catalogs may be booked.
Each sale may be viewed two days prior and catalogs may be had of the auctioneers, of Mr. Lathrop C. Harper, 437 Fifth Ave., N. Y., or may be examined at the offices of the AMERICAN ART NEws.
1MRS. SM1ITH George Engleheart
In Sale June 28;
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