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Vol. III. No. 74. NEW YORK, A PRIL 8th, 1905. SINGLIS CSOPIES, TEN tCENTS.
EXHIBITIONS.
American Art Galleries.-Dr. Wiener collection of pictures, miniatures, coins from April io.
Astor Library Building.-Colored plates from H. T. Trigg's Formal Gardens in England and Scotland.
Blakeslee Galleries. -Early English, Spanish, Italian and Flemish paint ings.
Bonaventure Galleries.-Old Saxe and Sevres statuettes, etc.
Brandus Galleries.-Paintings of the Barbizon SchooL
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci ences.-Open daily. Admission Mon days and Tuesdays, 25 cents; free on other days.
Bullock Galleries.-Old paintings and
antiques.
Clausen Galleries.-Paintings by Ber tha Sanders.
Durand-Ruel Galleries.-Paintings by Alfred Sisley and Jongkind and old masters.
Duveen Galleries.-Works of art.
Ehrich Galleries.-O'ld masters of the Dutch, Italian, Spanish and English schools.
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries.-Pictures
by late P. E. Rudell.
Fine Arts Gallery.-Society of Amer ican Artists, through April.
E. Gimpel and Wildenstein Galleries Pictures by Henri von Daur.
Kelekian Galleries.-Velvets, brocades, embroideries, rugs and potteries.
Klackner Gallery._Paintings by mod ern artists.
Knoedler Galleries.-Exhibition of water-colors by Winslow Homer and portraits by Francis Day.
Lanthier's Old Curiosity Shop.-An tique and modern jewelry and silver.
Lenox Library Building.-Exhibition of British mezzotints.
McClees Galleries, Philadelphia-Mod ern American paintings.
Montross Gallery.-Ten American 'Painters annual exhibition, March 25 to April I3.
National Arts Club.-Municipal Art Society display.
Oehme Galleries.-Paintings and wa ter colors.
Powell Gallery.- Paintinigs by Cor. noyer.
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn)-Paintings by John W. Alexander.
Rohlf's Art Galleries.-Highest Grade American Art.
Schaus Gallery.-Fine modern Foreign and American paintings.
Vose Galleries, Boston.-Exhibition of important representative canvases by the late George Inness.
Wunderlich Galleries.- Early English mezzotints.
SALES.
American Art Association._Sale of Wiener collections, date to be an nounced.
FRifth Avenue Art Galleries.-Sale by James P. Silo of Rudell pictures, evenings April I3 and I4.
ANNUAL SOCIETY DISPLAY.
Portraiture, as usual, is perhaps the distinguishinlg feature of the twenty-sev enth annual exhibition of the Society of
American Artists, now open at the Fine Arts Galleries. It is safe to say that seven out of ten visitors to this display
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will hold in memory the portraits more than any other of the pictures, or of the sculptures shown. This is due to the facts that having one's portrait painted is the fashion of the day and also that
portraits, as a rule, make a more direct appeal to the interest and attention of the average person, not an educated art lover, than do landscapes, marines or figure work.
The personalities of men and women discussed in the public press are also always interesting to the general public, and maniy modern portrait painters, real
izinlg this fact, send to the exhibitior their presentments oni canvas of thes( personalities. Who shall say, for ex amiple, that John W. Alexander's clevei and original presentment on canlvas of a woman so muclh talked of as M\lrs Clarence Mlackay, is not the best drraw ing card imaginable for the society? ir
fact it is almost amusing to hear, every where where peoplue meet, the question constantly asked-not have you been at the Society exhibition, but: "Have you seen Mrs. Mackay's portrait?"
B-lut with all due credit to Mr. Alex an(ler's original and clever work, beauti ful in its color scheme of light grays and blues, charming in drawilng, coniception an-d idea, alnd only marred, it would seem, l-v the cuiriouis distorted effect of the left arm, there are other r)ortraits in the dis play which shotuld not be p.aIssed by. Aimonig these are Mr. Alexalnder's own1
"Butterfly," a characteristically decora tive and effective canvas, perhaps a trifle too hot in its flesh colors, and recently r eproduced in this journal, and his "A
Mother," really a miiodern Madonna, not able for its exquisite grace and refine
ment of expression. As was said wheii the canvas was shown at the Pennsyl vaania Academy, the figure of the man
might better have been omitted. Of other nortraits in the display there
come to mind, as standing out from their fellows, Robert HFenri's full length of
MAr. F. Ambrose Clark, shown in Phila clelphia and described at the time; his "Spanish Dancer," reproduced in this journal, and which while technicallv not a portrait, comiies under that head-a
most unusual piece of technique and color; Irving R. Wiles' splendid com position, a nortrait of his wife and daugh ter, also a fine 1iiece of techniqtue, and an excellent likeness of William B. Smed ley; of Howard Gardiner Cushinig's two tlhree-quarter length- female portraits, really arrangements in white and gold,
well drawn and glowing in color; Sam utel Isham's portrait of a lady, beautiful Iv drawn, and sweet in expression, but
hard in color; Beniamin Porter's por trait of a boy with the rich colot quali ties of a Gainsborough; William i\Mi.
Chase's bust portrait of a gentlemain; Carroll Becklwith's dignified and strong thlree-quarter length seated portrait of
Richard Ewart; Kenyon Cox's strongly painted bust portrait of Emil Carlsen; John l ambert's fille -head of an actor, shown in philadelphia; Walter Florian's full-length standing portrait of Carl SIchurz, admirable in technique and re calling his famous Joseph Israels in the
mlodeling of the face, and Wilhelm IFu nk's three-quarter length presentment
of Wm. C. Le Gendre, shown in Phila delphia-a virile work-and his half Ikngth of TM/Irs. George M\IcKinlock, a
good technical performance. There are other portraits shown per
hlaps of a less distinctive character, and among these Julian Story's really stun ning full-length portrayal of his wife,
Mime. Eames, which is now an "old story," as it has been shown at various exllibitions and dealer's galleries for two years past. Notice is also due notably to S. J. Wolf's portrait of James R. Hay; Lotuise Cox's charmiing child picture, "Waitinga;" Robert Vonnoh's full-length of Chester S. Lord, a conventional but strong canvas; Patul Moschowitz's dec orative portrait of a lady; Alphonse Joonger 's well painted and thoughtful por trait of a violinist; William Thorne's thloroughly good full1-lengthl of M\rs. Floyd WVesley Finch; M\ars. Cox's "BAlue andl White," another child picture, very vlatural andl lovely in expression, delicate in color; thle same artist's delightfull COml position, "M/other and Chlild ;" WV. Glack enls' portrait of Mr. Fitzgerald. thle art critic, recalling Wihis,tler, but thloroulghlyl strong anld good; Saroent Klendlall's fulll lengthl seated portrait of a lady, clever ii t echnlique, and good in expression; Helen
W0/atson Phlelps' portrait of Henry B,. Snell, and William T\. Smedley's three quarter length standing and clever pre sentm1enlt of M/rs. .Smedley.
Thle salon of the Inldependent Art ists in Paris has for the first time re ceived the oficial sanction of thle Minl ister of Finle Arts. M. Dujardin Beau 'metz. It conltains thlis year 4,269
works, many of thlem grotesqu1e in the extreme, but some 20 pictures are remarkablhr good. Among the artists are Dagnac, Bernard Boutet, Robert Be.snardl, and dlce Ia Roulchefoucaulld.
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The Century Magazine very kindly loans each week original drawings by its contributing artists, for use in the
Reuterdalhl illustration class at the Art League.
Sketches and paintings by Will Hiowe Foote, including landscapes and figure pieces, will be exhibited at the
Art League the second week in April.
One line of the work carried on by the Department of Fine Arts at Pratt Inistitute is the training of teachers and super-visors for drawing and ele
m,entary manual training. Five hun dred and twenty-four positions have been filled by students on leaving the Institute so far as reported, and be tw",een April and October last, forty seven positions were filled.
Through the courtesy of Charles W. Hawthorne, a scholarship, consisting of free tuition in ithe Cape God School of Art for the coming summer will ble awarded for the best work done in the morning portrait class at the Art
Students' League this season.
Mrs. William Sheehan, Mrs. J. H. Flagler, Miss Clover Boldt and Miss Kora Barnes have recently been elected to the advisory board of the School of
Applied Design for Women.
Alphonse Mucha, the celebrated poster artist, is giving a course of eight lessons on general conventionalization, at the School of Applied Design for
Women.
Virginia Hargraves Wood will man age Charles W. Hawthorne's Cape Cod School of Art, which will open June i. The work will be done eni tirelv out of doors. Classes are for
mlien and women, and oil, water-color and pastel will' be used. Three crit icisms a week will be given. The price of tuition is fifteen dollars per month.
The school will meet at the new studio which has recently been built for its accommodation in Province town, which is at the extremie ecd of
Cape Cod, and is the oldest and most picturesque fishing hamlet on the New England coast.
Competition for the scholarslhip giv en- ly the Society of Beaux Arts archi tects will begin on April 29 this year. The winner of the prize re
cei\Tes a purse of $2,500, and is ad lmitted directly into the first class of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, thus saving at least two years of pre paratory work.
These competitive examinations to count in Paris, can only be given by alumni of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The N ew York society has branches all over the country, and its aim is not to teach men who cannot go to Paris th.e regular course of artistic draughts manship as taught at the Beaux Arts.
'A competition open to all art schools and art departments of colleges in the United States, with the excention of those in) New York City. will be held at the
Art Students' League, April 1 5, 190,. Tenl scholarshins w~ill be awardled, five upon antique drawings and five upon life cdrawings. As many students as wish
mnay compete from any one art school, butt no more than one antique prize and' one life class prize will' be awarded 'to any one institution. Scholarship holders will be entitled to 'free'tuition in any one class at the league during, the term of I905-6. All drawings submitted must
be accompaniedl by a letter certi'fv'ing that the candidate is an art student in good standing. '
WASHINGTON NOT'ES.
Twenty-five valuable paintings from-r the collection of Senator Clark have been loaned to the Corcoran Art Gal lery, and are now on view in the up
per loan room. They are mainly the work of igth century artists, although some six belong to an earlier period.
There is a wonderful Corot, a mass of dark trees, on the right, with a low slhadowy foreground, where a group of nymphs are dancing, and a hill slop ing down to a gentle valley, wrapped itl opalescent gray. The luminous sky is a miracle of craftsmanship. Two
other Corots in this collection are- a tiny formal Italian landscape, and the figure study of a young girl with a
mandolin. There are two Daubignys, one a Dutch landscape representing the artist at his best, the other a river landscape, "At Sunset." A small
Constable is rich and decorative in tone, but somewhat artificial in com
position. The next largest picture to the Corot is a fine Troyon, a landscape and cattle. Dupre is represented by a large picture representing cattle cross ir-g a bridge in level country, with a stormy sky.
One of the few figures slhown is a Chardin. Jules B'reton's "Potato Gatherers, ', distinguished in composi tLon and skillf-vlly drawn and painted, has; nevertheless, no tone, nor is it hGrri"onious. Ther-'e' is a fine Hoppner, and a tiny head 'by Gerard Dow, hardly larger than 'a cabinet photo graph, a perfect ge'm. 'This loan col lection affotds a splendid opportunity to the' public fo acquaint themselves
with these fine examples of the artists miientioned.
James Henry Moser has recently been requested to contribute works to the. exhibition of American water colors now open in bondon, to the American Water-Color Society's ex hibition in New York, the Phila delphia Art Club;' and the Pennsyl vania Acade'my spr'ing exhibition. As all of these invitations' insure exemp tion from injury, and the last was for a group of six, Mr. Moser naturally looks upon them as significant and
welcome evidences of appreciation.
Two interesting pictures of Wash ington are now on view in the win dows of an F Street bookstore. One i,: a view of the White House from the' old canal at Seventeenth and B Streets, as it was inl the time of Presi d-nt Tyler, and the other the Capitol in the early forties. B3oth are oil paint: iligs, by W. H. Bartlett, an English artist, and carefully accurate. Al thlough' their first value- is an historic one, they are aertisticailly above the average of such work.
The annual meeting of the Wash inlgton Water-Color Club was held last
week, the following officers being elect ed:' James Henry Moser, presi denlt; Bertha E. Perrie, vice-presi denlt; Agnes Grace Atwater, secre tary, an'd'Carl Weller, treasurer. Rob ert Coleman Child, William Fuller Cutrtis, and Mathilde Mueden were chosenl for the bDoard of managers.
W. H. Holmes, the retiring president, declined renomination.
M\r. Williamn H. Hilliard, the Amer ican'artist whlo died last week i-n Wash ington, was bDuried in Grgeenmount,
Baltimlore. Among his well-known pic tures were- "'The Fight' Above the
Clouds," which sold for ten thoulsand dollars, a portrait of President Gar fiekld, and c thle tomb) of John HSowar(l Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Hrome."
PITTSBURG (PA.) ART NOTES.
The art galleries of the Carnegie In stitute are at present occupied with the institute's permanent collection. For the last two weeks in May the Pitts burg Architectural Club will have its exhibit there. This exhibit will be held in connection with the convention here of the National Association of Archi tects. The exhibit will include Rich ardson's original drawings of the Pitts burg courthouse, one of the noblest monuments of the late architect.
John W. Beatty, director of fine arts, Carnegie Institute, was in New York during the week i-n -connection with a statuary collection which the institute is purchasing. Director Beatty does not expect to go abroad in connection
with the purchases. A generous fund has been set aside by the institute for the purpose. Not only will the collec tion contain casts of the best statuary of the world, but also casts of the more important architectural subj ects. In addition to the institute now building separate halls will be used for the stat uary and for the architectural display.
A curious and interesting group of oil paintings of the Venetian school has been brought to Pittsburg by Rev. John DeVille, collected on a visit to his native town of Moena, district of Ca vaise, in Tyrol, Austria. There are twenty-one quaint canvases in all, whicl are being exhibited at a local gallery.
Most of the paintings are works of Ignaz Unterberger, and Rovisi, artists
who flourished during the eighteenth century, and nearly all of them deal
With biblical subjects. Some of them are very large, with paintings on both sides of the canvas, having been pre pared for bann ers in the Church of St. Vigilius, Moena, and the Church of St. John, Vigo, Fassathal. Rev. Father DeVille came into possession of the paintings through- his cous'in, the daughter of John-Baptist Felicetti, an artist who did some work for the dif ferent churches in Fleimsthal and Fas sathal. These paintings will be on view until April i; then for two weeks D. B. Walkley, of New York, will ex hibit in the same gallery s-ome thirty canvases, Dutch subjects made while the artist was abroad last fall. August
Wunderly is exp-ected back from Europe April i with twenty canvases collected by him while abroad. In the collected by him while abroad, including some of Watson's Scotch cattle pieces and Jose Weiss's landscapes.
The mansion built by Governor Tilden in] Twenltieth Street, overlooking Gra
mercy Park, is soon to become the home of the National Art Club. Negotiations with the Tilden heirs have just been con cluded, but the price paid them was not
made public. The house is per fectly ad,apted to the requirements-of the* I,3oo artists holding membership in the club. GTovernor Tilden designed it with the idea of permanent occupation as a pub lic library after his death.
Otto von Krumhaar has recently comn pleted a three-quarter length standing portrait of President Roosevelt. The picture was painlted in three SittinlgS, one of a few minutes' duration, given in the artist's studio in the Bryant IP-ark Build ing when the President was here in February, and two at the White House last month. The picture is a thoroutgh ly satisfactory likeness of the President, and is onle of the best that the artist has yet painted, being neither a caricature nor an exaggeration, as too many
of the portraits of the President are. It depicts him standing in a characteristic attitu1de, with right hand firmly grasp ing a post, is fresh in color, and, as sa,id above, is a faithfutl likeness.
NOTES FROM BOSTON.
Mr. Emil H. Richter, curator of the department of prints, Museum of Fine Arts, left Boston recently for six months of study in the print cabinets of London, Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Vi enna, etc.
rhe exterior of the new Custom House will be adorned by a series of heroic statues, typifying continents, nations and cities. Four chief groups representing Earope, Asia, Africa and America will be by Daniel C. French. Other work will be done by Louis St. Gaudens, Carl B`itter, F. M. L. Tonnetti, etc.
Mr. Richard M. Saltonstall has kinld Iv offered to lend to the Museum of
Fine Arts for the coming season Mil let's great picture of "The Sheep
Shearer," which will be hung in the Fifth Gallery early in April.
The twenty-eight paintings which have recently been hung in the Jap anese corridor of the Museum of Fine
Arts are exhibited together to give a notion of several concurrent efforts among Japanese painters during three of the most brilliant centuries of their activity. The examples are taken from the Kano,. the Tosa, the Zen, and the
popular (or the "ukioye") artists.
Jean Paul Selinger, Boston's portrait and figure painter, has lbeen awarded the first prize of $i,ooo for a calendar offered bv the Osborn Publishing Company. Mr. Selinger is a pupil of the Munich Acad 0m.1V.
The exhibition of pictures by Carl Gor clon Cutler, which is to be opened to-mor row, is the first exhibition of this artist's
works held in Boston. He is a gradu ate of the Museum of Fine Arts School and has resided abroad for the past five years, a pupil of Benjamin Con stant and J. P. Laurens.
Daniel Chester French is reported to
have completed a bust of James Rus sell Lowell for Harvard University.
The bust, which is about three feet
high, will be cast in bronze and will
occupy a place against Massachusetts Hall.
The Copley Society exhibition of
works of Claude Monet, supplemented )y eleven pieces of statuary by Rodin,
has excited such interest in Boston that it will be continued until April I5. There are more than one thousand paid admissions each day, to say noth islg of the members of the society,
who have free ingress. The interest; ,s as great as; if- not greater than, that shown in the Whistler exhibition last season in Boston.
There are 95 pictures shown, emn bracing a great variety of subj ects. T9hus there are five views of Giverney, six of Vetheuil, in which two villages
muchl of the artist's life was passed, two of Bordighera, a painting "On the
Border of a Fjord, Christiania", and a study of a neighboring village, the
Rouen cathedral, six views of London, no less than thirteen of the Seine at various timnes of day, under different aspects, and near different river vil lages, together with three portraits, one of Madame Monet in a garden, one of -Madame NIVonet and child, also in a gar den, and one of Leon Peltier.
The eleven Rodinl scul1ptures showvn at the present Boston exhibition are loaned by Messrs. John-W. Simpson,
Henry- L. Higginson, Eric Pape, and Charles Scribner.
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Mr. Florian has returned from WArashington, where he painted the
Wallace children, grandchildren of Chief Justice Fuller. The family are so pleased with the work that they have placed the portraits on exhibi tion.
Arthur Freedlander is giving a series of Saturday afternoon receptions at his studio in the Bryant Park Build ing, and gave an evening musicale there on March 30.
Nelson W. Bickford, well known as a painter, has recently turned his at tention to sculpture, and in the same line of work as that of his paintings, namely, animals. At the last Acad emy it will be remembered that he
showed several small bronze stat uettes, noticeably that of a "Strutting
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ited animal group is called "The Death Struggle," represent ing a mortal conflict between a lioness and a large .snake, partly coiled around the body of the lioness.
A n o t h e r statuette
slhows the dead lion ess, the snake caught by her claws and held fast by the dead body. Tlhese groups are full of movement and are most real istic.
Mr. Alfred Klotz, who married Miss Agnes Boone in De cember, is now in Rome with his wife, where he is studying art. Mr. Klotz has done some good work, his pictures having been exhibited in the Salon. A few
years ago he bought a quaint old place in France, Rochefort en Terre w-here he and Mrs. Klotz will spend the summer.
H. T. Legget, the li1UU:LLllUUb y Li u IL 5
artist and writer, has his studio at
the Ansonia, where, with characteristic energy, he has accomplished a great amount of valuable work, both as
painter and author. His book is al
ready completed and will soon be
bt ought out. The illustrations are his
own and the cover will present an at t active design of his original work
manship. As' a scholar under Mr.
Chase he had sound training and he
was also fortunate in coming under the stimulating teaching of a well known pupil of John Ruskin, Mr. Cook, of London. Mr. Legget will, in the
course of the spring, cross the Atlantic in the interest of his work.
Lucius Hitchcock and his wife have returned to their home in Holland,
where the artist has lived for the past
eighteen years.
Henry Mosler's canvas "The Um brella Mender," recently exhibited in Springfield, Mass., has just bieen pur chased by several, prominent citizens of that progressive city, as a perma nent adornment of a famous hostelry there.
The subject of this canvas is a bit
'of Mr. Mosler's favorite Brittany. In a large, widee-chimneyed living-room and work-room combined, bright with
plants and sunshine, two little girls gravely await the old umbrella mend er's answer to their question: "How long will it take ?" The open window,
with its sniowy muslin curtain, reveals stretches of widie farm land and lets in delicious draughts of the warm "outer light."
An interesting portrait of Pope Pius X., by Charles. Arter, now on ex hibition ait the Catholic Club, No. I20
West 59th Street, has the distinction of bleing the only one ever painted from life by an American artist.
Through the influence of Signor Agazzi, director of the Basilica of St. Marks, and an intimatte friend of the Pope, Mr. Arter, while in Rome. last June, obtained the consent of His Ho liness to paint his portrait, and was al so plermitted daily access to the Vati can in order to study the expression and bearing of his distinguished sub ;,f-+t 9liaf reorrviln .ittif-noF- we7,rer oiveni
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at intervals and Mr. Arter was at all times obliged to wear evening dress.
This portrait, a full length, repro duced in this issue, represents His
Holiness standing dressed in his house robe, with right arm raised in the act of pronouncing the beniediction against a deep red background, bear ing the Papal coat of arms. The ex pression is that of a kindly, gentle na ture, genial and affectionate, but with al dete;rmined. It is said that the Pope is particularly pleased with this, his la-test portrait, because of its simplic ity.
Mr. Arter numbers among his other plortraits those of Mrs. Alfred Marshall and her two children, Mrs. Charles Steinway, Mrs. George Fahys and daughter, Miss Fay Davis, Mrs. Dr. Luther Crowl, Lady Willshire, etc.
Elliott Daingerfield has finished two more of his mural decorations for the Ladv C'hapel of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. These are altar panels representing the "Angel of Incarna tion," a woman's figure, and the "An gel of Resurrection," the figure of a
man. Both were put in place last week. The artist is still busy on the r emaininZ two pictures, which will complete his decorations for the chapel.
ART NOTES FROM PARIS.
The late Rodolphe Kann bequeathed to the Louvre a fine portrait of a man, by Thomas de Keyser, esp!ecially wel come since the Louvre contains no au thentic work of this artist, and but one picture ascribed to him.
The sixth exhibition of the New So cietv of Painters opened March i6 in the Galerie Georges Petit. Almost all the exhibitors a-re well known, and
while there is no superlatively fine work shown, there is plenty of talent, and some charming pictures. Jacques E_mile Blanche contributes a broadly painted, excellent portrait of Lady Colthurst, and a large still-life, a sal mon surrounded with a mass of choice hors d'oeuvre calculated to create an appetite in the most dyspeptic. Charles Cottet sends fine realistic studies of tlhe nude, Breton landscapes, and a "Ca lek h 1- 1nl o^f qA.<I; zoi " T _11cWipe _rn Simn'sz
'"Masquerade" is a fantastic composi tion of brilliant color, and his water
color, "The Market Parade," is re markable in execution, and seems to
have been painted con amore. Rene
Maynard sends some attractive land scapes, of which a "Sunset at the Side
of the Corso" is exquisite and rare in
effect. The light is white, the trees of the foreground are enveloped in it, and almost disappear in its brilliancy. Tnhis is no invented eftect, and the art ist has reproduced what he has seen
with a sure brush. Another marine sunset is very interesting, as are all the pictures shown 1by him. Fritz
Thaulow has some fine landscapes as
usual, limpid water, with mother-of pearl reflections, whose secret M. Thaulow guards jealously, and winter
cecnes, of which "Night in Correze" is extremely beautiful.
Ignacio Zuolaga always attracts at
tention. One may not admire his paint
ing, but it never escapes notice. In
"'fhe Family of Gitan," the toreador holdinlg the child, and the child as well are powerfully painted, but the abso lutely flat background detracts from
the effect. WAralter Gay has some charmingly
natural interiors. Auguste Rodin sends a bust and a group.
BALTIMORE ART iNOTES.
The Maryland Institute will have an adequate and properlir lighted exhi bition gallery in their new building for paintings and sculptures. Thirty-one sets of plans have been submitted to the committee in charge of this mat ter. The names of the architects are not signed, so whichever one is ac cepted it will be purely upon its own merits.
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons the public enjoy Mr. Walters's Art Gal lery, but, as stated before, it will not be open much longer, as re building of the new gallery will soon begin. Besides Mr. Walters's famous pictures, the Oriental ceramics and bronzes give much pleasure. Among the latter are a colossal bust of Augustus, and a life-sized bust of a young man
with the family features of the Cesars, a statue of Paris holding the apple, a little Mercury, a
Jupiter. a Venus at the Bath, and five bronze cistea from Etruscan tombs, which are incised with decora-tions and have little figures as handles for their covers. Mr. Walt ers has been in town lately. He will spend his summer as usu al abroad.
There ar,e few m o r e interesting houses in Baltimore than that of Mr.
Walter de Curzon Poultney, who has probably the finest private collection of pictures in Balti more. Among the most valued is one by Benjamin West, "Penn's Treaty
With the Indians," painted and signed by him in I798. His "David and Bath sheba," by Domen ichino- and Balado chino jointly is one of the most attrac tive of his Dosses
sions. It came from Baron Rensburg's
collection fifty years ago, and was
bought by Mr. Poultney's father.
Several pictures of battle scenes by
Bordone and Cortese, painted in, i665,
are interesting to art lovers. A large
picture of- "Diana After the Chase,"
by Polensburg, and others by Grotti
are also among his collection. One of
his pictures, it is claimed, is by Paul
Veronese. Among the family por
traits is one of Ellen North, the first
white child born in Maryland, and
painted by Charles Peale. There are
also many portraits of Mr. Poultney's
facmily painted by the artists of their
day. His nephew, the late Richard
Curzon Poultney, who died in Eng
land three years ago, was most suc
cessful in his miniatures, both here
and abroad, and while in England
painted those of Lady Londonderry,
Lady Beatrice Butler, now Lady Pole
Carow, Lady Ponsonby, and others.
Mr. James Teackle Dennis gave a
clever illustrated liecture upon "A
Winter's Excavation in Egypt" in Mc
Cay Hall at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity the other afternoon. Mr. Dien
nis is very enthusiastic over his work,
and will go to Egypt again this spring
tc ptursue his researches in the tombs.
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Not in memory have New York art lovers and collectors had such a succes sion of exhibitions and art auctions as
dturing the past three weeks Follow ing the sale after an exhibition of old
pictures owned by Mr. Ehricl, came the
opening of the Society,. andl Ten Amer ican Painters' displays, the exhibition and sale of the Brandus an(l King collec tions, and following these, this week has
brough-t the exhibition and snle of the
Blakeslee pictures. Coi.Lcidently the Metropolitan Museum has held a retro
spective exhibitio'n of the work of stu
dents at the American Institute in Rome, there has been an exhibitioni of the
Municipal Arts Society at the National Arts Club, and several minor displays
in dealers' galleries. Trulv a feast for tne art lover and student.
And now the cat is out of the bao:, -
and, fortunately for--.the organization,1 the statue is out of the club. In other
words, in a roomn in a house near Fifth Ave., there is being exhibited at an ad missionl fee, the so-called Aphrodlite oft Praxiteles, better knownl as the cooked or "De-Kayed" Venus, recently exploited by the National Arts Club and the New York Timles, through the press agent1 work of a, club member, who is also thei art=writer for the Times. It is an evi- 1 dence :of the changes that come in men'si
minds with the flight of years, to recalli the fact that this same writer a score or i
more of years ago inveighed most stren ulously against whlat he called the "hippo-i droming" or "Blarnumizing" of Mutn-i
* caczy's celebrated canvas, "Christ Beforet Pilate," an original picture of great power. He has learned to find that "hip-1 podromning"' probably pays better thlanc art writing or criticism. But how aboutt art repu1tation ? t
The result of the Peters-Hilprecht con- ( troversy in Philadelphlia, which has so
stirred archaeological circles, not only i:i that city, but everywhere, althotugh
not definitely reached, can be forecasted
by the resignation by Dr. Hilprecht of lis post as curator of the Babylonian section in the Free Museum of Science
and Art, and as Clark Professor of
Assyriology in the University of Penn sylvania. This resignation has been pre
dicted from the first by Dr. Hilprecht's accusers, and it certainly would seem as if, even with the anticipated wllite-waslh in.g report of those trustees who are
favorable to him, there was no other way out of the dilemma for him. It is a re
ettable fact that up to the present Dr.
]-Iilprecht would seem to stand convicted ira public opinion of unprofessional con
duct, to say the least. It is said that Dr. Hilprecht will leave America for good,
and will reside hereafter with his Amer ican wife in Germany. Thus endeth .an
otlher American art scandal.
The election of William M. Chase by unanimoous vote to fill the vacancy in
the ranks of the "Ten American Paint
ers," caused by the death of John H.
Twachtman was an interesting event of
the week. The choice is generially ap
proved by artists everywhere, and there can be no question as to his qali
fications for membership in this 'sm-ll'
b)uL1t clever body. But how will Chase's'
election to "The Ten" affect his rehi tionls to the Society, and what does the
Society think of the election and conse
quent defection? That's another story!
An exhibition of water colors by
John S. Sargent opened recently at the Carfax Gallery, London.
Editor of The Americant Art Nezs: LONDON, March IO, I905.
DEAR SIR:-I shall be much obliged if you will allow me to contradict certain 3uggestions made in an article en
;itled "An Artistic Misunderstanding," Ahich appeared in the American Art News for February 25.
With regard to the much disputed por
:rait ascribed to Velasquez which was -ccently acquired by the Boston Mu ;eum, I wish to state: That I visited B3oston to see the pic
tires there and inI no way as repre ;entative of the New York Sun or any
)ther journal. WAhile there it was nat iral that thle Mluseumn authorities shouldl
.sk my opinion of the Velasquez, and haey gave me every opportunity for al lose examination. My personal opinion
vas simply the statemnent of my personal onlviction-it was given with a fulli ;nowledge that so high an authlorityr as, vi. A. de Beruete did not believe the )icture to be by Velasqu1ez. I may have )een wrong. I shall be glad to admit it f it is proved to be mnerely a copy, but, or the present I adhere to my belief inl
ts benluineness. The letter froml M. de Beruete I dicl
lot see till I received a copy of your1 ournal over here, nor did I knowv thlat
thad been published, lt is impossibk hlat myl return to Englanld was in any
,-av the result of its publication. I camei ack when I' had tranlsacted the bu.siness on3nected with the Burlington Magazine
or which I had come over.
I may add that the April number of I
H?t journal will contain an article by7
ir. Lathron dealing at lenlgth wvith the uzestion of the "Velasquez."
Yours faithfully,c - ~~ROGER B. FRY.I
PHILADELPHIA ART NEWS.
The Philadelphia Water Color Ex hibition opened on Saturday last with the usual reception and privatg view. at the Academy of Fine Arts. In con julnction with it are: shown the pictures en bl-o,c from the New York Water Color Society, and a group of forty one pictures by Elizabeth Wentworth i,oberts. The display is a good one. and alithough the majority of work shown is above the average no notes have been struck that are: particularly new. The most striking group is probably that made up of the seven or eight col,or etchings by Mary Cas satt.. They are drawn with her usual facility and truthfulness and have
much truth of color. A group of col ored etchings, lient by T. Gardner Cas satt, a set of which was exhibited at the Durand-Ruel Galleries in New
York, are very Japanesque and beauti ful in treatment. Next to MIiss Cas satt's are three: charming bits of old Europe by Charles E. Dana. Sarah C. Sears. has two, important portraits, which are interesting for a certain fi delity to nature and a freshness of color.
Childe Hassam. is repre:sented by six pictures, done in his usual manner, and full of brilliancy; "The Flatiron Building," New York, by Co1in Camp bell Coopef, is .particularly clever.
NUe-a this are five sutniny landscapes by IThgh H;. Breckenridge: Williani M.
C hase has ani interestifii picture called. "On the Beach at Z-afidv-o0`f;' full of stihflight and atmihsphere; and Sargent is fepresehted in quite an' unu'stial
maflner by a little pictture called "A Venetiafi Cahal."
A striking and individPtal group is that of Jule:s Guerin, exceedingly well
worth examining. Hanging in the transept are so-me interes,ting drawings by the young illustratorf Sarah S; Still w,ell, by Ross Turner, Hiroshi Yosh ida-Ellen Wetheerald Ahrens and
Henry C. M'ercer. Louise Wtood has three pictures. Al charming landscape called "Among the Cliffs of York shire" and "A Pontrait Sketch" par ticularly show the poetical quality of lier work. Cecelia Beaux is also rep
resented by a portrait sketch. Unfortunately it is not possible to
mentioin all the pictures that deserve. notice, but the visitor will not over Look the works of George Wharton
Edwards, Hopkinson Smith, Charles C. Curran, Elizabeth Bonsall and_ Blanche Dillaye, who has a clever
yroup of six landscapes. The group by Elizabeth Wentworth
Roberts should be studied by itself, is it is strongly individual and full Df the atmosphere of the French stu
lio.; The: Philadelphia Sketch Club holdsi
ts regular monthly meeting today.l 'The April Shower" and "A Japanese
KIimona" are the s;ubjects for compe
:ition.
The Fairmount Park Associati'o.n hast tpproved the full-sized bronze sltatue )f the late Mathias Baldwin by Her-i )ert Adams. This statue was to have1 een completed in May, but in view of ,udden unavoidable delay the time iae been extended three months until
;eptember I for Mr. Adams to de-1 iv er the statue.r
Marjorie E. Watnough has sold heri
)ic'ture called "A Composition Sketch,"r
yn view at the Plastic Club 'exhibition. r
A portrait bust in white marble and tf heroic size, of the late AGnthony T. t
)rexel, is to be presented to the Drexel aL:
Iistitute, of which he was the founder, by his daughter, Mrs. Alexander Van Ren-sellaer.
CHICAGO ART ECHOES.
The opening of the eighteenth an nual exhibition of the Chicago Archi tectural Club took place last week in the galleriies of the Art Institute. A formal reception was tendered to mem bers and theiir friends on Thursday evening. The exhibition is the most attractive and successful one ever held by this organization. The show ing of serious work demonstrates the fact that this society of young archi tects is wholly abreast of the times in virility and originality. Especially interesting to the layman is the finle showing of terra cotta objects, plaster reliefs, brass accessories to the archi tect's work, and decorative panels of high merit. The catalogue presoents 453 works admitted by the exhibition committee.
The annual traveling scholarship donated by Victor Falkenau for the best design of a city residence was awarded to Charl,es Herrick Ham
mond. Noteworthy in the exhibit is the capital
slhowing of work by the Chicago School of Architecture. The College of Archi tecture of Cornell, the Drexel School of
Architecture, the Columbia University School and the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology. Much local pride is shown in the plans for the develop-'
mnent of a city beautiful as presented by the D. H. Burnham Company. Sci entific hospital construction has also received esplecial attention.
In this exhibition Washington Hull is showing the plans of the Memorial
Continental Hall which the congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution will occupy in Washington this month. The Century Company 1as 'also loaned the London studies bv
Birch Burdette Long, which won so much attention during the winter.
Domestic architecture has received an important place, but the cry for a
n;ational American style is still un answered. Many designs are pictur esque, but there is no universal tend ency toward some crystallized f'orm.
Conspicuous is the Max Mauch me
mrorial, consisting of pieces of his work Loaned by Mr. Beil in honorable recog
nition of the late sculptor, who was a miember of the Architectural Club.
Pwo bronze plaster replicas are also
ihown, as well as a fountain by.Hel
n Mears which was awarded a silver nedal at St. Louis.
In the Joseph Twyman memorial *oomu are many exquisite examples of ~urniture craft and designs by this
\Torrisit'e. The exhibit is made, in
*act, under thle auspices; of the William \{orris Society. Some beautiful pieces )f carved work in chairs, Itables and
;creens are to be seeRn as well as somse ine metal work.
The Alumni Association of Decora ive Dfesigners of the Art Institute is riving its first exhibition of drawings n this city. An entire gallery, which ias breen etspecially decorated for sthis
)ccasion, is devoted to this exhibit. Phe gallery itself is a charmingz syml )hony in brown tones, a practical il ustration of the fine arts of these rep
esentative designers. There are I91 Lesigns shown in black and white and
ricolor; displaying the decoration of Lumerous articles from windowis and -iral panels to teacups.
Five of Oliver Dennett Grover's Vetie Lan subjects have met with unqualified raise in Boston.
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fInle art andl othner hooks, oil and( wvater color vtia tin g.s. mi1niatu1res and el ric-a
brrac of all kindfs. It iS sold by+ order of theC execut1ors. will b)e placed o!1 viewr as soon as it is ready, and the sale wrill tak;e place nlext week, th1e eates to b)e annou0lnced.
Althoug1h depletedl by thae fine col lection sold at auaction1 this wveek~, the B,lakceslee Galleries. No. 358 Fiifth Avenute, have somne interesting pic
tulre.s. A charmling- portrait of Ksitty F7i.sher, by0 Sir Joshu1a Reynol1ds,< mlay now bDe .seen there. anld th1e splendidly executed portrait of a womanl by Cor r;ehius Jan1sen has ju1st been1 receivedl MIr. P,lakce.slee recently soldl a very fine example of this master's work.
TIm Proctor East Indlia I-louse. No. 141 Fifthl Avrenue. is no0W showing> at tractivec fu1rnlish1ings and( dlraperies es pzeciallv aflaptedl to summ1ler homnes One sichemle of fu1rnishing> has the walks covreredl with g>rass cloth1 in an ecrt tint, with wvindow dlraperies in the same hlne of Antioch cloth, a curiousl} woven, loose mes<hedl cotton fabric madle in this cou1ntrv. It allows thl
ligh>1t to pzass thrlotugh, and( HIs; in1 .soft
folds. F-or heavier curtains, portieres, ctushions, etc., anl English clintz, with
pale yellow and pinik roses on a cream
colored ground lharmionizes admirably. TFhe fturniture for this room is of wicker in the natural shade, anid a lamp of dull
green Japanese pottery, has one of the hiand-painted silk shades which this lhouse makes a specialty of furnishing to order, from exclusive designs. If dlesired, shades are also made of the clhintz, to mnatclh the hangings and ctushions. The wicker fturniture is al so shownvi in a grayish lavender tone to accompaniy the Frenich gray furniture, another specialty of the firm, in green or in brown.
By order of the executors, the col lection of paintilngs of the late -Mr. I. E. Rudell vill be sold under the direction of MXIr. AVilliam Clauseni at the Fifth Aventue Art Gallery, No. 366 Fiftlh Avenue, by MX1r. J ames P. Silo, on the evenings of April 13 and I4. This collection will be on view at the sanme galleries from Mloniday uintil the -ven-ing,s of the sale.
A fine selection of old Saxe and Sevres statuettes, vases, boxes, and( fine etuis anid bonbonnieres in lat tersea enamiiels are niow being , showni1 at the Boniaventure Galleries, No. 6 WTest Thirty-third Street.
I\ vo paliels exhibhited at St. lIotuis by the Tvrolese artist. Riss, are nio\w' ini the Oelhme Galleries, No. 384 Fiftlh \venue. One is a nutde figure, in a
roiuchiino attitude. against a blue l)ack,Tround, the other a stronrI io1-rC of a mani on the v\ery edg,e of a cliff, ai lamb ov-er hlis slhotulder, defending h1imself fromii the attacks of a large eagle. The figure is strongly out
linied againist a (leep yellow sky, the
abyss deeply blue, and the wNvhole im
rressioln is of force and skill in hand Iig. The two panels in dark wrood
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POLONZAISH, RUG
At the Middle of XV. Century Kelekian Gallery
fra--ies are distinctly decorative in ap
pearance. A gaily colored "Merry gro-Roundcl," gby Kaemmerer, and a
thnree-cjiarter figure by Joseph Isracls
in his earlier imanncier, arc other recelnt
M(l(litiolns to these gtalleri -s.
Paintings by Alfred Sisley wvill re
maini at thLe Durand-Rucl Galleries, No. 5 West Tl]irty-sitlh Street, until
N\pril i5, insteacl of ANpr'I 8, as prc
Viousl v anniiouincedl.
Among, the photographs of well
kjown lpeople in the 1Falk Galleries.
No. I4 West Thirty-third Street, is
the accompanyllic l)ortrait of A. A/Mul
ler-Ury. the well-klnownli artist.
Mr. Falk hlas a rare collection of
picttures gathered (Itilnrn hiis years of
.xperielice in plhotograplhy, one of thle
most iinterestinlg beinlg that of 1thomii
as A. Edison. taiken on the occasion of
blanquet lheld April I I, I904, com niiemorating the twenty-fiftlh anniver sary of his first electrical invention. .M,lr. Edison wenit to M\1r. Falk's stucdio just before the banquet, whlere he was
photograplhed by an electric light whichl he himself had ilnvented.
The portraits of Gov. Myron -Mer lick, of Olhio, Dr. Seward Webb, Sig
A MULLER-URY Photo by- Falk
nor Marcon'i, Lord Kelvin, the cele b,ratedI scie ]itist, Sir Robert Kaye (iray, presiucnt of the Enulish Insti tute of Electrical Enginieers, NMrs. olhln MIcGee, MIrs. Lotuis Iselin, two
-lharmillng water- colo- portraits of M rs. Joseph Widener, and Mrs. Jolhn
Latlhani, as well as an as!imb-able. iniiiiiatture of Mrs. Tohn Mfanamal: er,
aLre n-otable examples of Mr. Falk's work.
An11ongo- the many interesting works
of art in his sttu(lio may also be meni
t onled awl excellent xvater-color, 'V ieNv in Capri by the Ilaroness Rotlhs
C11hl(, ta I)a!ititllg by DeCost Smaitlh,
"'liw 1 OVClrS [Tour, an attractive
w\ater color b)y I'atil King, aridI a min ittturc fani designl paiiitcd on1 swansklin
h)v Leoini, of Romze, the greatest living illuminiator.
An exl]ibitiOrI of paintings hy Albert L. Groll, somiie twventv-seveni canvases, including those showni at the Clatusen
(alleries last week, wNill openi in Bos
ton on AMonday.
O)wingc to the recenit sale of the 1 randus collection, the g-alleries at
\T(1 391 Fiftlh Avenue lhave lost manya
of tlheir l)est canvases, hut otlhers are
beingy reccived to take tlheir places, and a-,mong paintings iiot incluc1de(d in
che sale, and now on view, are a fine
portrait of a nol)le woman, by Raves -Lyn, formerly of the Count Niszeck collectioln, with all the careful atten lion to detail, and remarkable technic
of the old Dutclh artists, and a beauti
itul painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the portrait of his niece, the MLar chioness of Thomond. The subject is
charmingly pretty, and the larg-e can vacs 4o x 50, is most attractive.
Owiing to the expiration of the lease of i's present galleries at No. 384 Flifthi
AVe'nuIle, Jtilius Qeibme sent a number
of his collection of painting-s to MAessrs. AM. Thomas & Sons, the Philadelphia
(lealers, which paintinigs were sold at
public auction onl Wednesday after ioon. Somie of the artists represented
were Anidreas Achenbaclh, B. J. Blom mers, E. Boudin, J. 1. Corot, Jules
1'reton, N. Diaz, Jules Dupre, Tony
ETobt. Fleury, J. T. Henner, H. Har
pignies, .Sir Godfrey Kneller, MVleisson
ier, Thaulow, 'Weissenbruch, Ziem, etc.
At their Condtlit Street auction gal leries, London, last week, M\Iessrs.
Knighlt, Frank & Rutley sold a collec
tion1 of old silver alnd curios, including the plain gold sniuff box presented by the
Em-press __Maria Theresa to Commis sioiner Probv in 1746, w-hich sold for
?40.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An exhibition of historical portraits of the I7th century will shortly be
held at Oxford. MIessrs. Shepherd Brothers, London,
are h,olding an exhibition of portraits and landscapes by early British mas
ters.
Excavations at thie Roman station of
Blarhill, near Glascrow, Scotland, have
resulted in such numerous proofs of
Roman occupation, as to give them a
tinique place among North British
work of the kinid. These excavations
wvere beofun in 1902, and are not yet
completed.
Inscriptions discovered by the Dal
ishl archaeolog<ists in the Acropolis of
Lin(los are saidl to throw a new liTht
tupoin the (late of the La6ccoon group.
an(cl sug>gest that it was pro(ltlced in the
Autiugstain agye.-The iAtlicnactl;n.
Ani in,teresting exhiibition of Italo
Byzantine art lhas been arranged at
Grottaferratai to commemorate the
9oothl annliere1sary of the foulndinlg of thle ababey there. Exhibits of painltingrs carv ings, andI works of goldsmithas h1ave bgeen promlised fromn thle Vatican ande other collectilons.
D)irector vron WR1erner of thle Blerlin A-cadlemyl of A\rt hlas refusedl to admlit w0omlen1 Stiul(entS, anld mlore thlan 200 of
themi hiave senit a petitionl to the Prus sianl A fin ister of Edutcationl. (lemianlingll, a(lmlissioll on termus simi'ar to thlose ac cordled thaem at thle uIniversities. Thec clecisionl of thle A[Xinlister i.s awaitedl with
mulch inlterest, as it will estab)lish1 a precedlent in othler S;tate art acadl emnies froms whlichl wromlen inl GXermlany are still excludcedl.
Thelc exhlibition1 of 01(1 BrutAssels art
will be h1eld at thle Cercle !Z-\rtisticqtie of thlat city froml Julyw to O)ctobger, and addl(itionalcl bulild1ings are bleingC l)lanl~elll for thle occasionl. It wrill be tln(ler thle natron1age o-f t]le ksing, andb Pfrince Al becrt h1as consencltedl to be pre.si(lenlt ot the h1onoraryr commlittee. A tenll)rolarv> anlnex i.s pzlannedl for thel mlasterpgieces of thle Brulzssels stud(ios of theiCI tli. Tfthl andl 17thl cenlturlies wh+richl will in cltudle tapestries sctulptutre. sculpl ttlr edl wrood, etc.
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An exhibition of works by Whistler will be held in the Luxembourg Gal lery, Paris, opening about May i. This exhibition has been arranged for by' the executrix of Whistler's estate, Miss
Phillips, and the well-known London firm of experts in old masters, Messrs.
P. D. Colnaghi & Sons, but Messrs. Knoedler & Sons of this city, Paris, and London, have charge of securing the pictures from different collections, both in this country and Europe.
A nucleus has already been obtained for the gallery of modern art for Ire land, in the unexpected gift of two Con stables and two Corots. These were bought from the Staats Forbes collec tion by the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and given to the gallery. A fund of $IOO,ooo has been started with a pop ular one dollar subscription, for the pur chase of five other paintings from this collection.
Director Comfort has arranged with Professor Bolton Coit Brown of New York to show at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts some examples from the latter's rare collection of Oriental art.
The Aberdeen Sculpture Gallery of Casts will be opened to-day by Sir George Reid, R.S.A., LL.D., at 2.30 P.M. A private view will be held the preceding day.
For some years a small museum and art gallery has been in existence. This has now been entirely remodeled, en larged and fitted with the very latest improvements, until the pre'sent gal lery will compare with any other in the United Kingdom, and in the new center court the Aberdeen people be lieve they have one unique.
The council has arranged a collec tion of casts brought from all parts of
Europe, forming one of the most ex pensive and complete outside of Lon don, available for teaching the whole history of sculpture.
It is expected that rep'resentatives flom the museums of Paris, Berlin,
Dresden and Rome will be present at the opening ceremonies.
A bust of General Lafayette, mod eled by Houdon, has been presented to the TUniversity of Virginia by the French Government, through Ambas sador Jusserand, and is now on its way to this countrv.
In the large gymnasium of the Knick erbocker Athletic Club Building, which has long been closed, a private view was recently given by Mr.'J. Alexander Hay dlen, of three remarkable old altars from the chapel of 'the Convent of Our Lady of Consolation in the town of Utrera, not far from Seville in Spain, and one of the finest in the province. The altars, the largest of which has been set up for inspection, were imported a few weeks ago by Mr. Hayden, and are the most important of the kind that have ever come to New York. They are greatly interesting architects, artists, and, in fact, all lovers of art and decoration1.
Estimated to be worth between $I 50, OGO anld- $200,oo0, they were secured by
Mr. Hayden's agent only by much di plomnacy and at large expense. They date 'from the year I1557. The people connected with the church consented to the sale of these altars for the reason that they wanted to have the money to use in the erection of schools and other educational institutions, which they deemed would be of more value to their Ineop1e than the altars.
Carved in wood and gzilded and touched up in color, the altars are beau tiful and striking in effect.
BOOK NOTES.
Charles Scribner's Sons will slhortly publish an account of recent excava tions in the Roman Forum between the years I898 and I904, written by
E. Burton-Brown, who has been lec turing in the Forum twice a week dur ing the winter.
New importations by this firm are the latest volume of the Newnes Li brary of Applied Arts, "Old English Furniture," by Frederick Fenn and B.
Wyllie. There are ninety-four illus trations reproducing furniture owned by the authors, or in the collections to
which they have had access, including examples of the Stuart, Queen Anne, and Jacobean periods, and of Hepple
wAhite, Chippendale, Sheraton and other makes.
The Newnes set of drawings, by Sir Edward Burne Jones, is a thoroughly satisfactory work. The drawings are excellently reproduced, and are pre ceded by an interesting essay by T.
Martin Wood.
Art features of the April Century in clude an article on famous French cha teaux, illustrated from drawings in black and white and colors by Jules Guerin and Andre Castaigne; three full page drawings by Sigismond Ivan owski of three of Tolstoi's celebrated wromen, Katie, Mariana and Anna Kar enina, of which the latter is especially satisfying and characteristic; and a brief article with pictures of the three btronze doors made by Daniel Chester French for the Boston Public Library. Helen Zimmern's article on Holy Sat urday in Florence is also effectively il hI-istrated from photographs.
"Parisians out of Doors," by F. Ber keley Smith, author of "The Real Latin
Quarter" and "How Paris Amuses It self," will be published in June by Funk
& Wagnalls Company. Illustrated with numerous drawings arnd photographs by the author, and a water-color frontis piece by F. Hopkinson Smith.
The one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, April 2, will renew interest in the Danish fairy tales and folk tales that, have delighted two generations. The Century Company ptublishes a "memorial edition" of An dersen's fairy tales, a distinctive feature of which is the series of beautiful illus trations, two hundred and fifty in all, bv the author's fellow-countryman, and the most distinguished of living Danish' artists, Hans Tegner.
In the March number of "Les Arts" just received, are reproductions of the four panels by Boucher, representing the seasons, purchased at the recent Ridge
way sale in Paris by Mr. Eugene Fischof for 8o,ooo francs, and sold by him to an American collector. It is under stood that these panels are now onl their way to this country. The reproduc tions in "Les Arts" are exceptionally good, and give an excellent idea of the exq uisitivelv dlecorative charm and grace of the.se remarkable examples of early French art.
Sixteen miniatures by William Dun lap have iust been found in an old scrap book. They are portraits of New York ers, but no one knows now who thirteen of them were. Three are of the painter himaself, M\rs. Wigwell, an actress, and
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Williamn Dunlap was born at Perth Amboy in I766. He studied at London in the art class of Benjamin West, paint ed. the portrait of George Wash ington. HIis miniatures have a singular
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A recent English publication is a hiis tory of Ham House, and its art treas ures, 1v Mrs. Charles Roundell, pub lI hed by Bell & Sons. This old English n-mansion is said to be rich in rare books and miniatures, and the author has beeln given every opportunity to stuLdy these. The book contains nunmerous illustra tions.
The Arundel Club, a society recently formed to distribute among its mem bers photographs of little known or vunedited works of art, has sent out its first year's publication. The pic tuires receive the ascriptions given them by their owners, which will prob ably not meet with general acceptance. T he most remarkable are an altar piece from the Archbishop's palace at Evora, Portugal, ascribed to David; a MAla donna, signed and dated by Franqesco da Rimini; a signed Benedetto Diana, a head of Clhrist, which, it is thought.
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The exhibition of paintings by Gif ford and Reynolds Beal atthe Clausen
Galleries, No. 38I Fifth Avenue, closes to-day. There are now on view, how tver, continuing until April I5, twelve attractive paintings and water-colors by Bertha Sanders.
t/Miss Sanders is essentially a colorist, her oils in particular are generally of sunset skies, and are painted oni days of full summer. She is not always sure as to her drawing, and her compositions are at times somewhat crowded. The best of her oils are "The Orchids," "Sun set," full of glowing light, "Hilltop,"
with a rich sky, and "After the Shower, Spring Afternoon," more delicate and softer in color than her other work. Of her water-colors, the best are "Twilight," which has good sentiment, "The Star in the Pool," with deep, rich color quality, and "Landscape," a good tonal study.
Portraits of children by Francis Day, and a collection of water-colors bv Winslow Homer, were placed on cxhibition at the lower K-noedler Gal leries, No. 355 Fifth Avenue, on Wed rnesday. In the upper gallery an in teresting landscape by George Elmer
Browne, a pupil of Weissenbruch and Maris, has recently been hung.
Mr. Day gets remarkably good ef fects with the use of charcoal and water.
His four heads of little girls are charm ing in expression, and truthful and rich in color. The subjects of the water-colors by
Winslow Homer are the familiar hunt ing and fishing scenes in the north and
Maine woods, and at Bermuda and Key West. Their characteristics are, as ever,
crude but splendid color, laid on in broad washes by a master hand, giving a gen eral effect of truthfulness to locale, and great virility.
An exhibition of paintings by Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Murphy opened at the Katz Gallery, April 4, and will con tinue until the I5th.
At the Metropolitan Museum the re trospective exhibition of the work of stu dents at the American Academy of Rome during the past ten years, and which has recently closed there, drew attention to the enterprise and its needs. The fund for the endowment of the Academy is being so rapidly pushed as to justify the trustees in the belief that the entire sum, $i,ooo,ooo needed, will be subscribed by MIay. I. The work shown at the Mu se.um proved tha;t the students have taken full advantage of the opportunities af fcrded them by the Institute to study, and emphasized the necessity for broad ening the scope of the Institute.
An exhibition of twenty-five paint ilngs by John W. Alexander will open in the art gallery of Pratt institute,
Monday, and will continue until May 6.
The fourth annual exhibition of the Mlunicipal Art Society, which will con tinue through this and into next week at the National Arts Club, is made up, as usual, of a number of architects' draw ings and plans, various models in plaster for public buildings, schools, bridges, subway stations, etc., and some pictures, including Frank M. Bogg's well-known "Brooklyn Bridge," studies by GIeorge l3reck for mural decorations, the Flower
Memorial Library at Watertown, N. Y., and F. Dana Marsh's virile compositions depicting workmenl on the iron skele tons of sky-scrapers.
From the New York Improvement Commission come twenty-two designs and a colored-chart exemplifying the idSeas of the commission for making the
city beautiful, shown at the Architectural League display, and other drawings, also shown there, including the plan of the "Outer Park" System of Philadelphia, proposed improvements at Cape May, and the photographs, drawings and models of the new Croton dam, from the Aque duct Committee.
At the Gimpel and Wildenstein Gal leries, No. 252 Fifth Avenue, M. Henri von Daur, a German by birth, long resi dent in Paris, and an American citizen, and whose work as secretary general of the American National' Institute in Paris has brought him prominently be fore the French and American art public, is making an interesting exhibition of some seven oils and thirty-one water colors. The artist, who has been a great traveler, has a keen eye for the pictur esque, and his pictures are characterized by much refinement, good outdoor feel ing, and at times delicacy of color. Of the oils, perhaps the most interesting is a painting of the Villa Doria-Pamphily, at Rome, and a view of St. Mark's,
Venice, at early morning. Among the water-colors, a view of the Grand Canal, of San Giorgio,' at Venice, the ruins of the Castle Lichtenstein, at Moedling, the artist's birthplace near Vienna, and a charming view of Long Island Sound near Westch'ester, are the most attrac tive.
Thomas Bullock not onlvy has aWlarge stock of antiques of every description, furniture, silver and bric a-brac. in his show rooms at No. 358 Fourth Avenmie. but in a rear room are some fine paint ings. The furniture is all genuinely old, as he never deals in reproduction-. Of the paintings, a beautiful Pcussim. in; s;ft, dark coloring is noticeable, and a Chardin, fotlr figures seated at a table, is full of animation, one of the women recalling Greuze in general style. The portrait of a solemn burgher, by Miere velt, bears the imprint of that mastcr in every brush stroke, as one c(rinoisseutr remarked recently. A small Sir Joshua
Reynolds is riclh in coloring and a soft toned landscape by Naesmith, effectively framed in dark wood, is worthy of
mnention.
At Lanthier's Old Curiosity Shop, No. 354 Fourth Avenue, may be seen this week a' suite of fine old Aubusson tapes tries. four large pictures and four pan els, all finished with graceful borders of Powers and' acanthus scroll;, after car toons by Lancret.
The colors of these tapestries are soft, rich blends of rose, blue, brown and yel low. The-subj ects are bits of the royai gardenls at Versailles, with rose, fleut dTc lys, narcissus and violet borders, splen didi marbles, plashing fountai-ls and flut tering dloves. The figures are effective ly costumed and gracefully posed. Thea 'suite is woven with the skill that char acterized its epoch.
W ?\e pulblish the followinlg list of pic tu1res of the David H. K(ing, Jr., collec tion, .sold bJy T'homas E. Klirby at the
A-merican Art Galleries last week Fri dSay evrening, with artists, prices and buyers:. "Le Paysanl," Augoustin Theodule 1iiot; F. A.
Chapmzan ........................$ 700 "Portrait of MIr. Romilly," Sir Thomas Lawrence,
P. 1A. A- Jules Oehme-........................ 300 "At cairo, " Eugene Fromentln; Hl. H. Stevenson. 950 "Portrait of Catherinle Milgnard," Pierre Milgnard;
I-I. B. Hlollns ........................2,500 "Moorish Hlorsemenl," E3ugene Fromentln; Emer
son WIc31Illin ........................1,500 "Moonlight on the Yare, Norwrich, " John Crome
(called "OlId Crome" ); S. J. Reckenldofer ........................ 425 "Trhe Giludecca., Venlice, " Louis Eugene Boudin;
Glaenlzer & Co ........................1,123 "Stunset on thle Olse," C. II. Delpy; J. C5. Gray -. -...................... 325 "M. de Nantenil-Lanorville," A. L. Claude Pagnest;
Arthur Tooth Sons ........................350 "P'ortrait of a Lady," John Russell, Rt. A.; Jules
Oehme ...1,525 "Bacehante," John Opie. It. A.; Payne Whitnley. 800 "Portrait of a Lady," Antoine Watteau; H. W.
Paynle ..3,200 "Portrait of Nugent the Painter," John Opie, Rt. A.; Newv York Co-operative Society . ...................... 625 "MasHter James HIaig,," Sir HIenry Rteehurn, Rt. A.;
Ht. B. Holllns ...................... 90() "The Duke of Reichstadt," Sir Thomas Lawtrence,
P. It A.; Payne WVhitney ....................... 3,500 "Po'rtrailt of Mis?s Scott," Sir Thomas Lawrrence,
P. II. A ....................... 2,950
"Master Kenwoed Shaw," Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A.; B. C. Porter ........ ................ 1,475
"The rrincess de Conde," Franz Porbus; - 950 'Lady Charlotte de Montmorency," Philippe de Champagne; ......... ................... 750
"Queen Charlotte," Thomas Gainsborough, R. A.; Eugene Fischoff....; .. . .. 2,150
"Sir Francis P. Bourgeois, R. A.," Sir William Beechey, R. A.; H. W. Page .. .................. 4,100
"Dr. Richard Warren," Thomas Gainsborough, R. A.; Mrs. H. W. Sibley .................... 1,850
"Portrait of a Gentleman," John Hoppner, R. A.; Mirs. E.. Pope Sampson ........................ 1,550
"Madame D'Henin," Nicolas de Largilliere; James D'W. Cutting . ................................... 2,000
"Portrait of Mrs. Clarke," George Itomney, R. A. 1,400 "Madame Scarron," Pierre Mignard; Sir -William
Van Horne .............. ..................... 900 "Madame Elizabeth de France, sister of Louis
XVI.," Mme. L. E. Vigee Le Brun; Jules Oehme 725 "The Marquise, de Breteuil,"
- Germain Jean
Drouais; Emerson McMillin ....... .............. 1,700 "Queen Marie Lescinska," Charles Andre Vanloo. 1,650 "Lady Sarah Bunbury,". Sir Joshua Reynolds,
P. it. A.; Sir William Van Horne .............. 2,100 "Madame de Noailles," Nicolas De Largilliere;
George Arents, Jr ........ ...... . ........... 1,250 "A Normandy Pasture," Mmie. Mlarie Dieterie;
Jules Oehme ............ ..................... 2,750 "A Garden Party," Adolph Montecelli; 1,250 "Thomas Thornhill, Esq.," George Romney, R. A.;
Emerson McMillin ......... ................... 1,000 "Portrait of a Young Gentleman," John Russell,
R. A.; Max E. Beruiheimer ...... ....... 875 "Mme. Vestris," Mme. L. E. Vigee Le Brun; 1,850 "Lady Samwell," Cornelis Janssen; R. Hall Mc
Cormick ................... ................... 500 "Princesse De Polignac," Antoine Vestieri; Joseph
Pulitzer ................... ................... 1,900 "Portrait of a Gentleman," Sir Henry Raeburn,
It. A.; Joseph Pulitzer ........................ 1,400 "Mme. De Roissy," Jean Slare Nattier; J. 5.
Bache ........................................ 7,600 "Landscape," Henry Harpignies; Jules Oehme ... 1,650 "Lady St. Asaph," John Hoppner, R. A ......... 2,500 "Character Sketch of Mrs. Siddons," Thomas
Gainsborough, R. A.; Charles B. Alexander .... 1,000 "Sunset," Jules Dupre; Eugene Glaenzer & Co .... 7,400 "Portrait of a Lady," Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. 2,500 "Landscape," Charles Francois Daubigny; W. G.
Phillips .................. .................... 3,800 "Portrait of a Young Girl," Mlle. Jeanne Phili
berte Ledoux; New York Co-operative Society.. 900 "Near Ville d'Avray," J. B. C. Corot; A. Tooth
& Sonis ................... .................... 5,225 "Sunset on the River," Henri HEarpignies; Scott
& Fowler .............. ...................... 1,150 "The Heart of the Forest," N. V. Diaz; Jules
Oehme ................... .................... 2,050 "The Due de Penthievre," Nicolas de Largilliere. 2,000 "Lady Hamilton as Bacchante," George Romney,
R. A.; H. W. Fayne .......................... 8,500 "Henriette de Bourbon Conti, Duchesse d'Orleans,"
Jean Marc Nattier; C. I. Hudson .............. . 4,000 "Portrait of a Gentleman," Thomas Gainsborough,
P. R. A.; .......... .................... 1,600 "Mr. Leneve, Alderman of Norwich," Sir Peter
Lely; ............. 5,200 "Portrait of Miss Lockwood," George Romney,
B. A.; .................................. 7,900 "The Duchess of Rutland," Sir Godfrey Kneller;
James. D'W. Cutting .......................... 3,050 "Holland Meadows," Anton Mauve; W. G. Phillips 6,500 "The Countess of Halifax," Sir Godfrey Kneller;
Jesse Straus....... ...... 900 "The Duchess of Buckingham," Sir Thomas Law
rence, P. R. A.; Adolph Lewisohn ...............6 B,400 "Dukes of Cumberland and Bavaria," Sir Peter
Lely; .... 700 "The Comtesse D'Argenson," Jean Marc Nattier;
J. D. Schenhauser . 18,000 "Portrait of Miss Macartney," Sir Henry Rae
burn, R. A.; 10,500 "Mrs.E Hales, nee Challoner," Sir Joshua Reynolds,
P. R. A.; Eugene Fischoff .3,750 "The Countess of Carlisle," Sir 'Peter Lely, Max
E. Bernheimer .1,200 "The Duke of Fortland," Sir Henry Raeburn,
I. A.; Jules Oehme ..................... 2,500 "Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans," Adrian Hanne
man .. 700 "The Marqulse de Lafayette," Nicolas de Largil
liere .. 7,200 "The M?arquise de Saifray," MIadame L. E. Vigee
le Brun .. 5,700 "Sir Patrick Blake, Bart," Sir Joshua Reynolds,
P. R. A. . 1,050
The antique furniture, rugs, etch in,os, wvater-colors and other objects conmprised in the collection, realized a total of $I7,879.
The 193 pictures which m'lde up the Brandtus collection were sold bv Mr. James P. Silo in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, March 29 and 30, for a total of $184,105. The total of the first evenl ing's sale was for ninety-four canvases, $53,035, and of the second evrening for ninety-nine canvases, $13 1,070).
Only> fair prices were obtainedl as rule, and( there were several bargains.
The highest figure Qf the first evening's sale, $3,350, was paid by MV!r. Loulis Stern for an interesting example of MAdeissonier, "Rembrandt in His Studio," from the sale of the artist's effects in Paris in 1893. Mr. W. A. Johans paidl $2,850 for a good example of Ziem, a characteristic "Venice," and Mfr. S. P. Shotter, of Savanlnah, $2,525 for a Roca B3onheur "Plowing."
Pictutres thlat brought $I ,ooo and tlp ward, with artists' names, the titles of the pictulres, the buyers' name.s when ob tainable, and the prices they brou1ght,
were a.s followvs: Rloybet, an expert, L. Ross ...$1,700 .Sanlterr e, lme. De Parabere, -L. A. Lanthier ... 1,6210
Dlaz, forest scele ....1,500 D. Mvtens, MIarie Do Camudio. L,. A. Lanthler .... 1,500) Gainshorough Duponlt, Mrs. 1.owvndes Stone-Norton. 1,550 Corot, ideal landscapve, A. W. Bishop.1,300.... Darbes. Emp)ress Marie of Russia, L. A. Lanthier. 1.200 Thaullow, bridge at Veronle. Louis Ralstonl. ...1,050 Thaulow, Abbeville canal, J. Graham ..1,050 Zucehero, Eleanora do Valois. L.-A. Lnnthier . ..1,075 Thaulowv, Rtiver Arqlues. HI. D. Babcock ...1,025 Le Nain. lIlle Do Blois, MIrs. F. Sutherland . 1,000 L. Tocque, Malrquise do Litenlois, MIrs. F. Suther
Aime Perret, Hlarvrest Time .1.],000
An interesting example of MiV.et, "The tSeatedl-Spinlner," which calme .From Bouls
sod-Valadon and M. MonLaignac, of Paris, to Mr. Brandus, was purchased by Mr. Eugene Fischhoff, the Paris ex pert, for $24,000 at the second evening's sale. $II,500 was paid for a Schreyer. by an agent. To Mr. L. A. Lanthier went Coello's "Portrait of Isabelle Ciaire," from the collections of Queen Isabelle of Spain, and Emile Gravet.
$7,050 was paid by Mr. Eugene Fisch of for an early and interestingf example
of Corot, "Souvenir d'Italie ;" $420oo for a good examlple of Meissonier from the sale of the artist's effects in Paris in T893, also by Mr. Fischhof; $;3,600 paid by Mr. John Fanning for a Cazin land scape; $3,500 for a portrait of the Mar quise de Sombreval, by Mr. P. M. West; $3,400 for a Ziem, by Mr. G. W. Pat terson, and $3,IOO, for a Van Marcke, by Mr. A. W. -Bishop.
Among others who bought imiportant canvases were Messrs. A. 3radlev, J. Green, J.- B. Smith, C. Snedecor. W. W,T. Johns, R. J. Murphy, H. D. Babcock, J. A. Irwin, J. Martin, Baron Schelling, the Russian Consul; William Sleicher, J. A. Bernin, of New Orleatus; William
G. Peckham and Mmes. A. Dunn, W. P. Hamilton, F. Sutherland and Campbell Clark.
The pictures which sold fc'* $i,ooo or over at the second evening's sale, with artists' names, titles, buyers' names, when obtainable, and prices, were as follows: Corot, "Landscape in Auvergne;" A. Bradley ... .$2,900 Daubigny, "Landscape and River;" John Fanning. 2,000 Meissonier, "The Parting Cup;" J. Graham ...... 2,300 Rosseau, "Gorges d'Apremont;" John Fanning ......... 1,850 G. Palma, "Eleanora Gonzaga ................... 1,800 Gerome, "Feeding the Pigeons;" E. Fischhof ...... 1,750 Rubens, "Isabelle Brandt;" J. B. Smith ......... 1,700 Roybet, "Spanish Amateur" ...................... 1,700 Bougereau, "Conquered Love;" J. Graham ....... 1,650 Diaz, "Oriental Siesta ............................ 1,450 Aime Perret, 'La Gardeuse d'Oies;" John Fanning. 1,400 Alme Perret, "Waiting for the Boatman;" C.
Snedecor. 1,400 Goaert Flinck, "Portrait of a Lady," P. M. West. 1,325 Jacquet, "Sweet Music;" John Fanning ...... .... 1,Z75 I' Daubigny, "Landscape;" B. Ralston ............. 1,200 Madrazo, "Vanity;" W. W. Johns ....... ........ 1,150 Thaulow, "In Normandy;" Mrs. A. Dunn ...... . 1,100 Diaz, "Pool in Forest;" J. Graham .............1,075 Thaulow, "River Arques;" J. A. Bernin ......... 1,075 Daubigny, "River and Landscape;" Edward
O' Reilly ....................................... 1,050 Thaulow, "Venice;" J. Graham; ................... 1,050 Diaz, "Figures and Landscape," E. Fischhol ..... 1,000
A total of $I27,000 was realized at the sale of the Beaurdeley collection of i8th century engravings and drawings in Paris.
Three pictures have been purchased. by William M. Chase from the pres ent exhibition of the Society of Amer ican Artists. These are Henry Salem
H-ubbell's "The Poet," Paul Cornoyer's "Madison Square," and a marine by Straus, which was accepted by the
jury, but not 'hung, owing to lack of space.
Tn Paris :-Bust of a young girl, Boucher, $340; Return from the Fair, H--uet, $510O; Portrait of a M.an, Le Guay, .g$i,o6o; Portrait of the Artist, Lemoine, $404; View of the Castle of Mladrid, Lespillasse, $870; The Toilet, Malle.t, $86io.
I n London :-Landscape by Gains bzoroughl, $S31I5; "The Magi," B. Vai Orley, $472.50; Polyptych with ten scenes from' the Passion of Christ, A del R;incon, $4.99.
An interesting canvas entitled "The Stream in thle Meadow," which was painted by Charles Conner, the Rich mond artist who died a few weeks ago, has been purchased by Emil Deitz, of InJdianapolis, and will be placed in the permanent collection of the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis.
In a lot of abandoned' goods sold on April 4 at the public stores, w^as a paint ing of a cow consigned to- "Plerpont NI organl, trust-koenig, America," hut whichl was niever claimed by tile banker. Thle governmlent appraisers hlave valuedi this work of art at $5.
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