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AMERICAN ART NEWS.

Vol. V. No 19. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 23, 1907. SINGLE COPIES, TEN CENTS.

EXHIBITIONS.

American Art Galleries. - Paintings and sketches by the late Eastman Johnson and collection of old and quaint coppers and brasses, etc., owned by A. W. Drake, until and through sale beginning February 25,

P. M.

Astor Library.-Exhibition of black and white and color plates from F.

Hopkinson Smith's "Venice of To day." Plates from F. R. Martin's "History of Oriental Carpets Before i8oo."

Blakeslee Galleries. -Early English Spanish, Italian and Flemish paint ings. .R

Bonaventure Galleries.-Fine old en

gravings and art objects.

Brandus Galleries.-Paintings by the Barbizon artists.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci ences. - Open daily. Admission

Mondays and Tuesdays, 25 cents; free on other days.

Canessa Galleries, Paris.-Antique works of Art.

C. J. Charles.-Works of art.

Clausen Galleries.-Paintings by Er nest Peixotto, February i8 to

March 2. - Collins Galleries. - XVIII. Century

English and French oils, and char

coal drawings by Oscar Fehrer.

Durand-Ruel Galleries. -; Pictures by Claude Monet and Eugene Boudino.

Ehrich Galleries.-Portraits by mas ters of early schools, opens February 28. .

Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 546 Fifth Avenue.-Art collections of Mime. Marie Dolibera, February 25-28.

Fishel, Adler and Schwartz.-Paint ings by noted artists.

Gimpel and Wildenstein Galleries High class old paintings.

J. & S. Goldschmidt, Frankfort.-High class Antiquities.

Heinemann Galleries.-Modern paint ings. Modern German pictures a

specialty. Hamburger Fres. Paris-Works of Art.

E. M. Hodgkins, London.-Miniatures, Sevres porcelaine, French furniture.

Holland Art Galleries.-High class modern paintings. View in old Rome by G. Pannini.

F. W. Kaldenberg's Sons. Artistic specialties in ivory, pearl, etc.

Kelekian Galleries.-~Velvets, brocades, embroideries, rugs, potteries and an tique jewelry.

Khayat Gallery.-Antique art objects. Kleinberger Gallery, Paris-Works of

art. Knoedler Galleries.-Exhibition of

Whistler Etchings. Portraits by August Franzen and paintings by E. I. Couse, February I8-28. Portraits

*.by J. -J. S;hannon,.March I-I5. L;eicester Galleries, London. -Land

-scapes by James Charles and Harold Speed. Drawings by Anton Mauve.

Lenox Library-Exhibition of Hop *kins collection of photographs of -,Italian works of art, and etchings by the late Dr. LeRoy Milton Yale.

Macbeth Galleries. - Landscapes by Charles H. Davis, February 23 to March 2.

Metropolitan Museum. - Open daily. Admission Mondays and Fridays, 25 cents; free on other days.

McClees Galleries, Philadelphia.-Ex hibition by Chas. Morris Young, February i8 to March- 9.

Minassian Galleries, Paris. - Persian and Arabian objects for collection.

Montross Galleries. - Exhibition of pictures by T. W. Dewing and D. W. Tryon, February ig to March 9.

Noe Galleries.-Watercolors by Walter L. Palmer.

Oehme Galleries.-Paintings and water color drawings.

Powell Gallery.-Pictures by Ameri can artists, February 26 to March i. Paintings by A. V. Churchell,

March 4. Pratt Institute.-Exhibition by Church

Glass and Decorating Co., February I8-28.

Ralston Galleries.-Works of Art. Sivadjian Galleries, Paris. -Genuine

antiques, marbles, bronzes, jewels and potteries.

H. 0. Watson & Co.-Decorative works of art. Pictures by Monti celli.

Williams (Max) Gallery.-Special sale old and modern prints, etchings and oils.

SALES.

American Art Galleries.-Pictures and sketches by late Eastman Johnson February 26 and 27 at 8 P'. M., and old brasses and coppers, etc., owned by A. W. Drake, February 25 28 and March I-2, at 2.30 P. M.

Fifth Avenue Art Galleries.-546 Fifth Avenue.-Sale of Dolibera art collec tions, February 28, March i and 2, 2.30 P. M.

The "Return to the Farm" by Tro you, which Mr. Hermann Schaus bought for $65,ooo at the recent Henry sale has been sold to Mr. E. T. Stotes

bury, of Philadelphia, by him for a

price not given.

The United States General Apprais

ers resently announced a decision in

which a new phase of the provision of

the tariff law regarding art works de

signed for presentation to religious so

cieties comes up. The merchandise was

a monument imported for presentation

to a Philadelph-ia church. It was as

sessed at fifty per cent. and claim was

made that it should come in free. This

protest is overruled. Judge Walter al

so overrules a claim that certain fash'

ion. plate drawings for a periodical

should come in free as works of art, they being the production of American

artists residing temporarily abroad.

A hitherto unknown portrait of

Shakespeare has just been discovered under curious circumstances in a vil

lage inn at Winston, county Durham. The inn is the Bridgewater Arms. It

is the property of Lord Brownlow, and

is kept by two maiden ladies named Ludgate, whose family moved from

W"arwickshire some generations ago. The Misses Ludgate sent the picture to

Christie's, in London, where it was ex amined and pronounced to be the very

earliest portrait extant of Shakespeare. It seems to have been painted in the

last decade of the sixteenth century, when he was about twenty-eight. Christie valued the work at between ? 3,ooo ($I5,ooo) and ? 4,ooo ($20,000). The portrait is untouched, although one corner is slightly worm eaten.

Probably the most important ex ample of Gainsborough's figure canvases has recently been received by Scott'and Fowles, No. 295 Fifth avenue. The canvas is a double portrait of the Tom kinson boys, sons of the Earl of Toleni ache, an old Cheshire family, and comes from the collection of Mr'. Ludwig 'Neu

mann, of London, one of the South African diamond kings. It was shown at Agnew's 'Galleries in London last November at their annual exhibition in

aid of the Artists' Benevolent Fund,

together with full-length portraits by Romney, Re ynolds, Lawr'ence'and Rae. burn, and aroused'great interest. The canvas by Lawrence was bought by Mr. Pierpont Morgan and is now in hi's

London house. The present canvas shows two fair

haired English lads of about fifteen'an'd sixteen years respectively, the one in a costume of the period, black knee

breeches, white stockings, and a blue

coat, half reclining on a mossy bank in

a woodland, and evidently his' elder

brother in same costume as to breeches

and stockings, but with a 'red coat, standing beside 'him on the left. The

boys face the spectator and . have

charming and frank expression. They Care easily and gracefully posed and

beautifully painted. Above them wave

the branches of two sturdy oaks and a

typical rich summer English landscape stretches out and away to the left and

forms the background of the canvas.'

In composition, boldness and direct ness of drawing, color expression, and the painting, not only of the'figures, but of the trees, their foliage, and the land scape, the picture is one of remarkable sTrengthl and quality. It is the record picture importation thus far of the year.

A remarkable and important example of Turner, e'ntitled "Europa,"-and which was shown at the Guildhall' exhibition in London in I899, iS also now at these gal leries. It belongs to Turner's later period and painted about I842. The canvas is wonderfully well preserved and is glori ous in color and exquisite in feeling, sen timent and imagination. The scene is an imaginative one on the south coast of England, and the painter has evidently carried in his mind and eye the blue'Med iterranean, for the .ultramarine waves

which rolli' in on the golden strand are riot the cold, gray' ones 'of the English Chan nel. The canvas needs long and careful study to fully app'reciate its great beauty.

7 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~7

MRS. WRIGHT.

By George Romney. At Blakeslee Galleries.

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A4 DM EDR I CA N A R T N EDV S.

IN THE ART SCHOOLS.

The annual St. Valentine's costume dance at the Art Students' League held Tuesday evening, February I2, was in every way a success. The rooms were appropriately decorated, the music. ex cellent, and the costumes beautiful. Prizes for the best posters were award ed as follows: First prize, H. B. Titus; second, Charles F. Radley, and third, Le Baron Scotford. The committee in charge of the dance was: Neal Trus low, chairman; Amelia M. Ives, Chris tine Wright, May Whitehurst, Eliza beth Giddings, Howard Renwick. Thomas H-unt and Albert Smith. T. Duncan Gleason designed the dance programs, which were unique. Each -was hand painted bv the students.

An exhibition of the work done in the countrv summer school at Wood stock, N. Y., under Birge Harrison,

will be held in the rooms of the League. 2I5 W. Fifty-seventh Street, from March 4 to 9. A cordial invita tion is extended to the public.

Constance Bigelow and Howard Renwick have been elected to serve on :the Board of Control in place of Kath erine Langhorne and J. Van Everen, who resigned.

Miss Florence Ballin, formerly a stu dent of the Art League, gave a recep tion in her studio at 30 West Fifty .ninth Street, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons last, where she held an ex hibition of her work. Miss Ballin's versatility was shown by her display of portraits, figures, landscapes and studies of children's heads. There were shown also book plates and covers by Irving Ballin.

Edgar M. Ward, instructor of the Academy life classes, announced to the night students that a prize of $25

will be awarded the best drawing made from life; $I5 for the best antique fig

* ure, and $io for -the best head after the antique.

A. T. Van Laer delivered a lecture to the students last Tuesday on the Vene tian painters, and added interest to his talk by many new stereopticon slides

-of these masters' works. The Academy modeling class under

iHermon A. MacNeil, which started its work in December, has been working from the nude figure for several weeks,

J. Scott Hartley gave the last of his course of lectures on anatomy to the

Academy students last Wednesday.

A contribution of $2,00o to the build ing fund of the New York School ofi

Applied Design for Women, 200 Westa 23d Street, has been given.by Mrs.

William M. Bliss. A scholarship ofc $5o from Mrs. Janvier Le Duc to be I called the "Marie Clinton Le Duc Scholarship," and a $25 annual sub-I scription to the library fund, have re-r cently been given.

The following gifts have been re-t ceived: A three-year subscription oft $25 for each year, from Miss Mildred(

portfolio of engravings of historical t paintings from Miss Eleanor Hamilton, a former student; a valuable pamphlet on Savage ornament from* Mrs. Bis sell; a volume of "Greek Terracotta Statues," by Hutton, illustrated in 1 color, from Miss Annie S. Hoyt, and ac hundred photogravures of G:erome'sc works, from Mrs. Edmund Gates Hub-i bard.

The library now contains seven hun-a dred and twenty-five volumes and near-X ly seven thousand plates.r

*In the gallery of the New Yorkt School of Art the exhibition of paint-c

ings by Ernest Lawson will continue through to-day and will be followed on IAVlonday with an exhibition of about thirty-five paintings and monotypes by F. Luis Mora, which will remain on view until March 9.

On the evening of Lincoln's Birthday Mr. Kenneth Hayes Millen's evening class gave him a "set 'em up" in the studio. About seventy-five were pres ent. There were speeches by Miss French Patton and Miss Seamon, the daughter of the Sunday painting class.

An exhibition by the Church Glass and Decorating.Company will contin ue until February 28 in the Art Gallery of Pratt Institiute.

The lecture on "Spanish Painting and English Painting," by Mr. Walter S. Perry, which was to have been given in the assembly hall on February 22, has been postponed until February 27.

By the will of Mrs. Mary H. Pratt, widow of Charles Pratt, recently filed, the greater portion of the estate is be

uueathed to Pratt Institute, founded by Charles Pratt. There are also a number of other charitable bequests. The value of the estate is not stated in the papers filed with the will, except that it is "above $IO,ooo."

'The 'Trenton School of Industrial Arts is holding an exhibition of the worl< of H. R. MacGinnis. Works

exhibited include studies made in the Munich- Roval Academy, sketches of

the Delaware River, schemes for in

:erior decorations and portraits. Mr. \iacGinnis is the new head of the 'de )artment of designing of the school.

A plan is now pending before the 3clihbol of Architecture of Columbia JniVversity and the department of ex

:ension teaching whereby night courses n architecture may be given at the Uni

rersity next year. The object is to )rovide courses in subjects of special )enefit to draughtsmen.

An entertainment for the benefit of he'Three Arts Club was held on Tues lay at the home of Mrs. John Henry

hammond. The proceeds are to go to neet the' running expenses of the club. rhe club's members include Miss illadys Durant Rice, Miss Katharine 3arney, Grosvenor Atterbury, Dave -Jennen Morris and others. A number-of well-known women are

niterested in the club for young women,

nd Mrs. Hammond, who was Miss;

_mily Vanderbilt Sloane, is its presi lent, the honorary president being Bis-; lop Coadjutor Greer. Mrs. Douglas tobinsin is vice-president; Mrs. Henry1 Vlarkoe, secretary, and Mrs. S. B. P. ['rowbridge is treasurer.

The club is a non-sectarian organiza-. ion, and its object is to provide, under] [he auspices of the Protestant Episcopal

Thurch, a home and club for young

vomen studying, painting, music, and he dramatic art.

CLEVELAND.

Well-known Cleveland artists are ex

uibiting in the gallery of the Clevelandi ;chool of Art. The exhibition was

tpened to the public February I4~ and

n' scope and number is the largest evere

[eld there. Among the best examples re those shown by Professor Gott-, 'ald, C. F. De Klyn, William J. Ed-1

r!onson, Seamans, Ora Coltman and1

lugger. The work of the latter artist, wo scenes on the North River, "April ;howers" and "Sunset," are rich in]

color. Another of note is "The Friend in N.ed," by Gottwald, is good in feel ing and in composition. Models in

bronze are exhibited by Herman Mat zen. The exhibition will close about February 24.

A curious exhibition of rare old Jap anese prints are now on display at the Print Shop. They are attracting much attention because of the unusual sim plicity, of the ancient Asiatic masters' methods.

PITTSBURG.

The traveling exhibition of "The Ten" was opened at a local gallery in this city on Monday and wili continue for another week. Leslie Thompson,

of Boston, who returned last fall from a trip abroad, where he was sent on the Paige scholarship, exhibits a number of copies and landscapes from nature.

A miniature portrait on ivory by Miss Myra Boyd, of this city, has been accepted by the Royal Miniature So ciety of London and is now hanging in the annual exhibit. According to for eign news, it has been favorably com

mented upon. The miniature will be sent to the Paris Salon at the close of the London show. Miss Boyd is con templating a local exhibit of her minia ture at an early date.

CHICAGO.

A special exhibition of paintings by contemporary German artists will open in the Art Institute March I. The col lection comes from Buffalo and will be the first view of the work of living Ger

man painters in this city in fourteen

years, or since the World's Fair of I893. On Monday the Chicago Society of

Artists held its "third Monday" recep tion in the galleries of the Institute. Lou

Wall Moore, the sculptor, gave a series Df court dances, in costumes after paintings by Nattier and Velasquez.

An interesting even is the visit of Fred Voelckerling, the famous Dresden sculptor, to this city in 'his tour of

America to study art conditions here. Voelckerling is being widely enter

tained, and speaks with enthusiasm of )oth our art and social atmosphere.

His own work in bronze is well known abroad. Dr. Kruegger, of the Dusseldorf

A,cademy, Germany, has also become

,omething of a lion. He has addressed

l number of clubs on contemporary German -art, and will shortly deliver Four lectures before the students of thel Art Institute.

The Chicago Woman's Ai-d opened a loan exhibition of American art on

I'uesday. Mrs. Clarence Dickinson read

ipaper on contemporary American art,l wvhich was followed by informal talks

iy several Chicago artists.

Miss Hat;tie Rubens has taken a lar yer studio in the Fine Arts Building, nd is now showing work in brass and eather. She announces an exhibitionl )f work by well-known American etch-l ~rs for next week. Caroline Thurber is completing sev

~ral commissions, all portraits of chil-:

lren, before going abroad in April.

Fwo other portraits, of a woman in

vhite and a chauffeur in costume, are1 inder way.1 In the William T. Shepherd studio1

n the Fine Arts Building, a collection] )f old jewels are being shown. In thle various galleries may be seen

~olor etchings, a limited artist-proof 4 ~dition of Venetian views, by Vaughant

Frowbridge, and two good landscapes

y Charles Warren Eaton; a chaac eristic work by Schreyer and two ;plendid landscapes by Thomas Moran,I

Lsmall but fine group by William H.] iowe, Irving Couse and Ranger. I

BOSTON.

New galleries in one of the recently erected buildings on Boylston street have been opened by Mr. J. D. Gill, well known to American artists through and by his many years of successful exhibitions in Springfield, Mass. Mr. Gill exhibits seventy-six well-chosen and atractive examples of modern Am erican painters. The Boston men make a good showing. J. J. Enneking sends "The Bridge at Twilight;" Frank H.

Tompkins, "A Mother and Child ;" Charles F. Pierce, "Cattle and Land scape" and "After a Storm." "A Hazy

Day" is by William J. Kaula, and "A Normandy Interior" by Lee Lufkin Kaula. Melbourne H. Hardwick con tributes a coast scene, "Sorting Fish," and "An August Morning" is by Wal ter L. Dean. Other attractive works are by E. Percy Moran, Henry Mosler,

Walter Palmer, E. Merritt Post, George IH. Smillie, George Sloane, Carelton

Wiggins, Walter Douglas and -Carroll Beckwith.

At the St. Botolph Club Hermann D. Murphy's exhibtion continues through

to-day. The Water Color Club ex hibits at the Boston Art Club also closes to-day and will be followed by the annual water-color display of the

Art Club. In a local gallery John La Farge

opened a display on February 2I. Several portrait painters-Arthur M.

Hazard, Ernest Ipsen, I. N. Coliga, Vesper George and Frank Richardson have their work in another local gal lery.

WASHINGTON.

In-addition to the Corcoran Gallery's current exhibition there are here, at the present time, art-events of note.

At the Veerhoff Galleries on Thurs day an exhibition of -landscapes and other pictures by H. Hobart Nichols was opened. Mr. Nichols is a WaVh ingtonian, now resident in New York.

At the Public Library an- exhibition is being held of prints, both engravings and photographs, illustratinig the; early history of Virginia,- that which :direct ly relates to the territory and periQd

adjacent to and commemprated by the forthcoming exposition at Jamestown.

A collection of extremely intere4ting and beautiful art- weavings is -being shown at the Arts and Craft? St,tdio, on Connecticut avenue,-this weeks, They

are from the "Hearthside. Loon-i," in Rhode Island, and are the work of Mr.

and Mrs. Arnold G. Talbot, who have done much toward sanely reviving this

old industry.

PHILADELPHIA.

An exhibition of fifty canvases by Charles Morris Young opened in the Mc

Slees GaPleries on Monday. The work 3hown includes for the main part Mr.

Young's landscapes, painted in Giverny, Prance.

In addition to -the string of honors iwarded to Edward W. Redfield within ;he last month, the academy announces

;he purchase for their permanet coilec ;ion of his "Old Elm,' one of thg four

andscapes shown by the painter in the ~cademy show. To-morrow will be the final day in the

~ne hundred and second annual exhibi :ion. The total attendance to F?rp4ay was

3I,948, of which 3.0I 7 tvpreserit paid ad

nissions. The exhili4tion Is closing a areek earlier in order that some of the

)aintings included may be sent to the !4ew York Academy display, about I35

)ictures in all.

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AN M EI I I CA N A R T N 13XV S.

CALENDAR FOR ARTISTS.

Boston.-Arts and Crafts, until Febru ary 26.

Art Club.-Annual exhibition pastels and water:-colors. Collections, New York, February 26. Entries, Febru ary 3. Exhibition opens March i6. Closes April 6.

Charleston, S. C.-Carolina Art Asso ciation-American Art News Southern Circuit Traveling Exhibition opens about March i i. Closes about April 6.

Chicago-Works of Chicago artists, Art Institute. Closes February 24. Exhibition of German paintings, opens March i.

New York-National Academy of De sign.-Eighty-second annual exhibi tion. Exhibits received February 27 28. Exhibition opens March 23. Closes April 20.

American Water Color Society.-Pic tures received April ig. Reception

May i. Exhibition opens May 2. Closes May 20.

American Society of Miniature Paint ers. - Eighth annual exhibition. Knoedler Galleries. Exhibits re ceived March 30. Exhibition opens

April 6. Closes April 20. Philadelphia _- Annual Water-Color

Exhibition.--Entries March 2. Ex hibits March ii. Exhibition opens April i. Closes April 27. Phila delphia Art Club's Spring water col or exhibition, March 4 to 3I,'

Pittsburg.-Annual exhibition Carnegie Institute. Opens April ii.

Savannah, Ga.-Woman's Club.-Am erican Art News Southerrr Circuit Travelling Exhibition at - Telfair Academy Arts and Sciences-Opens February 25.

Washington-Corcoran Gallery.-Con temporary American paintings. Closes March 9.

Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum. water color exhibition. Exhibition opens February 24. Closes March 24.

AMONG THE ARTISTS.

The artists of the Salmagundi Club will give a costume dinner at the club house, 14 West Twelfth street, on Mon day night, February 25. A number of novel costumes will be displayed.

ill. C. Nicoll, who has been seriously ilfor more than a month from laryn

gitis and grip at his home, has gone to Ormond, Fla.

Everett L. Warner sails from Bos ton to-day for Spain, where he will vis it Cadiz, Seville and Granada, and, if successful, will probably remain there for some time before going on to !Italy.

Percy Bigland, of the Arts Club, London, recently arrived in Boston to paint several portraits. He has taken a studio in Copley Hall.

Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Caspar Pur don Clarke, sailed for England last week. She expects to return in the fall with her two youngest daughters to take up a permanent residence in New

York. _____

F. Ballard Williams has recently fin ished several landscapes, "The

Quarry," "The Edge of the Woods" and "A Mountain Stream."

H. Daniel Webster recently finished and put in place in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kinsley a large low re

lief panel, four by six feet, represent ing group portraits of their four beauti ful children, including their thorough bred Scotch collie dog. He also mod eled a flower-box design, two copies of

which have been placed on either side of the large beautiful Uristeria window at the head of the first landing on the main staircase overlooking the Hudson River, near One Hundred and Eighty first Street. Mr. Kingsley is vice-pres ident of the United States Trust Com pany, and has just gotten settled in their new artistic honme-mostly de signed by Mrs. Kingsley.

August Koopman, whose exhibition recent0y closed at the St. Louis Mu seum, has been transferred to the De t oit Museum, sold to the former insti tution his picture "The Circus." His "Hoisting Sails," shown at the Fishel,

Adler and Schwartz Galleries here last season, was sold to the late H. W. Rouse for $I,200.

Frederick W. Kost for fifteen years has spent most of his time on a Long Island farm. He has leased a country place for many years, but last summer purchased a farm at Brook Haven, L.I. The house is an old Colonial one, which he is having remodeled. In his studio are several interesting canvases; one little sketch from Shinnecock Bay, and a- larger canvas is of a dense wood of beech trees on the edge of East Bay.

Edward Potthast paints in the region of the Bronx and Bronx Park. He has discovered pictorial matter even in New Rochelle. One of his Bronx Park views, with the river on a -windy day rippling between the verdured banks, is excellent. An autumn landscape comes from- Noank, Conn. From Hol land, Mr. Potthast brings a Dutch in terio`i- with two figures.

A portrait of the late ex-Gov. Davis, of Rhode Island, was painted recently by John N. Arnold. The artist has suc ceeded admirably in portraying the- dig nified, silver-haired governor, and the likeness is a striking one and eminently characteristic. In the upper left-hand corner of the canvas the coat of arms of Rhode Island is appropriately intro duced.

"An Arrangement in Red and White" is the title of a Iarge canvas by J. W. Whittemore, and is a fancy little girl dressed in a white gown and over in a red sacque, leaning against a high carved oak chair.

Pietro Lozzi, a young Italian artist, who- has recently arrived in this coun try, gave an exhibition of his recent

work at his studio in the Van Dyke Building. One of his pictures has been acquired by the King of Italy for the tRoyal Palace, and another hangs in the;

Modern Gallery, Rome. Mr. Lozzi comes here with credentials of a high

character. ______

Louis Loeb has recently completed sev eral ideal paintings. One is a symbolical subject, "The Summit," on view in the Corcoran Exhibition, and another, a large canvas of the same type, "The Valley of Twilight."

Lorado Taft has received a commis sion for a statue of Washington, to be erected on the campus of the State

University at Seattle, Wash. The com mission was given upon examination of a sketch in clay which the sculptor had finished some time since, and with out any definite purchaser in mind. The sketch shows a new departure in this sculptor's estimate of Washington.

Charles Cary Rumsey of Buffalo, son of Lawrence D. Rumsey of that city, has joined the world of artists here, having opened a studio on Fifty-sev enth Street. Mr. Rumsey is a young sculptor, who studied in the Boston

Art Museum under Bela Pratt and for several years in Paris with Verlat and Injalbert. Recently he gave an exhibi tion of his work at the Albright Art

Gallery in Buffalo.

Stanley Middleton gave two receptions on Friday and Saturday afternoons last in his studio in the Sherwood, at which several of the artist's recent works were shown.

At the annual meeting of the corpor ation and board of trustees of the Met ropolitan Museum, held on Monday, an nouncement was made of a gift of four teenth century tapestries by J. Pier pont Morgan. There are five of these, Burgundian, and they are fine examples of the period, are in an excellent state of preservation and have already been hung at the museum. Mr. Morgan presided at the meeting and there were brief addresses by Sir Purdon Clarke and Edward Robinson. All of the offi cers of the previous year were re elected by the board of trustees.

Among the new members chosen were Hamilton W. Cary, James Still man and Jacob Schiff, elected "Fellows

in Perpetuity," and Samuel S. How land, Jacques Seligmann, Frederick S.

Wait, Daniel Guggenheim and Louis Ehrich, elected "Fellows for Life."

The addition to membership an nounced in the trustees' annual report for I905 was 7I5, classified as follows: Fellows in Perpetuity, ii; Fellows for Life, 8; Fellowship Members, 2I; SUS taining members, 66; annual members, 6o9.

There have been received during the year, aside from the Egyptian Explor ation Fund, 444 different objects from different persons, 59 of them'paintings and 8 sculptures.

In the accessions of the year, in addi tion to he gifts, were I,052 objects ob-' tained by purchase. Fifty-four of these

were paintings and thirty sculptures. Fourteen pictures and tweny bronzes have been added to the collection of representative American art.

The income from the'sale of photo graphs' since August last has been

$775.95, an increase of $629.65 over that of the whole of I905.

The trustees have also authorized the construction 'of a new wing to accom

modate the'library. The estimated cost of this library wing is about $75,ooo.

TAMPA, FLA.,' ART EXHIBIT.

The American Art News Southern Cir cult Exhibition has just closed at Tampa, Fla., after two weeks' successful display. The pictures have excited the greatest in terest in Nashville, Atlanta and New Or leans, where very successful exhibitions

were conducted by local art clubs.

Among the pictures in the collection are

"Sentinel

Pines" by

Charles W.

Eaton,

and

is regarded as one of his best works, having received honorable mention at the Paris Exposition in I900, and receiving the Inness

Gold Medal National Academy I9o04 There

are three pictures by William Chase, a mem

ber of the National Academy and other art

societies. His pictures here are "Lillipu

tian Boat Lake," "Children on the Beach" and "A Portrait." "Rosebuds" is the work of Carl Blenner. George .Inness is repre sented by "September Symphonies" and an 'Anxious Moment." R. M. Shurtleff con

tributes "The Brook." George H. Bogert,

'The Sunset." One of the gems of the ex

hibition is "November Pasture," by Henry

Ranger. Harry Watrous has "A Study in

Black." One of the features of the exhibition in

Tampa was the teas served every afternoon by ladies in costumes of the different great Nations. On Tuesday there was an Eng

lish tea, on Thursday a German, and so on. -Tatler, St. Augustine, February I7.

HEALY PICTURE SALE.

An average of more than $8oo was received for the ninety-four paintings comprising the A. A. Healy collection, sold at Mendelssohn Hall last week by

Thomas E. Kirby of the American Art Association.

The highest price for a single picture was $7,900, paid by C. J. Peabody for a Daubigny, "Banks of the Marne," after spirited bidding. The next high est price was $6,ooo, also paid for a Daubigny, by Carl de Silva. A third Daubigny brought $i,Ioo. Four pic tures by Maris, "View of Dordrecht," "Scheveningen," "Holland Landscape" and "Under the Willows," brought an average of more than $2,700 each, while four paintings by Israels averaged $I,325 each.

The bidding throughout was brisk and at times spirited, especially in the case of Daubigny's "Banks of -the

Marne," which was bid up from $400 to $7,900.

The pictures sold, with title, artist's name, buyer and price.follow:

WATER COLORS. "Early Evening," Poggenbeek; E. M. Gaines .... $95 "The Cobbler," Offermans;- C. Klackner ..... ... 90 "Winter in Holland," Bastert; Col. Woodward.. 75 "Castle by the Sea," J. Bosboom; Col. Woodward 175 "Peonies," Mrs. M. Roosenboom; Col. Woodward. 150 "Peonies," Mrs. Rosenboom; G. Towne ... I ..... 180 "Pasture in Holland," J. M. Vrolyk; J. B'.

Ferguson ............. ....... 200 "Village Canal,'" Bosboom; Carll De Silva ....... 180 "French Landscape," Harpignies; Hugo Reisinger 200 "Peasant's Home," A. Mauve; Knoedler & Co -700 "A Pensive Sewer," J. Israel; P. W. Rouse.. 925 "Holland Meadow-Spring," G. Poggenbeek; Col.

Woodward ............... ................... 250 "Old Age," I. Israels 'Hugo Reisinger. . 875 "A Heath in Holland,". J. H. Weissenlbruch; C.

W. Kraushaar .......... .. 525 "Cows in Pasture," W. Maris; 3. Gehme ........ 875 "Among the Flowers,'i A. Neuhuys; Knoedler

& M so ...................................... ... 175 "Summer Day in Holland," J. H. Weissenbruch; Knoedler & Co ............. 525 "View of Dordrecht,"' Mars; Scott & Fowles.. 2,600 "Canal In Holland," F. du Chattel; 60) "A Fisherwoman," D. A. C. Artz; F; H. Gottlieb 400

OIL PAINTINGS. "Autumn,I" John La Farge ......... ............ 475 "Along the River," D. A. C. Artz . ......... 110 "'Fishing Boat," L. Hervier; Col. Woodward.... 60 "Incoming Sea," G. Bellont; 0. Olivotti ..... ... 60 "Apple Blossoms," N. Bastert; Frank Healy.... 200 "Village Road;" J. G. Fisher; G. G. Hess ..... 210 "Street Market," J. H-.. Wijmuller; V. .Rodisi.. 130 "Cow in Sunllght," A. Mauve- Col. Woodward., 400 "Cows is Pasture," A. Mauve; Sterling ......... 200 "The Falconers," J. L. Brown, Caril De Silva.. 300 "Artist's Studio-Boulogne," Cazin; J. Oehme... 275 "Scheveningen," 3. Marts; Col. Woodward ........ 875 "Distant Village," Harpignies; Knoedler ........ 800 "Holland Landscape," 3. Maris; F. Healy..... 1,000 "Edge of Forest," J. Dupre; Sterling ............ 825 "Old Farmhouse," Troyon; J. L. Newborg ....... .725 "Watering Horses," Jacque ....... ........... 800 "The Bather," (Chrot; Sterling ........... oo....... 300 "A Medfield Farm-Mass.," George- Inness; V.

Rodisi .. . 400 "Mountain Road," A. Wyant; Fishel, Adler &

Schwartz . .................................. 560 "Dutch Pasturg," J. H. Weissenbruch; C. W.

Kraushaar . .................................... 530 "A Hanpy Fraulein," L. Knaus; Fishel, Adler

& Schwartz ................. 510 "Stable Interior," Gericault; Mr. Ferguson ...... l10 "The Merry Couple," Jan Steen; J. Lawrence: 385 "Pool in the Pasture," T. de Bock'; Knoedler &

Co ......................................... 475 "Dutch Meadows," Poggenbeck; C. W. Kraushaar 360 "The Birches," Harpignies; Nathan Allen..... 2,100 "Suinset after Storm," J., Francis Murphy; W. J.

Curtis .... 330) "A Summer Day." Harpignies; E. McMillan... 2,000 "Banks of the Marne,9" Daubigny; C. 3. Pea

body ....................... 7,9) "Summer in Hlolland, " W. RoeloS - Charles

HXathaway ....................... 310 "Waiting for His8 Master, " Israels ....................... 1,700

"Plain, Barbfzon-Twilight, " Rousseau ....................... 1,225 "Gypsyv Encampment," R. A. Blakelock; 3. R.

Andrews ........................800 "Hillside Pasture," 3. Murphy; W. 3. Curtis ........................ 525 "Fifth Avenue-Spring Morning," Childe Hiassam;

Alexander Morton ....................... 625

"Showery Day. S3pring," Daubigny, Carl De Silva ff,Off;O "Port de St. Valery,"^ Boudin; Hugo Reisinger. 625 "Still Life, " A. Vollon; Knoedler ....................... 525

'Le Dernier Quartier," Cazin; Knoedler ....................... 4,500

"Unloading the Catch," Boudin; Hugo Reisinger.-....................... 625

"In the Orchards," J. S. Kever; Knoedler . ......................400

''Ploughing," Th. Honrath; W. Sittenham. t.................... 325 'Near the Dunes," de Bock; Knoedler ....................... 675 "Trouville," Boudin; Louis L,. Firuski ....................... 550 ''Early Morning," Meedag; W. 3. Culrtis .......................625 'Little Nursemaid," 3. S. KRever; A. Chester

Beatty ....................... 400) ''Country' Road." T. de Bock; Knoedler ....................... 625 ''The White Sail. " N. Bastert; eol. Woodward . 325 ''Amusing the Baby, " 3. S. Kever; Knoedler 0 50 'A Dutch Fisherman, " H. 3. Blommers;- Arthur

Tooth ...................... 325 'Autumn, " T. de Bock; M. H. Lehman ...................... 1,150 'Cowvs in Pasture," H3. Watelin; N. W. H. Lea. 175 'Farm in Holland, " W. Roelofs; Col. Woodwrard 400 'A Dutch Interior," 3. Israels; Arthur Tooth 2,60in) 'Building the Rick," W. C. Nakken; H. D. Bab

cock ...................... 280 'Landscape and Cattle, " 3. M. Vrolyk;- P. V.

Dudley ...................... 450 'Playmates." 3. S. Kevrer; Knoedler ...................... 1,350 'Old Man Walking," 3. Israels; Knoedler ...................... 900 'Sunlight. " A. Neuhuys; Fishel, Adler &

Schwartz ...................... 650 'Shepherd and His Flock-Winter," Ter Meulin;

3. Epstine ...................... 1,000 'The Ferrzy, " C. Troyron; 3. Elpstine ...................... 1,050 'Springtime," C. Daubigny; Col. Woodward ........................ 1,100 'River in Winter, " 3. H. Wijsmuller;- Glenden

ning .3..................... 00 'Under the Willows, " W. Manis; KRnoedler ...................... 5,100 'Pasture Near Dunes," W. Roelofs; Charles

HIathawayr...................... 710 'Fishing Fleet. " HI. Mesdag; 3. Epstine ...................... 700 'In the Cornfield," R. 3. Gabriel; Scott & Fowles 500 'Evening in Harbor, " G. H. McCord; Emerson McMillan ..................... 800

'Canal in Venice, " G. Sartori; P. L. S3heEleus. 250

'Italian Garden," G. Belloni; A. Olivotti ...................... 250 'Harbor at Genoa, " G. Belloni; A. Olivotti ........................ 250

'Market St,ene, Venice, " A. Milesi; Col. Wood

ward ...

Total .$ 75,975

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works, with reference to the individual desire of any owner or buyer to sell or purchase any particuLar example.

Should any of our readers desire any special informa tion on art matters of any kind, we shall be glad to put onr sources of Information at their service.

Notwithstanding the high prices brought by foreign pictures at recent

auction sales, it would not appear from

the recent numerous sales to institu

tions and private owners of American

pitcures, that our native artists should

be discouraged. Following good and

numerous sales. at the recent Winter Academy in New York, comes the news

that the Corcoran Gallery at Washing

ton has purchased no less than nine

notable American l'andscapes and fig 1 ure works from'its current exhibition 'for its permanent collections; that th'e'

Metropolitan Museum has acquired, t through..the' Rogers and Hearn funds superior examples of Winslow Homer, 'William M; Chase, George De Forest i

.Brush, William Sargeant Kendall, I ,Douglas Volk, F. Ballard Williams and t

,Frank .W. Benson, while the Boston Museum-has bought a Twachtman and t

'Thie 'Telfair Academy'' in 'Savannah, s *throu'gh its Airt Advisor, Gari Mel- c chers', has -acqui-red examples of Childe c CHassam, Walter MacEwen, XEdward 1

'Redfield and J. J. Shannon. From the E .'Amexican Art News Traveling Exhibi tion in the South there have already \ been sold to private collectors in Nash- t :ville; Atlant'a and New Orleans, ex-t .amples of Bridgman, Couse, Arthur. Parton, Cullen Yates and others, and t' sales at and from exhibitions and bZ studios and dealers' galleries, of Ameni- c *can picture's, are reported- daily. Truly t] the outlook for American art grows

.brighter every day. .t] tn

Our Traveling Exhibition closed at a . Tampa, Fla.,' last Saturday, February s I6, and the pictures have been trans- d ferre.d. to Savannah, Ga., wlhere it is e expe'cted that the fifth in our series of r displays' will-open on Monday in the Trelfair Academy of Arts and Sciences. 'for a fortnight. The Savannah exhibi- P' 'tion will be held under the auspices ofS the Woman's Club of that city. A

From Savannah, the exhibition will go to Charleston, S. C., where it will

open in the Gibbes MIemorial Museum

on or about March i i. The display there will be under the auspices of th-ie C arolina Art Association and will be the third in anntial succession, and the sixth in all, held by that old and flour ishing organization. Lynchburg, Va., x'ill be given an opportunity to view the exhibition, early in April it is hoped, and the series of displays will close at Baltimore in earlv May. From the press notices of the exhibition at

Tampa in another column, it will be seen that it repeated there the success it has had elsewhere, having been vis ited by thousands of people.

We would call the attention of our readers to tha interesting letter from

Gen. Rush Hawkins, published in an other column on the subject of the so called expert testimony on pictures and art objects. Gen. Hawkins punctures the bubble of so-called expertism de lightfully.

A special cable to the New York Times from London says "Charles

Wertheimer is prostrated as a result of the recent robbery of his house of art treasures.

It is considered possible that the rob bery will have as' its sequel, an act of vandalism that would give a shock to 3rt lovers all over the world. There

is some reason to fear that the burglar may decide that the safest course- he -an pursue is to destroy the Reynolds, :he Gainsborough, the miniatures, and

She snuff-boxes, and content himself vith what he can get for the gold and

ewels contained in- the miniature 'rames and snuff-boxes. Mr. Wertheimer offers ? i,ooo for.

he capture of the thief and the return )f -tlT ' property. If the reward were

)ffered 'simply for the return of the )roperty, it would very likely be ef

ective. for it is believed that ? i,OOO is wer three times as much as the thief vill be able to realize from the plunder n the ordinary way. By insisting on iaving'the thief as well as the,proper-, y, Mr. Wertheimer risks the destruc ion of eve-ry one' of his lost treasures. The fear that this will happen is

ased on the fact that the articles tolen are unsalable. The Gainsbor- I

ugh and Reynolds portraits are thor-1 ughly well known, and in a thief's. ands are almost valueless. Practical y the same may be said of the qsnuff oxes and mniniatures. A snuff-boxi

iorth, say, ?T.5oo while it was in Mr.X Vertheimer's house, would- be worth D the thief little, if anything, more( hian' the value of the mzaterials in it.

ay, ?20 or s?30. '1

Every article stolen from Mr. Wer-c ieimer was well known, and soon willa

e even better known, for descriptions t f everything stolen are being pub-1 shed here and are being sent all over ~e world for publication.r

Twenty-three objects were stolen-i ie two portraits, eighteen snuff-boxes,i NO miniatures and a Louis XIV. agates

nd gold 'mounted watch, and doublea :ent flacon. The police talk confi-1

ently of capturing the thief and recov-c ring at least a portion of the property, a

ut their professed confidence does not a ~assure Mr. Wertheimner."-v

A tablet, representing Washington ats rayer at Valley Forge, was unveiled

~sterday on the 'Wall 'street side 'of the V

ub-Treasury by the Lafayette Post, G.J.

,.R. .'

The tablet was presented by Com rade Johln J. Clancy of this city, and is the work of E. J. Kelly, a sculptor of this city. _

WHAT IS EXPERT TESTIMONY?

EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN ART NEWS. Dear Sir: Sir Frederick William Burton,

the accomplished and efficient director for many years of the National Gallery in Lon don, was once asked what he thought about the value of expert opiniions when applied to the question of indentification of old

paintings by unknown artists. In response he said in substance: "That is a difficult question to answer. I cannot speak for others who

are regarded as experts, but can say for myself that I seldom venture to name the artist, without leaving an opening large enough for a retreat in the event of being reversed. Unless the composition, color scheme, and execution generally, bear a very pronounced resemblance to some particular artist, the matter of identification, in the

majority of instances, amounts to little else than a guess, which is sometimes right, but oftener wrong. There are experts I know personally and others I know of who are confident of their ability to make correct attributions, but I would hesitate about accepting and acting upon their opinions in

making purchases for this gallery." Sir Frederick was acknowledged to be

one of the better judges of the works of the various schools of the old masters of his time, and his effective work at the Na tional Gallery proves him to have been a careful and intelligent buyer, and also that he had a clear comprehension of the better wav of doing museum work.

His position in relation to the value of exnert opinions is not a. lonely one; it has often been'sustained, and in no more marked instancethan'thedispute over the Apollo and

Marsvas by Ranbael, owned by the late Morris Moore of' Rom'e, w'hich soon after his' death was'purchased by the-French gov ernment for the Louvre. T'he warfare be tween the critics and experts, great and s;mall. of several nationalities, over the iden tification' of this little panel lasted about twenty ye'ars, both parties being' equallv cer tain of having the facts on their side.

About thirtv years ago.at Florence, Italy, a visitor who hanrened to be walking through the room in the anartment of -James Ta-ckEon Jarves in which'he ket'-his paint ings, seeing they were labeled with artists' names, asked Mr. Jarvis- if he, was quite sure the labels bore- the names--of-the artists whg painted the pict-res4ot-w4-ich they- Were attached. He was informed 'that there' .could be but very little certainty 'abou;t such at tributions: Th-e' mo'st that tould 'be said in their.favor was: "My-attributions- are the re sults of. manv ,years - of 'careful -study- of sc-hools. and the works of individual artists. Possibly some 'o'f the'm :are cbrrec't,' but probably the better w-' in th'e miiajority of rdld naintings 'would be to assigri them to Lhe narticular, schools to which they evi lently belong. Byt' as mine are for sale, I So the best I can. to satisfy. purchasers twh'o L1sually want t)ie name of the artist. Of :ourse, when 'asked I inform them that I lay no claimn to-infallibility."'

Anot'her sustaining instance, or rather series of facts, is the - caitalogue of the Ros r<oe c~ollection now i'teWalker Art Gal ery at Liverpool. In that there are I24 naintings executed before the closie of' the ;eventeenth ce'ntury, of which ~4< were leemed sufficienltly identified for catalogue

)u1rposes, while 79 are disputed, 'In several nstances as many as six attributions are

'ecorded; and throughout the whlole of this incertain performance the following critics nd experts are auoted': T. W. Rathbone, ;. Scharf, Dr. Waagen. Mrs. Jameson; G. tcharf. Jr.. Dr. Kugzler, Prof. Hart. Dr.. Bar

ow,-Sig. Cavalcaselle. Frank Howard, Lan lon, Prof. Archer and O'Neil. These were Lmon^g the art authorities of their time, sev ral of whom had achieved eminence for

heir learning and for their well-known

vrritings in the field of art criticism and

iistory. The foregoing statement is made for the surpose of showing that -expert opinions

n relation-to the paternity of the old paint

ngs, which are often found in the posses ion of dealers, are not always reliable; nd in most instances ought to be accernted

vith a reservation in favor of uncertainty. The curators of the important Euronean1

ollections, so far as the writer has beena ble to ascertain, share in this generally ccepted unbelief; and it is doubtful if one1

mong those of the present time would1 enture to purchase, for public exhibition, work of importance as to price, whose.

lentity was based UpOnl the opinion of anyi.

ingle expert.

These suggestions came to me last year

Thile viewing the later acciuisitions of old.

aintings made by the Metropolitan Mu-] eum of Art, several of which might ap

ropriately be classed as nobody's work' in ]

particular; but all of them regardless of art values, characteristics pointing to in dividual artists or schools, had been identi fied and the names of artists attached to each; and the thought then o'ccurred that in respect to expert knowledge our Metro politan Museum authorities are better off than those who control the important Mu seums in Europe. For our authorities have in their employ an infallible judge who dis covers in his acquisitions art values where to others they do not appear to exist.

Rush C. Hawkins. New York, Februarv 14, T907.

The finding of the Board of General Appraisers relative to the duty assessed on the celebrated statue by Gerome "La Bellone," has been reverse-d. The statue was imported by Tiffany & Co. in September, I904, and was assessed

at 35 per cent. ad valorem, as manu factured ivory and bronze. From this the importer appealed, contending that as a work of art it was, under the re ciprocal agreement with France, en titled to admission at a duty of I5 per cent. The statue is said to be worth somewhere between $30,ooo and $50, 000.

An attempt was made by France- to buy the statue from the sculptor's widow, and an offer of Ioo,ooo francs was made, which she declined-. L*er Tiffany & Co. bought the statue, a;nd the statue is still in their possession, although it is said that many. offers have been made for the work.

JULIAN AND HIS SCHOOL OF ART.

The late Rudolphe Julian was the foad6er of one of the greatest and most pp'tila schools of art in the world. The teacelign dispensed there was- never academical; -tor

were the students bound in any manner-iti? a strict course of training. There were occa sional competitions, but no one was ever obliged to take part in them; criticism's were offered- twice a week1by visiting artists o-f reoutation, but- there was no forni'al in struction. In short the Academie. Jju'ian was not properly an academy at all.

'For this reason it has always haddth`e'ap proval-of a large number'who are 6p popsed to rigorous teaching - in art, -but profesp a belief in the necessity' of s'omething 'called. sound and thorough training. If this- means the inculcation of a certain professional 'knowledge in the -making of pictu'r'es" there -can be no doubt that it was to. be had at Julian's. An 'Honorable' JVention- at: he ) Old Salon stands in a -marnner- as the type of Julianesque perfection. Not,-'indeed, that all of the' pupils were' predes- tine to' receive such a reward, for f itwiCould, cf coursel'be too much' to6 require.- Only, by" !yof giv ing- an 'idea of- the general - tende-ncy, it, is difficult to- think of -anything: more Ulivejk than the average' Ho'norabl'e M.'enion at.th-e Salon.,

The teaching, such as it Was, -and? he-'en; eral spirit of the pl-ac-e-~see-med, therefore, tox favor' a csertain - sort i'of PiScflffe-,aki'ng. Julian's'- was, 'as it were^, the k'inIder.gaite~n 'of the Salon. - Like other schools,.it had its list of 'distinguiished graduates, from 'Mari'e

Bashkirtseff down. It was.always-populahr among American1s - and some of our most popular painters are on the list. We have

had a school' or two founded here in' imita tion of Julian's, and there is a certain free

dom: in this sort' o-f school which sesems to

suit our-young.men and women of artistic ambitions. As schools go, it is perhaps as

good a sort as any other. Yet tlie method Df teaching has such obvious defects -that

attempts to mnodify it by means of m'ore

definite guidance, and at the same time a

[arger measure of freedom are always worthy of -conlsideration. It is for this reason, that the re-forming efforts of a few

.eachers, among whom Mr. Henri is easily

.he chief, are of peculliar interest. For these

Eew systematically teach, what many others nust know very well, if they would but re

lect UpOnl it, that art cannot be acquired by

:he perfunctory correction of drawings, or~

vy any othler means of the kind, and that the 'eal business of the teacher is to stimulate :he conscience o-f his pupils, to put them in he way of self-development, and not to put

hem up to tricks or' e'ven to 'get them

fIonorable Mentions.-Newi York Evening ;un-Editorial.

Mr. Junius Morgan, nephew of Mt^. C. Pierpont Morgan -has loaned -the

Vlletropolitan ,Museum a Luca 'della tobbia.

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IALM ERaI CA-.kN ART'] NII&\VVS.

LONDON LETTER.

London, February I5.

An unusual number of important exhi

bitions opelned in Lonldon and the pro

vinces last wveek. At the Walker Art Gal

lery,Liverpool, there is a uniquecollection of works by Holman Hunt, including nearly a hulndred pictures, of which niinetcen have not been slhown in any

recent exhilbition. Kelble College, Ox

ford, lends the original version of the "Light of thle World," "Rienzi" and "Woodstock," while other important contributions are "The Shadow of

Death," -The Eve of St. Agnes," "'Christ and the Two MIaries," and the principal works wlich figured at the

Leicester Galleries exhibition. A fine dignified portrait of the Rt.

Hon. James Bryce, by Sir George Reid, the retired president of the Royal Scot

tish Academy, is the leading feature of the annual exhibition of the Royal Hi bernian Academy, opened at Dublin this week. Other painters well rep resented are John Sargent, Sir James

Guthrie, C. H. Shannon and William

Orpen. At the eighty-first exhibition of the

Royal Scottish Academy at Edinburgh the principal exhibits are John Sar

gent's large group of the Misses Hunt er, a fine portrait of Lady Bell of

Mountgreenan by the president, Sir James Guthrie. "The Two Sisters," by John Lavery, and capital works by

Alexander Roche, E. A. Walton, W. Y. Macgregor, D. Y. Cameron, Lawton

Wingate and Charles H. MXackie, the last- four contributing landscapes.

Among the loaned works, is a beau tiful evening landscape by Mathew

Maris loaned by the Premier, Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman; Len

bach's portrait of Prof. Virchow; a

"Madonna and Child" by Dagnan Bouveret; and examples by J. E.

Blanche and the late Alfred Stevens. Altogether the collection is well up to

the high standard of the Scottish Academy.

At the Burlington Fine Arts Club is a retrospective memorial exhibition of the art of Robert Brough, the bril liant young Scottish painter who was

only thirty-two when he was killed

last year in the railway accident near

Sheffield. Influenced by Hals. Rae

burn and Sargent, with remarkable

gifts as a colorist and a reader of char

acter, this Aberdonian artist was claim ing a place among our foremost por traitist at the moment of his death, and this-exhibition proves that his art will long be remembered. "MIrs. Laurence

with Two -Children." is on a level of accomplishment with the best of the eighteenth century masters. "George Alexan der as Rudolf Rassendyll" is a masterpiece of texture painting wvith its subtle rendering of white satin and flow ered silk, and many another ster ling portrait testifies to the great loss

British art sustained in the premature death of this gifted painter.

At the Leicester Galleries, there opened last wreek an exhibition of the remaining w^orks of James Charles, wrho though neglected during his life is now l)eing recognized as one of our

greatest landlscape painters. His name has beenl mentioned before in these col umns, i n! connection with the Newv English Art Club, to wshose exhibi tions he wvas a regular contributor. To his influence and example such land scape painters as Mfark Fishler, Steer, and George Claulsen, owe much, and in an appreciation of Chaarles with

which the catalogue of this exhibition is prefaced, Mir. Clanusen says: "The thing he most loved to express-the beauty of sunlight -he has painted

better, I think, than any otlher of ourl time." Tlis is high praise, but all

whlo see the sparkling muarines an-d faindscapes of Charles at the Leicester

Galleries, or at Burlington House, will agree that it is deserved. It is only fair to add that AIr. Erinest Brow;n of! the Leicester Galleries was one of the first to recognize the talenit of Charles, anid some years ago, when he was at the Fine Arts Societ. he organized in those galleries the first one-mani ex hibition of this artist. There are also on viewv a collection of Italian land scapes by Harold Speed, and an im portant grou1p of fifteen drawings by

Anton AMauve. These last are beauti ful examples of the refined art of this

great Dutchl master,' and were former ly in the celebrated Staats Forbes col lection.

MIany collectors are appreciating that it is better to hlave a pencil or chalk study by a really great master, than a pretentious painting by a mediocrity, and there is anotlher important exhibi tion of drawings and studies at Alessrs. Obach's Galleries, Bargue, Corot, Daubigny, Decamps, Delacroix, Fantin-Latour, Fromentin, HIarpignies, Hebert Isabey, Jacque, L'Hermitte, J. F. Millet, Rousseau, Troyon and Vol Ion are the masters represented, and

the firm has spent some years in as sembling this unique collection of choice and indisputable drawings by the French masters of the XIX. cen tury. The examples of Corot, authen tic drawinlgs by whom are becoming very scarce, the series of landscape studies by Rousseau, the sketches and studies of M\illet, Troyon, anid Dau bigny are niot only an artistic delight, hut a most instructive ensemble for all who wish to study the individual characteristics of draughtsmanship of the members of this famous group of painlters. A special word should be given to the beautiful drawvings of Vol lon, a painter from Nwhom J. -Maris largely derived, anid whose great gifts hitherto somewhat neolected. are now attracting, the attention of the most far-seeing connoisseurs.

The highest price for a paintingr this week in a London salesroom was ? 157

Ios. for "A Viewv of a Canal, Venice," by J. MNarieschi, but 'Messrs. Agnew, in a raid to Paris, captured, at a cost

of ?1I,640 a portrait of -Mrs. Trelawney, by Romiiey, sold at the Hotel Drouot.

The collection of rare books formed by WRTilliam C. Van Antwerp of New

York will be sold by Sotheby. AW\Tilkin son & Hodge on MAlarch 22 and 23.

PARIS LETTER.

Paris, February I5.

Unusual animation prevailed yesterday at the HI6tel Drouot, wrhere a sale of an cieint paintinlgs b)rought 15I,345 frs. The higlhest price paicl for a sing,le picture w;as bid for a Romney-"Portrait of a \Woman," and said to represent -Mrs.

Trelawney-which comiimanded 41,000 frs. Othler good figures were atained b)y a Hubert Robert, "The Fotuntaini," \which fetclhed II,500 frs., and by a

Miierevelt, "Lady of Qualitv, Stand inlg," for whiclh 9,ooo frs. was given, and 5o900 and 6,ooo frs. were paid, re spectively, for tw o portraits by Rig audi. Other satisfactory sales were two

Guardis, whichl realized 5,ooo frs. apiece, and twvo pastels of the French school of the XVII. cenitury, wlhiclh found purchasers at 5,000 frs. and 4,300 frs., respectively. There was also bid 4,200 frs. for a Roslin, ancl 4,000 frs. were expendled upon a large panel of the Italian school of t.he XVI. cen tury, representing "The Glorification of the Virgin." A delegation of the frequenters of the Hotel Drouot found its way thence to the Galerie Durand

Ruel, where two Jongkinds were sold by order of the courts. They fetched,

respectively, 4,300 and 4,030 frs. The "vacations," during the remiiainder of the week were quiite unimportant.

Expositions are unusually numerous. In the Grand Palais upward of three

hundred paintings, water colors and

drawings are on view. They are fur nished by an association of artists

lbrought together by MN. Jean Guiffrey,

and most of the works are illustrative of modern Paris. Among the leading contributors may be mentioned Henry Laurent, Luigi Loir, Jules Adler, Georges Jeanniot, Raffaeli, Victor Gil

bert, GunCobluth AVidhopff, Fraipont, Edw-ard Rovland and Ricardo Flores.

The seventh annual exhibition of the

Society of United Arts is now held in

the Salle Petit. The catalogue com prises 260 ltinumbers, representingC forty three artists. A-mong the contributors

may be menitione(d -MIM. Cornillier,

Devambes, Declhenlatud, Erncst -Marche, Maurice -Moisset. Blair-Bruice, Jean Re

mond, Albert Gosselin. H-Ienri Royer

andl Gaston Lecreux. The departmnent of scuilptture 'is chiefly distinguished bv the exhiibit of M. Segoffin, wvho is

represented by eleven numbers. Other

preminlent contriblutors are MM. Froment-MAfeurice, Joe Descomps, Jean Louis Brown and 'Moreau-Vautthier.

The Lodge Art League of Holy Trinity Lodge is now holding its an nual exhibition. Two hundred works, exclusively representative of English speakinig womein, are shoxvn. The ar ray of canvases is especially rich in in teriors aind portraits. Among the con tributincg artists is iMie. Geraldine

Millet, a dautglhter-in-lawv of Jean Fran cois -Millet.

The wiinter exlhibition of the Amer icani Art Association of Paris is open.

Amonlg thle contributing artists are -Messrs. AMulhaupt, Hubbell, AWAfalden,

Clapp, Slade, Doug-herty, St. G. I-Iunt ington, John Everett, Kent Sanders _M\cKillop and JH. NV. Faulkner.

The internatioinal exhibiton of the "Societe de La Peinture 'a l'Eau" is ex hIibitinig in the Galerie des Artistes -Modernes. Some very fine work is

presented, the representative contrib utors being IMM. Aubertin, A. Benois, Alfred Delannois, Bracquemond, Sar gent, Lucien Simon, Luigini, Alfred East and Henri Stacquet.

An exhibition of pictures by the So ciety of Women-Painters invites in spection in the Grand Palais. Upward of I ,200 paintings, pastels and water colors are shown, amongst which may be cited portraits by Mime. de Cool (Onesime Reclus) Chatrousse, Storm,

Jenny Fontaine, Fould; landscapes by Mimes. Wickham, Bouffay, Claes and

Vivrel, and still-lifes by Mmes. Pey trel, Dubron, Bricteux-Weerts and Car riere-Belleuse. In the sculpture depart

ment is a statue of Diana by the Duch esse d'Uzes.

A PANNINI ON VIEW.

A number of well-known connois seurs of this citv have subscribed to a fund, now being raised for the pur chase of a notable example of Pan ninni, reproduced in this issue and now on exhibition at the Holland Art Gal leries, No. 59 WVest Thirty-third street,

with the purpose of presenting the pic ture to the Metropolitan M\luseum.

The painting has been given a hand some and effective setting, and is at tracting much attention as shown at the Holland Galleries. It is a large and important canvas in a fine state of preservation, and a striking and char acteristic example of the art of the great architectural and historical paint er. who, more than anyone else, save, perhaps, the etcher Piranesi, has made old Rome familiar to modern eyes.

G. Giovanni Palo Pannini was born in Piaceuza, Italy, in I69I. He went early to Rome, wvhere he studied under Pietro Lucatelli. "He had," says Spooner, "an early passion for painting an(l appliecl himself to designing the remaining monumnents of antiquity, es pecially at Rome. He found his style not in that of Lucatelli, bDut of Giovanno Ghisolfi.

"He was a perfect master of the art preservative, in which he surpassed all his contemporaries. FIe designed every vestige of ancient magnificence thle ruins of superb edifices and some of the mnost ancient buildings which ornament modern Rome. His compo sition is rich and hais perspective critic ally correct. I-Iis w-orks are universal ly admired for the grandeur of their ar chitectulre, the clearness of their color ing, the neatness and freedom of his touchl, th e beauty of his figures, an d the taste withl which1 he disposed them."

"As a rule," continules Spooner, "he painlted pictures of large easel size, but sometimes on grander scale." He left numerous examples. MIany are at

Rivoli and several in the Pontifical place of MSonte Gavallo. MSany of his works have been engraved.

i .A

VIEW IN OLD ROME.

By G. P. Pannini. At Holland Art Galleries.

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A cable despatch from Rome says Professor Giacomo Boni, director of excavations at Trajan's Forum, and at the Roman Forum, authorizes the statement that in December last, when he received information to the effect that fragments from Trajan's Forum had been sold in the United States, opened an inquiry, which established the fact that no fragments had been ab stracted from Trajan's Forum, or from the Vatican or Lateran museums,

where some remains of the same forum are kept. This, the professor added, does not exclude the possibility that the fragments in New York really be longed to the Trajan Forum, which is

very large, partly unexcavated, and ex tends under the Ruspoli and other pal aces. There are also fragments of the Trajan Forum at the Villa Albani,

which is surpassed only by the Vatican and Capitol museums in rich sculp tures, etc.

EXHIBITIONS NOW ON.

An exhibition of paintings by artist members of the Lotos Club will open to-night in their galleries, 558 Fifth avenue. The exhibition will continue oii Monday and Tuesday.

An exhibition of water-colors will open at the Worcester Art Museum,

Worcester, Mass., on February 24 and will close March 24.

Paintings by American artists form an exhibition which opened at the En gineers' Club,- No. 32 West Fortieth street, on Thursday. The exhibition

will continue through March 4.

Recent portraits by August Franzen were placed on exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries on Monday and will remain here through Thursday next, February 28. These include several full -and three-quarter length standing and seated portraits of well-known New

York women, a fancy portrait, "Jas mine Land," an oval bust, one of a young woman, and a double one of a father and son. The artist, who has a soft and refined color scheme, presents

work in marked contrast to that of Wil helm Funk, whose portraits immediately preceded them in the same gallery. While

Mr. Franzen's portraits of men are well drawn and excellent in expression, those shown of women are more at tractive and are essentiall'- decorative. The full length of Miss Marguerite Baxter, now in the display, and which is one of the artist's best works, was reproduced in the Art News of Decem ber I5 last.

There are also on exhibition at the galleries fourteen late and characteristic oils by E. Irving Couse, the painter of the American Indian. These are one and all interesting as ethnological studies, and attractive from their art quality, for Mr. Couse is not only a careful student of the fast-passing Am erican Indian, but a more than ordinar ily able landscape andl figure painter.

The present examples are. notable for their atmosphere and composition and the drawing and modelling of the fig ures. Possibly the best, for all are good, of the pictures are the "Mirror Signal," a fine group composition, the "Heart of the Forest," with its charm ing light and outdoor feeling; "An Indian Boy," with finely modelled and painted figure, and the "Weary Hunt er." These Indian pictures are grow ing more popular all the time the coun try through. The "Turkey Hunter," by Mr. Couse, which was sold out of the American Art News Traveling Ex hibition recently at New Orleans, was

~ways surrounded by a crowd wher ever shown.

An art season that did not bring an exhibition of the recent work of D. V. Tryon and T. WV. Dewing, the one a landscape and his fellow a figure paint er, and both imbued with rare poetic feeling and sentiment would be lack in.g in one of its most welcome features.

Annually Mr. N. E. Montross has now for some time past, shown a selected number of representative and charac teristic works by these two gifted men, and this season he has opened at his galleries, No. 372 Fifth avenue, to re

main through March 9, a display of twenty-one new, and recent, examples of

Tryon, and four of Dewing, two of

which, "The Mandoline" and "La Com edienne," are loaned by their owner, Col. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit. One of the Tryon landscapes, "Autumn Af ternoon," is also a loan from Col. Frank J. Hecker, of Detroit.

Fourteen pastels, with two or three exceptions, coast scenes and marines, and all small in size, mark in the latter a new departure for Mr. Tryon. They are the result of a long and close study of the coast and sea, and will delight hiis admirers. The artist has brought to them the same poetic feeling for na

ture, and the same delicate color sense, that have marked and still mark his landscape work. The pearly blues and grays of "Evening.Before Sunset," "Be fore Sunrise": and "Twilight," the tonal quality of the gray "Showers," "East

Wind," and., "'outjheast Wind"- are true

and 'sweet- 'itis.a,lAothe soft and tender light in..':EarlI S'unrise." Among the

oils, -some of -wh. ch are also marines, the "Early- Moonfis ,,.surpasses Alex ander Harrison's earlier work of a- like subject..

,of the few landscapes by Mr. Tryor. the sfrongest-and best are the "Autumn

Afternoon," the fresh and clear "M. ay Morning," and the pastel "Gray Day Spring." Tryon may well be called "The Lyric" as Horatio Walker may be styled "The Epic" -poet painter.of America.

It is difficult to say which 6f the four

examples of Dewing are the best. "The

Mandoline" is as good in drawing and

detail as a Meissonier,' without his

hardness, and has the color of Vibert a delightful and strong little figure

work. "La Comedienne" is more char acteristic perhaps; a three-quarter length

half life-size female figure, in soft yel lows and grays. "The Letter" is an

interior with figures, charmingly re fined, and soft and lovely in light color and feeling. A more artistic display than this "Two Man" show it would be difficult to imagine.

Ernest C. Peixotto is showing through iN'Iarch 2 at the Clausen Gal leries, No. 381 Fifth avenue, some sev enteen oils, depicting scenes and vistas in some chateau and palace gardens in

France. These are charming transcrip tions of old world and old time pleas aunces, and evince rare poetic feeling and sympathy. Some of them, and es pecially those of the vistas in the gar dens of the Chateau-de-Bizy, woukld make appropriate and delightful illus trations for Austin Dobson's "Old

World Idylls." The artist has chosen and well painted the most picturesque and quaint bits of scenery, garden, land scape, architecture and sculpture imag inable. Especially good are the "Sea

Horse and Cascade" from the Chateau de-Bizy, the "Buffet d'Eau" from the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, the "Par terres" at Fontainbleau, "les Goulottes" at St. Cloud and the "Basin of Nep tune" at Versailles. Those travelers and lovers of the gardens of France who m.ay sigh over memories of past wan derings through and among their old~

world beauties, should visit this most artistic little display.

A score of pictu.res by American ar tists whose names are familiar form an interesting display at the galleries of W. H. Powell, 983 Sixth avenue. WVell to the fore in this little group is a virile three-quarter length lifelike por trait of W. H. Powell by Irving R.

VViles, formerly hung at the recent academy exhibition. A moonlight at

Moret, by Paul Cornoyer, has good quality, and is effective with the light of the moon's rays falling on the quaint French houses. Carlton T. Chapman has two examples, a marine, "Outward Bound," painted in his usual manner, and the other, "Garden of Rhododen drons," a decorative canvas.

Charming is the figure of a little girl arrayed in a little white gown and standing in a door half ajar, by Richard F. Maynard, a pupil of Irving R. Wiles, who shows much promise.

"The Moonshiner's Picket," by Lyell Carr, has nice tonality, and "The End of Day," by the same artist, is one of his southern* scenes, representing a yoke of oxen in Virginia. A Dutch landscape, with canal and windmill, is

by Charles Gruppe and has good atmos phere. M. Peterson is represented by a genre work, entitled "Bric-a-Brac Shop," and two marines by Arthurt,Hoe ber are "At Sea" and "The Late After noon," the-former example excelling in quality. A'.portrait-of a lady by De Witt Lockman and a- landscape by F. J. Wil ley are works of, note in fhe little exhi bition, which will. continfue through Friday. An exhibition -of pictures bv A. V. Churchill will follow in these gal leries on March-4.

WITH THE DEALERS.

Paintings, -sketches and studies by the late Eastman Johnson, forming a

chronological history of the life of the artist, and shbowing the development of his manner from the time he studied and painted in Holland in the early fifties until the time of his death, were placed on view at the American Art

Galleries, No. -6 East Twenty-third Street, Thursday, prior to their disper sal at auction on Tuesday and Wednes day evenings next, February 26 and-27.

The collection contains a number of genre works, pictures of the Indians of the Lake Superior region, and also domestic scenes of New England life, and several important examples of portraiture.

The notable collection of antique brass and copper numbering about two thousand pieces and formed by A. W.

Drake, Art Editor of the Century Mag azine is- also on exhibition at the Gal leries prior to sale on the afternoons of February 25, 26, 27 and 28, and also

March I and 2. In the collection are many repre

sentative pieces from various countries. From Spain there are articles in old hammered brass and copper, obtained by Mr. Drake while there eighteen years ago. Many of these pieces have been found not only in the large cities like Madrid, Seville and Granada, but in the smaller towns less frequented by tourists. There are braseros, elegant in design and ornamentation, brasero pans, each showing the workmanship of its own province, and beautiful old Spanish-lamps and cantaros. One of the finest pieces is a large oviform

water jar of beaten copper from Ma drid, with well proportioned neck and handles. From Sicily, there is a scal dino with tall, domestic shaped cover, with delicate pierced design.

Italian pieces include church plaques, showing fig designs, Adam and Eve, St. George and the Dragon, St. Martin and the Beggar, and other subjects. A large Italian scaldino is entirely cov ered with ornamentation and pierced work, showing coats-of-arms and disks with birds and flowers.

From St. Petersburg. Moscow and other cities of Russia there is quite an array of samovars, unique in form and design of brass, bronze and copper. A copper basin is covered with repousse decorations, showing the head of Peter the Great. with a border of leaves.

Other pieces include two-handled cups, unusual candelabra for church and domestic service; sconces. and wall brackets with ornamentation of horses, lions and deer.

There are old Arab guns from Tan gier, and decorated pieces of small brass and copper from Holland. An in teresting copper plaque from Bosnia

was sent b.y the government of that country to the Paris Exposition.

Many of the pieces in this collection have been shown at club dinners and various exhibitions.

The sale of the Eastman Johnson pictures and the Drake brasses will;be conducted by the American Art Asso ciation. Thomas E. Kirby will be auctioneer.

A number of Italian renaissance and Spanish embroidered vestments, ban ners and altar frontals have recently been received at D. K. Kelekian's, 252 Fifth Avenue. Other. new importa tions there include several fine speci

mens-of jardiniere and Genoese velvets and French brocades.

Paintings of the i8th century, now on view at the Collins Galleries, No. 8

West Thirty-Third Street, continue to attract much attention. These pic tures will remain on exhibition there for a fortnight longer.

An- exhibition of pastel drawings of English scenery, by Sutton Palmer will open at the galleries of Arthur Tooth, No. 299 Fifth Avenue, about March I, and will continue there for two weeks.

The exhibition of pictures by Miss Content. Johnson at the galleries of

Fishel,. Adler & Schwartz, 313 Fifth Avenue, has been continued during the present week, and will remain open through today. Four of the artists's pictures havre been sold, and among them are "An Impression," a landscape at dusk; "As the Light is Fading," and "~A September Morning." "An Italian Garden" was purchased before the opening of the exhibition by Samuel P. Lockwood. The other sales have been made recently.

Felix Wildenstein, of the firm of Gimpel & Wildenstein, 250 Fifth Ave nue, who has been convalescing at At lantic City, returned home on Wednes day. M. Rene Gimpel, who has been in Paris, is expected to arrive in New

York soon. Faire-parts announcing the sad death of M. Ernest Gimpel have been received by many of the friends of the greatly missed and

mourned expert in New York.

At the Kavanagh Gallery, No. I8 East Twenty-eighth Street, eight recent oils by T. Scott Dabo were on exhibi tion during the week. These emphasize the tendencies and methods of the young American painter, now re.sident in Paris, and are most attractive in color, tonality and sentiment. They will, of course, be called Whistlerian, and so they are, but they have an orig inality and an individual feeling all

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their own. Transparencyr and a certain ev%anescent diaphanous quality, with fine distance effects and a sense of mys tery are the characteristics of the paint er's art. Perhaps the best of the ex amples shown are the "Autumn Even ir.g," "Sunbeams on the Water" and "Reflections," and the fine "Hacken sack Meadows," with its distance and air.

Among the pictures recently received at the galleries of Julius Oehme, No. 320 Fifth Avenue is a landscape, en titled, "Calling the Ferry," by Henri Foreau, somewhat suggestive of Har pignies. Foreau studied with the vet eran French artist, and has also proved himself an apt pupil of the famous land scapist. There is nice quality in the silvery gray sky, the winding river, and the landscape beyond has good dis tance.

At the galleries of Theodore Heine rmann, 257 Fifth Avenue, a Dutch land scape, by Frederick J. Du Chattel, has been placed on view. Other attractive pictures there include a marine by Charles P. Gruppe; "Recitation," a group of young people gathered on the green, by H. Volger; a landscape of admirable quality, with sheep and oxen in the foreground, by the late Christian

Mali, of Munich; and several other pic tures by artists of the Austrian and French schools.

The aggregate amount realized from the three nights' sale of pictures of the combined collections of Messrs. Pincus Chock and Alexander Weir at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries on the evenings of February I4, I5 and i6, was $I8,716. The sale was conducted under the di rection of William Clausen. James P. Silo was the auctioneer.

The art metal work of Japan has long been the admiration of connois seurs, and one of their most lavish pro ductions has been the sword and its various parts. A fine collection of sword guards and sword ornaments

may be seen at Kaldenberg's No. 95 Fifth Avenue.

A collection of Oriental china, in cluding many fine specimens gathered in Europe, has just been received at the art rooms of Mr: Charles, No. 25T Fifth

Avenue. In the collection are a num ber of very early Ming deities, and other interesting pieces.

The fourth chamber concert, in the series now being given at Steinway

Hall, took place on Thursday afternoon. An interesting number was the suite in ancient style, by Phippen, arranged for organ and stringed quartette. The

Hoffmann quartette, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the "Orgue du Salon" harmoniously blended, each adding richness of tone and beauty to the other. An effective solo on the organ, consisting of three numbers, Scherzo Symphonique, Debat-Pousau; "Asa's Death" from "Peer Gyut,"

Grieg; and march from "Tannhauser," was rendered by Gustave Frese. Mr. Frese is an artist who brings out the beauty and power of the organ. Miss Adale Hussey, contralto, sang well the aria from Bruch's "Cross of Fire," and songs by R. Strauss, Herman,

Harris and Woodman. An unusual design for a piano top,

Pan piping to a troop of nymphs in a wooded glade, is on exhibition at Steinway's. Max Antlers, who de signed the cover, has recently sold his painting "Approaching Storm," now at the Corcoran Gallery.

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| Gia1erie Kleinberger

9 Rue de l'Echelle

PARIS

Ancient Pictures Specialty Dutch,

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Shepherd Bros. 27 King Street St. James's, London

Oft Iainting by the

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ENtchings by Whistler, Haden and the Masters. Water colours of the highest class. Rare mezzotints andl colour prints. Exhibitions by the leading artists of the day.

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"OnHi? >R .lnd s O tD < 6$dt

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MINASSIAN Works of --Persian and -Arabian.. Art for

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463-465 Fifth Avenue One door above Fortieth Street.

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