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Tilt itKOORLYN DAILY EAGLE. iNEW YORK, SUM A DEC'EMUKK NEWS AND VIEWS ON CURRENT ART ew Water Colors Chosen PAINTING BY TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Renaissance Bronzes Come to New York ORIGINAL CRON'ZE HORSE 2 The Most Important Collection Ever Shown in This Country In i For Brooklyn Museum Eermanent Collection cludes Horse by Leonardo Da Vinci. lit th present rase for the Gothic, th Rloripa of the Renaissance have fallen Into dlnrepute. Critic of the rarefied type to prove their Intellectual redo 11 an ess tptaU rnuKy of the enmntunness of the IIili Renaissance as opposed to the spirituality mid r- fin intMit of the Gothic. possibly luive bf-en influcnct-d ly such an opinion Any one who may Ail I Varied Offering of Art in Manhattan Galleries Toulouse Lautrecs 1890 Lithographs Court Comparison With Beardsley Drawings of Same Period Renaissance Bronzes and a Pupil of Whistler.

vi should visit the Bachsiitz collection of KenaisBunco now at the g-alleriea of Jackson Higps at 11 K. A4th ManhuUun. and this Is commonness, glory in it. This Is the finnst collection to have ben shown In this country, not excepting- the very ran examples shown at the Metropolitan's Renaissance collection last year. It contains nothing than a Leonardo Da Vinci Horse, not to mention examples by Donutello, Benvenuto Cellini and Giovanni da Bologiia.

Certain works of art have 1 he By HELEN APPLETON READ THE amazing eucoeaa of the present collection of wuur color and pastels at the BrooWyn Museum Is attested by the fact of an attendance of 10,000 people during; the first week. This for an ehl-bitlon which has not the lure of some strange exoUo foreign art, which power of conjurfn up the times in which they were created. A Limoges enamel brings up Images of chivalry been the inspiration of all the succeeding generations. tr. Bode of the Kaiser Friedrich Musfum bega to collect these ro co cern i which he as and high romance, while a rU'imts people oozne to see very often merely out of curiosity, or the authority and nance bronze immediately tells us of recently nublished a book.

They hav tradition of oil paint been mor and more sought after ifu.cn of the success la due to the Museum's way of showing things Individual collectors, among which were Pierpont Morgan and Mr, Informally and without museum pretentiousness. This Is a lure In itself. rick. The late Mr. Caruso was also a collector of thise bronzes.

Dr. Bod told us tlv princes of the There la never the typical attitudinizing; of the museum, its pose of infallibility of Judgments "This Is a great work of art or else it wouldn't be here," Rather the Brooklyn Museum admits that contemporary judgments sjre often fallible, but prefers to show the work of men who are still In the Konalssance collected tln-m and that they were the moat valued possessions of the so-called cabinets nf urt. The Leonardo horse was probably process of arriving. Tola willingness to lake a chance, as it ware, accounts a period of great intellectual ferment, of Boccaccian freedom, and of material richness. We may grant the critical detractors of the Renaissance one thing: it was not spiritual, it was a period of materialism and sensual richness.

As is always the case when men lose sight of the spiritual qualities of nrt they invent a gorgeous exterior garment. But this garment is the high water mark of human achievement artistically speaking. At no tinu in the hlBtory of civilization was there, such a complete and general flowering of beauty. The most obscure patternmaker, the goldsmith's apprentice invented designs of opulence and imagination which have I never been equaled and which have a small clay or wax model for one for the sense of pliability and growth, the freedom from the mausoleum of his equestrian statues which hap stigma which characterizes Its special exhibitions, ss well as Ins perma nont collection. pily was saved from destruction by being cast into bronze.

The careful tooling and beautiful black patina are especially noteworthy. Fhown with the collection bronzes are rare examplesof Greek The Museum has added a large group of water colors to its permanent collection chosen from the present exhibition. Among them are. examples by Edward Hopper, Sandor Bernath, Dudley "Mygatt, Ijirs Hartrop, Tsrhudl. Hart, and Mrs.

Isabel Whitney, all artists whose work Is possessed of great glaes and goldsmith By Leonardo da Vinci. From the Bachstiz Collection. work. nnnulnnl rhnrm nnH lHvtrtii1ifv hut whn Tcanth Wert hitvp iirill tn make big reputations for themselves. Impressions and Notes of the Galleries print In the exhibition, and the Emll r'uehs prize of 126 is offered for the The Brooklyn Museum, it will be remembered, was the first museum in the-, country to encourage the collecting of water colors.

The rest of them ivere under tho popular delusion that water color was a slight medium not best figure print in the exhibition. Ovlncton tironp to Exhibit. The Ovington Group, an asso Kenneth Hsyt Miller's exhibition at Montroas' represents his latest ra. i iirn iiici a bid ucui I'earse Ennes and Kric Hudson, thu rormer wiin two or Ills iew-foundland landscapes, the laltur with his powerful marines. I'rledlander, Mayor, Roth, Kimball, Julius, Berg and Stengel are other ciation of artists whose studios are In the historic Ovington Building on Fulton will hold their first exhibition in the Ovington Gallery, 240 Kulton during the month of Do-- phase.

There is, however, a small Interpolation of his earlier canvases, those semi-clasalc figures with their mysterious opalescent, This is tha type of pluture whrch we have come to associate with Miller. On view Kraushaar Galleries. worthy of museum walls. The Brooklyn Museum held a contrary opinion, Relieving; rather that water color more often than oils was the medium through which the artist was able to give us the most spontaneous expression of his genius. The famous Sargent water colors were the nucleus of the collection, these being followed by the no less remarkable Wlnslow Homers, and since that time the collection has been steadily added to.

and Includes examples liy Manet, Zorti, Puvls de Chavannes, Toulouse I.autrec. as well ss a large eroup of contemporary Americans. When the new w.ng Is completed the water color gallery will be one of the most Interesting features. CAIIILIIIUig, cember. The exhibition opened Bat- urday, Dec.

una continues until But Miller haa recently become The tired art erillc is told that he Plaza Auction Rooms. As a result of the retirement of aa Importer of Oriental rugs front business, his stock of those floor coverings Is to ba sold at auction at the Flaza Art Auction Booms, 6 a. 59th on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons ot this week. All will be on view thers on Monday and Tuesday. Among them are palace Kermanshahs and Sarouks, Mir Serrebends, Keehons and Cablstans and also a variety ot Chinese weaves.

Another business chanse, the reke organisation of tha firm of N. Joo dan, furrier, will placa on sals 10 In the same galleries on Monday and Tuesday afternoons tha stock of that house. This will ha sold at auction in Individual pieces. Th garment and smaller pieces consist of all th popular furs, ranging from Russian sable to muskrats and mole, and ln eluding those grown In Europe, Asia, Australia and all ths Americas. Dec.

81, and will be open to the mora human. He has eome down must never write a criticism of a public daily from 1 to 6 o'clock- A Painter's Painter 10 earth aa it were in these 1922 and GALLERIES AT A GLANCE work of art unless he has a real emotion. Also Meredith told us I hat we canvases. Theaa heads of must never attempt a criticism un Sundays end holidays excepted. Original works In oil and water colors, pastels, sculpture and etchings will be exhibited.

women are portrait, not detached transcendental figures. They are That must be one's summing up 111 we Rre steeped in a subject. Both of these requirements for perfect art Tho Nineties in France. BROOKI.TN US BUM Water rotors by contemporary painters. Drawing real people, although there must of Clifford Adams art, an exhibition Much of the work will be of en wavs be someth a Ittie oiaeier criticism aro rendered Impossible by by BcarflBle and ethar draftsmen HANGING BRIDGE of whose oils, pastels and etchin tne enormous numbers ef urt ex.

of the 90. tiy Rodin. Saint Gau4nfi intimate nature, small In slzn, and eultuble for the Christmas season. The is Invited to visit this Faggi and Hrnncusat. hlbltions, which instead of making us more sensitive tend to harden our is now being held at the Arlington Galleries.

Although we are told Addams apprenticed himself to ANDERSON GALLERIES Water eelora Eduarrt Buh Ulrelch, murala by linckian about his attitude towards women. Maeterlinck's phrase comes tc mind, "It is women who have preserved the sense of the mystic in our earth today." As he becomes more material he beeomes more definite technically. done Is the aesthetic, feelings until only a very gallery, the members of which are all residents of Brooklyn. Clara Wi Is Vargn. Whistler for five years, he distinctly special art manifestation Is necessary to call forth a genuine emotion.

The committee Is composed of the ARLINGTON GALLERIES Paintlnsa aiM does not belong to the host of following arttsts: Eleanor Bannister, This is true of the Demuth water etchings by Clifford Addams. Leon Dabo, Max Hermann, Isabel M. Whistler imitators. In only one ART CEN'TKH Works of members of ths I r4" Messrs. Arthur H.

Harlow A Ci Klmfcall. Kled K. Detwiller, Marie colors at the Daniel Galleries. This Is a truly delightful exhibition; our voiriie, nebulous outline. He now ures clear-cut dark lines to outline his flaurss.

The Miller color haa Tiffany Foundation. Portraits ivory by Countess Korzybakl. of the early canvases, a portrait of his daughter, Diana Addams, who Shields Meyer, Lillian Morris, Andrew T. Schwartz, Bculah Steven announce a special exhibition etchings and original drawings response Is immediate. We do not BABt'Ol GALLERIES Annual exhibi also become a clearer, cleaner affair.

need to steep ourselves In this sub Incidentally was Whistler god son, Robert J. Wlckenden. tion of th Guild of Amerkan Ksnsc a Iv noticeable Is the recurrent dogs and horses by Marguerite Ktrmse. The exhibition remains on view to Bee. 26.

daughter, dn we detect the mantle Ject in order to tell the world that these ordered renditions of fruit, Since our aesthetic senses have been nicely attuned to an appreciation and understanding of the art and spirit of the nineties in England, due to the exhibition of 1S9'I draftsmen at the Brooklyn -Museum, it Is especially timely that we are ahle to Bee a manifestation of the same Zeitgeist, translated Into terms of France atthe Krausliaar Galleries, where there is being held an exhibition of lithographs by Toulouse-I-autrec. Toulouse-Loutrec. even more than eardsley, is the especial rediscovery the younger generation, it is only within the last few years that his Iithographs and etchings have again isconie popular. We have seen how the English 1 890 art underwent an eclipse due to social and moral feasons, only lately lo re-emerge. So Guy Pene de Bois in his foreword to the catalogue points out some prejudices which may possibly ex painters.

note of pure green which he usss in many of the portraits. In "The N'icolas Macsoud Is holding an ex Of Whistler. BRIMMER (jALLERIKS Paintings by flowers and vegetables are beautiful hibition of his recent paintings at Kile f.aaeoux. Bather we find an amusing sine Addams has an axtraordinary per What amazing clarity of vision, whal the Hotel Bossert, and at his etudlo, CITY CLUB Photographic portrait! of light en Mlller'a new-found Interest sonal viewpoint. His work is a almost geometrical exactness, and withal nothing of the doctrinaire, or relebrltleg by Alice Houghton.

th nn as thoy are. to snow mat 70 Fifth New York, smaller paintings are being shown until irun mixture of tho moat subtlt; this Venus is no fantasy of the DANIEL GALLERIES Paintings by Da- theorist. These are stlll-llfes reduced Christmas. muth. nuances of color 'with a violent dramatic massing of light and dark.

What could more subtle than the to their essentials of color and form, yet happily within the grasp of any DUDENSINO GALLERIES Paintings by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foun antique, but very human woman en route to the bath, he paints a little bath-houe key attached to a ribbon aruund her neck. Eugene Higgln. enigmatic face and clasped hands nf art lover, no matter what his bias of DfRANp RL'EL Paintings by Tamil! opinion may be. dation ig holding Its fourth annual exhibition of paintings and sculpture by lis members at the Art "entor, 6B E. B6th New York City.

The Piaoaro. The Macbeth Galleries ere holding in rauquilllty, which we reproduce. With what tenderness and feeling and with what melting color he has painted' 1 hem! And then look EHRICH GALLERIES Metal work and The National Assoctalion of the seventh annual 01 Women Painters and Sculptors will exhibition continues until Deo. 15. Loiseau.

Durand-Ruel intimate paintings. This exhibition Mr. Tiffany has presented his resi plain the unfamlliarlly of the public On Gall hold an exhibition of small pictures in oil and water color, miniatures at the violence of the mass of black hair against the white background, enes. dence, laurelton Hall, Cold Spring has come to be one of the anttcipaten features of the art season. Quality garden furniture by Marl Zlmmer man.

FEA RON GA LLE I ES Portraits by A T. No well. FOLSOM GALLERIES Paintings by Cllf ford Pnydci. and sculpture at. the Ferargil Gal also the emphatic streaks of black Harbor, lo the Foundation, noiieving is the attribute which Ii ilressed In Urles.

607 Fifth from Dec. lo It. And because the email picture st large concerning Lautrec genius "At one time Poo and Hals were fiiaced in the pale when it was earned that they drank. Their art could not save them. Perhaps that time is happily past.

It Is even nos- that nothing Is more conducive to the development of Individual artistic personality than beautiful Whitney Studio Club 10 "We.t 8th New York EXHIBITION OF Water Color by THOMAS H. DONNELLY RICHARD LAHEY RICHARD MARWEDE MARY F. WESSELH0EFT and Designs for Stained Glass bv MISS WESSELH0EFT Nov. 28th to Dc. 14th Open week daya 11 ta p.m.

tiunday 8 to 8 p.m. KRAUHHAAR GALLERIES Paintings Is having a constantly greater voruk due to the modern crowded condi and lithographs and etchings by Daumier, Forain and Toulouse tion of living, the Macbeth Galleries SI, Inclusive. This exhibition, intimate in character and charm, will fittingly succeed the 83rd Annual Exhibition of tha association, held In the Fine Arts Building. Exhibitions of Brooklyn Intcrct. The eighth annual exhibition of Lautreo Legros.

have decided to use their downstairs slble that the exquisite art of Toulouse-Lautrec will be seen past the Ahvlnns fai't thut a a -ee KIPPS Water celora by Frederic Sodwell. KN'OKDLEK Prints by Coroi. Pegas. gallery for a continuous exhibition of Intimate paintings. Forain and Legros.

In the present exhibition arc MACBETH Intimate paintings and South the Brooklyn of Etchers American pictures by Rachel F.XHIBITIOW AD SAI.B OF PAINTINGS By Blflkelrn'k, Oan, Ranirer, ami othur prominent Amerirsn ami European CALO ART GALLERIES IKS West 40th V. FW. B'way and 6th Ave. MILCH fiALLBRlES Paintings by Hai. will be opened to the public, in the Print Galleries of the.

Brooklyn Museum on Wednesday, Deo. 2, and It will continue on view until Jan. 15. The public opening will be pre miniature canvases by American painters whom we usually aosociato with impressive and Imposing canvases. Here is Innesa with hit large romantic qualities crowded Into A 9x12 H.

Examples by Wyant and Homer Martin complete the grqup of early American painters. Gard literary artificialities of Aubrey Beardsley. in France it was best expressed by the biting realities of Lautrec- No romantic symboiirm for the Frenchman, as always he gets his material and his Inspiration, although it has not always Lautrec' pessimism and bitterness, from the life about him. Lautrec and Beardsley had, however, certain distinct artistic affinities. They both derived their line and use of arabasque from the Japanese.

Also It wan Lautrec who pointed the way for the. poster craze which Beardsley Introduced into England. Toulouse-Lautrec came from an illustrious French family. was brought up to tak part in and joy all the good things of life. But when he waa a boy his legs were injured so that he became more than a crinnlef he was a grotesque dwarf.

earn, MONT ROSS Paintings by Kenneth Hay Miller and water colors by Arthur Hunt. ceded by a first view and tea on Tuesday afternoon, pec. 11, from NATIONAL ACADEMT OP DESIGN ner Simons and Elmer Bchoffleld hree to six, for members of the Winter exhibition till Dec u. show us that they can crowd quite as muh winter Into their 10xl3'a a. PIDNEY PHILLIPS Color prints hy F.

Reves Ferryman. great deal about the wrong sort of women." Hamilton Easter Field, who was an art student in Paris at the time when Lautrec was having his first great success, once said, "You younger men who admire Toulouse-Lautrec now have little conception of the feeling which we as contemporaries felt as his lithographs came out one by one. He was the revelation of depths in the character of each one of us, unexpected depths, depths of which we frequently had no previous intuition. It is singular how through men of the same epoch a wave of emotion runs. One man expresses the emotion which is common to a group and this group feels what one may almost call worship toward him who has expressed their emotions in terms of beauty.

That is what Toulouse-Lautrec did." If in England fin de siecle decadence was expressed through the In their large Academy and Museum P.EHN GALLERIES Paintings hy enacU! plcturfs. Other noteworthy can society and members of the Museum and their friends. There will about prints exhibited, which will represent the work of 12! ur-lists and will constitute the largest exhibition made at any one time by the society. American urtlsts. paint which draw the folds of the rose dress.

There is something of Courbet in It. Courbet loved these, violent contrasts; he caw things in big masses. But then Courbet nqver concerned himself with spiritual qualities. Then turning from "Tranquillity," with Its almost black and white scheme, we find in his "At Play." the picture which charmed the discerning visitor to last year's Pennsylvania Academy, a study in pure color. Character and symbolism are discarded.

This is merely a play cf one lovely tone opposed to tlu-Other. The title is well ohosen, not only because of its subject matter, but because of the spirit whiclj prompted it. It fa a picture of a woman in a gray-blue kimono holi-Ing a canary, a Whistler kimono to be sure, against a background of th loveliest Chinese red- This is painting for the pure love of it. We are told that Mr. Addams only does paint for the fun of it, which accounts for Ms freedom of expression.

He has not established reputation for himself along certain definite lines, so that he must repeat his successes in order to satisfy possible buyers. He delightfully does just what he pleases with hia paint. Take the little still-life of nhjet art, another gem and painted with all the care and exactness of a Carlson but with a broader brush and a more telling design. It is not much a rarnful copy of beautiful objects aa it is an arrangement and emphasis of certain shapes that please him. A silhouetting of dark shapes against light grounds, an In- vases are hy Henri, PushmAn, Lever, WHITNEY STUDIO CLUB Paintings by Hassan, arisen and Anna l-inner.

Thomas Dannelly, Richard Lahcy. Richard Marwed and Mary This unfortunately, but quite natu The Guild of American Painters is Four prizes will be awarder on rally, embittered his fife. Only among the lowest people, the absinthe WEHYE 0AMERIES Prints and eter holding its sixth annual exhibition at th Rabcock Galleries. II Is Interesting to trsce the development of colors hy modern Oerman artists drinkers and decayed souls of Mont- Ihe occasion of the first view: The Nathan I. Bijur prize of $25 is offered for the best print hy an exhibitor who Is not i member of the society; this group how each year some of the m-n get a little stronger, a little more sure of themselves and have a selected' by Ferdinand Moeller al- tery of Berlin.

WILDESTEIN OAJ-t-ERIES Paintings by Picasso and Maria Laurenctn. HOWARD YOL'NfJ GALLERIES Paint ings by Lillian Ghent. mart re, where his always open purse bought htm friends, could he forget his deformity. These people are the subject matter for many of his drawings. He also recorded with keen and pitiless observation what Americans and English called in those the Kate W.

Arms Memorial prize of $25 is offered for the. best prlnl hy a member; the Henry V. Noyes prize of 150 Is offered for the best ittle mora to say. Also how their personalities develop awav from the school to individual expression. Here is Frank Hnzell.

He takes his plact now with the strongest rani of the days "gay Psree" the Moulin group. Especially noteworthy Is his Hummer." with its flat masses of Rouge and its like. The faces of famous Parisian dancers and singers re-live for us In his drawings May Bell fort, Rejane falso immortalized ree shadows silhouetted agninst gold terest in the pattern as It were, is one of Mr. Addams' most individual characteristics. Mr.

Addams enlisted In the British Navy for tho duration of the war. There is also on view a very Interesting collection of small pastels done while ho was In service. sunny fields beyond. Wtlter Farn-dan is also making steady progress. by Beardsley), Loie Fuller.

Cissie His clear hlond landscapes of Long Recent Paintings, Water Colors and Etchings by Childe Hassam N. A. nf tkc Amrrirnn Ari4wy nf Art and Letting Dtctmbtr 3d to 29th MfLCH Galleries 108 W. 57th New York Island villages are a leoognUable note in any exhibition. Costlgan has Loftus, La Goulou, as well as acrobats and trapeze performers and derelicts of the street.

The old Montmartre was a rich mine for the artists of the nineties. PAINTINGS and ETCHINGS by Clifford Addams Until December 15 been for some time one of the powers "TRANQUILITY" of the group; his fame is spreading rapidly. I believe that three mu who, inspired by Degas, had found that the realities of Parisian life seums have recently purchased his were subject for art. Lautrec, it pictures. He is represented in tne proseui exhibition by three sheep must be remembered, is directly in line with Degas, although his work has none of Degas' personality and detachment.

Lautrec is seething with hatred and reprpsston, hence Arlington Galleries 274 Madison Avenue New York -Mai- his brutality and pessimism. The present exhibition also includes a superb collection of Dau-mler lithographs and etchings hy Forain. In the inner gallery are shown paintings by all three. The majority of us think of Daumier as master of th" lithographic crayon and Forain as the greatest of modern French etchers. We torget that these men experimented v-'Uh all the mediums.

Daumier has ben rightly called the lather of modern painting, bfrause hp was ih1 first to brak now for winter sports OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT THE OVINGTON GALLERY 246 Fulton Street (Corner Clark Street), Brooklyn EXHIBITION AND SALE of Paintings, Sculpture, Etchings. bv THE OVINGTON GROUP OF ARTISTS On View Daily From 1-6 P.M. During December VISITORS WELCOME awav from the wnpt classical for mula of the raiy Tilth Century and not only dmw but paint men and woin-n In the clothes of th day. pursuing hHr everyday occu National Academy of Design NOW OPEN 215 Wtit 57th St. MANHATTAN Daily 10 A.

M. to 0 P. M. Sunday 1:30 to P. M.

Admission 50c pations. The collection rf Forain paintinsrs shows him in 1 wo t'h his first rather tight and Flick phnse and his l.ttept nervous and dramatic style. Ait Auction Plaza Quebec has a winter all its own. Crystal-white lies the snow. Crystal-gold glows the moon.

Bracing, is the wind. Warming, is the sun. VVinter is when the Quebecker lives. He dons picturesque garb. Frolics with the snow-shoe clubs.

Toboggans in the moonlight. Skis down breathless hills. It is a season glorious and glowing. Join in. Via Chateau Frontenac.

You will be in the very center of this winter adventure, yet in the very heart of 1 modern hotel luxury. Beginning Christmas, Chateau Frontenac becomes a smart wintersport club. It has the right people. The right equipment. The right atmosphere.

Plan now, and you can get a room in the great, new, battlemeritcd tower. Canadian-Pacific, 344 Madison, at 44th, N. Y. Or write Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada, Greater chateau Edward P. O'Reilly Auctioneer Telephone S441-SIOS Schultheis Galleries 14? F.tltnn M.Y.rL Paintinis Mrssotints rinu Etching Artiitir 14icture Framing An VmMM AT FIFTH AVENUE (5, 7 and 9 East 59th Street) AN AUCTION SALE OF IMPORTANCE A FINE COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL RUGS SI7.K AM) tF.KiX BY THE ORDER OF A WELL-KNOWN IMPORTER WHO IS ABOUT TO LIQUIDATE HIS BUSINESS The collection Includes Palace Kermanshahs and Sarroks Mir Serrebendi.

Keshons, Kazas and Cabittant, Also variety of Chinese Rug. Il8 1 i '1 DURAND RUEL EXHIBITION PAINTINGS CAMILLE PISSARR0 Commenrinjr IWrniher 1st 12 EAST 57th STREET NEW YORK ONTENAC EXHIBITION Water Colors hy ARTHUR P. HUNT MONTROS3 GALLERY 'niiiritii in ii jii" 1 iv Hlntl Kv Vnxn iT An Ti r.TUT. rKr-. nrA 4lh Safe Day Fri.

and Sat. Deremhr 5th. 6th, 7th end flth at 2:30 P. M. THE CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTEL ATOP OLD qUEBEC By Clifford Addams On view Arlington Galleries.

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