New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-26
ARrISTy PICTURE SALE
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IRISH FAMINE FUND.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IRISH FAMINE FUND.
A collection OF pictures by American artists
p NOW biion AZ Leavitt's Gallery, No SIT Broad
way. who're II may be seen day and evening for
nur d.yS On the afternoon Of Tuesday Maren
70 II viii be dispersed auction, and
n commission OF % per cent on the
Amount Of the sales will DO handed oFeF
10 tse IRISH Famine Fund. the remainder going to
the artists Themselves. The purchasers Of tue pictures
Will bo oOuged pay or the frames. the price "t eaen
frame beng stated In tae catalogue We unHers''uo
that the iessrs Laavtt give the use OF me ha the ser
wee and tie -t ther portion OF the cn"ry snu' 40
charity "a seldom ITS reward, we suppose
n.s- Gentlemen have calculated that ther generosity
viii ,y for itself IS an advertisement We confess thas
as the alTr stands charity plays small part III III
there are lew, very few, reasonably 5000 poiuFes,
but the majority Will painfully recall the worst days Oh
tbe Artls Fund Society under Che old regime ana
whom the sale IA over quantity Of dead stock
VIII have been cleared OF the Shelves many
utr,s that never could nave been got rid Of exceptoy
conyi,,son Of nature will have disappeared. and, Tor
time nc !cast we shall miss them displaying thelr
fading charms a, exhiD ton after another III no
desua.rug hope Of ever getting a genuine oheE' IL
seems 90 u Il would have been better 10 nave dean
souarcv with the puhlic0Rsrng wibou! Disguise 10 20
>nacls with The Irish Fund.- and making no pFetehce Ok
charity for others VIXEN all the charity there Is really
begins 90 home.
However there are O few things here that are pretty
SIRE 10 mud certainly hopethat tPe artists
and me rund may get good share o. the spare cash
thnt is rafting ABOUT In peoples pockets IN tese JAWS
ard CRYING out to he spent FOR something Mr. Blum
hasa iaunty peu-and NIX sketch la Fortuny; Mr. Mnr
pny one OF hts clever landscapes from the samaSGnu
collection: Miss Emmett, whoso PAINTED iidtes
All the world OF China manaes knows and adnres' and
in so doing show, more than usual, contributes
nlate with shamrock border and portrait OF her an
c.stnr Robert Emmrt IN the middle; Mr. j. q, blo"us
" -,errtng Tor home " Is here; MI. Dolphs httcns
noo a usual on canvas painted Is wei as ne Knows
| how: Mr. T. ID Smlue has pretty llnd-cape ana Nr.
| 4 g. Uowaud another; MI Frank FON !rrs " louhE
Ii1ccuu." smiles the honest smile oi heAty 1vuhs
model who Knows ne is 10 be vel PAID Tor lo0kds tnI
soup Mr. X Bruce Crane mas painted ~ on the rhe,yu
he nlr,srd as with In the WaterCoOi ENMolVoh' Nl.
r T. Duind u son or the Durand We nll snow, mas ,Wo
! Itssles reating Burns by burns sluei Mss
| W.ugh-tne daughter we wonder, or "holner
| ,lc.tlfne artst-has invented rally anus ~
| c,isoIa IN the lives ~ two twins pr. 'tsi-
! iorJ Armstrong Mr. q. ". Maynard and hr;
nv Hubbard stud good specimens OF il,lr aOlty a"a
air Edv ard has two pictures one ldr<e otie,
ndscapr and the other saerthe ship tnat II 20 ota.
nur nm OF food aud money 10 ireland JUST arrive" ava
ina neopa coming down To the strand 60 w"lconS hrr
Nor u,ust " forget speak OF BIS heys venture QUO
de ma a,d ~ hose lively designs so faiuLif 10 ths
raaders ~ scrthner He here his hand at SOUP
tUre and sends dashing igursine Of sncrIdsD ~ ihae
| ,omrus ride II hls when DC wcAed the world Win
wondrous norsem.Ishlp aud no and Glory reached ths
| atrgLl