New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-14
AMERICANS IN ROME.

' 80 .hat Of Charles Caryl Coleman-well
-, On Nav Workers among whom he still counts
bmself. despite his long residence III Rome
iorge pcture OF Capri was to be sent away the next
aav and wished to see it before its departure.
The studio Is in the old place. directly over th'' oi
Costa in quiet Via Margutta looking out upon
Garden already sweet with summer scents anu
bright with summer Dloohi' thoush !" was '"' VI"
first week III April.
Mr. Colemans robap are very valuable He Is
an enthusiastic collector and be has moderate
fortune in bric-a brac. Tapestries bits OF stained
glass wonderful old carvings. curiously wrought
brasses arn.or. old china-enOugh for moderate
szed art museum-adOrn the studo, where ING
artist himself, with his Leonardo da Vncl face, ana
dressed in cap and blouse of brOnze-gold velvet
seems the lifting genius ton
The Capr picture was bit of summer-a yellow
wheat field swept by soft wind with the blue
southern sky above it. and a group OF gayly-clad
peasant girls in the midst. Coleman spent 'n9
summer of 1884 in Capri. and a number oil Capri
n;ctures large and small, are the result. beSuo
these Coleman has several pictures OF Venice. oho
was of Venice By moonlight, another was OF inc
bronze horses over the entrance OF ~. MATHS
Some we OF six years ago Mr. Coleman pahtou u
picture of this subject which was huch
admired by art-lovers. and purchased py Lazy
Asbburton who has ono of the finest private colec
painting-from Il somewhat different point OF VIC"
is still faer than the former one The horses
seem fairly alive and ready to step OIL into space
Mr. Coleman has done some strong things IN pack
and white One of them" The Return from the
Crucifxion "-seemed so strange neighbor to the
snnny scenes from Capri and the pictures OF
Venice
where the merchants were the kings. -,
: Where Marks is. and the Doses used to wed the
with rings -
chat perhaps was even moro impressed
with its profound earnestnoss, its depth of
sorrow, than would have been the case else
where. In the far distance. on a low dark hill
against a cold dark sky. the three crosses roSe-the
central one being the most prominent Between
this hill of the crosses and the spectator are other
low hills with outlines dim In the sepll-darkness.
and along them winds sad procession of sorrowinS
mon and women-whose grief has fallen on them
heavily. whose hope has not vet dawned
Mr. Coleman told some droll tales of artist life in
Capri 1t has become very common for American
and English artists to fall captive TO the charms OF
'aark-eyed Capri maidens: and within a few years
some ten or twelve have married their models; I'LL
at last TO marry artist has come to be regarded
.nrettv Capr girl as her manifest destiny. and
II 10 somewhat difficult to procure model other
wise than by marrying her. Last year an artist saw
n beautiful Capriote with her mother, carrying
stones on her head for the use OF walmakers she
was lust suited for the picture the painter mad IN
hand He found by inquiry that she and her
mother received exactly a franc and haif apiece
for carrying their stone burdens from morning I'LL
night 1t seemed wretched business, than winch
ANYTHING would be better. He offered the girl ten
francs day to come aud sit for him as model
She coyy refused. He thought she might dislike 10
come without her mother; SO he proposed to hire
the mother also. Not at all. He was delicately
informed that the only way to secure the model
would be marry her. The case was not desperate
enough for that and the fair Capriote goes on with
her stone-carrying, pending the arrival OF a more
susceptible artist
The next studio ] CHANGED to visit was that OF ).
Rollin Tilton 1t is within stones throw of the
Villa Ludovsi and overlooks the Ludovlsi grounds.
Mr.. Tilton as we'll as Mr.. Coleman, is true lover
of Venice and has painted many Venetian pictures
He had some charming ones in his studio, and one
was ouite unioue in its way. 1t had been sketched
from the top of II high tower, and looked down on
the Piazza of St. Marks. The picture which most
Interested me- however. was a largo Egyptian land-
scape. into which the artist said he had put his
heart" There was a wide plain. with distant hills
in the background, and in the foreground the
Temple of the Sun and the cities of Karnac and
lnxor Mr. Tilton has always the power OF pro-
ducing wonderful effects of light and air; and it
seems to me that Egypt has also revealed her secret
to HIM Turning from the Egyptian picture /
caught sight Of cue of the Vermilion Tower OF the
ALEXANDRIA and. presto, it was two years ago and
was back in Spain. The sunset dying on the
Sierra Nevadas and all Granada was at my feet
with cathedral and churches and gypsy houses
hollowei in the hllsldes all mud walls and front
door B .>ide, his own pictures, Mr.. Tilton has an
art treasure that is priceless-a Magdacne by
Titan He is very mysterious as to how it came
into his possession. When l asked him he said,
sAb such things are sent me by Fate. This is the
third Titan | have discovered" l am ready to
affirm that it is the most beautiful Magdaene
Most of the well-known Magdelenes are anything
but saints anything, even. but penitents. This
ono wears her beauty solemnly She rejoices IN II
no longer Her uplfted ewes seek Heaven through
their tears. The passion of her sorrow possesses
her whole being-and yet no Venus could rival heI
sad loneliness. The coloring is 11tians best. II
made a womans head b. Sir Frederick Leighton
hanging near by and which had adaircd befor,
the Magdalene was uncovered-seem as if it were
made of dough. Whence the Magdalene came. oil
what it's varying fortunes since Titan painted 1T,
know not--vhither it goes know not-but know
that it is far to be desired than the Kph-i-noor
II is OF a sunday aftcrnoo that guests vel
coined to the studio of Elihu Veddcr-certainly, II
point of situation the most beautiful studio in al
Rome. 1t is apartment in the Villa Strohltern
and to reach it you enter gate just outside th'
Porta del PopolO. and side by side with th
entrance 70 Villa Borghese Then you wander oil
and on up climbing path, QuHe overhung will
roses and revealing at every turn exquisite picture
of Rome lying below.
That MI Vedder is the most imaginative arts
America has yet given to the world there hardly
be a question. If he were not painter he mus
have been poet for his Imagination is distinctly
poetic and literary III It's quality. His undevelope'
ideas hi ght be the fortune OF "a dozen other men
Chere "a of O,