The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-01-14
BrOadbrim'S New York Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.


A point of surprising interest is the Gal
lery Of American Artists at Broadway and
Twerty-third Street, though these galleries
may always be visited with interest and in
struction. 1t was here that the great Nor
gan collection was exhibited TO the public,
an exhibition that was revelation to the
great mass of our people of the wondrous
possibilities of Art; and it is the pride and
boast of Messrs. Sutton and Kirby, the
gentlemen who conduct the Art Association.
that the greatest price ever obtained for
picture Of similar size in the United States
was secured BY them, for Jules Breton's
Communicates at the Morgan sale. Here
too was sold the magnificent Seney collec-
tion, when evil fortune overlook that en-
teprising financier, and later still, the
Stewart collection was passed under the
hammer; few of Its chlefest treasures
fortunately remaining in New York, a gift
to the people forevermore. The particular
obligation under which the public rests to
the American Art Association is, that it is
distinct.vely the patron of American art !;
and If to-day our standards of art are high
er, and our encouragement to artists great
er than they ever haYe been before, it is in
no small measure due to Messrs. Sutton &
Kirby, who conduct this admirable institu-
tion. OF the present exhibition l have
nothing to say but praise, and while it may
not be quite so elaborate or extensive as
some which have preceded it, 1t has never
theless enough in it to we'll repay any lover
OF art for visit. The central attraction
at present Is Hans Markart's Diana's Hunt
ing Party, woik of surprising grandeur.
1t almost covers the west side of the lower
room, and rivets the attention at once as
you enter the gallery. Il was in these
mighty canvasses that the genius of Mark
art revelled, and over the charms of these
golden haired, azure eyed beauties, he dwelt
with lovers raphsody. Who that was
privileged to see his Entry of Charles the
Fifth into Antwerp can ever forget it /;
there in the mighty throng, strewing the
conqueror's way with flowers are the same
yellow haired syrens, that glorify Diana 8
Hunting Party, and which will make the
canvass immortal. Hans Markart loved
not dark haired women-a true Saxon he; I;
and his most glorious types of men and
women were Of the fair-haired, blue-eyed
race Il was these same golden-haired
witches that eventually dragged him down
to death. Toward the last-when, he re-
allied his deadly peril, he made desperate
struggle for freedom; but the meshes were
too firmly tangled about his feet, and at
last the mighty brain reeled and sank into
hopeless ruin.
Standing In the presence of this wonder
full picture, 1t is almost impossible to con-
ceiVe that he who created it died a mad
man. Such too, was the fate of the Great
Landseer, whose marvellous works adorn
the most magnificent art galleries of
Europe. The last years of Markart's life
were like an Intoxicating dream. Royalty
honored him with suite of rooms in the
Immpsrial palace, hardly second in regal
splendor to the apartments of the Emperor
himself. The Iron Chancellor unbsnt in
his presence, and welcomed him to his
table as an equal. When he entered the
Opera, the whole house rose and cheered
him as II 1t were the entrance of q king,
but it was among the common people that
Hans MarkaIt loved 10 dwell, and by them
he was almost worshipped. In the bier
cellars where he sat and drank, and
studied human nature, the mug that he
quaffed his beer from, is garlanded with
ribbons, and hung up as a sacred relic; no
mortal lips will ever touch It more. No
mere description can do justice to the
grand work now on exhibition at the Am
erican Art Galleries, and we shall not
attempt iv. If man was created in the i'm
age Of God, and woman, the after thought,
was given To him as the most perfect type
Of divinity, when God said, at is not
good for man to be Alone" than are these
wOnderous forms the most ideal perfection
OF the Creator. They are not angels, such
as one only sees in dreamland; but the
most glorious types Of splendid earthly
womanhood, looking as Eve might have
looked in Paradise. The great charm Of
the picture is its perfect chastity. No
leshsrous sAtyr pssN with dsvllsh eyes