The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-09
THE U EXHIBIT.
The Art association VIII Display the
Works Of This Great Dutch Painter.


On Wednesday morning. at e5 East Ohio
street. Denison Hotel, the Art Association
will open TO the public the second exhibition
OF a full collection Of the paintings of Anton
Mauve. the great modern Dutch master.
The only collection of Mauve ever exhib-
tied In this country was brought to New
York a few years ago by William Macbeth,
who also brings this one. The first con-
sisted OF mere studies, about twenty. The
present collection embraces ffty-eight
pieces, in charcoal and oil. OF which about
a dozen are finished canvases. The studies
in the collection embrace many left hang
ing upon the walls OF the artists studio
at his death. Many are rough sketches.
some containing suggestions of features un-
developed by the artist. others being ''dou-
pie pictures. the original abandoned and
the papers turned and drawn on again.
just as he left them until two months ago,
when Madame Mauve died while Macbeth
was completing arrangements for the pres
ent exhibition. The artist Joseph Jefferson
was a great Mauve admirer. and has six
teen of the artist. He has loaned
three pieces TO this collection, Interior OF
S SGyoas o. CON- con the Retired List And
Jefferson gave his friends a view of these
and The Three Cleaners" which he bor-
IN h9~ this iO col hee o6eas' With and true Mhif his raonfc
willfulness Mr.. Jefferson knocked off the
tile OF one piece The Lone Horse" and
ION the Retired List"
Mauve will be more fully recalled by those
stood near Fortuny's Flying Clouds in
the art gallery at the words fair. The
P aree b paintsr W Wsn neither either profits lin w nor
would be called big canvas in the ex-
hibit. one. Hunter and Dog" is but a
Few inches smaller than the largest piece
he ever PAINTED. For simplicity and purity
or styl. Mauve was hardly equaled by
Coyot. All artists are attractsd by his
ing incident shows how not Mauve. but
Or hls works: He would often show his
friends now he found complete pictures In
nature by tearing a page out OF his pocket
book and cutting a little aperture in the
paper. He would then look through the
opening at a piece Of landscape which
struck him. and then make them stand at
the same spot to admire the simple beauty
of the scene manipulated by the art OF
The fine quality which characterizes all
OF Mauve's work, the light and atmos-
phere which he never fails to put upon
most Indifferent observer If he has the
least love of art In his soul. until bis feel
ing OF h en5oymen. peiome quite sln IoTe,
is under a spell which he is scarcely able
TO define. but in which he finds qualification
portion of the exhibit comprises the hasty
sketches which the artist made during his
many walking, trips about the country
when every idea was seized and rapidly
sketched for later development.
1t is the grand quality of truth, Of simple
integrity, which characterizes all Of Mauve's
work. 1t is impossible to conceive Of him
as painting with any motive other than
that of earnestly seeking after the truth
of nature. And yet, 1t happens that in a
few brief years he pleases the public, be-
cause he first satisfied his own profound
consciousness of what was true and beauti-
full. 1t thus happens, further. that a single
modest-sized canvas by Mauve is COM
mercially worth $1,000 and artists and art
lovers throughout the civilized world ray
homage to his genius and his manifest skill,
which was so subtle as to hide The very
effort required in the production of his
works.
His eagerness to touch that same chord in
every other heart so nerved his hand that
small details were put behind him and MS
art assumed the phase, which In the man
dubbed careless. The craftsman, conscien-
tiously careful In early life, grew careless
of detail as his genius approached matur-
But that is not to say the few finished
pieces-those he would have been willing to
put his name to and embark on the sea or
art criticism-have any fault In compost
ton or drawing. Simply that many of his
. studies are valuable only to artists or art
lovers as illustrations of the masters meth
gIittering polish which artists are fond of
saying any neophyte can apply.
But there are canvases In the colecuon
which will aPp,eeai! .t to anyone. ..S Suca atb is R the
tired List" woman with Fagots," Sow
and Cart" and the tiny bit of beauty. Ca
liberal nSe ana art educatieen mighs be Obtained by
examining the double pictures. and fol-
lowing some crude sketches. were memo
r nact Oh scenes 20 psa snetT oes 81 thst Very
phase Of nature told by the artist-poet In
the almost minor key of his simple Tyre.