The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-03
ARr VOTES.
A Loan Eshrb,iOn at the brooklyn Institute.

The now building OF the Brooklyn Institute Of
Arts and Sciences was opened last evening with
a reception given by tho Board Of Trustees.
The Members OF tho institute will have this
afternoon and evening for a special Wow of the
building and collections, and the general public
will be admitted FREQ on Friday and Saturday
evenings. Thereafter the institute will he open
free on Sunday afternoons from 2 to 8 o'clock.
and every week day and evening except Monday
and Tuesday, when there will be an admission
fec. The new building, built from the designs of
McKim, Mead g. White, is Of tho classic style,
and occupies a commanding site on the Eastern
Parkway, at its junction with Washington ave-
nue.. A magnificent view from the grounds
takes in Prospect Park and tho suburbs Of the
city iii the foreground, and includes many miles
OF Long Island territory, thickly sprinkled with
towns and villages, and on the horizon the
ocean and the New Jersey highlands. The pros
ent building forms but onc-slxteenth part of the
structure as II will DO when complete, but 1t IL
In itself palatial and commodious.
In the galleries on tho top floor of the new
museum "a loan exhibition of pictures has been
made by II special committee, consisting OF
Messrs. Henry I. Chapman. Jr., CARL II. De Sill.
vor, and John s. James. 1t includes 574 mum
bers, and Is supplemented by the exhibition Of q
mosaic window representing THE Return of
the Dove" by Heinigko and Bowen, and of q
colored glass window and q collection Of favrile
glass and other glass motives from the Tiffany
Glass and Decorating Company. The gal
leries are spacious and well lighted, but
the mosaic floors, which are very light
in color, reflect in rather annoying fashion
in the glass which covers almost all
Of the pictures on the walls. The glass habit"
hos a firm hold in Brooklyn apparently, though
in this climate and atmosphere there is no
necessity for glazing oil paintings. A strong
brass railing In the galleries Of the institute
securely protects them from injury on tho part
OF curious or needless visitors. No attempt
seems to have been made to hang the pictures
according to schools or chronological order, and
the general effect of tho walls may scarcely BIO
called harmonious. The pictures have been lent
by n number of individuals, and each
collectors contributions appear to have
been kept together, SO far as possible, in
groups. They como from sevcnty-six owners,
among whom those who lend the largest col
~lections are Joseph c. HoaGland, A. Augustus
Healy, Latham A. Fish, John Emmans, Charles
c.. Markham, David McCosker. John Il. Ladd.
John W. Mason, Henry T. Chapman, Jr., Robert
]. Kimball, Henry NJ. Johnston. c. NJ. Bull,
Charles A. schieren. Thomas E. Stillman, and
Catholina Lambert Fifty pictures, all by
American painters, are lent by William 7.
Evans OF New York. The works exhibited COM
prise representative examples of many we'll
known French and American artists, a consider
able number Of portraits by the early English
painters, not a few interesting examples of the
work OF the earlier American artists. such as
John Sinybert. Charles Wilson Pealc, Oliver
Stone. Henry Inman. Charles L. Elliott, Thomas
Doughty, Rembrandt Peale. John vanderlyn.
John Trumbull. Thomas Sully, s. F.. b. Morse,
Thomas Cole. and Gilbert Stuart. Dutch and
Flemish painters of the ancient schools are rep
resented by some good examples, the best among
which is "A Dutch Fisher Girl no. So. for
merly in the William Schaus collection, but now
owned by Mr.. Healy. A group of ten landscapes
by Boudin mos. 37s to 3s7l, a very interesting
early work by Dagnan-B ouveret, Detained by
the Rain" (No. 1861; two pictures by Heilbuth.
Lawn Tennis" no. 45sl and The Cardinal
and the Students" tNo. 456); two small
Daubignys. "On the Loire no. 463, and
Midsummer" No.. 467); n large Michel.
Near Montmartre" no. 279D; two small
Corots. Scene at Nantes" NO. 249) and
French Village" CNo. 274l; a small landscape
by Pelouse, THE Poplars" mo. 2o4); Crossing
the Fields" (No. 1l5), a fine effect of late sun
light pouring through a hazy atmosphere. by
Jules Breton; THE Cardinals Return" mo.
124, by vibert. and Troyon's fine Landscape
and Cattle-Approaching Storm" CNo. II. are
some of the modern French pictures that have
now become old acquaintance through having
been seen in New York club and loan exhibi.
tions. Daubigny's sterling work. 1.-The End of
the Month OF May" INC. 33,, Is here, and Is seen
again with pleasure. but it suffers somewhat
from a glittering frame.
Such well-known American painters of our
time as George Inness, A. II. Wyant. Homer
Martin, d. W Tryon, r. C. Minor, II. W. Ranger.
c.. NJ. Dewey, and r. w. Van Boskerck among
the landscape men. and Henry O.. Walker, T. W.
Dewing, H. Siddons Mowbray, f.. L. Millet, w.
II. Low, Z. C. Tarbell, Gilbert Gaul, Walter
Shirlaw. and T. de Thulstrup among those who
depict figure subjects are adequately repre-.
scented. There Is a generous sprinkling all
through the three galleries Of canvases by
Diaz, Jules Dupre, Jacque, Mauve, Clays,
Israels, Rico, Van Marcke, ~Jacquet, Lerolle.
and other prominent artists OF the mod.
ern schools of Europe. Little Princess
INC. IN, by Franz Won Lenbach, the
painter of so many portraits of Bismarck,
gives evidence OF tortured handling. without
precision of form or charm OF color. A group OF
Monticelli's eccentric color harmonies Is prom.
inent in one OF the galleries. THE Wanderer "
(No. 522I is an interesting example of an English
painter little known here, Edward Penny, and
by Erskin Nicol there is a solidly painted piece
Of character in the English farmer in "An Inter.
view with His Honor mo. 40. Austrian
Prisoners Forced to Work INC. l74) is by a eel.
ebrated artist, Horace Vernet, examples Of
whose painting are rare In America. but whose
work Is OF definite historical and artistic value.
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