The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-22
THE ART MUSEUM.
Recent Gifts TO the institution - The
Coming Exhibit.

Recent Gifts to the institution - The
Coming Exhibit.
The Worcester Art Museum has late
" received several beautiful and val
liable gifts. It will interest the pub
lie to know something of them before
the opening of the winter exhibition,
which viii take place this week.
The late Mr.. Joseph Tuckerman Of
Newport. r. l. has left to the Museum
three pictures-a sea piece by the
Dutch painter Mesdag; a Sketch Of
Moliere,' - by Ernest Tuckerman, and a
picture Of a hen and chickens, after
an old Italian master The grandchil-
dren Of Mr.. Joseph Tuckerman have
given a womans portrait by Stuart and
d bust in bronze of the French paint
{ er, 7. L. Gerome by CarpeauX.
The contemporary Dutch painter, Hen
/ dirk Willem Mesdag, born 1881, was a
banker until he was IS years old. At
that age he gave up his business and
/ devoted himself wholly TO the art that
he had all his life practiced as an anna
teur. He paints the sea- sometimes
with ships but more often his pictures
are Of sea and sky only. He lives at
The Hague, but retains for himself
rooms in the tOpmOst story Of a hotel
on the beach at Scheyeuingen, and from
I that outlook watches the changes that
pass over the great Axpanse OF water
and the wide horizon. His reputation
as a painter is high and many Of his
pictures are to be seen in this country
The picture just given to the Museum
represents fishing boats putting out to
sea from the beach at ScheVeningen.
The wind is brisk and the water rough.
The portrait by Stuart is of Mrs
Perez Morton, nee Apthorp. and was
left unfinished in the painters studio at
his death, in Boston, in 1925. In this
delightful picture the face alone is fully
finished the figure is merely sketched.
Gilbert Stuart. a portrait painter Of
high rank, was particularly happy in
his portraits of women, and this beau
tiful face of Mrs. Morton seems an eX-
eellent example of his art. We many
think ourselves fortunate that it IS
10 remain on the walls Of the Worcester
Museum.
The very striking and admirable bust
in bronze Of the Well-knOWu French
painter Gerome is by the French sculp-
tor Carpeaux. Carpeaux was famous
as a maker Of portrait busts in bronze
a branch of modern art peculiarly
French. He made some 30 Of these
and Of them the two finest are said to
be those Of Dumas and Of the painter
| GerOne.
Many new casts. all gifts to the
/ Museum, have arrived and will be seen
for the first time at the opening of the
exhibition. The west sculpture gallery
/ contains those from renaissance and
modern art. There are casts Of the two
great Medici tornbs by Michael Angelo
( in the Church of san Lorenzo at Flor
ence, that of Lorenzo de Medici with the
/ figures Of Dawn and Twilight. gift of
/ the Foresters, and that Of Guiliano de
/ Medici with the figures of Night and
! Day, gift of the Odd Fellows. Hanging
/ on the wall are casts Of reliefs from
/ the pulpit Of the cathedral at Florence,
singing, playing and dancing girls and
4 boys. by Luca Della Robbia-these
We're given by the Fire Society. The
cast Of the statue Of st. George. by
/ Donatello, was given by DR.. f P. Kin
nicutt of New York, and that Of the
/ Flying Mercury. by Giovanni da. BOlog-
ma, in the Museum at Florence, by the
| Washburn and MOen employees. In
! this room also is placed the cast of the
statute Of the Ballespannare, or Wres-
! tiers, by the late Prof. J. P. MOlin Of
! Stockholm. gift to the Museum Of the
| Swedish citizens of Worcester.
4 There are also new casts from the
antique. placed in the gallery devoted
/ to that period Of art. These are the
sitting statue of the Greek poet Posii-
4 dippos, given by the school teachers Of