The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-13
TO OPEN SATURDAY,
Summer Exhibition
of Paintings at the
Art Museum.
IT is WELL WORTH VISITING,
There Is Hardly a Picture
There Without It's Points
of Merit.
IT is WELL WORTH VISITING,

There seems now to be no reason why
the summer exhibition of pictures at
the Worcester art museum should not
be opened to the public on Saturday.
For several weeks the old collection
has been in process of removal, while
each day has seen the arrival Of one or
more of the new ones and about three
fourths of the latter are now on the
walls.
The new collection has been
assembled by Mr.. Macbeth,
New York picture dealer and
a man with broad and we'll
trained taste. The pictures, which come
mainly from New York, represent
wide scope, yet have been chosen with
great care and present nothing that
does not possess some striking meIlti
They number nearly 200.
Among the cattle pieces, Of when
there are a number, nothing is inner
than the canvas one of the largest in
the collection-by the late Auguste
Bonheur, brother of the great Rosa
Bonheur. 1t presents cattle standing in
a wide, shadow-fecked meadow, the
snow-capped Pyrenees in the back
ground, and is remarkable for its lire
coloring and outdoor effect.
Auguste Bonheur was born in 1874 and
died in 1884 -Four members Of the FAM
iiy were gifted artistically-the father,
Raymond, being the teacher Of his
three children, Rosa, Auguste and JUL
let, later Nine. Juliet Payroll Bonhelr.
The fame of Rosa Bonheur was SO
great as to eclipse that OF Auguste,
who would have been the celebrated
member of his family had it not been
for the genius Of his sister.
J. Carleton Virgins, a New Yorker
and a pupil of George Cunes, is repre-
sented by two small pictures Of peace
full COWS tethered in stall and of cat
tie standing in a wide, level meadow,
over which the clouds drop shadows,
while in the foreground is a tiny mir
ror of a pool. OF sheep there are sew
eral pictures, among which may be
noted two by Francis Wheaton, one of
which shows a flock huddled in
brown, old barn, and the
other, a peasant girl feeding her
charges. Both are painted impression
istlcally, and the accessories are hint
ed rather than painted. The color OF
the sheep is also noticeable, not one
approximating even to white, but Verg-
ing rather on the brown. feIHdps Iie
deep dusk that prevails in each may
account for their dark hue
George H. Bogert of New York, a
pupil of Puvis-de-C havannes and Of
Morot, has here a striking canvas OF a
shepherd tending his sheep after
nightfall. The young moon and the
stars are out in the sky, but about the
sheepfold all is mystery and gloom, as
the shepherd counts his flock by the
light of his lantern, and the dog re-
lieved for the nonce from his labors,
stands looking on in satisfaction at his
silly wards, coralled for the night.
The sea is beautifully represented by
something like a score of pictures, and
the lover of water will find something
to appeal to him. To be sure, there
| is nothing quite like that noble picture
of green pillows that Mr.. Woodbury.
painted from the stern of an ocean
| liner. But "Alone on the ocean," by
H. B. Smell, will strike a responsive
chord in the heart of any one who has
lvoyaged across the deep in a sailing
ship. A SOLITARY bark, heavily laden
and lying very low in the cradle Of the
ocean, pursues her way across the gray
n 11yIila oil around oar