The evening times., 1899-02-16
AUCTION SALE OF PICTURES.
High Prices Paid for Gems of Amer
team Artists


New York, Feb. 16.-The sale of the
paintings which commenced Tuesday night
! at Chickering Hail. was continued last
night.
Authorities on the subject state that nc
art sale in this country approached the one
| which Is now going on. Mr.. Clarke says
the beginning is marked OF proper ap-
probation of American artists.
OF the ninety-three pictures sold on the
first night of the sale, Mr.. Clarke said
thirty-one were sold for less than he paid
for them. However, the prices on the
others more than made up for this, the
total aggregating $54.040.
Homer Martins Adirondack Scenery
was the highest priced painting of the
night 1t is aiglogious landscape, glorious
| in colors of sky, Amountains, valley, and
foliage, with water to soften the whole
The first bid for 1t of $500 was considered
| almost as joke and the advances were
by 500, $780,, and, $500 jumps to $5.2OO
about as rapidly as it was convenient for
Mr.. Kirby, the auctioneer, to call them
The bids went on TO $500, at which price
Samuel Untermeyer got the picture.
1nness' Winter Evening brought the
next highest price, $3.50, from s. r
Avery, jr., and Winslow Homer's THE
Lookout-All's- Well" came next at SO. 200
at which figure 1t was bought by Edward
w. Hooper, Until larecently treasurer oil
Harvard. 1t will undoubtedly go to Bos-
ton.
The next highest price was s310O, and
was brought by each of two Illnesses, re-
spectively entitled White Mountain Val
| ley" and Nine O'clock" Henry Samp-
son brought the first and George B. Tor
rey the latter one. The mine o'C ock'
especially interested the spectators The
bidding on it started at higher figure than
any other initial bid of the evening, name
ly, at $1,000.
Homer Winslow's striking Coast in
Winter" went to c. T. Blair of Chicago
at S2,625, and the same artists The West
Wind" a composition all action, with surf
and grasses and trees and clouds, and the
dress of the single woman in the picture
all at the sport OF the wind was sod tc
Mr.. Untermeyer for $l,615
c. Morgan Mcllhenny's "Old Friends, -
the picture of the old horse and old man
both philosophical, which won the Evans
prize at the Water Color Society in 1897
and a gold medal at the Worlds Fair in
1S93 sold at $3.50.
Inness attractive Path Through the
Florida Pines, starting at $1,000, went al
S1,650. The buyer was Emerson Mcmillan
Some of the other paintings sold, their
prices and buyers, are as follows:
Edwin A. Abbey's Autumn" Henry
Sampson, s525; c. R. Grants Waiting,
c. P. Armstrong. $40; George de Forest
Brush's Mourning Her Brave" Victor
Harris, S475; Walter L. Palmer's "Janu-
ary." H. K. Butler, $3.50; Alexander Harri-
sons Marine S. Untermeyer, $500; A H
| Thayer's Roses" w. T. Evans. $500: j
Alden Weir's Still Life" Cottier & Co.
$500; Samuel Coleman's Autumn" A. H
Bates, $3.50; George Inness' Sunset in the
Old Orchard-Montclair," T. R. Thomas
81, ,0S0; Frederick E. Church, s "Mediter-
ranean Sea, Mrs. G. H. Lewis $3.50; Dou-
glass Volk's Accused of Witchcraft, -
Corcoran Art Gallery $3.50; Alfred Kap-
pes Rent Day" H. ]. Braker. $3.50;
Dwight W. Tryon's The End of Day, -
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, s205O:
Winslow Homers The West Wind S
Untermeyer, s1,675; George Inness' Win
ter Evening" s. P. Avery, jr., $3.50.
The first afternoon sale of art objects o!
Mr.. Clarke's stock took place today at the
American Art Galleries. Receipts were
$12,5sS.
valuable collection OF plaques, num-
bering fifty eight in all. was first sold
The highest amount bid for single one
was 81 200, by w. r. Hearst. 1t was from
the Murretta collection and was eighteen
and a half inches in diameter. The next
highest price paid was $3.50, by l. Nardus
for a plaque sixteen and half inches in
diameter, of brilliant copper lustre.
Shields Of Persian and Indian origin. ac-
counted 10 be extremely rare. brought
large figures, and several persons offered
TO buy the entire lot. They were put on
sale singly. and some of them brought as
high as $500 each. One hundred dollars
was the lowest price paid for single one
Most of them were secured by |. Nardus.