New-York tribune., 1901-06-09

THE ORIGINAL COLE PAINTINGS.
The following letters were published recently IN
The Tribune:
WHERE ARE THESE PAINTINGS?
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Kindly permit me 70 ask in your widely siE3
one Of your readers knows what became q q the
four original paintings OF me 'oyase OF L-e: tss
paintings which were made perhaps half century
ago for the spinger Institute IN Union IN square:
d. Sniile and had a wide popularity n their day:
rom rom Sfs yew ot that have been unable By private
esPondenSe TO tTsS 59s bse is reason for be
lieving that the original paintings passed into tne
Sity were subsequently loaned for some time to the
Museum OF Art. and then went TO New-OTIsans. 9ut
which were made for the Spingler Institute by the
bsp, Oh wr re sold by him after the breaking up OF
that once famous school put 70 wh0nl , Is no no
writer any information it VII 9e STSy gBSTT
No II Dana-st Cambridge, Mass May Il. lsOl'
THE VOYAGE OF LIFE IN THIS CITY,
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF May 30 Edward Abbott ASKS
where the paintings by Ih9mds mas GIie IN 5fora-
ING him that he Will md them in the collection
of the New-YOrk Historical lES%aRsox SIfifssSo BROOKS.
Orange. n. J.. June l. 1901.
THE COPY OF COLES VOYAGE OF LIFE
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Edward Abbott will fnd the copy OF I Ine
Voyage OF Life about which ne inquiries in YOU your
issue OF May 80 in the Baptist Home for the AGED,
in Cireene-ave. Brooklyn. The pictures are loaned
S S fBn BqooEyn If Edward SS RSbott wishes
formation concerning these tpS9 pictures !" VIII
Yonkers. N Y. June 3, 1901. NJ G. WATERS
James D. smillie. the painter and etcher. a mem
Der OF the Council of the National Academy OF
Design who. with his father. James Sunilhe' .
we'll known etcher in his day, engraved the PANT
inss The Voyage of Life" by Thomas Cole. said
Yesterday at his studio No. 156 East Thirty-sixtn-
ST., a Tribune reporter;
think Edward Abbott, who wrote the note pup o.
shed in The Tribune of May CO. Is m=isirt = F me
Spingier Institute. Cole painted a duplicate ss ev
his friend and patron Mr. Ward early in 1853. and
the pictures We're finished some time IN the ,0H Xv
following. Early in 1872 he completed the dupn-
cate set while in Rome. have but vague mem,
ory of the given for painting the secona %
between Mr.. Ward and himself the right TO
exhibit the paintings and charging for admlSsTn s bs
Cole was induced TO believe that there WouG % 80 90
considerable profit from such exhibition ,s pu. s'
believe: that was bought ny the American s ~, az
Union in 1sis. and distributed among the prizes Al
n. V being the winner. From him. l remen,
ber. G.. ID. Abbot purchased the paintings. helpea
reductions and sketches from the paintings as
they hung in the old spingler Institute. In unioa
mission 1u Of Mr. ABBOT saw IT. and thought il
was very poor copy 1 do not know whether she
copied the others of the
/ see that an Orange, n. J., correspondent of The
Tribune that of the sets is in the art col,
lection of the New-York Historical Society
know that The Course of Empire is there. but
did not know of The Voyage of Life"
At the rooms of the New-York Historical Society.
in Second-ave.. the reporter was informed that
Emerson Brooks. the Orange. N. j.. correspondent
referred TO. although a member of the society. was
In error in saying the paintings of The Voyage
of Life In the art collection there. They are
not T,,,tt Of Gxran a{,fip he
OF Empire. by Thomas Cole. there. as NJ
Smillie said.
s. r. Avery, the connosseur. said that the SET
of THE Voyage of Life, owned by John Taylor
Johnston, and described 'the original series
was sold 10 III. b. Plant. of this city. who died two
years
The widow of III. b. Plant lives at No. 5s6 Fifth
ave At her home yesterday the reporter WAS IN
formed that Mrs Plant was out OF town, and thas
the mousse was IN charge of servants