The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-20


being the locus of the first exhibition
of the Associated illustrators of Amer
Tea, the organization composed of all
the leading book and magazine illus
traitors of the country.
The exhibition will open tonight at
the Scranton club and continue one
week. The hours will be from to 8
in the afternoon, and s to II at night.
Tonight there will be u reception to
which members may bring their
friends. After tonight admittance will
be by card.
Reginald Birch, one of the most not
ed of the New York artists, came to
the city yesterday to supervise the
hanging of the pictures. He is accom-
panied by Mrs. Birch and will remain
for several days. f. Louis Mora and
Mrs. Mora, A. b. Wenzel and III. S.
Fleming will come up from New York
to attend tonight's reception. Other
we'll known artists will be present, 1t
is expected, during the exhibition.
The pictures are the original draw
ings Of the members Of the Associated
Illustrators, and have nearly all been
reproduced in the leading magazines
and by the principal book publishing
houses. The collection was recently
shown in New York and attracted no
end of interest. The Scranton exhibi-
tion, however, is the first that arises
to the dignity of a salon. The New
York affair was informal, and the col
lection was not as complete as that
of the Scranton exhibition will be.
LIST OF ARTISTS.
About 1870 drawings in all are to be
exhibited. Among the artists whose
work appears in the exhibition are:
Edwin A. Abbey, Frederic Remington,
Howard Pyle, w. Granville Smith, n.
de Thulstrup, A. B. Wenzel, Reginald
B. Birch, Max F. Klepper Arthur l..
Keller, William T. Smedley, E. NJ.
Ashe, Otto H. Bacher, Robert Blum,
Clifford Carleton, Harry Fem, Thomas
Fogarty. W. Glackens, Arthur Heming,
Henry IIutt, Z. K. Hanna, jr., William
L. Jacobs, Louis Loeb, Orson Lowell,
F. Luis Mora, Edward Penfield, Henry
Reuterdahl, Albert Sterner, Alice Bar
ber Stephens, George Wright, T. C.
Yohn.
Most of the pictures are wash and
oil drawings, but some of the most
attractive of them are the pen and
ink sketches of Messrs. Abbey, Birch
and Lowell
What the visitors to the exhibition
will likely find it's most interesting
feature is the difference" between the
pictures that have been familiar in the
magazines and books and the originals
OF those pictures now being hung in
the Scranton club. What positively
pathetic things happen to a drawing
by its being condensed to fit the page
of a book or half page of q magazine
is most vivdly apparent.
This is particularly illustrated in
Wenzelrs cafe DE La PaiX." The re-
production, it will be remembered, was
first seen in a page of Golfers Weekly.
The original is about four feet square.
Birchs "A False Alarm" and 1.-THE
Runaway" Wright's Following the
Yachts" and Jacobs two twilight stud
les are other of the more familiar
drawings which serve to show this dis
crepancy.
SOME FAMILIAR ONES.
The Pyle duellng scene made for
Houghton, Miffiin & Co., to illustrate
ITO Have and to Hold; Thulstrup's
"a Close Call reproduced by Harper
& Bros; Smedley's Challenged"
Remington's IAN Indian Legend" and
the Blum Arrival in Japan" are some
of the pictures Of which the original
will be found especially interesting be-
cause of familiarity.
Every picture exhibited is the prop
erty of the artist The Associated IL
Illustrators has as one of it's main pur-
poses the securing of the return of the
originals to the makers. That the
members may be the more encouraged
to work to this end, it is one of the
rules Of the society that none but pic
lures owned by the artists shall be
hung in any of the exhibitions.
This rule may rob Scranton of one of
the most interesting pictures in the
collection, an Abbey sketch, which was
purchased few days ago by President
Hadley, of Yale. 1t is thought, how
ever, that President Hadley will ac-
quesce in the delay of the delivery of
the picture until after the Scranton
exhibition. Chairman r. +. Jones, of
the clubs house committee, in charge
of the exhibition, Is in communication
with President Hadley on the matter,
The catalogue to be distributed at
the exhibition is a very artistic publi-
cation. 1t contains reproductions of
some of the pictures and is embellished
with characteristic marginal sketches
by various of the artists.