The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07

hardly a good reason for emitting mention
Of them. Matt Morgan is forgotten, Matt
| Morgan ia dead but probably some people
| In New York know what did become Of him,
and possibly when he has been dead little
longer he will be rediscovered. and then
many other people will want 10 know.
Some other dead were represented here
men whose merits have gained wide
carbohydrates Nasmyth, David Cox
and Clarkson Stanfeld, r. A. II is not
generally known that they did some scene
painting. OF more recent times is Burne-
Jones, whose son Is a vice-president Of this
association, and among men Of the present
day is Alma Tadema. who sends four
sketches for 'Coriolanus'
Other clever contemporaries are Joseph
! Harker, N, c. McCleery and W. B. Spong.
! One Of Mr.. Spongs exhibits Ia a sketch for
a theatrical scene in THE Streets Of New
York, and as this we'll known scene painter
has recently crossed the Atlantic he may
now be doing some more.
What apparently interests the public
more than anything else at the exhibition
IL a set Of scene painters models. These
enable one to understand how the scene
painter judges Of his effect before he sets
! 10 work upon his ten league canvas with a
brush Of camel's hair. Here the stage effect
! is reproduced in miniature, and Of course
without the figures on a scale Of an inch to
foot, OF Whereabouts.
Under the shade Of canopy you look
through pane OF glass, and confined within
the space Of few cubic feet you behold,
for example, the shipwreck &C enc from
The Tempest, arranged by W. Telbin.
The sea, mounting TO the week.-mrs. cheek,
as the author hes it, consists chiefly Of gray
green silk, or II may be mercerized cotton.
The crests Of the contentious waves, at any
rate are cotton WOOL
The gallant, fated ship il built Of card
board and the flying canvas may be calico.
The lowering heavens seem TO be painted
paper, and upon them. dotted in with gleam-
ing gilt, Jove's lightnings fare and fork.
An eery light on the horizon is the London
daylight falling through blue glass.
Paper OF various hues Is also much used
10 convert the light Of London into that Of
the sun, the moon, the tropics, summer
winter and so forth; In fact Il Is difficult 70
know what the scenic artist would do with
out paper. and TO imagine what he cannot
do with paper. These little models are highly
ingenious and really very interesting.
Only in couple Of the models are figures
introduced. In Kimberley Diamond
Mine, by Harry Mapleson, there is a swarm
Of Kafirs, with their troleys in the blue
clay; also a white man, conceivably mil
lionaire, climbing up ladder, presumably
10 show that he. too, does useful work.
There is another South African scene.
There are the distant tents Of heroes, away
out upon the illmitable veldt; and in the
foreground there are kopjes, doubtless
harboring Boers, and toward the kopjes
saunter British officers, just convenient
TO be shot. This epitome Of realism is
made by Harry Potts
japanese scenes are not lacking, based,
one supposes, on photographs OF the
temples. In all there are more than thirty
models, and some are for sale, at prices
varying from e5 20 $50. More evidence
10 show that scene painters are modest
folk