The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-13
SALE OF AMERICAN PICTURES.
A PRELIMINARY EXHIBITION OF
WORKS BY TWO ARTISTS,
Cuttings From the Studio OF the Late Robert
c. Minor, N. A. and Paintings and
Drawings by c. Morgan Mcllihenney
MIR. Minors Studies TO Go TO Schools.

C. Minor, ". A. and Paintings ana
Drawings by c. Morgan Mcllihenney
Mr.. Minors Studies to Go to schools.
In the American Art Galleries yester-
day there was opened an exhibition OF
paintings and water oolors by the late
Robert C. Minor N. A., and the late G.
Morgan MoIlihenney, A. n. A.. which will
be sold at those galleries on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings Of next week. The
exhibition, made up Of something more
than one hundred OF Mr.. Minors works'
which will be sold on Wednesday evening.
and an even hundred Of canvases and draw
ings by Mr.. McIllhenney, which are to be sold
on Tuesday evening, Is one that will attract
the friends OF these American artists, and,
particularly in the case OF Mr.. Minor, Will
draw to the sale patrons eager to possess
authentic compositions OF one Of the most
painstahng of American painters
Almost TO the last hour OF his life, says
Frank D. Millet. in sympathetic intro
duction to the catalogue. 'he (Afr. Minor)
continued 10 paint, because. like true
artist, he was never satisfied with his ef-
forts
There Is in the collection under notice the
last picture Mr. Minor finished and the last
canvas he ever worked on. A painting
which Mr.. Minor worked on not long before
he died is not in the collection. II is one
he had had brought to his bedside to make
some changes in. After he had made
them he turned the canvas over. When
afterward it was examined by his family.
they found, in his own hand on its back,
"In Memoriam.' That painting is with
held in his memory
Otherwise the collection comprises the
cuttings Of his studio. and there are no
moro Minors to come upon the market
direct from the artists easel. Those OF his
sketches which friends and judges regard
full of his fame have deemed other than
worthily representative, il has been deter
mined to present TO the schools Of the Ma
tional Academy, the Art Students League.
and kindred institutions, as serviceable to
students. rather than TO leave them 10 be
drbbled out at auctions as finished works
at some later day.
The pictures listed in this catalogue.
Mr.. Alilet says. comprise all the works
which he left behind him. with the er-
ception Of a certain number OF studies which
the executors OF his estate have decided
to present to various art institutions.
The collection amply proves that, he
was an ardent student OF nature and that,
range of motives, either in composition OF in
effect. be was absorbed with the effort to
express the charm OF the hour when the
landscape takes on its most suggestive
and enchanting aspect, the dawn or the
approaching twilight.
Nevertheless. he found In many other
hours Of the day and night inspiration Tor
paintings which will come as a surprise TO
admirers familiar only with the canvases
he sent TO the current exhibitions.
Paintings are hero which we're shown
at the recent memorial exhibition at the
Lotos Club and there is at least one from
the st. Louis exhibition. Others from the
worlds fair which are catalogued the
American Art Association announces that
it is unable TO show for the reason that
neither the association nor Mr.. Minors
executors have been able 10 get any trace
whatever of them since the close of the
notable Mr.. Halsey Ives's Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition last October-another
tribute Of the many which have been
showered upon the mana cement Of the art
depa rtment of that show by foreign art
committees F. A. Bridgman. Chicago
painters and others.
One painting from St. Louis arrived yes
terday morning by way OF Hartford. only
because IL had been exhibited in the Con
neoticut State building at St. Louis. 1t is
the -Niantio Woodlands" depicting rift
in A thick woods. with water and distant
hills beyond. a light summer sky with
swring clouds. the foregr round in the shade
Of the woodland trees, and an incidental
figure One of the best OF the canvases
shown is Great Brook. a painting big in
suggestion. with a simple and charming
treatment of sky. water, the banks OF
brook. trees and delightful atmosphere.
Another is the An Sa bic River near Hull
House, Keene Valley an autumn wood
land landscare
A canvas different from Minors usual
subjects is also from keene Valley. .1rudoe
Fallow,' showing rugged cliffs, wooded
above; deep toned canvas, but yet
Evening Waterford. Conn. in many
places would be labelled Diaz ana de-
scribed as "Fontainebleau, which slffl-
GENTLY describes the character and APP
pearance Of the canvas. In Tho Morning
lghtr-the light breaking over gently
sloping hills along a winding rlver-Mr.
Minor is more impressionistic than Is usual
with him, and gives his students a new
sensation
Besides these. there are canvases Of the
more familiar style, bearing the ATTRACTIONS
OF the enchanting hours which Mr.. Mllet
speaks Of such, Tor instance, a Cloudy
Moonlight and June Morning. The Wig
vans Waterford. Conn, paintings that
explain one Of Mr. Millet's Introductory
phrases. where writing Of Minor as a fellow
student in The Netherlands, he SAYS: We
dreamed over processes; he gloried in
results
Among Mr. McIlhenney's works are a
dozen water colors. one Of which, Calves.
has much 10 attract lovers Of aqusrelles and
animals There are five oil studies done
during the artists residence in Samoa
and sixteen studies done during the last
year Of his life. His best painting in the
exhibition. the Woods in Winter" dis
PLAYS a snow-covered hillside in the fore
ground a winding wooded ravine in the
middle distance. with brush and trees re-
tanning some Of their autumn coloring on
the crisp. lingering &c. and afar range
of hills. cold and blue. beneath a dull. winter
sky. the whole done with heavy masses OF
color. which at q little distance merge into
a smooth and delicate canvas.
MRS. PATTON NOBLE ARRATGNED.