The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
HERE is ART IN VARIED FORMS
A NTNED EXHIBITION or DIVERS
ARTS IN MADISON SQUARE.
Paintings Which Come From the Estates
Of several owners. From Famous
Collections and From Dcalcrs-Ce-
ramirS-SOme Odd Japanese Objects.


Madison Square were opened yesterday
for an exhibition Of ouriously varied
works Of art, which are TO Ice sold at auction
Ia the galleries and at Mendessohn Hall
,fe this week Three Of the galleries are
hung with paintings Of widely different
.rrcrship: one gallery holds porcelains
prs lotteries of European and Oriental
,,.uufacturr, and one gallery Is filed with
thcalways Interesting productions Of artists
of Japan.
OF the pictures, some belonging to the
estate Of the late widely known leather
merchant. Mark Hoyt, came for the most
rart from the George |. Seney sale Of 1894;
some that belong to the estate Of the late
samuel b Sexton we're purchased at the
sensational sale Of the Mary j. Morgan
collection in 1855; number belonging to
,to estate Of the late Mrs Sarah b. Conk-
Ling we're selected for her by the late Daniel
C.tiier. vel remembered. while others are
from the private collection Of Arthur A.
Crosby of this city and the remainder
IRE from the stock OF l.. Crist Delmonico,
mo art dealer, who is giving up his picture
business in New York.
Resides these paintings and water colors
there ARE a few etchings by Whistler. Sir
SEYMOUR Haden, Rembrandt and others.
and some Hispano Mauresque plates, old
Delft porcelains and a few bronzes, all
belonging TO the collection Of Mrs. Conkling.
Forming a group by themselves which
Fills one Of the larger galleries are some
a+a hundred or more works of the armorers
snd artists Of old Japan. including not only
arms and armor. but pewter vessels for use
and ornament wood carvings gongs.
worries and brocades, brought together by
Bunkio Matsuh as the fruits OF "a tour in
his native land last year. The high artistic
quality Of theobjec offered at Mr.. Matsuki's
former sales in New York affords an idea
Of the artistic worth of the divergent ar
ticles he has assembled this year There
Is no obvious point of beginning for the
visitor to this mixed exhibition, except that
a. he enters the galleries he finds the first
room given over TO pictures. The paintings
are. naturally, a miscellaneous lot No
governing spirit attributable to any of the
groups Is discernible, A a natural corol- /
larry there are canvases suiting many tastes
and multiform predictions. lnterpersed
with paintings expounding the catholcty
of dealers purchases for stock are pict-
ires rejecting ideas that are merging with
the past in the history of fashionable col
iectlng. OF pictures that might now be !
called collectors canvases there are few; !
but the worthy paintings are not few. !
although many times outnumbered by can
vases and drawings that would be negli .
gible save for their undying quality Of popu-
ar appeal
There is Bouguereau from the Morgan
sale Madonna, Infant Saviour and St.
John Of the accustomed academic quality /
L. 0 1911 Il
mirers bow low. A painting of far different
appeal, direct. personal and intimate
large and expanding. Is a Mauve, which,
though II has the familiar title. sheep
Pasture, Is not after all, quite the usual
picture indicated by the name, The sheep
are near some slim birch trees, In grassy
tract shepheriess with a bit Of color
in her dress stands among them leaning
on her staff. the whole field Of the canvas
is luminous and charming In The De-
larture. from the Seney collection, is the
study painting Of Alfred Stevens too rarely
market. Another canvas to stand eXamina-
ton is Richard Pauli's "SpringtV Apple
blossoms, a landscape of n quality, not
nsistent but attractive, sympathet ically
and umderstandingly painted.
There is an early ana good DupTe. The
larmyard'; a canvas by Munthe. Winter
sunset a dull subject well painted; an
interesting figure composition by Troyon.
% Condolences =; a fine Monticello. -Nymphs
in a Forest fascinating in all of that rare
painters afiluence of color and ina gina
tive charm; Watching the Breakers" by
Wmslow Homer, exhibiting his master
hand in the painting of the water. but
scarcely embellished by the girls who are
doing the Watching, and AShearing the
Donkey by George Fuller one Of the
sentimental, sombre canvases, scarcely
frightened by any ray of light, which his
admirers dote over.
To suggest something Of the rest Of the
there are canvaEes by Wyant, |
Murphy David Col, David Johnson, George
Nlorland. Jacob Maris, Deoamps, Corot.
Bommers, Nollon Thaulow; sheep, turkeys
md chickens by Jacque; pastel by Everett
ahinn, water color by Roeofs and ex
implies by Van MarCke Dore Ziem. Kaem-
nerer. William NJ Chase, Brdgman, De
lhoren and j. NJ. Hart.
10 90 from the paintings to the gallery
d Mr. Matsukl's Japanese things Is to
ook upon another world but world very
rear in its sympathetic interpretations
IF the beautiful in form and color. although
eerlngy afar Of in some Of its fantastic
I0coitTeuents Of MEDIEVAL waT-dreadful
Iectres conJured to fright the souls of |
earful adverSariesT indeed. Yet beside
= horrible mask or cumbrous helmet viii
10 found a sword or dagger embellished
with carvings or mountlngs, exquisite |
md beautiful, con ceived in the Opulent [
Imagination bl lNt IhtltuN ana accom- !
lll-hed artist crafts n Ell of that art loving
and. and executed with their rare and
angular skill.
Il was thoughtful in Mr.. Matsuld TO pro-
ide IN hls catalogue an explanation, or
eminder, OF perhaps one reason for the /
harm which many people feel, while they
hlnk 1t strange. in the artistic attraction Of
ONE Of the Japanese implements Of strife.
n what he describes as nearly three CEN
nres Of peace Of the Tokugawa period"
preceding the middle Of the nineteenth CEN
NY he says that firearms were regarded
ot 80 much as Instruments OF offence as
piondid ornaments.
And they were borne by the attendants
j. HE mobiles on all occasions Of state.
hey were therefore oruarnented in their =
g est degree much the ceremonial
fmor Of Europe was embeltisheu at times
'lih inlay and engraving. Here IL bronze
annon. for example adorned with chisel-
ugs " pcunjes and the dog tu
Tn the fni-hings and decoration Of the
Weapons Of the Samurai. however, the
anne feeling for artistic excellence appears,
ud from the deeds of valor in the stories I
II Samuraihood those mighty men must !
ave desired usefulness az wei az admired q,
eminent in their arms. The coiiec- :
on oi articles shown however tx not
u arms and arnor. either for service or
lsT.ay, but includes with the helmets.
words. spears, daEgers, breastplates and
% on some beautiful ivory carvings
trIucrs Tevfers with adnira HE uafiua 4