The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-05
J. p. Moraan's Art Gallery.

The last week saw the completioi
the beautiful art gallery that MI. j
Morgan has erected IN inc
ar OF his residence at Madison ave-
and Thirty-sixth street. n when
half of the northerly SIDE OIL
lie block between Madison m Park
venues in this city.
The building is in the Italian ftchalS-,
,nce style. in white marble. The eS-,
,rior is very plain, ornanlented only
Y two beautiful figures. The entrance
all is adorned by four large Cipollinai
,arble columns which once belonged,
an ancient Roman temple and arc
NTH - fabulous price. They support
! horned roof, which was designed aft
! ehe Sala della Scgnatura by Fa-,
Pei in the Vatican. The four me-
dSons in the ceiling of the entrance
hA%tepresent literature, art, music M
feiipn. The rear part of the a runs
o!l to an apse taken from the VIVA
Mama. Two other rooms are dec
oran in a rich Venetian style, and,
one utains a coffered wood ceiling'
DeauIl in color and ancient in cf-i
1ect. he various panels represent the
signs the zodiac, with intervening
spandA representing arts and science,
lney lye been greatly Influenced by,
flntur1aio. 1t took MI. Siddons Now
bray anhis three assistants, Mcssrs.
A. o ger, Louis ID. Valiant and
AndreE shwartZ, one year to CONF
plete theecorations for the entrance
hall.
Some tlN will have to elapse before
the gallerys filled with the art works,
which its uner intends to place there.
Many OF tht are in his London house.
aLo may REIN there unless congress-.
rs is hoped,,a remove the art duty
this SESSION. !
The M~orgu gallery is the first COM,
plete private lllery to be erected as
a separate btaing in New York.
There are seyel in Paris, London and
other arge Eup cities, and in;
Baltimore MI. enry Walters is just
completing one 'joining his residence.
on Mount VernI place that will in
some ways ltr. Morgan's in the
beauty of it's exteor and the richness
and variety OF ltsontents.
While the CALLERS of Messrs. Nor,
gar and Walters u perhaps the only
ones OF note owne by private indi-
viduals. which are eparate buildings
complete in themsels, there are nu-
merous private gallels in the United
States which are reat almost muse;
ums in themselves. 'everal of New!
York's palatial residents have private
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phia, Chicago. st. Los, cleveland.
Cincinnati and other ties there ara
private galleries worthy,f note.
Three Or four Of the liver villas at,
Newport have rooms fld with pic-'
lures that may be called alleries, and
in Montreal, Canada, thecalleries Of
Sir William Van Horne, Srd Strath-,
coma, Sir George Drummer and other
collectors are noted.
The galleries of the hou:s of Mrs
Astor and Messrs. Harry Pane Whit
ney. Edward ]. Berwind. Jahs Henry
Smith, Charles r. Yerkes, Seniamin
Altman and other wealthy Nv York
ers are noted ones, while at ~aterson,
N. j., Mr.. Catholina Lamber has a
beautiful and spacious privattyallery
adjoining his castle. and the Alleries
of the late William r. Elkins nd of
Mr.. Peter b. Widener in the sburbs
OF Philadelphia are famous. In ,hila-
delphia itself are the private gaeries
Of Mr.. Johnson, the late Henry Glib
son and others, and in Chicagtare
those of Messrs. Harold McCorEck.
Hutchinson and others.
In the galleries of Messrs. Charter,
Yerkes. James Henry Smith, Senior
Clark and Charles M. Schwab alone,,f
this city, there have been added in l.
cent years pictures and art objccs
whose cost runs into the millions
the aggregate, and other collectors ar
connoisseurs, not only in New Yor
but throughout the country, have bee
adding to their collections and are SIT
adding to them some remarkable pit
tures and art objects.