New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-04
yERKES PALACE OF ART
DESCRIBED By EXPERT.
Fine Examples of old and Neso
Schools of Painting.

x, -, ortist in this city is more tamil
~ ,,a art treasures in the Fifth-ave.
10 of the late Charles 7. Yerkes' WHICH
-, ,s transferred TO the control of the Metro
-,..., Museum Of Art. than Will H Low
fh.- ~ the council OF the National Acaoeins
- nssien Mr. Low made the acquaintance Oh
or yerkes years ago. when he received coi'.-
-,..,on 10 paint the mural decorations WHICH
80 +be Louis XIV room in Mr.. Yerkess house'
- n. was a frequent visitor there
rorord,ng the contents and value OF NlF'
-. .~t collection. Mr. Low said last even
Ing:
.r,,1, the collection is extremely represents
H., n the modern French painting 1t has So 81
i've ,es of nearly all the we'll known men "a
ess oder things. Mr. Yerkes had very 49, 80
fii Rembrandt, good example OF 5Gn6 greatly
au- ~ three sketches by him He aooeu slef'"S
sc oId pictures in recent years zao5
10 ~. house itself to which he afterwaro aG ~
-, Sousa next door, with a new BdliTl -, - -
the nous 2I r1,ISe,ro On one occasion, about ten
sars ago. remarked that the house Was HoT re
residence. but museum cum md T are through
1ith t. 1t will probably become % ++..,, and
NJ Yerkes had good examples OF $3.50 Has
Boucher anu Nv inferesting He had an I'M
rtart landscape by RuysdaeI plcliiie2 r oS ~
staen and Won Ostade, ana soou
veide ,o..,uo. n the collection are
1IjIIaf several good Corots' an, . unuSu"a'
S3nseif modelling one Of his statues tnf
q nice Ama-Tadema, there Is nh Of Meis-
Bouguereau ana lieIo
rnn;er and Detaille. -, o,1ao+;o-, RI
AZ Yerkes had also beautIul con- eSS &e,Ya
Nj ,r5 tapestries HIS house is fllled VII
!us7 brac and in itself would be a me eNlIlplC
- q nalatial home. 10 PIoCUIe, a - Iii
Tcon Mr. Yerkes sent W. p. ' an LIS ftb the ex-
i-rn decorative artist. to Japan VIII lite a,
AZ. 80 sDrenent of the room 10 De uecoI -. -
Tnsnese fashion Mr.. Van lngen eonsuI'eu on,
The
the - a-+;-eiy over there, taken apart anu
brought here, with half dozen a ~ - &c Very
who put the room together he evcallent type Of
remarkable specimen y o.
modern japanese art
VALUED AT MILLIONS.
said that the value of the Yerkes col
- would undoubtedly reach into the mill
q. understood moreover, that Mr. skies
- sood MANY valuable pictures in England
-, he v-oIId not bring over here on account
=, tho tariff on art. The Metropolitan Museum
hovrever. could now bring them over Iree as
+bsv would be for public exhibition Mr.. Low
considered this wonderful object lesson en-
,boszing the necessity of removing the tax
N art which was "a criminal thing on the part
Of our government
MI Low went on to say:
The Wallace collection in England is the only
sirnilar beuuest that 1 know Of, and the tact
that Mr. Yerkes has left certain amount OF
money to support his collection and add TO It
e. extremely interesting. Otherwise. the git,
r1unif1cent as 1t is might be a source of expense
"a the Metropolitan Museum. should consider
tha Yerkes collection Of equal importance with
the Vanderbilt collection in the Museum, in
modern pictures and. of course, the Vanderbilt
collection is without examples of the older
masters -,
The thing that struck me the most in the
whole Yerkes collection was its personal char-
ecter the way In which Il reflected Mr.. Yerkess
own personal taste. II is exceedingly impressive
70 feel that man Of affairs like Mr. Yerkes
should take such great and sincere pleasure IN
his collection
7 rememb Der on one occasion, when he was
under a tremendous stress-and his enormous
capacity for work enabled him at times TO work
eighteen hours a day-he said to me that once
a week on Sunday afternoon, he had taken him
self away from his engrossing business and gone
into his art gallery. And, he added. i don't
see how I could have lived through that time
without my pictures.
When Mr. Yerkes brought many Of his pict-
ures here from Chicago he took Pullman cars
had the seats removed and the pictures taken
TO the cars without boxing and laid on the
floors The cars were attached to the express
and on the arrival Of the train were met by
wagons. Mr.. Yerkes accompanied the pictures
20 his horna