New-York tribune., 1907-05-05
OYER on TIE EAST SIDE
Interest Taken IN Loan Exhibition of
PAINTINGS.

Ia''y because Avenue refused to go over to
Flfth avenue. there has been n loan exhibition or
American paintings in the University Settlement in
EldfldSe street. boastng almost as many famous
names as any held uptown. While there has hoo,
no long string OF automobiles in front OF the door
there was a long stream of children pouring in 70
see the pictures all day. accompanied at night by
their parents
1t was diversified collection too ranging as n,
did from big copy OF Veasquezs Prince Bal
thasar Carlos " by r. Louis Mora. to little studies
by John La Fargo and original drawings by Car
roll Beckwith Zogbaum and A. h. Frost Then
there were two little statuettes by Miss Abastenia
St l. EbeTle. one of a coal picker and the other
OF girl on roller skates.
All the works for the exhibition were gathered
ana hune by members OF the Art Workers Club
for Women. which found delight In the work and
It's effect the East Side. Children went dav
after day to look at the pictures. In some OF the
public schools their teachers had them write COM
positions about the pictures they liked best For
some reason-perhaps because OF it's size-the copy
OF Velasquez tho subject chosen most often
particularly by the little girls.
For the most part It the picture full OF color
which attracted the children although often a lii
tie picture hidden away in corner. like Mr. Loebs
'Gilt Shawl" appealed to the children, to the sur
prise of the Settlement workers
Two little ones wandered in close TO the end of
the exhibition and stopped in front of THE Make
Up Room" magazine illustration from the uen
OF A /. Keller.
Amt that lovely?" demanded one OF them And
then, turning to DIR. Hamilton: MY brothers. got
place jest like that. know what they're dotn'
They're fixin' up black eyes. jes' the way NV
brother does"
Il don't like that little girl" said another, as she
stopped in front OF Little Miss M" by Mrs Cox:
''she looks to much like my dolly,
Most Of the children not satisfied with
looking at the pictures, but wanted to feel them.
too That they were all hand work. was one
thing which impressed them most. After standing
for half hour in front of a drawing OF a rirls
head in pencil by Carroll Beckwith. one OF them
demanded:
as that all hand work?'
Yes"
How long did It takeY'
"Oh perhaps a day"
"Geel but II must take a long time for him to
draw all these pictures" and II hard to rid
this child OF the idea that all the pictures were not
the work OF
Most of them too. eager TO announce that
their father their brother cousin was
u painter. Generally this artistic strain in the
family resolved itself into relationship with some
humble sign painter. although real artist was
found He was the man who had helped TO de-
sign the posters for the "howlers" at the Third
avenue theat tres, beloved OF the East Side
There little picture always with a small
group in front OF II. This Louis I.oebs
''Hear, o Israel" study of panicstrcken Jew
ish family awaiting the coming of the Black Hum
dreds In Russia Some of those who saw II had
been part OF such scenes. while others had heard
the tale from brother sister cousin. Others
knew OF them only by what they had read in the
papers, but all were drawn to the drawing by the
ties of blood and religion.
The pictures did not appeal to the East
Siders at least. those reached by the University
Settiement as they would had they been shown in
a moro Anglo-Saxon neighborhood. One boy, from
one Of the wstsrfrent streets. paused BY M