The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-24
MUSEUM VOTES.

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The autumn art season has openet
auspiciously at the Metropolitan Museum
In the air there is q CULVER Of expectation
tho museum has become an artistic
Danas into whose lap Are falling golden
showers. Colonel Sellers's phrase sthere'e
millions In Il" might be applied TO our
monumental institution In the park.
What with the new requests and the
opening Of the new buildings early next
year this promises to be q banner season
for the Metropolitan.
The two splendid Blakes now hang In
the entrance to Gallery 20. In company
with them are drawings and water color
sketches by Gainsborough. Cotman and
Turner. One Of the Turner's 10 Of great
interest. Il is q copy made by the extraor-
binary Englishman Of q Piranesi engrav-
ing. and In no slavish submission to the
original. though it Is unmistakably
Piranesi. The dim perspective. the mys-
terious s~tairoases. dungeons. oolumns
and vast vaulted ceilings are Get forth
with q, g~uperadded atmosphere not al
ways TO be found In the cruelty clear
line Of the italian. II IL both n copy and
IN Interpretation. The other Turner
is a wash drawing Of the Palatine before
the prying pick Of the exoayator had
changed It's characteristic appearance.
Two landscapes Of Gainsborough make a
romantic appeal as well az q technical.
The wash drawings OF Cotman should not
be passed by. We have written Of VIII
R~othepstein's drawing Of Robins head.
1t is very strong.
In the Room Of Recent Aocessionso or the
ground floor may be found some replicas
OF Augustus Saint Gaudens's bas-reliefs.
They are the generous gift to the museum
Of Jacob H. Schif. and depict In the artists
mastery low relief the children OF Pres
colt Hall Butler. the s~culptor's son Homer
Sohiff Saint Gaudens, and the children OF
the donor. These replicas. the originals
Of which were shown at Saint Gaudens's
memorial exhibition last spring, were
selected by Daniel G. French az ~represen-
tative Of the dead s%culptor's skill.
'The Lady Lilith'- Of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti. in the British Artists Gallery (70).
IL become the admiring objective OF
many oopyists. For the young women 1t
seems q special lure. One reason Ii that
this water color when copied must be easy
to sell. 1t 10 brilliant Of hue and decora-
tive; besides, a pretty woman combing
her hair is always q magnet, and when the
woman In question IL named the first
wife OF Adam the attraction OF her as q
subject must be Irresistible. Now. II the
lady had been called Evei
The Eleanor Grille. or crate to the
tomb OF Queen Eleanor-aoopy-isa another
novelty much admired. And that chest
Of drawers In the Room OF Recent Aoces-
sions Is bound to Tivet the attention OF
the most dcsultory straggler. 1t was
made. about 1850 and is Of American
workmanship. What seorets those high
chests Of drawers held. from linen
scented with lavender to my iady's init
mate correspondence Even a mar with
a sluggish imagination cannot fail TO be
moved by this oosey pieoe Of furniture,
with its ak handy shaped legs. For
the more concrete mind there lie a huge
dining or wassail board with several
massive seats, upon which latter burfy
Brtons sat and proved themselves valiant
t~renohermen. The table lie solid enough
to outlive the tramplings and conquests
of many centuries. Stoups OF ale and
gargantuan quarters OF beef covered II
In the old days before dyspepsia, eye
strain and world WEAKNESS were known.
Such q table Ii o wooden reproach to q
weak kneed generation that feeds on
bran. nuts and what veteran physicians
called belly waah."
We alluded some weeks ago 10 the
John 8. Sargent lent by J. Carroll Beck
with. an early picture. one OF his rare
genre compositions; also to Hugo Ries-
myers loan Of q Whistler head. The
three Monets arc loans. One 10 q glow
ing record OF that earthly paradise. An
tibes-lent by Thomas l.. Manson; the
other a Waterloo Bridge. soft and misty
lent by Laurence +. Abbott; and the
third a landscape, an unusual tonal scheme
for this painter. II is as dark as a Cour-
lbet, and at frat view does not disclose
its many excellencies. A little drawing
by Easily Of Girtin Abbey hangs in the
aocessions room. Mr.. Manson has also
lent a pastel portrait by Edouard Ma
net which is an epitome Of that painters
fondness for swift congratulations and
startling abridgments, The head is vital,
ugly. but you leave it only to return to 1t.
Two old visitors. Germans and probably
painters, stood in front Of this Manet last
Monday afternoon and calculated: .Hor-
rible!' in their native tongue. Added one.
who looked like a Don Quixote of Avenue
A, .The fellow must have made a portrait
of his mother-in-law.' Thereat SELF
a~pprsoiative cackling. But facing the
whale Ship OF Turner, with Its chro-
matio fantasies and whirling sprays Of
wave, the Don Quixote burst into laughter.
uttering but one criticism: 'This fellow
was myopic.' The same has been said
before Of Turner. and 10 still said by &C.
credited critics OF the modern impree-
sionistic school.
The Gothic exhibition draws the largest
crowds, pay or free days. 1t seems.
after studying these sublime and pathetic
works, the veriest i~mpertinenoe to call
the artists who executed them .primi-
tives.' II is modern artists who are
primitive In their expression OF emotion
when compared to these unknown'masters.
As for realism. we arc only stammering
its alphabet. Go to the museum and
study this amazing and touching art.
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