New-York tribune., 1909-04-29
HUDSON-FULTON ART
BIG EXHIBITION.
Pictures, SiIUer7care, Furniture and
Other Objects AIready Promised.


Other Objects AIready Promised.
Robert ". de Forest of the committee the
exhibition Of objects of art in connection with the
Hudson-Fulton celebration. made report to the
secretary OF the fun commission yesterday The
exhibition viii last from September 20 the mid
die or end Of November. The report says:
The exhibition will be divided into two sections,
embracing hrst, Dutch paintings OF the period OF
ffuuson, together with Dutch furniture and OBJ
The American industrial arts dating from about
tultons time
De purely artistic in charcer rather than historical
se ste ne or personality OF Henry HUDSON hhhseiI'
Tor this part of the commemoration II was deter
ton Of Dutch art of his tiTne-that is, roughly
the period when Dutch painting was at the height
OF It's Development With liberal cooperation on
the part of private collectors. it was believed that
such an exhibition could he made worthy Of the
occasion, the Dutch school being the only one OF
The great schools of the past which can be salG
TO be well represented among the collections OF
It is pleasure to be able to announce that al
ready the responses received 70 the reque:stS Il"
can nov he stat5 maj his part of the
exhibition will constitute by far the most lnpot-
tant collection OF old masters that has ever peeLt
shown in this country. ana viii rival in interest
been held in Europe Including several palnihlnEt hnt
eighty masterpieces have been promised up 10 Iie
present time. with Jie prospect ol I'oiO "
Among those already secured are twenty-five
Romhrandts illustrating the various staSeS I 0i liz
Iv Vermeer Rcysdaei Cuyp Terborch Peter de
Van der Meer Koninck and Van de Capeiie
SOME OF THE LENDERS
The list Of contributors is not vet complete, but
those who have already agreed 10 Ieiu pdIiltniso
from their collections are the Chicago Art INSTITUTE
which will send its beautiful Rembrandt Of Girl
Standing at a Door, the New York Historical so
eight pictures from his house in London; N. ~ r.
Forest o. n {. Frick number uncertainl, George
J. Gould a., Mrs II. .. Havemeyer 81 kerdn{ana n{
ris X Jesup G). }. G. Johnson Of Philadelphia o.
Richard Mortimer d) Charles M SeR%aP t ~ }5 W
A, Stator. Of washington (9: Sir William Iqn az
A b. Widener. Of Philadelphia mumber uncer-
IN addition TO the pictures it is intended TO give
the galleries in which they are hung dec9raiiDss
effect by the introduction ot aihaTg 5 such as
objects Of other arts OF the same pea"n, aTIsnts
furniture silver and pottery but me i 3 -
for these are not Yet Sf f55I'en'ly bdn ADVANCED
The American section Of the eNhlpHlon WI ats s
l,r.lce the American industrial al =
dating from the earliest Colonial times IN New
EneIsnd and New Amsterdam 1875. and paintings
nv American artists of Futon's time. In the col
lection of these objects the aim has been TO snow low
development Of artistic expression in the more I'M
Mn h ae1 70 give them the possible
chance to be seen to advantage IN f coIlSf4 @ e
hibitIon has been made, it is hoped @ Jhao a new new
emphasis may be given TO the iinPo' '"'''e VI N
early workmen
IMPORTANT FURNITURE EXHIBITION.
The most important group shown Will be me th9
furniture In the early Colonial R GAYS I amos from an
England or from Holland Later much Of the
Household HeS 6uTns o nav their trades using as models
what had been brought out from the h9llei cum
Little seventeenth century furniture now exisII -
and it is only through the courtesy od of oak
H5f eairs etc from his extensive and remark
able collection. that the committee Is .IIablea 10
make noteworthy display IN ms 9ireetoHbl t?bl,aab
century oak was the wood most used by cabinet
makers With the introduction Of mahoganE aP"ut @
l720 a era began OF this Fefloa We nan 1seG o
able show all OF IEe ~ M H. nar1as ~
the English cabinetmakers. Chippencaie' sheraton
F tee sties the exhibition viii contain ex
amples brought from England through the 9 9r3l- IL
tTis country Many excellent and important speci.
mems have been secured through le hLIulisSS 1850 0
several collectors Of note, among them II+oTse
: Palmer OF New London. Conn; Dwight Baney
examples OF furniture Of Fuiton's own p ptIlou
PhTfe. and lent by r. r Haines Halsey. Phyfe
was strongly Influenced 10y the lmmedi9le mn M ii, lIl
10 his work an individuality IN ms motives ana
ta ofIar y-orIJToen of his time and allow with
reason. claim for him the place OF Ne" AoiNS
great cabinetmaker,
SILVERWARE COLLECTIONS.
Accessory TO the furniture collections Of
American made silverwaTe. showing specimens OF
- lanGICTaTr
large body Of silversmiths in New England and
very rare pieces by Paul Revere, better known
as soldier than a silversmith; also pewter
glass and pottery. =, ~
For the silver indebted chiefly to r. T.
Haines Halsey and George s Palmer, VINO nave
placed the whole Of their collections at the dis
posal of the committee
AS with the silver. with the pewter. glass
and pottery, most Of which viii come from the
collections of Alexander W. Drake, of this city
and Edwin a. Barber, of Philadelphia. The ar
rangernent Will bring out the story OF the de-
veopnent the industrial arts IN this country be-
ONLY a few paintings have been brought to-
gether the museums own examples of the work
of our early American artists being deemed Suf-
fcieDt TO show their art, but enough pictures by
Smvbert CopIev. etc, have been obtained to give
additional character to the rooms in which the
degree of the taste for the arts in the colonies
as expressed in all its branches.
The names of lenders in the following Ilst:
Edwin A Barber glass pottery and pewter. +.
n Rieelow silver: Peter T. Barlow. portrait of
loci Parlow by Robert Fulton; Alexander ".
Drake pewter and textiles; Herbert Dupuy. silver:
Mrs Charles s. Fairchild silver: n II. tlagler
eighteenth century furniture; +. T. II Halsey
silver. /. Y. Lockwood. furniture: DR.. Irving p
J,vor seventeenth century furniture; George s
Palmer. silver and painting by SulIy; Mrs J.
Narsden Perry. silver; Frederick O. Pierce seven
teenth century furniture; Albert II. Pitkln. eigh-
teenth century furniture: Trinity Corporation. sill
yer: G. W n Rftchie. pewter Mrs. w. L. Yer
planck. silver
LIQUOR CASES CONE UP.