New-York tribune., 1910-01-15

made to look like the foyer of a popular
theatre. 1t is hung with portraits of
actresses and opera singers of the present
day. painted by American artists. If these
were all interesting works OF art there
would be. of course. nothing to say in
criticism of the committees policy but.
with the best will in the world to find
merit in this show. one must nevertheless
protest that il is quite out of harmony
with the sort OF thing to which the club
has accustomed I'm it's exhibitions. Out
of the thirty-three portraits hung there
are, perhaps, half dozen calculated 10
satisfy the fastidious observer. There is
good workmanship and there is dignity In
Mr.. Chase's "Hllda Spong' and Elsie
Leslie the late Louis Loeb's Eleanor
Robson" Miss F1nley's "Billie Burke"
Mr.. wiless Mrs. Gilbert and the Mrs
Ffske" by Mr.. Jongers. 1t is pleasant,
also. to see one of Mr.. Sargents mastery
drawings, a portrait of Ethel Barrymore.
But the prevailing tone of the exhibition
is set by Mr.. Haggin IN his Mary Garden
as Salome,' Mr.. Torrey in his Geraldine
Farrar as La Tosca," and Mr. Anderson
in his Miss Boyd Zingara.' and these
are, frankly, more sensational than artis-
tic. The spectacle of Miss Farrar, in a
stacy attitude. brandishing a bloody dag
ger above the body of a man whose up
turned toes are projected into the fore
ground, the sole evidence of his presence
is typical in it's crude violence of the in
congruous and fiashy character of this ex-
hibition
In refreshing contrast TO the show at the
Union League Club is one which may be
visited across the way, at the Keppel Gal
Ha H7,pc vrrirf,
collection OF early German engravings. II
is made up of fine impressions of num-
Der of remarkable masters. Durer OF
course, stands head and shoulders above
all the rest. but thanks to liberal pur-
chases made at the recent Lama sale in
Stuttgart the exhibition puts before us
some representative works by certain men
who were worthy OF Durer. IL not quite
his peers. The religious plates of Martin
Schongauer and Lucas de Leyden the po-
etic fancies of Albrecht AItdorfer, the
portraits of Aldegrever the landscapes of
Lautensack, and the consummate rninia-
lures OF Hans Sebald Beham bring into
this exhibition the magical charm of brill
liant technique. wreaked upon themes spir-
itual. imaginative humorous and decora-
tive, with wonderful personal force and
with curiously touching sincerity. These
at once with sweet simplicity Of spirit
and with kind of reverentIy artistic pas
sion, carry the mind far away into pleas
ant places. to a realm of repose and of
high ideals. Seldom, moreover, do we have
the chance to study them under such good
conditions The collection at the KeppeI
Gallery is admirably balanced, and for
the connoisseUr who looks to the rainutest
detail of perfection in a print, it is COL
lection full OF a rare stimulus The world
is full OF old masters now, chiefly paint
ings Many Of them are of serious inter-
est, but none of them should distract at
tention from these prints.
There is a private view this afternoon,
at the Knoedler Gallery, of the eleventh
annual exhibition of the American Society
of Miniature Painters. It will be opened
to the public Monday and will last for
two weeks. r @