The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-13

The seal desigl receiving III. highest
vote was -rihuttst bT Leo I.enteill
LtT 81 les Ar'istsS m n commentator
article on tn. recent exhibition Of modern
Amer. can painting which Hugo Raising"r
took to Berlin and Munich. >lys that IN
spite oil tho CSth"t!c affinity. always init
mate and sympathetic between tho two
nations. France - not acquainted with
American painting a. u - to-day. and
adds that u ~ tn be regretted that the
exhibition. which received such favorable.
ati-nt ON in Official ctrcl"| and popularity
ia Germany. should not also have gone To
Paris IN" writer suggests that mas
much ~ II IL not easy IN any place 10 find
"A man 40 enthusiastic and AT the same
time 40 rich both in knowledge and in
money as Mrs RelsInger.- II should be
the duty Of the Government and also OF
the various art societies Of the great
nations to organize similar exhibitions
at fixed periods. he notes that since
the Exposition Univerrelie Of 1910 art has
made important progress in the United
States and says that the exhibition under
discussion or analogous once would be
very unlikely TO fail to command atten-
ton in European public opinion.
He speaks of the Hudson River men as
the first typical American art lists who
marAed their way across the forests all
the way 10 the Rockies. at each step adding
something TO the Fan treasury OF native
inspiration OF the later men hs SAYS
that Fuller. Hunt. Innes- and La Fargo
freed American painting from narrow
provincIalism. He picks Martin and
period and comes to- Whistler and Homer
radically opposed but equally NATIONAL
a. the first 20 give TO American art n
convincing expression. RsmarkinC thar
becatis" Of persistent puritarlsn
the nude has never been thoroughly
accllinatized here, he observes that we
have nevertheless some excellent figure
painters while the, landsCapistS have
brought the chief rrumphs 10 American
painting. The fact mat American ar
tist- hav. too much looked TO older at.l''r-
instead OF seeking native inspiration
and expression does not escape comment
The Pennsylvania Museum and School
OF Industrial Art has arranged a n"w in
stallation Of old furniture IN Memorial
Hall. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. which
should be Of much interest and useful
ness outside III. training institution ~
we'll ar within IL Great care has been
taken with the arrangement 20 make 10
a. enlightering a. II ~ attractive and To
keep II free from illus1ry and mistaken
tendencies Ihcra il u sixteenth CEN
fury Spanish room. an English oak room
Of tho seventeenth century. an English
mahogany room II the eighteenth con-
rlry, an eighteenth century American
Colonial room, an American Empire
style room Of the early nineteenth CEN
fury. and Louis Nv. and Louis XVI.
rooms Not only the furniture hut the
interior decorations Of the rooms b.speak
tn. periods they represent, and the in
snrition ~ fortunate in having been able
to secure some 81 these much needed
elements for such an Instructive exhibit
ton "a il aims 20 present.
The Louis XVI. room. for instance il
fitr,d with old white and gilt pan.lling
and mirrors which were gift The walls.
Of th. Spanish room are hung with I'D
SPANISH leather. rare ia this cosntry.
from tho Netherlands. and IN" ceiling ~
copied from Spanish hous. Tn" hmcri-
can Colonial room il furnished with in
heritad furniture which has been loaned
FOR tn. purpose Rut even partial
enumeration OF the contents Of the rooins
cannot here be attempted
OF cutie rs much interest and moro
to be dw"lt upon, however. IN the att
tudi. OF the authorities IN organizing IN.
exhibition.
Where it was impossible To fiji need
suitably with q genuine piece" they do
clare. "a void has been preferred to :hr
ALTERNATIVE Of exhibiting "A spurious or
really inferior object. H. II ~ highest
Iny ortanc- 20 Iarg" manufacturing
centre that the sbcSt models shall b.'
brought within easy reach Of ts artists
and that they shall b- taught TO d"tect
tn. old and accurate from inaccurate
limitations.
-Of Tecnnt years many handsome pri-
-atc houses have been erected 10y arChI-
tscts reproducing architectural gefns of
the Olden time. which have been fur
isis!lod with little regard for the period
TO which the@. belonged. An Italian or
Hispa no Moorish strlIctIT" NAV b" found
furnished with Dui- XVI. furn,tur" ar
American Colonial outfittingS. and upon
entering sixteenth century English
house or French Renaissance dwelling