The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
SEEN TN THR WORLD OF ART
EXHIBITION or INTEREST IN
NEW FORK GALLERIES.

ENhEBfBEONS OF INTEREST IN
NEW FORK GALLERIES.
Z lsunGarian ARTISTS Wegk- NansSmsa 10
Emll CaFAssn. PogtPalts ~ Cecilia
De~ux and B.anascapes ~ Charles u.
DaNis--Pvints NJ the Leaox lAbrary.
Il - hardly necessary 10 remark that
william N. Chase IN one % tho most
fervent Of VelasqUez Worshippers. bat
IL = not 30 we'll known that years ago
he placed his easel before The Maids
Of Honor las Msninasl. then hanging
In the large gallery Of the PradO Museum.
Madrid. and copied the magnificent
composition with brilliant regnlts. Then
he turned hia attention 10 The Spinnsrs'
with equal success. One day ~ he was
painting the former picture q stranger.
an EnglishmAn. began talking to the
artist. He said he had resided in Madrid
many years and never failed ~ pay q
daily visit TO the museum. No wound up
by enthusiastically pTaising the copy.
saying that no doubt Il would 20 to
America by way Of Ne xioo. thers TO b
dug up by the next generation and sold
to some Western millionaire a. q replica.
all our picture buying millionaires come
out Of the West and that they don't know
velAsauez from beans. Mr.. Chase brought
back with him the two copies. One 10 st
his New York studio. Tho Maids Of
Honor hangs in q Kansas City gallery.
Only for a big price would the painter
part with 10. Both copies are the same
sim al the originals. IL may bs remem-
ber.d that the late Francis LathrOp
made reduced copies Of these VelAsq0sSss.
They are now to he seen in the reading
room OF the HisTanic Museum. West isesh
street
We cant always have with ia the
heaven storming. sky fringing sort Of
genius. vet IL il better that a man aim
his holt AZ the stars and bring down
chimney than tO point ~ n swallow and
wing policeman This dark saying may
serve a. an introduction 20 the picture
Of Louis Marks. a Hungarian painter %
Oriental blood. who 10 ~xhildting In the
galleries 90 the National Arts CIuh. Vast
Nineteenth street. until March ?" Not
a jt,dicious proceeding - 10 for a writer
to challsngs an artist on the selection 81
his subjects. nor shall We do ~ but Mr..
Marks - 80 clever with his brush that We
wonder he has not gone further In
word he had not aimed high and even !
NJ times misses his somewhat mediocre
target To say that there are q dozen /
native horn American artists superior
TO Mr. Marks would be impolts. besides I
undertaking tho case. Perhaps he
had not made his entrance accompanied 4
by such imposing Ofscial music "a mixture /
Of the Rskoczy March and the Hengsl
m uller GavOtte his work would have met 1
with a less squivOcal greeting. IL 10
he nature Of New YOrker- to suspsc, 1
a brass hand demonstration. Our poll
licians have taught ~ that
However all this does not initiate
n ainst the sNcellencs Of the Marks
pictures He IL not . path hssaker. We
doubt Il he has much Individuality Cof
rouras the nonsense about his being /
IIungarvs foremost painter must he
AIKEN With a grain ~ paprilal: he il an
sclectic. and wherever he sees an sfect
Ne. boldly anne yes Il a perfectly law
Fui procedure. AT u N the man
a mosaic But Marks DOESN'T always
.,Icceed IN assimilating his facts He
studied with BougsIereau and Fsnry.
1n Won would never suspect u were Il
not for an occasional insipidity in the
rhoice 10 a model The influence of
Herterich - palpable. hts hrst master.
IIolo.Ay We do NOT know. TIE strongest
quality IN his PORTRAITS NAV De easily
raced 20 Manet and the modern SDaniards.
luloaGa in particular. The psychology
u the latter - absent. Marks Ia not pro-
found thinker IN paint. Ne manIpulate- u
with ease. though luminosity and a'mos-
phere make 10 him little appeal We fail
q recognize tho charm &c his nudes. fuy his
1esh tones are dull. raw seni-brItai IN
ava luy Nevertheless the modelling - sat-
siartorv. there il a sense of reality m the
md uss ~ these women, from whose
Jacks dTanerteS are always slipping.
Df cioquenus. 81 epidermic beauty.
u significance ~ the arab~slue. these
ig,irc- poeses@ little They are solid.
,ane. commonplace creatures. the record
y commonDlaCe vision. aided hy
ache brush Imagination - absent.
The big -Barricade- ~ weak art. worse
lI"gory 4 young man IN evening dress
: confronted. indeed sncirnled. by a
" gnds ~ women In idea this picture
eoalls moro brilliant version by q
Fun garian painter onc@ shown AZ Munich
bout 1901. Perhaps il was by Marks.
here was a young man. and uInh!;ng