The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-22

daTE pieces in the sky and took them
HAD you ever done similar work FOR
Mr.. ENAnas'
Hes. although Mr.. Evans may no,
remember IL. Before his sale in 1919
as asked 90 restore some Of his plctnre~
Tor him. I not only cleaned and var
n,sh~d number Of them hat restored
some, Some oF them had uaint i'roken
~. did mI'h oI the ~ oTk a. the AmeTl-
can Art Galleries
Mr.. Dawson was asked Il MT. Evans
sad snythlng To him about Henry
Ranger. who was One OT Mr.. Evans
chief witnesses. lawson replied that
Evans told him Ranger would guide him
Ia measure what Co Ito. HIS studio
was just across the room from Hangers.
he said The most important pictures
were restored in Mr.. Rangers studio,
Dawson was asked 4 anything was said
about the Inness Summer Morning.
which sold NJ Mr.. Evans's sale for o. ca.
Dawson replied:
IL Mas a very large Inness. and il was
suggested by MIR Ranger. direct from
Mr. Evans that the picture he cut in two
u Nas a bit ~ vandalism. end then W.
dccided To leave u as u was. Ranger
~ id Il ought 10 he touched up. and he
work a ON ~ four hours, not AZ ! should
have done. merely filling ~ the cracks.
but painting all over IT,"
Wyants Driving MistS. which was
sold 1T the Evans sale for $3.50 Ne
said.
This picture appeared, To have been
a sketch by Wyant worked over bv some
emstcur II was done 10y very poor
workman and had 20 remove the ANA
flourish touches. BY dong that !
strengthened tn" foreground and got
the different planes IN better position.
II he'd a number % feehle touches that
haaW-
had certainly been put in by some one
who did not do the original work. All
these little dark touches YOU see in the
picture her" IRE my strengthening work.
! also did some glazing and made the
sky NOR luminous.
mandy Bridgs.- which figured in Or.
Humphr. vz'a deal with Cla iisen ar 4 which
Or Humphreys insisted should not
no sold again Dawson said thst -Nor-
mandy Bridge was badly cracked and he
had a hard job restoring u
TIL. Road 20 Fishkill." which Or.
Humphrays compelled Clausan 20 take
back on the ground that u wasn't a gen
uIne Martin. was irst shown TO him IN
Chico go, Dawson setd. he knew a Mrs.
Scholea who owned u. end after he came
here sh. wroi" him sbout " and h. advised
her 20 send u To Cls'Isen to he disposed
OF Some time later ClRUsen sent IL to
him for rertorstion. II ives cracked.
ton, 10 did nothing else hut MI IN the
cracks with msetic.
Mr.. Elsnsr asked Dawson II he did
anything To the alleged lnness Golden
Sunset which former Park Commits
sioner Henry Smith accused Clausen
of getting from Dawson = studio. Dawson
declared that h" never saw the picture
until four days ego. Dawson was asked
n he knew Louis 4 I.ehms eT. who test
fed for Mr. Evans that ne sent WyAn,
to Dawson 10 be cleaned and nor long
afterward sew copy On exhibition ~
~ 10 under Clsusen's mana g. hlent.
4 remember Mr. lehmsiNr brought a
picture 20 me- said DaWson. Ne aaid
" was too black and that he wanted u
lIghten@t up. Ightsned q mp and re
turned Il 10 him I returned u Two days
after ! got ~
-Did vou MAKE a COPY Of tJ7-
Certainly not 1 never had a copy ~
DaWson sad he didn't pain, any Of
the pictures mentioned IN the case and
he was then turned over to Edward W
Hatch for crOsS-eNamlnation.
Ibid you ever paint an imitation OF
the work Of another artist
No SIR. not that I am aware o. aid
Dawson with emphasis
Dawson said h. mad -nld Claussh =
number uf ms own pictures. including
many water color
Ind Won ~ ~ sell MN any picture that
you hadn painted Vour~sltf
! don think 80
-pid YOU .v-- have . Nsr,in. Inn~~s
Wvan' or BlaEeluCk'-
4 had an Inn.ss hut don't remember
ha name sl-p had Nyani. | had
none nv Martin or BlGkelock.
he R,Ia--ss-d Claussn had paid him a
couple - thousand dollars between ioD
and 1914 II might toe more, hs said
Ne sad h" thought the highest check
h,. ever got vas for fSGO. but didn't re-
laaF fnT 10
or three months restoring "" got
San ToT transferring Near Newport
and S2'0 for has work On l.aie Afternoon
m MedfieId tie transferred about five
Homer Martins and mad cleaned and
vanished about ten more between IaN0
aud 1875
Isn't that large proportion Of the
pictures Of an ARTIST no older than Martin
10 need restoring
no these wsr. painted chiefly on
cotton Cauvaz very poor quality and
much oG the restoring Vas necessary
because IT the canvas. When a picture
begins to shell "a from the canvas some
thing must he done
Don't pictures generally run nifty
years before they are iranslerr~is-
They used TO- bur they don't nov
-Wo,Ild YOU call an lnne-~ after ~ has
been altered an Illness stills-
1T ought Ia 10 described az restored
IN th. sale II frequently ~"
Did you call Near Newport a Martin
or Dawson
a Martin hadn't painted on ~.
II required sonls skill for what did hut
/ didn Z need Martin = method
Mr. Hatch asked the witness Y he put
ON th.. bach of the picture the fact that
he. had transferred u. He said he didn
Isn't IL absolutely necessary To note
such a fact on the hack 30 that people
will kno~ the picture - genlIne'-
Absolutely not. People don buy
tbs. backs Of pictures
Isn't the restoration generally noted
on th. hack by a stencil
Some cheap restorers do Il.
Why do you call them cheap re-
ztorers'"
man who advertis~a himself 80 cheaply
- not "A goOi re-torer
H- Hatch asked hoE a man could
,dy.rtt-a himself merely by stamping
tho tate. Of the restoration on the hack
and Mr Dawson replied that IN the Cover
nors' room IN the City Hall there ~ a
picture hearing an advertisement cut
out 81 a newspaper ~ a man who does
that kind ~ work The hea' way Tor
ed. ,..-.t,,.- a, adyerttge hirnanlf IL hV doing