The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-06
SEEN TN THB WORLD OF ART
PICTURES or NOTE EXBIBITED
~ the GALLERIES.

vermeee's Lady with . Luse'' EngrOSea
by Beary WSlf-Ideals oS Arthur ID.
Davies llorAtio Walkeg's PreneA
Canadlan Pictures special ahowa
Henry Wolf has engraved on wood the
Lady with a Latte after VeFmeer. q
much admired picture belonging 10 Mrs
Coils p. Huntington. which was shown
at the Hudson Fulton celebration IN the
Metropolitan Museum. The protest. oi
the reproduction met with the appr0-
bati0n Of Mr~. Huntington and the work
when completed was praised by that lady
and by MIR. Archer NJ. Huntington. II
n in VOLTS characteristic manner, sliave,
silyery. the atmosphere luminous. the
edges oG forms firm though floating
In a word. Vermeer transposed TO blacA
and white by a sympathetic master Of
his medium. Instead Of calling Henry
Wolf the last OF the wood engravers,
would he not he better described a. -ths
first-7 Rice paper proofs Of this exquisits
work are To he seen nc the galleries OF
Frederick keppel A Co, East Thirty
ninth street.
Typhoid fewer temporarily orppbsd
the physical activities 81 Arthur b. Davies,
hut did not prevent him from planning
numerous compositions on which he 10
at present working. Indeed. an intense
cerebral restles~ness began during the
painters convalescsnce- intense for
his health at that time and found tn
vent in cartoons, sketches. memoranda
oG rhythms. and gestures and attitudes.
His studio In rNtered with them. Evidently
DAVIS has been doing a lot Of hard think
ing the last six months. He seems on
the hrink Of a new style. not a break with
his past. rather an extension Of " into
territories whose existence he limited a,
hut never quite achieved. He has the
poetic impulse. hut he 10 first the accom-
plished craftsman. He Sees his compost
ton as architectural mass. with well
defined stadiA. with sharp or impercop-
tibls modulatiOns. Rs the case may be
from foundation to apex. The Eastern
decorative motive In making itself Eel,
ia his patterns. For Davies the pattern
was ever a matter OF solicitude; now II u
prime IN his larger scheme and promises
vasteT oanvasss and perhaps the covering
of mural spaces with the vital. richly col
ored figures OF his Imagination.
Davies would bc n welcome addition
To the ranks Of American mural deco
rators mot a new practice for him. by the
wayl: no would hiring to it a creates
scale of hues and less frigid allegory
We are constantly being reminded Of the
accusation brought against our artists
who work in the larger forms. that they
are pas-ioniess. chilly in color and too
much given TO barren distractions. Be-
tween the No Mans Land Of Puvis de
ChAvannes and the gorgeous riotings
OF Besnard there IN room for the mysti-
cal ideas Of Davies. This IL a notion all
our own. We suspect that Davies pre-
fers the more intimate appeal % the easel
picture However this may he there ID
much in his recent work that suggests
the themes Of mural decoyation.
His Welsh blood ~ telling now more
than ever II would he fruitless TO ash
of his cartoons under which faith they
fought They are generaliked myths, with
always the revolt Of the soul against the
body in the foreground. Spiritual oon-
tiict ~ difficult To evoke in an art which
boasts only two dimensions. but artists
haYe been attempting IN solve the prob
lem from the earliest Chimes art till the
times ~ the early Italians and William
Blake. and there is no denying that
pictorial art Is again at the parting 81 the
ways The adequate representation 81
surfaces no longer concerns rapidly
growing group Of the younger men.