New-York tribune., 1910-01-30
MATTERS or 4RT.
Il Cro1cded Period of Exhibitions
and Sales.

The art season is at IT'S nelSHt Will eNCi"
gallery in the city filled and with important
matters claiming attention elsewhere There is
Tor example good reason for journey to Bos-
ton where the Phillips Brooks Memorial by the
late Augustus Saint Gaudens has recently been
unveiled and in Philadelphia the annual eXhl-
bition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts which is always of interest may now De
seen H.. the salient show is that OF the
Architectural League, which opens to the puphc
to-day at the Fine Arts Building but 1t is beng
rivaIled in popular attractiveness by current
incidents in the salesroOm. AT the American
Art Galleries the beautiful Lawrence collection
has been succeeded by one of Barbizon pictures
formed by the late H S. Henry, of Phiadel-
phia We reproduce to-day two of these tWen-
ty-one fine souvenirs of famous school,
superb drawing by Millet and an enchanting
Corot Daubgny, Decamps, Diaz, Dupre
Jacque Troyon, and Schreyer are the other
painters represented in this collection Wh1ch is
to be sold next Friday evening at Mendelssohn
Hall. The edition de luxe of the catalogue, by
the way is one of the handsomest volumes ever
published by the American Art Association,
each picture being given in a fine photogravure
1t is gratifying to learn that similar record is
in preparation in two illustrated volumes of
the Yerkes collection, which is soon to be sold at
auction by the same firm. Mr.. Yerkes brought
together nearly three hundred old and modern
pictures and among them there are many
pieces of the highest repute This auction.
which is to include tapestries and other art
objects, will be of the most notable events
of the kind in our history.
The zone man" show continues to multiply on
every hand. At the Macbeth Gallery there are
pictures by Ben Foster and Mary Curtis Rich
ardsOn. The Folsom Gallery is filled with paint
1oir
studies of the nude in the last few years have
made her interesting figure in local eXhibi-
Hons. AT the Katz Gallery there are new
} ntings by Guy c. Wiggins and etchings by
Addison T. Millar. These are to be followed
in the middle of February by paintings by Will
lam S. Robinson and etchings by George Aid.
The Ralston Gallery brings forward thirty-fve
paintings by the late Thomas S. Noble, and at
the gallery of the Photo Secession there
color photographs by Eduard j. Steichen which
to be followed by water colors pastels and
etchings by John Marin. The next exhibition AZ
the Montross Gallery is to be devoted to paint
ings by Whistler Thomas w. Dewing D. w.
Tryon and Abbott Thayer. The American
landscape painter is receiving special considera-
tiOn just He has to himself the exhibi-
tiOn at the City Club, which lasts until next
Tuesday, and he is to occupy all of the space
given to the exhibition which opens on Thurs
day at the National Arts Club. Old masters
which have already been touched upon in The
Tribune still at the Enrich and Cottier gall
leries, and seven more of them, including
religious subject by Rubens, from the coec-
tion of the late King Leopold, have just been
placed on view at the Kleinberger Gallery. Pict-
ures by Rousseau, Delacroix and other masters
of the romantic period the Durand- Ruel
Gallery. In Brooklyn, at the Pratt Institute
there opens on February l, exhibition of fifty
paintings by Mr.. William NJ Chase presuma bly
a selection from the retrospective show which
he has recently held in New York
1t is stimulating to observe the operation of
ihe liberal policy of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences clagnifcently supported by
and his cOlaborators in the art of administra-
tiOn bought the Sargent watercolors they might
reasonably enough have rested on their oars
But they unwearied and have again shown
their energy and good judgment by the pur-
chase of the Lawrence collection of Barve
brOnZes. AS said when this collection was
placed on exhibition prior to the sale the lover
of art could not but vince at the idea of its
being widely scattered. The dispersal of Mr.
Lawrence's paintings was, perhaps to be borne
but it seemed positively cruel not to keen the
bronzes together. Now that Brooklyn has them
the museum there and the public are to be con-
graduated transaction Of uniouo cIorif.