The evening world., 1911-01-28
UP N DOWN
PICTURE LANE
BY HENRY

w 1HAT do you know about the
w stone angels on the cathedral OF
st. John the Divine. or the stat
uary saints at old Trinity. or the
stained glass windows in the grim old
Paulist Church at ~Fafty-ninth street
and Ninth avenue. or the sculptured
freezes, porticos and bronze doors of ST.
Bartholomew's. Madison avenue and
Forty-fourth street? Are you aware
that the late John La Farge's greatest
mural painting occupies the whole
upper part OF the chsncel At the
Church of the Ascension. Fifth avenue
and Tenth street. and that Soroila's ia
nous sermon-ptcture. sad Inherit
ance." Is Tor was for years, until un-
eaFthed n exhibited recently with. the
artists other works. slowed away In q
vestry room OF that same venerable
fame? You may have observed, as
through a glass darkly. that there Is an
Old King Cole by Maxfeld Parrish over
the Knickerbocker bar-but could you
mention or-hand the names Of the
painters who decorated the grand ball
room or the Myrtle salon at the WAL
dorf-Astoria. or who did the panorama
Of the Roman Campagna on the walls
OF the Cafe Manhattan And 10 not
your information vague. at least, con-
corning the ceilings OF the New Theatre
and the Fart nouveau" with which the
whole interior Of the New Amsterdam
Is ~incrusted
In n case. an artistic whats What
and Where" book. giving all such infor-
nation and r oticai pointers, is pro-
Jected. and 1t ought TO be In general
demand.
The Fine Arts Federation of New
York. Mr.. Joseph LAUDER Informs us,
has undertaken the compilation OF Just
such a desirable supplementary guide
book. having appointed a committee ito
consider the question of registration and
proper preservation of notable works OF
art in semi public buildings, and to
recommend to the Federation such ac-
ton as may from time 10 time be neces-
sary.''
Such a registration can and should be
made a practically complete catalogue
OF works OF art scattered or hidden in
churches. halls. theatres. hotels and the
like. and not included In the already
VplilplltI usl OF ART OOltCts owned Dy
the City or the Federal Government.
The Fine Arts Federation. OF which
Frederic Crowninshleld is president,
takes in this National Academy OF De-
sign. the New York and Brooklyn Chap
tiers Of the American Institute OF Ar
chitects, the American Water Color So
ciety. Society OF American Artists. Ar
chitectural League OF New York., Amer
lean Fine Arts Socfe<y. Municipal Art
Society OF New York. Society OF Beaux
Arts Architects. National Sculpture So
ciety. National Society of Mural Paint
ers. New York Color Club. and Society
of Illustrators. II there are any art
lists living who do not belong to one or
more Of these societies. let them come
forth and send data TO the Chairman Of
ten Semi-Pubiic Registration Commit
tee. William Bailey Faxon. No. 215
West Fifty-seventh street. New York
City.
SEYMOUR B~LOODGOoD, In
I\/V his Lincoln Arcade Studio. and
AVAs Henry b. Smell at the Macbeth
Gallery. each in IDS individual artistic
way, viii take you on a landscape
lovers tour around the world in forty
minutes. Passing sltmpses OF both these
enthusiastic New York cosmopolitens
are v~ouchsafed at the Academy and
other ~exhibihons-Mr. Smell being more
frequently. though not more fetchingly.
represented IN this way than his equally
/ indefatigable contemporary.
Messrs. Smell and Bloodgood have at
least two notable qualities In common.
They both paint a great number and va
riety OF pictures. and are necessarily
rapid, not TO say highly impressionistlc;