The evening world., 1911-03-25
UP AND DOWN
PICTURE LANE
MIDDLETON MASIGAULT
BY Henry TyYreH

ons man C~onnaGfatl0n at the haas
Galleries. No. CAS- Madison avenue,
above Fffty-ninth street. You MAJ
remember that he had q ~skyrocket or
two at the Independents exhibition last
year. but that was no eauge OF the real
M~anigault IL revealed in the twenty
extraordinary v now assembled,
embracing landscape and figure fam
10 sles. city scenes and Arcadian SYM
holisrns. as well as some splendldly
decorative still-life bits and flowers.
This artist Is n Canadian Of French
extraction. lie is young but not too
young 10 have thoroughly asslmilated
the radical Ideas and primitive nodes
of sophisticated expression which have
come to be generally regarded as the
signs OF ltrs-impressionism. lie paints
like Monet Tor even more like P!cssso,
whom Mr.. S,ieglitz II going to show
us). in . thick mosaic OF the crude
primary colors, unmodulated but
broken and put together again in such
crafty relation that a really magical
Illusion OF sunlight IL now and then
achieved by means at once novel and
soundly scientific. Moreover. Mani
gauit is a safe. sane and human
draughtsman. lie never maunders and
llt never NlSNpA =
Here Is a Columbus Circle" remark
able for its NOTIFY to the familiar Is.
pect OF the place, though expressed In
terms nothing short OF fantastic, ac-
cording TO old established traditiona.
"a Canadian Town." with wooded win
try hills behind II. an unfinished brick
church and an ugly yellow factory
building the most conspicuous objects
in sight. IL portrayed with n defian,
realism that sh!rks nothing. yet at the
same time with a genial enthusiasm
that somehow throws the glamour OF
artistic beauty over oil.
"Tie Garden" Already and Land.
scape with Figures" saturated az they
are with the imaginative beauty OF an
artists faery-land, arc a little harder
for US TO focus, and may constitute
the second degree OF our post-impres
sionist,c initiation. BY this time our
optics will have gradually adjusted
themselves. so that We a gaze with
u~ndistracted emotion upon the grand
climax n test picture OF the Mani
gault exhfbition-,.The Cloud
II ever Il twentIeth century Turner
shall dazzle the world. very likely II
will be with some sach picture az this,
expressed in II new, strange language
of pigment.
The CLOUD" OF the fanciful title u
pierced and conquered and consumed
by the burning orb OF day. hig. In the
heavens. whose intense radiance 40 DDS
a vast enchanted valley where thu
ba;tlemented castle stands. A gor-
geous procession of mounted knights
with plumes and banners winds alonz
the slope n crosses the drawbridEc
The splendor falls on castle walls and
snowy SUBMITS old In s,ory-the Ions
hight breaks across tho lakes. II the
wild cataract leaps in glory" while
u old romantic friend, the solitary
horSeman. on a charger black as night
stands ~siihouetted and monumental IN
the left foreground.
Yes, 1t Is hard at hrst TO be recon.
clled TO geometrical cloud-patterns and
heavy black lines fencing Off light from
shadow. but he have 20. 10 come TO I;
sooner or later. After all. Il IL only q
matter OF substituting new lamps fol
Old since at best and worst art Is main.
ly a decoration, and car but symbolic
not reproduce or create. When /, come.
20 representing IN a picture what W.
feel. instead OF what We super1ciai'y
see-and such Is actually the preteneor
OF modern art-then why balk at such
comparative trlfles as vermlllion trees
green skies II an atmosphere filleI
with the dust OF powdered ~ralnbows?
"OLDEN-GLOW balls % blossom ,r
bas-rclief against a dccoraiv.
background OF chaos ten time.
bluer than any sky that aver bent above
Danbury. Conn, make only one leaf o.
the Chronicle OF Flowers included II
the exhibition Of paintings offered by
D. Putnam Brlnley, in conjunction wit!
the portraitist, William n. HYDE, at tn.
Madison Art Gallery. No. eos Madiso-
avenue. Serted phlox and Shirley an,
Pageant peoples. are among those pres
enT; and there is a Jolly little "pa!s
Frolic' in a coy corner OF the ten
acre lot.
Another floral Junction conjured II,
by Mr.. Br!nley Is THE Masque o
S~pr!ng'-slX pale pink ghosts OF bloom
ing s~hrubbery. beside creeks and ponds
Finally there are nine real hand-painte,
country village scenes, punched unde
the T~horeau-l.he title OF Walks an,
Ways" including a turquolse-blue noe
turne, and n "Lyrical June" as merr,
as wedding bells, II is a BIT confusins
perhaps. To see peoples and a picke
fence taking UP u canvas twice as BIZ
as the one which holds the Palisades q
the Hudson. Nevertheless, there {
much OF the true vernal sweetness am
light imprisoned in these delicat
prescriptions OF Natures ''asides."
NJ. Hyde's chalk and crayon portrait
are serious ard clever presentmen..
sometimes stage celebrities like Forbe
Robertson n John Blair, then aga!
OF Rossetti types. among when Shout
DE specified tho distinguished drawing
of Mrs. HYDE and Mss Eleanor Elem
Ing.
N l.. SIG.O'S Fifth Avenue Art Gal
IVI leries have been partitlonod o.
Av3 into \ little allowed Louvre
afford hanging space for a big dealer
collection Cthe late j u. ~Ichenhausei
President OF the Anglo-Amerlcan Fin
Art Company OF paintings. print
books, marbles and furniture, to be sol
at auction on the premises on Weine;
day, T~hursday n Friday evenings {
this week.. Bennington. B~laSelock. Coro
yN...ts Iai,. NN{lunn Kpallnr canaha,t,