The evening world., 1911-01-18

d others from the outlying coasts Of
bhemia to q Saturday night struggle.
They came, saw his magic lantern
swA listened to his metrical mono
on cats. witches, chickens, oceans,
nAldogs and fishes. ~devoured sand
aches out Of hand-painted paper nap
NJ. and drank cider out OF green por-
lain j~ardinieres. This mention Of the
read may seem Irrelevant. but really
3 olives stuffed with scarlet plmentoes
I've the keynote to a stunning color
hsme, In which Kitty Cheatham's
oin's-egg-blue satin gown harmonized
Faithfully. Col. W. ]. hampton Lmpro-
Ded . poem:
Gee. whist
This u
A dandy den you've got
what7"
FTns AFFAIR was really . try-out Of Mr..
uwers new one-man lecture entertain
PentN thing DO rare m recherche
~ Il would be idle at the present stage
speculate as to Its eventual popular
% commercial success.
\ 0Atfred 6tieglitz. the unterrthed v1r-
pooo Of the Photo-Seoession Gallery,
81 Fifth venue. has given Mr..
- Weber q show. to tho extent OF
eAnging thirty-one Of tho latter's al
kJq4ed dra wings and paintings. and ad-
kting the public tree to see them 0f
~ care to- from 10 A. NJ. 90 6 p. NJ.
NY. Sundays excepted. during the re-
A&nder OF this month. There L. no
hmbered catalogue, but q printed list
pictures" gives the titles all In a
anoh. and you are supposed to guess
hich 10 which. 1t Is a lot of fun. and
most any tltle will At almost any
cture. For example. here Is a green
thing which may Dc either Water
)tcher and Apples or Connecticut
Andscape." 1t Is next to impossible
distinguish Portrait" from Congo
kasuette." or tho white Horse from
70 Soprano Solo.st.' In fact. the
NM Vaudeville" instead of being ap-
We'd to n unidentified comic valentine.
light to be used to designate the whole
e-for instinct!vely you feel that the
ams Weber - incomplete without
)elds.
Yet Mr.. Stieglitz insists tha this ex-
bition Is no joke. but dead serious and
tho level.
N II contended that Mr.. Weber really
knows how to draw. II he chose to? you
nSk. Sure! Here are some charcoal
Z Fawinss of his that won prizes at the
Paris art schools, only they are not
IDhown with the other things. There As
10 distinction in mere draughtsmanship.
you know. 1t is the freaks that get
The attention nowadays. They are con-
bectured to prove independence Of con-
[vention. and a naive, fresh n priml-
Rive way OF seeing things.
No one is going to believe, however
that nature alone ever made anybody
so bad an artist as all this. Such gro.
~teequerie could only be acquired By
long and perverse practice.
The LafYan pictures. porcelains and
bronzes at the American Art Galleries
kso to the block pm Friday; but II they
were to be on view for a month instead
q week the time would not suffice
Tor their appreciation In detail. At the
(same time II IS impossible to generallzc
dther in seeing or describing the 4ii
various objects catalogued. because the
late MI. Laffan was IN amateur OF
eclectic tastes and wide connoisseurshiI
and did not collect" things after the
syytematic manner OF specialists. He
simply bought any old thing land not a
few contemporaneous ones) that he
liked we'll enough to live with in his
home: and his eruditon and experience
made It q certainty that he would al
ways get something Of value in It's par
ticuiar line.
Az a result we have here an Individual
assemblage in which the pictures alone
(there are sixty paintings and Almost
as many engravings, etchings and
drawings) range all the way from ltal-
ian and Flemish primitives OF the thir'
teenth century down TO the French and
American impress!onists OF to-day
>-a are famous names all along the
- a., Xp,.argah'y tInaa ara
represented by examples unfamiliar 1;
kind though Characteristic IN quality.
For instance, here are tho Americans
Homer Martin and Albert P!nkhan
RYDER, working together on a three
panelled screen, painting deer and land
scape on leather, on a gold ground j
Alden Weir, T.. c, Tarbell. Ralph Blake
!. lock, George Boughton, August Franzen
Henry r.. Smell and W. l.. Palmer are
. other native artists whom the pub
usher-patron seems to have favored
but h caught them young, when theS
were doing different Il not better worl
than later has como to be associate
with their respective names.
REYNOLDS, Gainsborough and Con
stable, Greuze, Guillaumin. Vollon
Mors. Cranach, Breughel. Zurb IAN an,
Fra Lippo Lippi might be In almos'
any of the frst-class sales that Auc'
A ioneer Klrby pulls off with such un'
failing tact. But let us come to tn
. one picture m this Laffan group that Il
absolutely unique. unprecedented ant
uncopiable.
This Is Sunlight In tho Forest a
Fontaincbleau," painted In 1893 by VI
n Schonheyder-Mlller. a modern Frcnel
artist, who is said 10 have subsequent!
become blind from gazing into and ther
painting the dazzling orb of day. on
feels that the pathetic story must b'
true. The wonder Is that the eye!
which looked with eaglelike intenslt,
and scientific observation straight Int
the rising sur should have lasted Ions
enough to light the enthusiastic wori
of the painter In this miraculous tech
hical achievement. II Turner or one o
he modern luminlsts had done this
il he picture would DO crowned wit
4 world wide fame. It ought to be en-
" shrined in some great public museum
a triumphant demonstration of tn
| principle that the real artist-crattsna'
n the master. not the slave OF his pig
mcnts, and that not only sunlight, bu
me sun itself. CAN be depicted wit