The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-12-12
|UP ANDDOWN
|PICTURELANE
BY HENRY TYRRELL.

4 Christmas art onnoisscurinS and pic
ture-contemplating must be begun early
md continued late. II one 10 10 get
Through II At an In season. The town
u 20 Inundated with art. that none can
wholly escape II in some form or Other
.-pa;ntlngs. stchings, mesxotlnts, eculp.
tufe. brouses. pottery. rugs. tapestries.
handmade jswslry, and then some
more. And II costs nothing except tms
and physical energy.
Away up Fifth avenue the big Net.
ropoiitan Museum OF Art y % cramme6
and buigtng out with artistic Junk that
not half Of II can b exhibited: while
Mr.. Morgans SO. 100000 worth OF treas
ures. just brought over from London.
must await their turn. even for storage
and cellar room. still further uptown.
at the Hspanic aeropolis. overlooking
the Hudson at Broadway ana One Hun
dred and Fnty-sixth street the Amsri-
can Numismauc Society y having
free pubic exhibition Of medals. plaques
and drawings by Signor Giovanni
CAriat. until the last day Of the mootA
and year.
Then. at the hover extremity ol DgoaA-
way. In the Collectors reception room
at the Custom House, Father Knioaaes
bocker's newest decorative mural paint
ings are on Nov. No. he did not seiss
them for duty. They are genuine new
hand painted pictures by Elmer z.
Garnsey. representing ten great seapo-ts
a. they we're in the seventesnth cen.
fury. New York and Albany were more
picturesque then. and sAdsr to paint
than they would be now-espsoially -
the critics Of that date are out Of the
way, nd Ne artist has Q tree Aand.
Dstwssa tAsss north and south pelss
II Observation-Disclosures Park and The
Custom House-strstohes IN uubroksn
line. seven q eight mllso loag. Of at
shcpA studioa. galleries and svenoA
roomA Yov might v,sit one . Aay all
TIE year round and never SO the Aasns
show twioA Natural selection y Tie
olow 70 the mase.
Thumb.box sale exhibitions are In sea-
son-ittls oil masterpieces In miniature.
amongst which you can maze your Sc
Iections for uhs Christmas stocking. and
say to polite impresario. Hand me
down that for twenty-five dollars." more
or less. Katx At No. los wesl Seventy
fourth street. and Powell. W sixth ave-
nue. shove Ftfty.Afth street-oonv snlsnt
to the MaoD0wsu Club. shis-ars the
thumb-box huga
What at nrst slant ioohs like dem
onstrstion Of the hArdships ENABLED By
the hikA cost Of CArrara marble ana
ohsssy oh bronss. y presented BY Ches-
ter Beach At the Macbeth Gallery. No.
~ FIFTH avenue. M. Beach v yosns
sculptor who hasn't had experlsnos
enoush to euabss him - strike . pro-
porionate siss estimate betwSen IN Aea
and the chunk Of material In which he
intends TO scvip II. For instance. only The
head Of the Newlyweds baby 10 c0m-
pleted, when the marble runs out. the
Roman GIRL. In bronSA fares even worse
the whole top Of her Uranium being lott
on. In some instances. however. there
IL more stone than the sculptor knows
what to do with. 90 he hsws out lot
more human sels around the edges and
CATS the whole thing "LAfe's Vorte1.'
Special note should b taken OF M
Bsach's "Wavs Horses" . spe0es sup
Dossd To b extinct In these waters. -
even the Aquarium hasnt got oo~
Alfred srisglit., the psrsnn'ea para.
sxain In search Of the true and the
uxly in art. This time the trail leads
- Alfred J. Vrush. an American ear'oe-
turist. (oura Trush v an Amerfcaa-
vasn't he born Of German parents. and
raised in Lima and st. Louis. AND
didn't he learn comic drawing IRON
Matisss In ParisO Frueh's dainty lHtIe
studies Of John Drew - q wooden ~
royie, ana Jimmie Powers az hippo
notamua and Donald Brian as the
hs,man corkscrew, and OF certain ac'
trHssea whom We don't dare name tor
fear Of libel suits. have not yet been IN
,srfsred with At the Photo Secession a.
tic, No. .29l Fifth avenue.
Skis and snowshoss are appropn.
ate (though not Dc riguer) TOR visitors
~ The Scandinavian art exhibition,
= tNs American Art Galleries. Mad.
N 0auars South. until Christmas
~. Three ktnes make . serooa
~ Sf hoooeary patrons. - 0e ID
a. aass b . esnts o. Wssedsys.
,ts % Sunday aftsrneonA 1nees
Of Nssn.iand are . ROBUST 'ot
as,d include Zorn ana Thauiow, 20 say
noships Of Jonas LAs among shs'r num-
Psasans from lands OF snow TO lande
~ eun. We note that the paintings Of
frederick Arthur Bridgman. mostly
Moorish and Oriental. are at the
Folsom Galleries, No. 800 Fifth ave
nue. until and Including Dec. II. Also
nictures by Henry Bacon, principally OF
Erypt, are to illuminate Montross
No. $50 Fifth avenue. from the llth tc
the Slst.
At the Anderson mansion. Madison
avenue and Fortieth street. some beau
ttful rugs and Oriental carpets from
the collection OF W. d. Elfwanger o.
rochester, N. T.. will ~ sold ~ suc
ton tomorrow afternoon ana eve
ning. Eilwanger knows even mort
about rugs than he has put Into Ill
booasa He oAn show you some Der
CANA prayer rugs and Anatolian mat
that make you feel ~ II you ought Il
walk on your hands
Also at Anderson's, from now until
Dec, 10, may be seen the paintings ant
pastels left by the late Frank Fowler
y. A., In his studio. These INCLUDE
geyen figure studies OF female figures
sympolising Music and the Dance. 70
he decorations Of the. Waldorf ball
room.
Cheer up. Cuthbsrt! It's Vanishing
Day tomorrow for the Winter Acad
envy exhibition. and the bars win he le
down for the general public on satur