New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
MISCELLANY
Some Further Incidents in a
Crowded Season.

The PhotO-SecessiOn Gallery is filed
with photographs by Mr.. Alfred Stieg-
litz. 1t is interesting to see them there.
out we cannot forbear noting that if
any worker with a camera might have
claimed admission for his prints at the
Salon Of the Independents it is Mr..
Stieglitz. Visitors at the Armory, when
may we'll recall that it was in the
Photo Secession Gallery that so many
of the ''revoutiOnaries" were first in
troduced to the New York public. With
his delightful breadth Of mind, his en-
thusiasm for liberty and all those who
/ fight for it, Mr.. Stieglitz has been an
exemplary pioneer. He, too, like Mr..
Davies and the other leaders in the
Association Of American Painters and
Sculptors, has been content to show
new things on his walls and leave the
spectator utterly free to judge for him.
self His liberality is a noble trait, and
there is no better occasion than this
one for offering it a public tribute.
Yesterday there was opened at the
Reinhardt Gallery loan exhibition Of
portraits by Sargent, SOrolla, Boldini,
Besnard. Melchers and others 1t Will
last until March ID.
Twelve pastel portraits by Daniel
Gardner have been placed on exhibition
at the Cottier Gallery. Gardner was an
English artist who enjoyed the favor
able opinion of Reynolds. He died in
London in 1905. One of his portraits
was sold in 1908 for $3.50. He is
practically unknown here, a fact lend
ing special interest to this exhibition.
A number Of paintings by Mr.. Walter
GAY the American artist, who has long
lived in Paris. will be placed on view
this week at the Gimpel & Wildenstein
Gallery. Among the pictures are sew
eral from private collections here and
abroad, one has been lent by the Met
ropoltan Museum. and another comes
from the Luxembourg. Presumably
this collection will illustrate the work
to which Mr.. Gay has for some years
confined himself, studies of interiors
which turn decoration and furniture to
charming pictorial purpose
1t is good news that the memorial
exhibition in the gallery of the Berlin
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of the late Robert Blum is not TO be
closed at once. Following the urgent
request of a number of connoisseurs
the show has been extended to March $.
The current exhibition at the Mac
beth Gallery is given TO paintings by
Mr. +. &. Freseke. He is one of the
cleverest of the younger men, showing
good taste in color and a capital feel
ing for light, both in his interiors and
i'm his garden scenes.
More sales are announced 10 take
place at the American Art Galleries.
Next Wednesday, an exhibition will
begin there of the first part of the col
lection formed by Mr. \. w. Drake.
known for many years both as art ed
tor of THE Century Magazine" and
as an amateur of all manner of inter-
esting objects This instalment of his
collection is composed of antique SAM
piers and needlework. old bandboxes.
glass bottles. pewter. silver cups and
ladies', finger rings, snuff boxes, oil
paintings and prints. They will be sold
on Monday. March 10, and the five fol-
lowing afternoons, and on the evenings
of March T.. 18th and 18th. Side by
side with the Drake exhibition there
will be one of the finished paintings,
water colors, sketches and studies left
by the late Julian Rix. This collection
will be sold on the evenings of March
10 and ii.
Next Wednesday Thursday and Fri
day evenings there will be sale at the
H,Jo,.,u calloriac Of tariptc and dra w