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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

The volume is a precious souvenir OF a
remarkable artistic personality.
In spite of Swinburnes dictum that
there could be no such thing as an IN
articulate poet or an armless painter,
we cannot but recognize the appear
ance from time to time of man who
is an artist regardless of the produce
ton of works OF art. Taber, as mat
ter of fact, painted pictures, but even
if he had not done so this book would
make IT plain that he was an ARTIST.
He had that natural magic" on when
Matthew Arnold was so eloquent when
he wrote of Maurice de Guerin. lie
took nature for what she was, not in
vesting her with poetic or in any way
literary attributes, and in as fiawlessly
objective a spirit he wrote down his inn
pressions Of her or put them upon cam
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the wave when the search for the
color of all these things has, as n ~.
to-day, most nearly forgotten th.-
relative importances to human life
When the pictorial worth o, .
mother, John Brown or Joan ~ A.
has come down nearest to being tex,.s
merely by their color rank. as 49,.
pared with that Of sheets and piuo,.
cases hanging out in the sun. then a..
is at its feeblest, and the viewpoin, :.
the artist is down nearest to the grad
of that of the insect. In the one a.
search for mere color leads ir,,
spectively, from the human face :.
such subjects as these sheets and oil.
low cases.
In the other the search for appe,,
ing juices leads the insect, equally r.
respectively, to the most beautifui \,
man face and the most repulsiye go,
rion. Purple is the glory of the yiol.,
but it is the shame of the lady's noss
All human actions that were not M.
sible to lower animals, ON the mo-,
heavenly thoughts, through all tynIc.,
human aspects, are to be seen immo,.
talized in our slowly accommodating
store of world masterpieces. and uks'
wise all similarly typical represents.
tons of all other forms Of life thins,
and scenes.
The modern study Of natures color 1,
a beautiful, vivid and infinite thing
just as is many another relatively son.
suous art, all of which nevertheless,
ranks far below the greatest statues and
figure pictures and the greatest poem.
and symphonies. These are the world,
beacon lights throughout the ages, o..
cause they deal with things of vital i'm.
portance to the world.
1t is certainly to the family Of thea
beacons that Taber's slight drawings
belong.
There are probably no circumstances,
even those of bodily disease, that nav
safely be set down as never having
share in the beauty Of mems master.
pieces. At any rate, when Death has
unequivocally given us half an hour 70
finish our whole enterprise. whether hs
come in the shape of shipwreck, con.
flagration or disease, we inevitably de.
vote that half hour to vital things; and
| think that this summoned character OF
Tabers last years was factor in tia
extraordinarily rare and sifted quality
Of every word he wrote and every line
he drew. ABBOTT II. THAYER
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oval aforesaid both TO the portrait and
10 the outer d cas- Of the plate, and in
the simple decorative quality Of the
ledge, the escutcheon, or inscription,
which the artist chooses TO affiX below.
He knew the secret of proportion II
ever master knew it. His very
French and yet very classic art, set
forth as it is in the present exhibition.
offers a tonic. steadying experience 10
the amateur of prints.
1t is interesting to pass from two
such old masters as Faithorne and
Nanteuil to a couple of moderns like
LegrOs and Zorn. The Frenchman APP
pears in splendid form in an exhibition
Of his etchings and drypoints at the
Kennedy gallery. He is a curious,
, eclectic type, curious by virtue Of what
can only be described as his intellectual
atmosphere. Influenced alike by the
| Renaissance Italians and by such q
modern classicist as Ingres, he had in
/ him also sort of humanitarian streak,
] sympathy both tender and grim fer
the pathos in humble life. Legros could
| put positively lyric sweetness into his
work, as witness his delicate, silvery
( landscapes, studies in which he inter
prets nature in terms of subtle revcrie.
| But when his mind turned to the sor-
rows of the poor his art became almost
/ harsh. 1t was as though some of the
] La . l. FOR. D., g.rtr
| human nature affected his vision and
made him see things in bleak light.
A beggar drawn by Eegros is never 4
picturesque object. Look at La Mort
! essence Of sordid tragedy The tech
nique could not be bettered, but one al
most Uses it in repulsion from the
! ugly horror Of the thing. The austerity
| of Legros often enough detached him
/ completely from anything like sensuous
! beauty. The graVer charm that re-
mains, however, is very potent, md
there are some of the etchings in which
/ his tenderness and his austerity meet
and are fused. These are the wonder
| full sculpturesque portraits, the power
full, purely linear studies of Dalou,
Regamey Berlioz. Delatre, Poynter,
Manning and other notabilities. He
/ could be a "painter-etcher' when he
chose, as in the rye portrait of Car
/ lyle, but he is most himself and most
! engaging in those other heads to which
reference has just been made, the heads
| drawn with a sort Of naked force and
with pure, individualized line.
| This Legros exhibition is exception
ally attractive, in that it embraces not
! only the etchings and two or three Of
the Autographs, but a remarkable
painting from his hand. Grace" il rs
called, the subject being drawn from
the refectory in some ancient monas-
| terry where the monks are grouped at
table in various attitudes of prayer
while their leader with bowed head
! invCkes the divine blessing upon the
food before them. The design. as is
characteristic with Legros, has nothing
stereotyped or badly realistic about It,
| Some of the monks remain a little
away from the table, as though they
had just come in and had fallen at
once TO their devotions on seeing that
the Superior had begun his prayer.
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is capital in design; II conveys an inn
preston of movement and energy, the
color is promising, and altogether the
work denotes talent. The little nude
figure in this composition, however,
feebly drawn and modelled. Is typical
Of Miss Dreiers failure to realize her
undeniably clever aim. She has not
vet thoroughly learned her trade. Her
color excellent as il is. is an affair or
agreeable passages rather than OF har-
monies authoritatively worked out. II
lacks quality and individuality. The
decorative pieces and the two or three
London river scenes, painted with some
emulation of Whistler, arc mildly in
teresting, but about the exhibition as a
whole there hangs an atmosphere OF
abilities only in the early process of de-
velopment.
The first of the exhibitions at the
Fine Arts Building will be that Of the
New York Water Color Club. 1t will
lee opened on Saturday. November :,
and will last until the Both. The
Academy Of Design announces that its
winter exhibition, 10 be held at the
same place. will opened on Saturday,
December 20, and close on Sunday,
January Is.
Exhibitions and sales at the Ander-
son galleries are already being sched-
uled with rapidly. The old Italian
furniture and art objects belonging TO
the estate OF the late Francis NJ. Bacon
which are now on view will be sold on
October %. - and -. Prints belong
ing 10 Mr.. Walter Kimball will be
shown on October II. and will be put
on sale on Tuesday evening. October
2S. on November : there will be
opened here an exhibition Of the second
part Of the Latta collection Of Napole-
onic and Revolutionary relies.
In the Avery Library at Columbia
there may be seen until November = a
collection lent by Mr.. j. Pierpont Nor
gan Of Illuminated manuscripts and
early printed books illustrating the lit
urgy and history Of the Church.
Through the same period. except on
Sundays. the public may also examine
in the exhibition room Of the university
library a loan collection OF pictures.
books and documents relating TO the
history and development Of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church in America.
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From Faithorne and Nanteuil
to Legros and Zorn.

At this time of year, when the season
Is just getting under way, there are a
certain number of paintings to be seen,
but prints fill the immediate fore
ground At the New York Public
Library the Print Room is rejoicing in
its latest gift, [ e collection of engrav-
ings by William Faithorne presented
by Mr.. J. Harsen Purdy. This seven
teenth century Englishman. influenced
as he was by the French school, never
theless developed linear style essen
TALLY individual His portraits are VI
the highest historical interest, and they
are also illustrations Of superb tech
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not this man have done II he had had
health! Like a few Of the greatest
men. he seems 10 have had no common
/ place side at all. In music. in litera-
ture, i'm painting and in human tender
ness, he outfelt and outsaw at least all
/ but the rarest beings.
This kingly mind sat so high as TO
survey with something like a Shake
! speare's grasp the whole field of Art
from Poetry and the Drama TO the
Swamp. His crystal diction is such as
lies at the command only of the Seer.
In analysis of Art and in the recording
of the details of wild nature he is the
latter field almost he begins where
Thoreau leaves off.
Under the spell of these enchanting
drawings, slight as they are, one asks
III what other pictures do we see to a
greater degree the very qHintessence of
every human type, living and breath
! ing; from the lurking assassin, the
clown, the witch the rat, the wolf, TO
the young girl in dewy freshness that
| makes almost all other attempts to
paint maiden look little stale and
bloomless? Where. in the worlds whole
store Of masterpieces. does the clown
babble, the fuddled reveller shout, the
good man sorrow, the patrician woman
exist. the hunter triumph, the faithful
heart of the dog look out of his eyes,
the kind woman serve, and tender
thoughted youth have its joys and it's
terrors more wildly than in these
drawings, children of the soul of one
genius? And where can one find more
exquisite and unerring composition?
What art makes the beholder more
actually smell the rose, or feel his gaze
an actual intrusion upon the breathing
and thinking maiden!
Tested by Taber's degree of making
the highest use of every mark on his
paper, even our best modern pictures
seem little rebuked for superfluous
and Intellectual realisms that do not
participate in the expressions, do not
hoist the picture any nearer heaven, as
II their author hoped to secure in them
the highest beauty by hedging 1t about
with fine performance. where Taber.
like the prince he is, deals only WiH IT,
sets it there in full bloom, a crystal.
The rank and file of to-day's paint
ers will not fully echo my praise of
Taber's drawings. The qualities in
which these excel have passed abso-
lutely out of fashion. Fashion is
simply the mental phase of the uni
versal law of oscillation that we see in
waves, and in some degree it rules all
human occupations from highest to
lowest. The moment a good fashion is
at its height this memorable wave
motion begins its undoing, and never
stops until the opposite pole has been
reached.
1t is the up period of the art wave
when all things, from souls to kitchen
utensils, are valued and recorded each
for its individual worth, its highest use
20 humanity; and it is the bottom of
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lic." he says, Sin the presenting Of so
noble a scene in so slight, so feeble. and
SO wretched counterfeit. Twas de-
termined to send it to you this morn
ing ito be offered to an exhibition and
abide by your decision; / even went the
length of having q box made for 1t, but
at the critical moment, as the cover
was ready to place over 1t, my sense OF
its utter inadequacy quite overcame all
other considerations, and now | am fixed
in my determination not to send it. 1t
Is out of such a fine spirit as that that
beautiful work Is done.
Taber did very beautiful work. his
landscapes are portraits, painted with
an intensity of feeling which eXalts and
makes doubly fascinating their marvel
lous fidelity to fact. When he paints the
snowy countryside, "all silence and all
glisten,' he penetrates you both with
its loneliness and with it's chill. the
highest natural magic is indeed MS,
the clairvoyance and the creative power
of the true artist. More might be SAID
here of his characteristics. but there is,
to be sure. nothing necessary to ada 10
the words by Mr. Thayer printed else
where on this page Taber's old master
wrote a brief introduction for stowe
Notes" when it was published the otner
dav but he has since been moved TO
amplify his tribute to his pupil SEND
ing to The Tribune his final estimate
of the drawings. 1t is really an inter-
nretation of Taber's whole artistic
character, the fine tribute Of one Drill
liant painter to another. H. =.
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vas. Though he had imagination ne
did not allow it To run away with him.
when an association Of ideas stirred
him ne contrived TO get 1t into mis-
prose without any Of that clever, Ste
vensonian effect which has crept into
so much of our recent descriptive lit
erature. Here, for example, is one OF
his vignettes, a winter scene at Stowe:
The night OF the eighth was windy and
excessively cold. From my window, look
ing up the slope OF the hill. ! see the wind
lifting the fine snow like smoke. and blow
ing IL across the meadows. In the shad-
owed and struggling moonlight II rises IN
waves. and sweeps like procession OF
phantoms along the windy ridge. the
little house. the orchard, and the pine
near the crest are euveloped and almost
lost i'm the white gust. The solid features
OF the scene appear like rocks smothered
I'm spray. There is a misty sparkle OF
the dying snow along the ridgepole of
the barn. The wind is lamentably loud.
The pictorial zest is there, the eager
ness of the artist To give some sort of
tangible form to the truth as he sees it.
But this brief passage suggests what
the book as a whole makes abundantly
clear. that he thought only Of the truth
and left his diction to take care of
Itself. His vivid thumbnail sketches
are strangely simple and spontaneous.
Always he is absorbed, inquisitive, keen
upon exploring the woods and fields,
but when he talks of birds or of trees
and Of the different keys in which the
az exact as a mirror This does not
mean. either. that he is cold. On the
contrary, there is a wonderful depth OF
feeling I'm his notes. and humor, too,
crops out here and there. He was i'll,
but he was happy. Nature was mex
pressibly beautiful. and he found her
friendly. The jays have n comic
aspect" he writes; "a kind of goblin
look. with their pointed caps and long
noses" lie was, it may be repeated,
seeing pictures all the time. Let us
cite a tiny barn scene:
Lambs Maternal fulness and softness
i'm the sheep's ordinarily cold eye; eyes OF
cows and OF the sheep I'm the interior pen
glowing like jewels. The lowing of the
cows suppressed, exactly like the low
notes OF "A bass viol. sonorous and vibrant.
Very rarely he forgot to think aloud.
according TO his habit. and wrote, in
stead. like a professional author. Re-
ferring to two little bare footed boys
prancing about I'm the spring. he de-
scribes them as "arrayed in what are
but too evidently the garments OF an
elder generation. curtaied TO their
lesser dimensions But he merely de-
Waited into that Johnsonese as a recluse
will occasionally stiffen up in uncon-
scIous remembrance of urban. artificial
ways. In his familiar walk and de-
nleanor raber did not know how to be
pompous and elaborate which is to say
that he did not know how TO take him
self seriously. There is very little
about art in the book. and that little
reflects an essentially modest nature.
Very like him is his letter to Joe Evans
about a picture on which he had been
working with tremendous ardor and
ambition. Il cannot deceive the pub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
A BEACON LIGHT IN Art
Abbott Thayer on the Work OF
q. Fellow Painter.

When I wrote the little Introduction
to Taber's exquisite Stove Notes l
had. strange TO say, never seen his
figure drawings or his flowers (and
suspect that this was also the case
with Mr.. Brush).
They are what a seeing eye would
have expected from the author OF the
landscapes. They are too beautiful TO
talk about. Every one of these that
has the slightest degree Of elaboration
would be a bliss and stimulus to any
painter that ever lived. What could
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
An American Artist Untimely
Lost.

There died at Washington. Conn, in
September. 1896 an American artist,
Edward Martin Taber, who possessed
something like genius, but Of whose
history and work the world at large
knows next to nothing. Ill health was
his portion, even in youth. and all Of
his thirty-thr- e years Of life appear 10
have been occupied in struggle with
death. Neither Europe nor the South
gave him the strength he craved. nat
some comfort and respite he found at
stowe. in Vermont, where he ultimate
ly made his home. There he painted,
using the knowledge that he had gained
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

under Abbot. Thayer long before, hut
using even more certain instructive
gift. There, too, he saturated himself
in nature and jotted down his observa-
tons of her traits. These memoranda
OF his. with few letters and verses.
have been brought together in book
called "Stowe Notes" (the Houghtor.
Mifiin Company. the fragmentary text
being accompanied by numerous repro
auctions Of his paintings and drawings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19

Arts Club the annual exhibition of the
Society Of Illustrators has been opened
Twenty pictures and studies by Miss
Katherine S. Dreier have been placed
On view at the Macbeth gallery. This
artist, who was first pupil of the late
Walter Shirlaw and later sought train
ing abroad. has a pleasant sense of
color and considerable decorative apti-
tude. The large panel. to go over a
mantelpiece, which she calls The Sea"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-02-14

The City Dairy is now prepared
to handle few more customers.
Try us. Our motto, Once a Gus
toner always a customer. PLAT
l.. R. Mccoy, assistant manager
of the Boomers Ferry Lumber
company, went to Spokane Mon
day to attend the annual meeting
of the Western Pine Manufac-
turers Association.
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local Pick-ups
Lowneys candies at Brodys.

Lowneys candies at Brodys.
Elmer Osborne, wellknown
resident of Porthill, was business
visitor in town Wednesday.
Candee Rubber boots at Brown 5.
Knee lengths, s. so; thigh lengths
$500
O. j. Bandelin, an attorney of
Standpoint, was business visitor
in town Sunday.
Wanted at once-A girl to do
general house work. ID. p. Hersh-
man, Box 304. 2-14tf
The St. Mary's Guild will meet
next Thursday at the home of Mrs.
James McGreevy.
Try box of Anti-grippine. The
best remedy for that cold. Simond 5
Drug store.
Mrs. H. H. Elder of Standpoint
arrived here Monday to visit with
Miss Phoebe Boileau.
Everything in the line of up-to-
date hot drinks at Simonds' soda
fountain.
Mrs. X. b. Hines returned to
her home at Standpoint Sunday
after a weeks visit here at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. King.
My ranch FIVE miles down the
river is for lease for three to FIVE
years to a responsible tenant.
will be there after February 3. l..
S. Streyffeler jan21-tf
The body of Frank Cameron,
who was killed at Porthill Febru-
airy 2nd by Frank J. Allison, was
buried Yesterday morning at the
expense of the county.
ReXal cold tablets will cure your
cold. If not what we guarantee it
your money will be refunded at
Brodys.
The board of county commits
sioners appointed James McGreevy
as constable for this precinct at
their regular meeting the forepart
of the week.
c. d. Rudesill, of Standpoint,
was the guest of his daughter, Mrs.
I'D. Revenstorff last Sunday.
For Sale FL Four head of horses.
Some hay and potatoes cheap.
Inquire of Henry Harbicau, Cope
land, Idaho. March II
Why not avail yourself of scien-
tific methods when your horses or
stock are ailing9 When in need of
veterinarian call for DR., r. w.
Weber. Bell phone Main 4S.
Boomers Ferry, Ida. feb. 7, If. adv
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Bargains in city and country
real estate. List your property
with us. H. S. Swenson Real
Estate company. 2-14tf
Twenty of the twenty three stu
dents of the local high school who
took the recent state examinations
in physiology and geography re-
ceived passing grades according to
word received here this week.
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Get more sox at Browns

Get more sox at Browns
Mrs. A. J. Hill of Snyder was a
business visitor in town Tuesday
Advance showing of shoes at
Browns S.
Miss Phoebe Boileau visited with
friends in Standpoint Sunday re-
turning home Monday.
Overhauser and Mcdonald 5
chocolates always fresh-at ST.
mond's Drug store
Mrs. R. w. King arrived here
Monday from her home at Nc
Arthur to spend a week visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. King.
George d. Ayers, manager of
the Kootenai Orchards at Nc
Arthur, was a business visitor in
town Monday.
II. Thomson, proprietor of the
Style Shop, returned home last
Friday evening from a weeks
business trip to Wilson Creek,
Wash.
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Mrs. II. w. Rouse, a resident
of Troy, Mont, was a business
visitor in town last Saturday.
For Sale-A few full-blooded
Cockerels. White Leghorns, Brown
Leghorns, Buff Orphingtons and
White Wyondotte. We also have
eggs carefully selected for setting,
call on City Dairy or address Box
304. 2-14tf
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Kodaks and kodak supplies at

Dancing school. Lessons given
every Tuesday night at Kent 5 hall.
Experienced dancing master in
charge. For particulars inquire
of P. L. Turgeon, phone Main 81.