The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18

traordinarily large and beautiful Renais"
sanCo pieces. g..
colnciden' with tho exhibition AK.
four lectures 10y Ny. Hunter: the Hrs.
the Avery Library on the evening
of October IL ~ S:lb =. NJ. entitled
THE story Interest Of Tapcstrics". me
second at the same hour on October ,
80 in Schermerhorn Hail with lantern
Illustrations; tho third. also with Ian.
tern illustrations. on the evening "pfsr
November IL al the Metropolitan Md
scum of Art on Tapestries VS.. PAINT "
ings"; the fourth a lecture promenade
at the Avery Library on the afternoon -,
of November 10 at AIS.
The exhibition at present in the Mi
nicipal Art Galleries, East Sixteenth
street and Irving place, consists of tap
estres and cartoons from the Herter
Looms. with paintings by the artists
associated with this organization.
special feature is made of the cartosKd-
for the tapestries Of the McAlpin HotelJ
the subjects for which have been found
in the early history of New York. The
paintings are by Irving r. Heitkamp,
Noemi !. Pernessn, Jessie Arms War, g..
rem Dahler. Claggott Wilson. Emily
Grace Hanks and Ethel NJ. Parsons .. 81
The course of lectures IN art appre-
citation by Louis Weinberg will he con-
tinued this winter in the Metropolitan ,
Museum Of Art, beginning October a.
and continuing ON Saturdays, 1912
\. NJ. Following each lecture the class
will go to the galleries OF tho museums
and there, in the presence Of the mas,
terpieces of the Altman. Hearn. Morgan.
Vanderbilt. Wolfe and Mar1uand col.
lections, the technique Of art from the
painters point of view will he analyzSd.S
In a recent public address Josepa-
| BreCk, the director of the new Mime.
apois Institute Of Arts. thus spoke ~ =
the future policy of that institution:
The Minneapolis Institute OF Ayts
will he a public museum of painting.
sculpture and the decorative arts. past
and present, of all countries II seeks
quality, not quantity; that is the onIv
| limitation of its scope. Let me speak
| a little bit more in detail on the subierr
of the policy Of the institute in regard
! 10 acquisitions. I'm general way prob
ably more than half the material ex-
hlbited i'm the institute will he contem-
porary art and we shall cndeavor to
have illustrated IN about equal proper
! tons contemporary art of our own
country and that Of Europe. But Il
| limit our collections TO contemporary
art alone would he tn limit tho ranGA
and possibilities Of the benefit to Ina
! derived from tho museum. Nothing,
/ furthermore, is more instructive, aids
more to understand and appreciate The
work Of our own time than to have tho
/ opportunity Of tracing IL one muscam
the history Of art from the remote past
to the present day, noting how one
period of art is developed from another.
each new period heinG the result Of all
that has gone before, Therefore in r9-
eard to the older periods of art II ts the
intention Of tho Institute 10 illustrHts
these 10y small but carefully chosen COL
4 lcctions of materials. which VIII INCLUDE
examples Of Oriental art, NJ Egyptian
and classical art. and OF the art Of fhe
early Christian. Gothic. Renaissance asd
later periods, which lead up to that Of
our own time