The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06
NOTES OF rHE\woRIp OF ART.

Lyme, Conn. and the surrounding coun-
try will he held in the PSblic Library
of Lyme until Wednesday. Aeptemuer g.
The proceeds of the exhibition viii bs
handed over to the Phpbe GRIFFIN Noye,
Library. The following named artist,
contribute to the show Frank A. Bick-
nell Charles Bittingcr. Matilda browne.
George VI. Brucstle. George II. Burr.
Frederick Il. Church. Lewis Cohen.
Frank V. DeMond. VIII Howe Fooge.
Edmund Grcaccn. Harry l.. Hoffman.
William II. Howe. Wilson Irvine LYDIA,
Longacre, Henry X. poorc Frederic w. \
Ramsdell, william :. Rovnson, Ed.
ward +. Rock. Edward c. Smith, Jules
TurCas. Charles Vein. Clark c. voor.
hees. Everett l.. Warner, Charleton
Virgins, Guy Virgins,
John w. Beatty. director Of the de
partment of fine arts. Carnegie lnsti-
tute, announces that there will he no
International exhibition of paintings
held at the Carnegie Institute at Pits
burg in the spring of 1915. This course
was decided upon by the fine arts COM
mittec some time ago as wise and
patriotic, and II was made in view Of tho
fact that the Government will present
an international exhibition Of paintings
at the panama-paCifc exposition .: ga
Francisco next spring.
MIR Beatty was recently tho .,-
Cjpient Of a new distinction abroad IN
an official letter from Sir james
GutlrI' president Of the Royal Scot
fish Academy, Edinburgh the painting
of plymouth Hills" BY Mr.. Beatty is
invited for exhibit at the Royal scot
fish Academy. The picture is at present
f,
Shepherds liush. London. whore 1t was
also invited for exhibition to hs one OF
q g,oup uC one hundred paintings rep
rcsentative Of American art
Papers conveying the Bickford prop
: crty To the + riiand Society of Art have
been delivered To- Oliver i. X. wish,
tr'<~urer of the society. thus assuring
quarters for school of the line arts III
Portland and a large tract Of land for
the future growth OF the Portland So
CictN uf f.0, Arts
! The l.,kfCrd house will hc used for
the school of iuc art. and the plans
Will retain So far - possible the original
appearance of tn building. This means
another of portlanIs old landmarks will
! he preserved, and this building IN CON
neCt!on with the Sweat mansion and
the Sweat MeNorial Museum Will give
to the Maine city an art centre of which
its people may he proud TIE land "A
the rear Of the Biclitord house can hs
used by the society at any time for
building additional galleries
one Of tho most important Of the
Metropolitan Museums recent s-ulptural
acquisitions l. an Athenian gravestone
in the form of a large vase The mu-
seum's collection Of Greek sculptures
includes a number Of gravestones VI
various types. such a. the simple slab
decorated with a relief Of painting and
surmountcd by a decorated final. or the
more mor~mcntal type in which tho
sculpturcd slab is recessed between two
pilastors in the form Of n shrine, Or
the slab without relief decoration
terminating above an akrotcrion. This
vase is the first example of another
form which became very common dur
ing the fourth century r. G.. its origin
being derived from the custom Of pla-
cling terra Gotta vases on the tombs as
offerings to the dead This specimen -
in the form of a lekythos and is orna-
mentcd with a charming scene in re-
lief representing a man and a woman
claspnG hands and a seated woman
holding out n bird tn a little girl. It
may he assumed that the monument
was raised to the memory of a woman,
who is here shown in two aspcCts-in
her relation to her husband 70 whom
she is bidding farewell, and in her rcla-
ton to her child, with whom she is play
ing. These two simple scenes are typi-
cal of the subjects chosen 10y the Greek
artists for tomb representation: they
show the dead woman as she was In her
everyday life with only "A note OF part
ing intr lduCcd by handclasp, and with
no suggestion Of grief except in the
quiet pathos which pervades the scene.
In Art in lmcricd for August Or.
wilhelm r. Nalcntiner begins series
, Of articles about the Altman collection
in which he discusses the Remhrandts.
Two Of the thirteen Rcmhrandts in this
wonderful collection, two portraits II
women. date from the first Amsterdam
period. l633-lG35. and tn the period ~
the Might Watch" belong two portraits
of men, painted in 164l and l64i. and
the Toilette of Bathsheba" Of 1912.
All the others are examples Of the art
lists late period, the portrait Of his son
Titus dating from 1865; the wv man
Trimming Her Nails" and the second
portrait VI Titus from 1868, Remhrandts
own likeness from 1860 and he plate"
and the two companion portraits rom
the last two or three years of his life.
From the first years of his great
eiCccss at Amsterdam comes the portrait
oi a W man dated 1888, formerly in the
Lacknciki collection at Warsaw DR..
Valcntiucr says the best portrait paint-
ers of the time, men like Thomas de
Kcyser. Micrcvelt, Rcvesteyn and Mo-
reclse, might have felt proud had they
been able to infuse with life such a
characteristic head. AS composition
il differs in no way from their works.
hut in the Interpretation Of the person.
ality Rembrandt seems to have united
the best qualities Of them all--the ac-
.Curacy If Mierevelts drawing, the ten
derness of Moreelses modelling, tho
strong seriousness of Rcvestcyn, the
freshness and naturalncss of De kcyser
while with the modesty Of genius the
young painter hides himself behind his
work. Three admirable engravings ac-
/ company DR. Nalontiner's article.
Other contents of the new number ~
Art IN america are interesting. Oswald
Siren tells of the Pictures in America
of Bernardo Daddi, Taddco Gaddi, An