The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-31

Van der weyden and Hleronymus
Bosch.
The Minneapolis Art Museum has
just acquired THE Flight Into Egypt"
by Joseph dc Patinir. The picture Is
regarded as one OF the pai.ters best
works.
Senator Clark has again contributed
$1,000 to be used as prizes in the exhibit
ton Of contemporary American a-t 20 be
held in the Corcoran Art Gallery next
December. No paintings will be re-
ceived later than the middle OF Novem-
Der. This is the fifth exhibition OF the
kind.
The San Diego exposition to be held
next year will make a special effort TO
interest the artists OF southern Cali
fornia by building a large gallery for
their use.
The Hackley Gallery at Muskegon.
Mich. has just acquired a painting by
Richard Wilson, the father of English
landscape painting"
The collection of Baron Albert Won
Oppenhe!m. a descendant OF him who
wrote himself in the guests book 20.
| de Cologne" is to be sold in the
autumn and DR.. Bode. the Berlin ex-
pert. has written a most fiattering ap-
probation of its beauties.
None of Hollands great landscape
painters are missing" writes DR.. Bode.
| BY Jacob van Ruysdael we find the
| Avenue of Beeches, one OF the rarer,
simpler motives OF his Dutch home,
which the artist paints with equal truth
| and charm. The collection contains also
two splendid works by Meindert Hob
bema, The Water Mill and the larger
| Village Amongst Trees both painted
in the SOS. The Bleaching Ground
Near Haarlem,' which. according to the
catalogue, is by Jan van Kessel is very
similar to the we'll known picture of
the same subject by Jacob Ruysdael
Tho largo picture Of Winter by Aert
van der Neer. Is treated In an excep-
tionally broad manner. The
small. rapidly painted Interior OF a
Smithy' Is unique as subject.
"The wealth OF pictures OF the Dutch
school ts astonishing. Scarcely one o.
the great masters is missing. Al the
top OF the list are three pictures by
Frans Halls. The kitkat portrait of a
young, pretty. stoutish lady Of Haarlenl
shows the brilliant rendering. the buoy
ant yet charming brushwork, which
characterize the artists middle period
| about 1910. His sunny Lumor appears
fully in the two round pictures o. laugh
ing, fair, curly haired boys, painted
ALA prima' with the greatest bravura
Thomas de Keyser OF Amsterdam has
perfect masterpiece, a half length
portrait OF a young man and his wife
A Rembrandt Is a study OF a youns
girls head dating from the sos, while
almost all the small masters are wei
represented. Pair of Topers possessed
in a high degree the delicate colorinl
and finish OF execution. in which thi'
artist excels. Jan Stems Scene II
Public House Is a typical exampl,
of the artists humorous rendering o.
Dutch zee, and Adriaen van Ostade''
Three Topers,' although small in size
belongs to this painters best work. b,
far the most important genre picture
in the collection is the Mother Will
Her Children by PETER de Hooch, o
h's early, rare and precious period
dated 1885,"
Nothing was moro interesting
score of years ago in the rocco
church of st. Lorenzo in Geno5
, than the silk tapestry which use'
, to cover the walls. its cherr.
brocade throwing a glow Of unusua
T.. warmth over the interior. But the rea
| object Of attraction for tourists was tn,
Holy Grail kept then In the sacristy.