New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-23
PUBLIC VIEWS ART
AT FENWAY COURT
MacKnight Water Colors In New
Memorial Room of Mrs.
Jack Gardner.
lBy Telegraph to Tns Tribune. ]

Boston, Nov. PA small but ap-
1reciative number OF visitors took ad-
vantage to-day Of the first formal open
ing of Mrs. Jack Gardeners Fenway
Court since last Easter. Fenway Court
will be open to the public every day
this week except Thanksgiving between
the hours OF ~ and 8. 1t has been the
custom to limit admission to 200 daily,
but there is room now for 200.
The present exhibition opens to the
public another new room-the Mac
knight Room memorial to the Cape
Cod luminarist, and situated at the
right OF the main entrance OF the
building in the northeast corner of the
first floor.
Eight of MacKnight's notable water
colors are in this room. They include
two striking mid-winter scenes in New
HAMPSHIRE, a brilliant, even dazzling.
tropical scene from Mexico, and a
sombre view of the Grand Canyon Of
the Colorado.
In addition to MacKnight's paintings,
there are other water colors and some
modern oil paintings and drawings.
Those deserving OF special mention IN
clude a painting of cluster OF peonles
by Wilton Lockwood, pretty fan de-
sign by Louis Kronberg, flower piece
by Sarah. c. Sears, a Venetian water
color by F. Hopkinson Smith, land
scape by Sarah Whitman, and small
picture by Martin Mower depicting the
grounds OF an old brick colonial man
sion. -,
Other works, including black and
prtt
John Briggs Potter, are shown in the
Mcknight Room. There is also the
bronze by Anna Coleman Laid, entitled
donna Maria" which has been ex-
hibited at the Guild of Boston Artists.
This is a lifesize bust and is the por-
trait of a young woman of an unusual
type. somewhat modern in character,
vet in its style vaguely reminiscent OF
the Italian Renaissance tradition. Inc
opening of the new room TO the pubic
has necessitated the partial rearrange-
ment Of the two first modern rooms AT
the left and right of the ante-chamoer.
In the Yellow Room there is work by
Degas and Matisse, Sargent and La
Fargo, Diaz and Dewing, Whistler and
Joseph Linden Smith, and also another
dainty little picture by Martin Mower.
In the larger room TO the right OF the
ante chamber the arrangement now 's
beginning at the left as you go I'M
Manet, J. L. Smith, Rosa Bonheur,
Deman W. Ross, Jacques, De La Croix,
Bunker, Fancini, Zorn, Besnard, Bunk
er, J. L. Smith. Sargent. La Fargo,
zorn. Curtis, Sargent, Ross, Andersen,
Slade. Van Nicer, McComas, Cushing,
William James, Corot, Zorn and Sar-
gent.
There have been no important changes
in the collections elsewhere since last
spring. The room now devoted TO the
early Italian school, on the second Moor,
however, contains some works OF art
which we're formerly in rooms not ac-
cessible TO visitors. These comprise
Lorenzo di Credits portrait Of young
man, a series of five panels by Simone
MARITIME from the museum at Orvieto,
and B. Caporali's "Dormition of the
Virgin"
Another new work so far as the pub
lie is concerned is the quaint and love
ly profile portrait of a lady by Do
menico Veneziano, which stands on an
easel in the so-called long gallery OF
the upper floor.