Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-21
WAR WILL SEND
MANY DISPLAYS
To ARTS PALACE
San Francisco Exposition TO
Benefit Through HostiIiteS
Which Cause Work of Mas
tiers TO Be Sent to America,

4 tiers TO Be Sent to America
v ispreIst eossEsposoGscE 20 vosnIns JousssLl
. san Francisco. Calf. Feb. 49,
There Is one department al the Pan
n anna Pacific international exposition
that has been enriched above all 9th
I, ers by the present European war. Thi
Is the department Of fine arts TO b.
housed in mighty Graeeo- Roman
palace one-fifth Of a mile in length
Art treasures Of the old world thai
otherwise never would have been re-
moved from their places In famous
galleries have been shipped to Sar
Francisco on the United States gov.
eminent collier Jason as a measure
OF protection in the event that oppos.
ing armies should happen to lay
waste other famous cities as the cities
OF Belgium have been wasted.
From stricken Belgium master
pieces saved from the wreck will be
exhibited in the palace Of liberal arts
AZ the San Francisco exposition.
In this great palace, with eurying
colonaded wings stretching east and
west along the shores Of the fine arts
lagoon there are 102 steel walled ex-
hibit galleries. Fifteen of these gal
leries - fire PROCEED. as the entire
structure is--are assigned to individ-
ual artists OF renown Of many m
tionalitles. twenty-five have been al
lctted to the foreign nations partici-
pating in the art exhibit and the re-
mainder TO historical and loan collec-
lions Of paintings and prints from the
United States.
Many American Entrants.
, Eminent American artists will be
found in the individual exhibit gall
leries where also will be found the
work Of the great European masters.
Among the artists OF international re.
nown who will have separate exhibits
VIII be James Mcneil whistler Will
liam NJ. Chase. John s. Sargent. 10
seph Pennell, Carl Melehers, Howard
Pyle, Frank Duveneck, Edward w.
Redfield, John Twachtman. John w.
Alexander. Edmund c. Turbell, Alison
Skinner Clark and the two great swe-
dish artists. Liliefors and Carl Lars /
sen.
There will be forty whistlers in the
Whistler group and equally represen-
iatiye collections by Illefors and
LARSEN. Sargent. who has been
busted in the Austrian Tyrol. finished
MS group In spite Of the war and
shipped them from Vienna. Melchers. |
who is professor OF art at Wiemar
university. Germany shipped a car
load Of canvases from Holland on 1
the Jason
Another contribution from Ger
many viii include a famous Rubens 4
from the Munich gallery. Others of I
the nations at war that are repre- 4
scented by art exhibits are France
which has shipped selected treasures
from the Louvre and Luxembourg
galleries. Belgium; England. which
mas contributed from the national art
gallery and Austria. servia and Po-
Iand All Of the exhibits of the bel.
ligerent nations were shipped in the
collier Jason. Spain. Italy, Greece,
sweden Norway. Denmark and Tur-
Key sent exhibits by their own YES
sells.
Japan will occupy three large gal
leries' Argentina has sent paintings
ana statuary to fiji another room and
Cnlha, with her new and ancient art
works, has an entire room. Norway
has three galleries for her 5000
paintings and Sweden has three
rooms.
TWO Foreign Collections.
TWO complete collections intended
Tor foreign exhibits will be splendid
features of the fine arts department. ,
These are the collection assembled I
or the triennial fine arts exhibit al {
'enice. which had to be postponed
because of the war, and the collection
ssembled in the galleries of the
White City exposition in London, .
shieh was closed and the galleries
urned into barracks for the colonial /
roops In addition to these two for [
ign collections which have added to [
nc magnificence OF the San Francisco
Xhiblt, there will be many collections
Intended for the Carnegie exhibition
1 PITTSBURGH. which was cancelled
wing to the greater scope of the San {
francisco display. .
Among the collections diverted
rom the Carnegie exhibit to san
Francisco IL that OF Germany. repre-
ented by the best art work OF the
orty modern German artists. These
artlcular paintings have had their
art in the vicissitudes of war. a
'eek before the outbreak of HOSTILE
les, having been on exhibition In this
onhtry, they were shipped back to
Germany, but when the ship arrived Il
mere the paintings could not be de-
Vereu. On their return to this eoun- I
~ j. E. ID. Trask, chief of the ex-
osltion fine arts department, secured II
mem from Director ]. w. Beatty. of
ne Carnegie institute. as portion
| the foreign loan collection. They'll
1clude such masters as Franz Won
tuck, Leo Putt. of Munich; Benne
ECKER, Otto II. Engel the etcher; III.
zen Hubner, Rudolph Helwag. Jan l
'Fissler and Willy Ter Hell. The col
'etion Is insured by the exhibition
uthorities for $50, 900
Many Award Classes.
Inc general scope of the fine arts
Ahioit, outside of the loan eollec-
IONS and displayed for award will
ielude the following classifications
"ih.itgs on canvas. wood or metal i
an direct methods in oil, wax tenn 4
era or other media; enamels: paint. III
lgs on porcelain. faience and on va Y
Ious preparations, of purely pictorial II
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