The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-25
LAVERY'S PAINTINGS
OF TANGTER SHOWN
Recent Work of ArtiSt-Trayel-
Ter Shown at kraushaar
Galleries.
TOWLE PORTRAITS SEEN

Sixteen Of john Lavery's recent pic
lures. on view in the Kraushaar Galleries
until January 80. emphasize the lighter
side OF his aspiration as a painter Most
OF them have been painted In and about
Tangier and are the quick impression
Of a clever traveller. not especially con-
cerned with the strangeness Of the native
life In this city OF ancient customs, but
content to paint the mellow evening skies.
the young English women riding their
horses in the suburbs and the SURF ot
the Mediterranean breaking upon tho
beach road.
The beach road gives Mr.. Lavery the
subject for his most important canvas.
The yellow green sea In taken at PLACID
moment and the town crowns the hill
At one side Of the picture In blaze OF
white light, and to II, across the sands
troop the unending and picturesqueiy
mounted travellers from the Interior OF
Morocco
Mr.. Lavery's work is already so well
known here that IL is perhaps unneces-
sary to state that his technique borrows
from Madrazo. Boldni, Fortuny ana
other Latins certain jauntiness OF
stroke in the brush work. 1t follows
from this that his landscapes bear a
NIr Chase. the late Mr.. Blum and the
others here. who. like Mr.. Lavery, have
admired Fortuny He restraints u, now
/ over. AT times with a Brton's fear OF be-
! Ing accused of play acting, ana Is III
! fact almost always rougher In his use oil
| paint than Mr.. Chase.
His skating In Il Snowstorm at Wen
I Gen. switzerland" is crsply enough
painted. and his small study of Tangier
| Raw in the evening. with "Gibel Musa'
| the Moorish compliment to GlpfaltaT'
| looming across the emerald waters Is IN
! excellent color. The Market Pace Oh
| Tangier Is seen in two pictures noon anu
| evening effects, probably stuu'es lol
larger works No more stirring "A scene
| than this market place could he desired
| hv any paintcr, but Mr.. Lavery has in
| Dictated the iabbering horde OF white Dul-
| noos,d Moors with little necks OF Whlte
| paiut. The animation OF the crowd Is
| suggested, but ones curiosity Is plqueu'
The most imposing of the PORTRAITS IN
the exhibition Of the work OF IL. Leuy
! Toyle in the Arlington Galleries on Madl-
! son avenue ia that OF Mayor John iufroy
| Mitchell 1t Is an excellent likeness
| though not painted with the directness
| that characterizes the portrait oil D. D.
/ Carly that hangs near by.
A portrait Of Mrs, Towle, the wlte OF the
artist. gives the painter "A chance to test
his skill IN chiftons, for the sitter wears
| evening dress and the color scheme II or
| the most ambitious and In the picture
called Girl with the Parrot the man
ner Of the work suggests that Mr.. Towie
| is trembling upon the brink of cubism.
I A number OF small landscapes and city
scenes complete the exhibition
! William II. Leighs picture, "The Great
| Spirit" which was shown in New YORK
last spring at the exhibition of the Al
lied Artists and at the Chicago Art lnsti-
tute tnis winter. has just been sold at the
Corcoran Art Gallery. Washington. to \.
NJ Todd of Kalamazoo, Mich. The adj
nirers OF this artists work consider II to
be one of the finest pictures he has yet
painted.
Mrs Rozel Oertle Butler, who is eXhib-
itirg "A series Of paintings OF life in the
great Southwest in the Enrich Galleries
at 7O7 Fifth avenue. studied for six years
in Munich under Antoine Atzbe, ,he favor
tie pupil OF IenbaCh Upon her return
she chose New Mexico old Mexico and
Death Valley as her field OF endeavor The
present series OF paintings is the result
of three years work in this region, where
she lived a life OF severity, spending much
Of her time in the saddle and crossing
the deserts accompanied only by her
guide.
/ Among the new exhibitions Of paintings
just beginning In the galleries may b,
mentioned the sketches of Holland bS
Charles =. Grippe in the Folsom Gal
lcries, oil paintings by Odilon Redon
Duffy and De Segonzac and sculptures by
! Renoir In the Carroll Galleries, etching,
by Bcurdlcy Lepere and Leheutre in thu
Kennedy Galleries and paintings by Ed
, ward j. Steichen in the Knoedler Gal
leries.
This morning there will be on view IL
Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Gallery som,
nine hundred Oriental rugs and carpets
. largely collected by the eminent traveller
; Prof Pierre II. Fillppuccl OF Beirut
Syria.
This collection is rich in rare --pahans
ancient Ghiordez prayer rugs. roya
keshons. Kermanshahs and Princess Box
haras and old imperial Chinese weaves
The public auction commences this after
noon and continues all the rest of thu
week.