The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-01
ART WORKS SHOWN
IN N. Y. GALLERIES
Impressive Opening Of New
Arden Studios in the
Scribner Building.
RARE GOTHIC CARVINGS

A loan exhibition of carly art. with
many Gothic carvings in stone I'M wood.
rare textiles paintings and old glass
windows. opens in an important, not to
say solemn, fashion the ambitious TN
d%crtakings Of the Arden Studios in the
Scrtbner Building in Fifth avenue
The exhibition is mad up largely
from The well known collection of Mrs.
Chaunccy J. Blair of Chicago. and the
arrangement of the exhibition. which is
exceedingly tasteful. must ne credited 10
Mrs. John W. Alexander and Miss
Nverill. who are to direct the new enter
prise. Thosc who have loaned to the
show in addition to Mrs. Blair are
Frederic e. Pratt, Michael Dreicer.
Henry Golden Dearth. Arthur s. YER
nav. Henry G.. Lawrence, Gimpel 81
Wildensteln and n. @. Kelekian.
The aim OF the Arden Studios h to
foster what are sometimes called tho
liberal arts and sometimes the indus
trial arts" 1t hopes to give al i'm
retus to the native production of artistic
textiles. carvings and such arts by In
'AfTAiN nv p'HN ~ tAtAE ~ NV NO'''NAs
lp such work. \ great deal has been
done along that line already. but there
has never been n success In the arts
and crafts in America that could be
compared for a moment with the stir
hat william Morris created In England.
with his death the enthusiasm over arts
and crafts faded almost to nothing In
t-.rfn.,l. arI - 1pnarf@a thA arfyfttaa
that echoed the English movement nave
also dwindled.
Nothing could be better calculated 10
enchain the interest Of first class artists
in designing for the liberal arts than the
present exhibition. az almost all OF the
objects are OF the kind to stimulate the
latent feeling for craftsmanship that il
in every artists makeup. Among the
especially notable works Of art to be
seen may be mentioned a rowned head
100 stone. Of twelfth century French work.
. T. was found at Parthenay and Is part
o. a group that mad a sensation when
1 was recently added to the collections
Of the Louvre
Imone tie old ndo stained glass
are two windows from the Rodolphe
kann collection made from designs by
LORENZO di Credi. Among the paintings
is "A Enthusiastically virile Francis the
First; a portrait thought TO be Tribulet,
Francis he First's jester. Eleonere
q .Autriche, Louis the Second, and
Francis the Second ~ a child. There
rs also a painting by Roger van der
Weyden.
\ group OF American artists have
fitted from the MacDoweli Club to
Fifth avenue and ALI the Reinhardt
Galleries with brightly colored and hope
tul paintings. Most of them may be
called impressionists and all of them
escape from the commonplaces OF con-
v,ntlon. Tee artists are Kari Anderson.
n. Putnam Brinley, T.. Narian Cock
croft. Arthur Crisp, Edmund Greacen,
Edward Adam Kramer and George H.
Macrum.
The most striking contribution II
that OF Miss CoCkcroft, for her cam
vases show the boldest colors, the freest
brush work and the greatest leaning
toward decoration. Her Decorative
Figure is a lars. nude with slanting
Eastern eyes sitting in front Of an
Egyptian paintirs. Miss Cockcroft has
had considerable fun painting this work
and that fun can be felt and syInpa-
thetically appreciated by her fellow
craftsmen. The affair Is. however. "A
study" The model was posed in this
corner and then in that of the studio
finally a possible pose was fixed upon.
aud the mornings work gayly proceeded.
Not immensely serious, YOU understand.
but gay and studentish.
Al artists paint more or less Of these
studies. II they afterward become great
then tho studies rise in value FOR the
associations sake" II the artist never
does ANYTHING more than studies" OF
course greatness" s. not thrust upon
Rim 90 her. Monet's painting OF two
lirtle pink FISH upon a napkin, recently
shovn AZ Duraud-Ruel's. was only a
study, hut no doubt the Messrs. Durard-
Euel ask a very pretty price indeed for
Z now. II is 10 he hoped sincerely tina,
Miss CooNcroft will become great too.
Arthur Crisp's two most attractive
canvases have & do with theatrical
motifs in bright color and ~fanciful. n
nutnam Brin!oy f. a real Impressions,
md would put nothing In his pictures
hut light y he dared. Out OF sheer
generosity, however, he has placed a
REQ or a hill or something OF the kind
.A each q his present paintings.
Edward Kramer's landscapes are
much more reserved. but decorative also
and George n. Macrum follows the ful,
his Rrou3 made for Itself of color and
decoration in all OF his canvases. HI.
most important is a Brittany Pardon
With the pcnitcnts in well arranged
masses and chief insistence laid upor
me church OF LocTouan.
Miss Clara Ruge will give a serie.
~ six lectures on the History OF Art
II the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth ave,
rue and Eighty-second street. Tn,
course VIII cover the time from tn,
Egyptian era tn the end OF the Renais
sance. These lectures are illustrated
nv the - giual works OF art In the gal
l"fes OF ne museum. The lectures arr
wen on Saturday evening at s o'clock
tn artists contributing TO the cur
rent group exhibition in the Ma cdowel
'1ub Gallery are Matilda Browne. MARY
r. Carlisle, Charlotte Il. Conan
'harlee Il. Cook, Ossip l.. Linde, Maud,
VI Mason, Mary y. MacCord. dig,
P"pofr Muller. zulma Steele, Maria j
stream, i" n. Vanderpoel and Clari
Peck Williams.
OF all the pictures contributed b,
hose artists the little canvas by Chariel
r. Cook, called Frozen Dock stand
out as being most complete. true ans
sincere. In the other paintings by thi,
artist II can be seen that he Is busil,
Engaged In searching for style. and II
particular IS e"ndeavoring TO shake of
.'crallSm IN favor OF decoration. Hi
semen Cove" is also good. but no
~ good a. the Frozen Dock" Zulmi
steele Is another Of the group who's