Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-10-19
TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
SPANISH ARTISTS EXHIBIT

The Toledo Museum of Art will
show, during the month of October,
an exhibition of more than forty paint
ings by Igracio Zuloaga, the great
Spanish artist, which has created
such a furor wherever it has been
shown. Such an exhibition is an
event of supreme interest, and it is
gaining for the painter the recogni-
ticn in this country which his work
has won in Europe. Although still
a young man, (born 1870) his can
vases are eagerly sought by muse
ums and discriminating art collectors
on both sides of the Atlantic.
Senor Zuloaga was born in an old
10th century Spanish. palace in the
little town of Eibar in the northern
province of BASQUE. He comes of a
family of master craftsmen, cera-
mists. pottors, metal workers. armor-
ers, his father, through his work, be-
inc known as the Ronvenuto Cellini
of Spain. Ignacic ZUloaga tried his
hand at the crafts which had brought
fame to his family for so manv yea rs,
but with little interest. After see
ing the work of ElGreco Gova and
| Valasauez in the Prado, Madrid, he
could think of no other career than
that of painting. Opposed at home
he set ont alone and after living
abroad for several years he returned
to Spain and wandered over much of
it, living the life of the people, paint
ing the various types and the condi-
tions as he knew them. Then it vas
he began to come into his own.
There we've many years of struggle
and rrivations when he was forced to
do whatever came to haI.d to make
existence possible, but in The face of
all obstacles he dung tc his ideals
and remained TINE to himself He
has achieved his g~.4at s;"oess entire
ly through his own efforts for ne has
had no masters except nature and the
paintings Of he masters il museums
RecllOned a great painter ny ali there
are those Wlo do not hesitate to pro
claim him the greatest painter fpair
has given the world since Vaiasguez
An important exhibition Of old anc
modern masters is hanging in one Of
the galleries. - contains The work;
Of such masters as Rembrandt Fran.
Halls, Velasquez, Holbein, Turner Rey
nolds, Raeburn, Constable, Millet, Dian
Cain, Israels, Bosboom Mauve
Weissenbruch, Jacob and William
Maris, George Inness and others
about forty pictures in all.
Hanging in the print room is tn
permanent collection of etchings an
| Autographs by James MacNeil Whist
Ter, who influenced world art NOR
/ than any other American artist
Other permanent collections are ais
on exhibition.
The museum has recently installe
: the following acquisitions: Gree
Slave by Hiram Powers, a splendi
! example of early American sculpture
D prints by Henry Wolf, Timothy Col
and Tod Lindenmuth; drawings
r Frederick Marvin; Egyptian antiqu
ties from the Egypt Exploration FunG
triptich, Limoges enamel, by Jea
Courtois
The Italian sculptor c. S. Pietr,
0 has loaned to the museum his mas
1t tely marble bust of John Burroughs
his bronze of Burroughs, standing
9 called the Summit of the Years; an
/ his Mother of the Dead awarded
medal at the Panama Pacific Int,
e national Exposition.
!, The museum is open daily fro
ls 1 to 4, Sundays and holidays fro
- l to p. m. There is no charg
I, for admission on Saturdays, Sunday
y and holidays.