The sun., 1918-12-30
COLLECTION
NOW BEING SHOWN
Exhibition Of Paintings to Be
Followed by Auction on
January 6.
LANDSCAPES A FEATURE
Figure Subjects Among Rare
Art Works by Abbey,
Inness and Others.
LANDSCAPES A FEATURE


b. Clarke, the American Art Association
is now showing the American paintings
collected by the late william II. Payne.
The exhibition is preparatory to an auc-
ton which will take place at the Hotel
Plaza January O..
Mr.. Payne was a member Of the Union
League Club and at one time was chair
man or the clubs art committee. He
began his collection In the sos, visit
ing the studios as we'll as the exhibit
tons. and seems to have been imbued
from the beginning with n taste for the
strictly native line OF art. a taste that
has been remarkably ratified In the auc-
ton rooms in recent years for what
ever other effect the war may rave had
upon art conditions, 1t has certainly de-
veloped the American feeling for Amer
lean made pictures.
When Mr.. Payne began filling his
Park avenue home with American pic
lures there was not then the competition
for Illnesses. Wyants and B~lakelocks
that collectors OF to-day nave to face.
His examples by these landscapists OF
renown will be found especially interest,"
ing. 1nness's Summer storm" Is not
only n finely representative work. but a
most companionable landscape for those
NolltClOTS WHO, like MI. IdNUe, seek DC
lures for the home. II is both poetic and
realistic. and interest in it is not easily
exhausted. The second 1nness is one OF
the Italian series. a Sunset Near st.
Peters. Rome"
Some of the Paintings shown.
Winslow Homer is represented by a
water color of a Gloucester Fisherman"
who is wading in the shallow water. OF
a harbor near the sea. The picture is
slight. but il has the vitality OF touch for
which its author is famous. and besides
IL has attractive color. Two landscapes
OF d. W. Tryon are poetic one of them,
a winter twilight descending upon a
peculiarly chilly snow scene. William
VI. Chase, as far as possible at the other
extreme. has painted a breath OF hot
summer in Central Park. J. Francis
Murphy's two landscapes are early
works which have all OF his feeling for
nature.
Siddons Mowbray's Sisters" Is by an
artist who is ~infrequently represented in
auctions. The canvas by La Fargo is
unusual for him. being n study. no doubt
for the color, of a tawny tigers head.
Robert Blum. who was an exceedingly
prominent artist back in the '90s, and
who is by no means forgotten. is repre-
SeHteu DN Il lnN picture somewhat IN
the Fortuny manner Edwin A. Abbey,
also prominent in those days. has here
a characteristic sketch OF peasants in
sabots.
Several Figure Paintings.
Among the figure paintings are F. A..
Bridgman's "Repose.' Eastman John
sons Capitalist" Louis Moeller's Chess
Players" F. n. Millet's Greek Glass
Bottle and Alfred Kappe's Oars No
Place Like Home" Notable also are
Charles II. Davis's 'Lowland Meadows"
Arthur Quartley's Coming Into Harbor,
Long Island; Thomas Coles "Segesta.
Sicily" Frederick Freer's Meditation"
and Asher Durand's Departure of Co
lumbus from the IIarbor OF Palos on His
First Voyage"
The prints division OF the New York
Library has opened a technical exhibit
ton illustrating the making OF prints
In half a dozen cases, in Gallery BIS. the
processes Of etching, engraving. wood
engraving. japanese color printing, meZ-
zotint, TYPOGRAPHY and the photo me-
chanical processes are illustrated in a
summary manner.
The Amerfcdr Ar NeiCs announce
that the following artists have been Sc
lected by the committee OF the Christof-
fer Hannevig Foundation to paint por-
traits OF Americans who distinguished
themselves as leaders in the late war {;
John $ Sargent. Louis Belts. Irving F.
Wilss, Carl Melchers. Joseph de Camp,
Cecilia Beaux and De Witt Lockman.
Twenty-Five portraits have been commits
stoned by Mr.. Hannevig, and the remain
ing artists will be announced shortly.