New-York tribune., 1919-10-13
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''Sky Fighters of France" Paint.
ings to Return Here for
Three Weeks

The Sky Fighters Of France are COM
ing back to New York. These official
French aerial paintings and portraits
Of French and American aviators, by
Lieutenant Henri Farrc, will bo shown
in the Anderson Galleries, Park Ave
nue. and Fifty-ninth Street, for three
weeks, beginning October 20, for the
benefit of the fatherless children of
France. They had short exhibition
here in 1918.
Every effort will be made to make
such arrangements that the school
children of New York will have an op-
portunity to see the paintings. Among
those on the committee who will CO.
operate with the educational authori-
ties are Miss Luisita Leland, Mrs. j.
Borden Hartman, Mrs. Douglas Robin
Cromwell, Edward Shearson, Mrs. c. B.
Alexander, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs.
George Blumenthal. Mrs. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, Mrs. Frederick +. Carey
Mrs. p. Mex. Garrison, Mrs John Hays
Hammond. Mrs Hugh Minturn, Mrs.
William Fellowes Morgan. Mrs. Nor
man =. Ream. Mrs. Monroe d. Robin
son. Mrs. Emlcn Roosevelt, Mrs. James
A. Roosevelt, Mrs. Willard Straight,
Miss Jane Perry Tiffany and Mrs. Os-
valid Yorke (Miss Annie RusseD.
The library of the late Henry Otis
Harris, Of Doylestown, Penn, which
has been on exhibition at the Ander-
son Galleries, will be sold tomorrow
and Wednesday afternoons. The col
lection includes works on art, prints,
porcelains, furniture, specimens from
the kelmscott, Vale, Essex and other
presses, collected art sets in fine bind
lngs, books with colored plates, first
editions, Napoleona, handsome sets Of
standard authors and Bibliophile So
Art collections formed by the late
Theodore w. Myers, once Controller of
the City of New York and a we'll
known figure in the banking world
and Eustace Hale, together with OBJ
jects from two of New York's historic
mansions, will be on exhibition in
Silos Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Van
derbilt Avenue and East Forty fifth
Street, to-day and Tuesday.
Chief interest in these collection
centres in an entire room Of Cinnabar
lacquer, with all it's furnishings. The
furniture includes antique pieces from
Spain and Italy in Renaissance time s
Georgian pieces and rare examples OF
| Colonial furniture in mahogany. There
will also be shown groups of porce
lains, sculpture in bronze and ivory
this last division including Cupic
by A. Moreau- Gauthier, and French
and Flemish tapestries and needlework
The goods will be sold on Wednesday
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
In the Plaza Art Rooms there will
be opened for exhibition to-day the
art properties Of John s. Martin, 0.
New York City, removed from his
country home, at Kew Gardens, Long
Island. together with objects of sim
liar character from an apartment a
42O Park Avenue. In addition to a col.
lection of modern paintings and etch
ings, there are many pieces of Renais
sance furniture in Aubusson and We
lour tapestries, marble and bronze
sculpture, Chinese porcelains and Jap
anesc screens, a library Of STANDARD
sets of modern authors, and an un
usually fine collection Of fur rugs, in
Guiding the skins of polar, cinnamon
and black bear, leopard and Benga
tiger. The sales of all these objects
will take place on October 16 to Is
inclusive, each session commencing al
2:30 p. IN.
The literary and artistic proDertie.