New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
Art

Inc June bulletin of the Metropoli-
tan Museum Of Art announces a sneciaI
summer exhibition of tapestry and lace
OF the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turles, lent from private collections.
opening to-day in the gallery which
IN turn has housed the Morgan collec
ton OF Chinese porcelains, the Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher bequest and the
Courbet exhibition. Among those
who have made this exhibition possible
ov lending the treasures of their col
lectlons are Jules s. Bache, Mrs.
George L. Bliss, Mrs. Albert Blum, Mrs.
George Blumenthal, William A. Clark.
Mrs. de Witt Clinton Cohen, Mrs. w.
bayard Cutting, Mrs. Robert w. de
Forest, Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Rich
ard c. Greenleaf, William Milne Grin
noll, Miss Marian Hague, Mrs. Nc
Dcugall Hawkes., Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
James, Mrs. Leo Kesse, Mrs. ]. Pier
ront Morgan, jr, Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer.
Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlee, Mortimer L.
Schitf. Mrs. George T. Whelan and Miss
Gertrude Whiting.
An exhibition of drawings acquired
lr the last two years has been arranged
in Gallery %. The main reason for
this exhibition is the showing of draw
ings bought in London during the war
and only lately received Nineteen of
these were purchased at the sale of
the Pembroke collection at Sothebv's.
in London, in July, 1917 This collec-
ton belonging to the Earls of Penn
broke and Montgomery and kept a.
their seat, Wilton House, near Sails
bury, was formed in the eighteenth
century and was one of the famous
English collections. It has been ex-
tonslvely commented upon in recent
times and is the subject of an elabo-
rate publication, "The Pembroke Draw
lngs,' with critical notes by S. A.
Strong. Fifteen of the drawings now
1T the museum are reproduced in fac
simile in this volume
Among the features in the room of
recent accessions are two portraits
of M. and Nine. Leblanc by Ingres,
pair of Louis XVI vases, the upper
part of an Egyptian quartzte
statuette, portrait of Edward r.
Bacon by Anders Zorn, a portrait of
Charles Foster by Montague Flagg, a
bronze statuette, "La Penseroso," by
Emil Fuchs, and the bronze torso of
dancing girl by Frederick Allen.
"A collection Of antique and modern
furniture, jewelry, silverware, bronzes.
porcelalns, rugs and paintings and an
unusual collection of Napoeonic
prints, engravings and etchings from
the estate of the late Ruth McEnery
Stuart will be sold at auction at the
Graham Galleries every day this week,
!
A book sale, including the library of
the late DR.. Frank Jackson, will take
place at the Walpole Galleries on Tues
day evening and Wednesday afternoon
and evening. Items will include
Stokes's Iconography of Manhattan,
Kennedy's Whistler, an almost com
plete set of Grolier Club books, library
sets of Dickens, Thackeray and Irving.
a copy of "Uncle Remus" autographed
by the author, letters of Eugene Field
and Whitcomb Riley and miniatures
of Washington and Lincoln by C. W.
Peale and A. Kramer.
Objects of art and Of household util-
ity are on exhibition in Slo's Fifth
Avenue Art Galleries prior to their
sale at auction on the afternoons of
Thursday and Friday, the sessions be-
ginning at o'clock each day. Included
in the collections are examples of an
tique and modern furniture, chiefly
European; hangings and draperies,
sculpture in marble and bronze, cab
met objects and porcelains, and group
Of modern paintings.
Paintings by contemporary European
and American artists from a private
collection, the we'll known Ada M.
Roberts collection of rare Colonial and
Georgian art objects, including mir
rors, "tinsel pictures" pieces of lustre
ware and other early American and
English china brought from the Rob-
erts home in Washington, N. H., and
modern furniture, bronze sculpture,
consoles, porcelnins and hangings. are
on exhibition in the Plaza Art Rooms
this week. Edward F. O'Reilly will
sell the three collections on the after
moons Of Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.