The sun., 1919-03-11
AMERICAN MASTERS
ART WILL Be SOLD
Pictures by Inness, Wyant,
Fuller and Blakelock
on View Here.
ALL SCHOOLS SHOWN
In Collection Are Examples by
Foreign Artists and Also
Japanese Curios.
ALL SCHOOLS SHOWN

An important ana extensive collection
Of modern paintings was placed on view
yesterday at the American Art Associa-
ton preparatory to a two nights auc-
ton in the ballroom OF the Hotel Plaza
on March 10 and II. The paintings
came from the estate of the late Thomas
r. Ball of New York and Francis White
of Baltimore, with several additions
from other sources. With them Is shown
an imposing, display of Japanese art
treasures and curios assembled by the
late Rufus f. Moore.
The paintings are both native and
European, but the American works are
greatly in preponderance. All of the
schools and most of the periods are we'll
represented, with examples by men who
nave cut large figures in our art his
tory. George Inness is of course present
with four canvases, Winslow Homer
with two, George Fuller two, Robert 4.
Newman three, A j. Ryder one. Theo-
dore Robinson two Homer Martin three,
Alexander Wyant one. ]. Francis Muir
ply two, William NJ. Chase two; but
Ralph Blackjack leads all these favorites
with his twelve representations.
The Winslow Homer ocean piece,
called Fronts Head, Maine" will be
apt to cause a stir among the admirers
OF this master. who are legion; for big
marines of this description seldom come
INTO the auctions. Two black rocky
lodges protrude into the foreground of
this picture in the implacable manner
familiar to students of Homers work.
and they are opposed by the weishty,
resistless waters, this time in only COM
parativo agitation, but with n sugges-
ton OF the latent fury that this artist
always felt in the sea- The color has
the usual truth and dlrectness.
Early Homer shown.
The second Homer picture belongs to
his earlier and less known period. 1t
is called Inviting a Shot: Defiance"
and the scene is laid in the Federal
trenches at Petersburg, 1854. A young
trooper leaps upon the breRstworks to
hurl anathema to the Cohfederates in
the distance. and a darky sits on the
safe side of the bank, stunning a
banjo for the amusement OF the soldiers.
Tho bleak fields with the SCARED trunks
of trees are not unlike in aspect to the
famous mo Mans Land" of the recent
war.
The Blakelocks include several cpl
sodic canvases. One shows a view of an
austere, rocky mountain pass, with
group of mounted Indians sinking in the
shadows upon some mysterious errand.
Another shows some Indians. possibly
tho same Indians. squattinG before a fire
recounting the STORY OF the Buffalo
Hunt" Among the Illnesses is the well
known 'Tarpon Springs. Florida" for
merly in the w. T. Evans collection. A
rainbow pierces with difficulty the haze
that hangs over marshy meadow. and
in the creek that divides the meadow a
saiiboat can be seen.
painter whose fame for a time
seemed insecure, but OF late has shown
signs Of becoming certain is the late
Robert L Newman. All three OF his
little pictures. the Group OF Children"
the "Sappho" and the "Sybil' are char
acteristic; rich in color compactly de-
signed, and with real power OF sugges-
tion. The Close OF Day on a Kentucky
Farm" by George Fuller, Is not as
1nistily painted as some OF his later
WORKS, but carries with IL the feeling of
the early American days The example
by that other mystic. Albert r. Ryder,
Is the "Smuggler's Landing Place" with
bleak cliff. the ship at anchor near
shore, and portentous clouds framing in
the moon. Both landscapes by j. Francis
Murphy are autumnal studies the larger
OF the two. having come from the George
J. Seney collection.
Theodore RObinson's Picture.
In the later group of Americans moth
ing attracts moro attention than the
Girl in Hammock Reading" nv Theo-