The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17

August to 1e came showing Of con.
temporary sculpture, including piece,
by Paul Manship, Ellie Nadelman.
, DuJam Penic, Eleanor Mortimer Hunt
Diedrich and Gertrude v. whitney,
From August IS to 2s recent paintings
by Max Kuehne, and from August %
to September s watercolors by w. H.
de b. Nelson and etchings and engray-
ir,gs by G. r. w. Nevinso will DO
shown.
Summer visitors to- New England
who pass through Boston, says Arts
and Decorations, have the opportunity
of seeing an unique exhibition of Dor
traits by artists who painted in Colo
NAL times, at the vose Galleries. This
exhibition. which will continue ali
summer, Is Of especial significance lust
now because OF the interest that has
become manifest in the last few years
among art lovers in the works of the
early American group who fourishsd
in the very dawn Of the nations ar
tistic awakening. Though many per.
sons have accustomed themselves to
regarding these productions as some
what crude, the connoisseur knows
that the work OF the better Colonial
portraitists has great charm; that II
sometimes has a refinement Of color
that is of the very essence Of great art,
and that nearly always there is a
faithfulness of characterization which
makes the portraits intensely interest
ing from a historical as we'll as a pa.
triotic standpoint
Altogether there are twenty-four
pictures in the Vose Galleries exhibit
ton, ranging In period all the way
from j. Blackburn, who was born in
100 and who painted until 1865. ten
years before the start of the Revou-
ton, down to Thomas Sully, who did
bis best work in the first part OF the
lest century.
The Blackburn portraits OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Cults are Of especial In
terest. Samuel Cults was a rich sea
merchant of Portsmouth. He was a
Revolutionary patriot, and 1t was to
him that Paul Revere gave the letters
OF warning to the patriots. His wife
was Anna Holyoke. daughter of the
tenth president of Harvard College.
Both portraits are beautiful in color
The poses are natural and the charac-
terization is careful and convincing
and they show that Blackburn not
only had great influence on Copley
but was superior to him in some ways.
other fine Colonial portraits ars
those OF Thomas Dongan and his wife
by John Woolaston.
Another notable pair Is that OF Dan
Eel Rea, by Joseph Badger C170s-17s5),
and his wife. by John Singleton Cop
ley Q737-1s15J. The portrait of tire
husband is especially interesting.
There is a heroic Portrait OF the
Duke OF York; py Benjamin West
(17Ss-1s20), an American artist who
went to England and became presl-
dent Of the Royal Academy. succeed
ing Reynolds. BY West also is The
Eagle Bringing the Cup Of Water to
Psyche"
Earliest Of all the portraits Is the
one Of Leonard Calvert, Lord Bait
more, the first Governor OF Maryland.
Its authorship is unknown, but It ~
sembles the work of Daniel Mytens
and is probably English in Origin.
A section OF the exhibition is given
over to the SUCCESSORS OF the Colonial
masters, the sterling early Americans
who followed them. There are four
subjects by Thomas Sully (17s3-1sfal
including The Spanish Mantilla' ana
Portrait of Miss Maroline Ritchines"