New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
$3.50 Paid for
Rare Books From
Three Libraries
Late VIM. P. Douglas Col
lection of Modern Oils
and Water ColOrs ON Sale
at Silo's Galleries To-day

The auction Of books from the library
of William L. Rich, Of New York, and
from the estates Of Mrs. John F. Car
roll and William Erving was completed
yesterday afternoon at the Anderson
Galleries with a grand total of s5,-
859.95. The top price for the after
noon. $3.50, was paid by Henry Seldom
for an xtra-illustrated edition of
Shakespeare's works. Gabriel Wells
gave $205 for the Royal edition of Miss
Strickland's Olives of the Queens of
England" James Parton's "Life and
Times of Benjamin Franklin" brought
$137.50 from G. D. Smith, who also
gave $3.50 for a manuscript edition Of
the works of Henry Thoreau.
Modern paintings and water colors,
the property of the late William P.
Douglas, Theodore w. Myers, H. B..
Smith and others, will be sold this af-
ternoon at Silo's Fifth Avenue Art
Galleries, beginning at $3.50 o'clock.
Among the American paintings are a
still life picture and sStudy of Rocks"
by the late J. Alden Weir. Other
American painters represented are
Homer D. Martin, George H. Bogert,
R. c. Minor, Albert Bierstadt, J. Craw-
ford Thorn, George Boughton, Arthur
Parton, Carlton Wiggins, William
Keith, E. W. Deming, R. W. Van Bos-
kerck, H. P. Smith and H. Bolton Jones.
The European collection includes
works by Van Marcke. De Lort and
Martin Kavel. of the Dutch school;
Vibert, Monticello, Bouguereau, Jacques,
Grolleron and Meyer Won Bremen.
The marines Of Belle A. Bennett are
the most striking feature of the exhi-
bition of paintings by four women
artists at the Arlington galleries.
Rosemary Mundy, Josephine Thomson,
and Agnes Louise Symmers are the
other three. Miss Bennett is fond of
depicting turbulent water, crashing
surf, waves lashed by storms, and she
does so with arresting vividness. Miss
Mundy's work is largely conventional.
The same may be said of the pictures
by Josephine Thomson and Agnes
Symmers, chiefly landscapes and still
life. One picture by Miss Mundy,
"Thalassa," and one by Miss Thomson,
THE Berkshires in October" prove
the exceptions to the rule.
Wood cuts by Julius J. Lankes are
on view at the Flambeau Shops. The
artist is very successful with sky eff
fects in his landscape work. His YER
sion of Robins LIE Penseur" is much
better than his Walt Whitman, which
has curious twisted expression. "The
White Cat," Deserted House." "Jolly
Christmas" and Reaper" are other
effective examples of his work
At the Ferargil Galleries decorative
over-mantels and pastels from the stu
dio of Helen s. w. Miles are on view
The over-mantels are beautiful in color
schemes and effects of light, if some
what conventional in design.
The paintings and monotypes by Eu-
gene Higgins at the Mussmann Gallery
present general resemblance to the
school of Millet and Deaumier. The
pictures are almost uniformly somber
the scene in Greenwich Village, with its
heavily freighted clothes line and the
shuffling figure disappearing into the
darkness, is conspicuously sordid.
At the first monthly competition in
drawing of the John Armstrong Chal-
oner concours for art students, held
at the National Academy of Design on
Saturday, November 20, the following
awards were made:
First prize, S25, Frederick c. Freder,
National Academy Of Design Schools !;
second prize, SIS, Herman A. Yaffee,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
School, Philadelphia; third prize, $40,
John Holmer, Art Academy, Cincinnati;
honorable mention, Jacob Smith, Ma
tional Academy of Design Schools.
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