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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

ish solicitudc for coseness of model
ling, solidity of color and the sensuous
quality OF rich pigment, with the older
man seeking diaphanous texture
in From the Holly House" or playing
with the shimmering opalescence of
the Niagara" The reader will notice,
however, that we are reckoning here
with notifications of methods. The i'm
portant poiHtto observe where Twacht-
mans variety is concerned is diversity
of mood. He paints his Connecticut
home, little cottage in a fold of the
hills, in the most sharply contrasted
seasons and aspects, and always ex.
torts from the theme a new and lovely
charm. The three studies of this SUBJ
ject could not exhibit it under more
clearly differentiated conditions nor
could they illustrate three more in
dividualized modes of approach In the
Greenwich Hills in Winter" the house
us almost smothered in snow, and the
essence Of the picture lies in the modu-
lation of gray-white masses-a tri
umph of values. In "From the Upper
Terrace" it is the opulence of color,
brought into an exquisite harmony
through the play of sunny light, that
counts. Here Twachtman is the simple
poet, where, in the winter scene, he is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

force. In her best work Miss Thaver
hasn't the faintest SAVIOR of this arti
ticiality. She proceeds rather with the
unconscious fuency of the experienced
craftsman. Her portraits of her father
and of Mr.. Raphael Pumpelly are no
less spontaneous in spirit than they
are capable, adequate, in form. When
this artist made her first appearance
we remarked that further performances
of hers would be awaited with interest
We may repeat this observation. add
ing that it would now seem as if al
most anything were possible in the
development of her art She has ex-
ecutive adroitness, already as much as
she needs, and where the more recop-
ditc matters are concerned, as regards
style, feeling for beauty, quality, it is
plain that she has unusual resources.
To turn from the Twachtman and
Thayer exhibitions to certain others
that are on view at the moment is to
suffer a strain upon ones patience.
At the Montross gallery there is a
special" show of pictures by divers
members OF the so-called modern move
ment. The movement unquestionably
moves. That is to say there are men
to make the kind Of pictures here dis
played and there are places where
their works may be seen. At the Daniel
gallery there is an exhibition devoted
entirely to one figure in the curious
company, Mr.. Marsden Hartley. Pre-
sumably there are, also, collectors who
like this sort of thing. But what a
pitiful commentary the whole affair is
upon the uncertainty of aesthetic cdu-
cation in the United States! Impcr-
tlnence is taken for courage. and a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Paintings by Twachtrnan; Miss
Thayer's Portraits

pared for this show 1t is pity that
space was not found for the brief
biographical note which would have
served to clarity somewhat the sharn
contrast on the walls between Twacht-
man IN his formative period and
Iwachtman in his prime. The char
acter of his earlier work is better un-
derstood when we recall that he BEGAN
his studies in Cincinnati (where he
was born, in 1889. getting his train
ing under Frank Duvencck, and then,
IN 1870, proceeding to Munich. All
this explains his addiction as young
man to what we must call the studio
tradition, which ordains that nature
shall be painted N a gray north light
and that IL shall be brought within the
compass Of a well~balanced tvpe of
pictorial design. Saturate yourself in
that tradition, seeing nothing else, and
rs landscape painter, at all events.
you are in peril. Your impressions OF
nature sooner or later become Juice
less and pallid. Your pattern remains
only pattern. Not so was it with
iwachtman. We are not of those who
make cult of his art, finding every
fragment Of it beautiful, and staunch
" as We believe in the genuine arts
tic interest of his earlier works we
value them as foreshadowings rather
than for their own sake. And some
Of them are merely banal, as witness
"Thc Valley or the meadow Brook. ="
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
By Royal Cortissoz

~ nee in blue moon an eNhi-
bition turns up that is a pure
joy. Such an exhibition is
that which has been arranged
at the Macbeth gallery of paintings by
the late John II. Twachtman, the prop
erty Of his widow and estate. There
arc eighteen examples, early and late,
and they make a collection Of extraor-
binary interest Twachtman was a
born painter, which is TO say that he
had in him at the outset the principle
of growth, so that his works are not
TO be divided into good and bad, weak
and strong, according to period, but
have, at whatever stage of his develop
ment they appear, certain vitality
spart from other questions of merit or
dcmerit. 1t is always so with the gen
uine artist. Every great painter
springs, in a sense, full armed from
the brow of Joye. In the earliest Of
Michael Angeles drawings there is the
germ of the Sistine ceiling. But it is
pcrceptible in the shape Of accent,
gesture, atmosphere. You feel the
prophecy of great things to come not
in any very definite way, but rather in
the broad sense of power conveyed 1t
is this stamp Of potency, fascinating by
itself to any connoisseur, that made
Twachtman notable figure even be-
fore he achieved his full fame 1t was
often possible to criticise his work,
adversely, and sometimes to deplore
lapses in him from the standard which
he had beaten out for himself. It was
never possible to ignore him.
In the excellent little catalogue pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
ORIGINALITY IN ART, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL

and middle years, the faculty for max
ing a good picture according to an old
recipe, but with a touch of his own
giving it freshness and charm.
He shed the purely Fictitious side of
the studio tradition very rapidly, re-
tanning from Duvencck's teaching all
that was sound and carrying over moth
ing from it that was alien to his spon-
taneous, wholesomely human talent.
Mr.. Hassam, in brief note prehxed to
1.-The catalogue, speaks as having always
been impressed by his friends great
beauty of design 1t is the right
phrase. Only we would underline the
beauty" Twachtman achieved good
design largely for the reason at which
we nave already glanced, because he
received rigorous training. He
raised it to a higher power because he
had passion for beauty This is the
element in his work which manifestly
enkindlcs it and holds it together. We
remember how at the great exposition
In San Francisco three or four wears
ago the room dedicated to Twachtman
carried off all the honors, wearing
distinction which no other individual ex-
hlblt could quite claim. 1t fairly ex-
hailed character, and this not because
of any towering technical superiority, /
but because the pictures in it were ell
SO alive with d beauty as original and
delicate as it was unmistakabe. Fol |
low the rough sequence provided by the
present exhibition and you will see
how easily his prominence is explained.
He begins by knowing his trade, paint
ing in all the earlier, cooler, more con-
ventional landscapes a type of picture
that is beautiful in composition and
truthful into the bargain. Then, as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

I vogue IS created fer Independence"
which at bottom amounts to nothing
more than untrammelled egotism.
We are reminded by the contrast be-
tween the exhibitions we are surveying
to-day OF the eternal difference be-
tween true and assumed originality
Iwachtman had ideas of his own to ex-
press. First, ne learned how to paint
and in ihe process leaned upon the
idiom OF other men, but as his talent
matured he spoke naturally and freely
a language of his own. We have al
luded to his debt to Claude Monet 1t
is obvious to the wayfaring man, but it
would be absurd to say that it counter
balances the essential originality in
Twachtman's art Miss Thayer, as it
happens, has had TO suffer an equally
severe test. Her work is placed in
evitably in juXtaposition with that Of
her father, one OF the most powerful
personalities in American art Yet it
energies unscathed from the conpari-
son. The explanation is simple Both
III Twachtman and Miss Thayer we have
artists who are burdened with some
thing to say and take great pains to
learn comprehensive way Of saying
it. They are not ashamed to use meth
DDS which have been used before them.
They know that they may trust to old
instruments if their ideas are new.
our modernist knows trick which.
he thinks, is worth two of that. Since
! he has nothing to say he Will wreak
himself upon new way o. saying it.
Ii the reader questions our use of
the word "impertinencc' let him look
at the picture in which Mr.. Charles
+ sheeler, at the Montross gallery. re-
duces this whole movement" to its
last absurdity, the Bucks County
Barns" 1t is such drawing as
school child might produce, the build
lnes being defined in hating line upon
white ground. Where, pray. is the
picture" which an artist" is supposed
to offer US when he appears in pub.
lie exhibition? 1t certainly is not
here. The drawing is, on the contrary,
only an affront to those in search of
aesthetic pleasure. Now. it might be
argued that this is an exception, that
it is the checklist thing in the show,
and hence not really representative,
but as a matter of fact practically the
whole collection of more than thirty
pieces is on all fours with this eyre
gious performance. There are other con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

time goes on, and he discovers the pos
sibilities in the impressionism of
Claude Monet, the new retinements of
atmosphere, tire subtler nuances of
light and color, he discovers himself
also and finds that with this more
flexible method he can give fuller ex-
preston to his instructive prediec-
tions. He no longer paints Salon pict-
ures. He paints Twachtmans, and that
not in the vein of the popular success,
who repeats himself, but in the vein
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

~ nee in blue moon an eNhi-
bition turns up that is pure
joy. Such an exhibition is
that which has been arranged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

But look, on the other hand, at "The
River and the "Arquc de Bataille," or
at the Gray Day" which we would
surmise to be somewhat later than
either of these, and yet is informed
by the same spirit. 1t is the spirit of
the Salon, which can be hateful when
it spells mere mechanical picture max
ing, but which can be delightful when
it spells the easy, free mastery of
the mechanics of picture making. That
is what marks Twachtman in his first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
SUMMER

the technical virtuoso. And in, per-
haps the greatest of the three, the
splendid Summer" he is the master of
landscape art in something like the
grand style, planning a big scene, de-
filming his ground forms in broad, bold
manner, and cnvelopine them in air.
atmosphere, with stroke that we
would call panoramic if it were not for
the note of intimacy which here, as al
ways with this artist, has a way of
creeping in.
1t was, after all, the imaginative in
terpreter in him that had the last
word. Throughout his many moods he
was faithful to his feeling, for what
ever in nature was dainty, elusive, ten
derby charming. We wish few of
his pastels of flowers could have been
included. They expressed perhaps the
most fragile sentiment in the scale
through which he ranged over the
poetic, more evancscent side of nature.
One or two of his cascade pictures are
shown, interesting things, which re-
veal his characteristics hair for such
fugitive magic as may be pursued
through tumbling waters, but the prob
lem in this case was a shade too baf-
fling-he rarely solved it with com
plete success. The "Horseneck Falls"
the better of the two canvases to
which we refer, is a pleasant picture
without being one of his triumphs.
But we end as we began, not caring
overmuch whether a given picture of
Twachtman's is complete triumph or
what may be termed, for the sake of
the distinction, lesser achievement.
In any case, it is always vivid, per-
sonal impression original and true.
He was only forty nine when he died,
seventeen years ago American art
has never suffered a more regrettable
loss.
In ninety-nin cases out of hundred
artistic inheritance means artistic
blight. The painter following in his
fathers footsteps is generally lost amid
the enfeebling allurcmcnts of stere-
otyped imitation. But now and then
the parent passes on his gift free from
all impediments; it is developed in the
disciple of his hearthstone, not as
technical habit or point of view, but
simply as an impulse toward beauty.
This is what has happened in the
transmission of Mr.. Abbott Thayers in
spiration to his daughter Gladys, who
has an exhibition of flower studies and
portraits at the Knocdler gallery. She
left an impression of healthy indie
pendence in the collection of land
scapes, sea pieces and portraits which
she brought forward at the same place
about two years ago, but we can see
now that she was making then only
rather tentative atfirmations. To- day
she asserts her full pretensions as an
artist, and justities them With amaz-
ing aplomb. Of the flower studies we
can say nothing moro appreciative than
that if Twachtman were alive he would
be among the first to applaud them
They exert much the same sort of
spiritual. enchantment which he COM
manded, reproducing all the frail
swaying beauty of delicate blooms, and
with it the mysterious charm which we
signify when we talk about "the soul
of flower" Alone these would make
welcome little exhibition. Neverthe-
less, it is N the portraits that Miss
Thayer's artistic stature is nost i'm
pressively disclosed.
Two years ago we found her taking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

There was begun yesterday at the
American Art Galleries an exhibition
OF modern paintings collected by the
late John w. Sterling and the paint
ings and other art property brought
together by the late Governor Oliver
Ames of Massachusetts. These things
will be sold in two sessions at the
Plaza Hotel, the Ames collection being
scheduled for January Is and the Ster-
ling pictures being disposed of on the
following evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

OF the lover of nature and beauty who
sees new combinations in every land
scapc problem he attacks.
1t is interesting to observe the variety
IN this exhibition. The chronological
nature of the collection in itself offers
q challenge on the point. One NAV
compare the young Twachtman, paint
ing his Blue Jay" with a Duveneck-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Modern Paintings

By Foreign and American Manters.
Including Several Fine Examples OF
George Inness.
4 VERY IMPORTANT GATHERING
of Venetian glass by DIR. Salyiati. Tos-
tolini and Nenezia Murano Compagna-
Beautiful Pate Tendre Sevres Vases
from the famous Mary 1. Morgan Col
lection, superb Salon Pate Sur Pate
Vases from the same collection. A large
quantity of beautiful service plates and
other table China in Sesres, Mintons.
Copeland and Crown Derby, fine table
glassware, artistic bronzes. marble
sculptures, clock sets, art furniture,
many rare Oriental rugs. and
The Famous Dennis Vase
from the Mary J. Morgan Collection. re-
puted TO be the finest and most impor-
tant example of cameo glass in exist
ence.
- illustrated Catalogue mailed on re-
ccipt of Is Cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

The Enrich gallery announces an ex-
hibition of Unusual Paintings by Old
Masters" 1t will continue during the
present month.
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-07-22
LOWELL

Thomas and Beth Halter OF Roam
oke. Ind. are here visiting friends.
Rev. O.. A. Brown. Harold Sanger.
and the Misses Pearl Hoevet Marion
Nelson Ruby Hill went to Battle
Ground Ind. last evening to attend
the Epworth League convention which
is in session there all week.
Mrs. F. F. Brownell received a tel
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vice in France. He IS expected home
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Born to Mr.. and Mrs. George Van
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Mrs. Frank Robinson. OF Hammond,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Herm Purdy Of Ham
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The corn crop is beginning to show
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Word has been received here that
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Miss Caroline Cradle, daughter Of Mr..
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Saturday afternoon. The ceremony was
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past few years been %enployed AT The
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AO(1@ 0AAA%Os
Mr.. Lynn Carey. who mad his home
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swimming at a lake in Michigan. where
he had gone in company with other boys
for a few days outing. He was about
sixteen years old. The body was shipped
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Evening star., 1919-09-21
OUTPUT ScANT,
AMERICAN. BUYER FINDS
Manufacturers Not Able to Give
Assurance as to Quantity,
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By GORDON STILES.

BY GORDON STILES.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
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via Copenhagen, Denmark. September
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who arrived last night from Copen-
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no satisfactory information as to
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ise nothing. One factory from which
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'The industrial people with whom !
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Mr.. Murphey was favorably impress
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for commercial purposes. but HAe
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time to come. He il leaving for Lon
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