New-York tribune., 1919-04-23
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-Four Groups Exhibit at Mae.
Dowell Club--New England
Landscapes Shown

An exhibition Of water colors, pastels
and drawings by four groups of artists
is now at public view at the MacDowell
Club, 1o8 West Fifty-tfth Street.
Among the contributors are Aline
Davis, Alexander Hudnut. Mary Rod
gers, Jane Peterson, Bertrand Rasmus-
sen. Vance Swope, Frederick; Theodore
Weber, Florence Dreyfous, Edith Ha-
worth, Randall Davey, Benz jamia Green
stein, and others
A group Of New York streets in war
time by Caroline Van H. Bean. is con-
spicuously attractive; while A. Garfield
Learned's portraits Of Mrs. Albert II.
k!y, Miss Eva Gauthier and Dhan
Gopal are worthy Of praise. Miriam
Gerstle's illustrations for fairy tales.
William Starkweather's nudes ami
Clara Dayey's caricatures are ether
striHiIg features OF the exhibition
Edward Hopper's "Grisette" looks more
Ike vampire, but she IS well worth
seeing. OF local interest are the New
4ork Sketches, 1918 ~ Louise de G.
Rogers, member OF the Wcma~ 5 No
TOY Corps.
This is the last exhibition e the
season at the MacDowel Ciuh. The
pictures viii be OF view until May II.
Lovers Of New England Vill enjoy
fiensy R. Poore's "New England land-
scapes.' on exhibition until May 3 at
the Babcock Galleries, 70 f,ast lorty-
ninth Street. Mr.. poore is a member
OF the National Academy of Design and
the winner of the bronze medal at the
Pan american Exposition. His pictures
include some vivid representations Of
the sand dunes and marshes of New
England, and also show him to be apt
IN the portrayal cf cattle, sheep.
horses and dogs.
A collection of Venetian decorative
arts, brought from Italy under the di-
rection of the Associazione per II
Lavoro di Venezia, will be sold at
auction under the auspices of Ex-
Premier Luigi Luzzatti and the Italian
Embassy at Washington, and under the
supervision of Commander Corrado
RIcci, commencing Monday, April 2S
IN Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Galleries,
40 East Fonty-ffth Street The pro
cceds will be devoted to the fund for
reeestablisng the pre-war art in
dustries in Venice. The collection is
now on exhibition at the galleries.
A romantic interest Is attached to
the sale of the furnishings and house
hold effects of Prince Alexander Mis-
kinof, once the husband of Mrs Aimee
Crocker Gouraud, at Smiths Knicker-
booker Salesrooms, Forty-ninth Street
and Seventh Avenue. The sale will be-
gin next Thursday afternoon at 2
O'Clock. Meanwhile, the public may
view the princely belongings at the
salesrooms. They include an Elliott
Hall chime clock, with mahogany
case; salon, dining room and boudoir
furniture, sumptuous hangings, rugs
paintings, silver, china and porcelains.
Staffordahire pottery, lustreware and
other objects collected by the late
Thomas L. H. Curtis were sold at the
Anderson Galleries, Park Avenue and
Flfty-ninth Street, yesterday after
noon. A feature of the collection was
the set of historical Statfordshire
plates, Characteristic of American life
in the first half Of the nineteenth cen
tury and depicting scenes in the life of
the Marquis de Lafayette Miss NJ
Green paid $76 for an elaborate blue
and gold tea set, Scvres, 1906. A large
porcelain plaque, Dresden, Vienna
style, one of the most important speci-
mems of its kind and for which Mr..
Curtis paid $1,S00. brought $120 from
A. r. Carr. A large Staffordshire plat
ter of the early nineteenth century
was bought by William Randolph
realized from the sale was S3314