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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The Vicissitudes of
An Artist 8 Fame

mere have been curious fluctuations
IN the repute Of Hubert Robert. He
was enormously prosperous while he
lived. Allusion has been made to his
Russian vogue. Catherine II invited
him in 1882 and again in 1891 to come
to st. Petersburg. He no longer had,
however, the gusto for travel which
had sustained him in his youthful
Italian wanderings. He would not go
north himself, but was content to
paint quantities of canvases for his
admirers there. M. Louis Reau esti-
mated in the Gazette DIES Beaux-Arts"
some time ago there were easily a
hundred examples of Hubert Robert in
the public and private collections Of
Russia. At home he always had
abundant support. In the official world
he held high rank. On the tombstone
aforementioned he is honored as Com
SELLER de academic Royale." In
l718 he was a member of the commit
tee appointed to supervise the altera-
tlons IN the Louvre required by the
establishment there Of the Kings pict-
ures. 1t was not until 1895 that M.
Gaolllot published his monograph on
the painter. This was followed in
1910 by M. de Nolhac's admirable
volume, and a few years later M.
Tristan Leclerc celebrated him and the
landscapists Of his time in a contribu-
ton to series Of popular handbooks.
To-day Robert is once moro on the
crest of the wave. His works fetch
high prices in the auction room in
Paris Collectors are finding him
worth while. Why should there ever
have been any interruption to appre-
citation of his art?
1t Is partly explained by the nature
Of that art itself, as it is unconscious
ly criticised by Vig6e Lebrun, who held
him in high esteem. She notes in her
Souvenirs" that 1t was fashionable to
have ones salon painted by Hubert
Robert Fashion is perilous task
mistress. leading particularly to the
cultivation of that facile method which
is one Of the most specious of all
crutches. Vigee Lebrun again records
the dubious proficiency of her friend.
I'll peignait un tableau," she says,
"aussi vite quill ecrivait une lettre."
Gle painted picture as quickly as
he wrote letter.") Facility like that
implies scores of "pot boilers" and Rob
ert painted them, not simply by the
score, but, we might even say, by the
hundred. 1t is significant, too that he
has been bracketed for popularity with
Greuze, which is tantamount to saying
that he had in him vein of rather
too saccharine sentiment. Even now
the commentator occasionally patron
ICES him. M. Louis Hourticq says that
ne "trlfied with the noble ruins of
Rome and Provence" Well, perhaps he
old. But, like divers other men, he
trified to good purpose. There is
kind of artist in the history of Landscape
painting notable for scenic handling
OF nature and for treatment of archi
tcctural motives that is perhaps to be
characterized as trifing. Claude had
the grand style. Poussn had it. But
Wilson, the Englishman, is a good cx-
ample Of the old classical hypothesis
made little less than majestic Guardi, |
too, made the ruins In some of his
pictures charming rather than impress
sive. This was the function of Hubert
Robert, not to impress, but to charm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The Ruin That Beauties
A Drawing Room

The eighteenth century French
painter who made landscapes more
than a background in his pictures was
Joseph Vernct. He revived the archi-
tectural tradition Of sClaude, but his
ciass'cism did not keep him from low
ing nature for itself; and il he was
capable OF building an academic COM
position in the heroic manner. he was
also capable Of painting a recognizable
portrait OF a place. Hubert Robert.
who formed himself to some extent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

VI group of ten drawings by Deeas.
purchased at the sale in Paris last De-
cemper of works left in his studio.
we are all to be congratulated on the
gooo judgment with which this groun
was formed. 1t is balanced in inst tho
right way, so as to give a really COM
prehenslve idea of the masters traits
as craftsman. His three portraits
OF Manet, placed in one frame. reveal
the profoundly personal use he made Of
the influence of Ingres. In them Depas
Is obviously the disciple of the man for
whom good drawing was the very rec
titude of art" but he just as obviously
remains himself, exercising his firm.
supple line with simple precision
worthy of lngres and at the same time
expressive of his own essentially mod
ern point of view.
Ihere are other portraits in the
group. One, "The Violinist." is su-
peru pastel, interesting both in it's no.
tation of form and in it's snhtle ev
preston of movement. The two heads
of women, Madame Loubensv and
Madame Lisle," are relics of Degas in
his serener, more classical mood. The
Emile Duranty" is like vigorous GEES
ture, the realistic Degas in phase of
almost electrifying intensity This is
beautiful drawing, as full of beauty as
1t is of power. Very characteristic is
the study that goes with it, the study
OF the critics crowded bookshelves
These two drawings show with what
patient care this seemingly swift paint
er built up the final portrait of his
friend. To round out the group at the
Museum there are a couple of nudes,
analyses of form and of ut
terly natural attitudes. There ought to
be painting by Degas at the Metro
politan. While we are waiting for one
the drawings offer the best kind of con-
ISOLATION.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
TIFFANY EXHIBITION

Mr.. Louis {, c. Tiffany is exb;b;,
ing, until May 3lst, his lat.'.
works in Lustre Glass, sr nssss'
which is a large Memorial I' e
soldiers of the great World w., %
IN the form of a mosaic uan 81
entitled The Christian Sol dt'''' !
Art students and schools a..
shown the workrooms un ss
application at the Eccles;asstr;"v'a1
Department of Tiffany Studios ;os'
40 West 23rd St., New YorE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

frozen within the confines of an out
NODDED system of design and technique.
But we are sorry for the decorative
painter who could not see the ad-
vantage of taking leaf from Hubert
Roberts book, who could not learn
something about blending landscape
and architecture from the Frenchman's
brilliant example.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

of decorating a wall in any period, and
you forget the glitter, you recognize
only the urbanity of Roberts tradi-
ton, its eternal freshness and fitness.
its easy adaptation to the atmosphere
OF beautiful houses, its kinshp to the
art of living. To many a modern
artist, we dare say, panels like these
must appear to belong to bygone era,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
The Portico of Country Mansion
(From the Decoration by Hubert Robert)

cheerful. Long before the impress
sionists he was interested in problems
of illumination. He had no science
with which to solve them, but he had
what was almost as good, an exquisite
taste. He had, too, the instructive
ability Of born craftsman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

The current exhibition at Abraham
O. Strauss gallery comprises thirty
eight paintings by contemporary ar
lists. The subjects are largely land
scapes and marines. A feature of the
show IS Lawrence Shepherds "Restless
Sea-" Two attractive bits of flower
paintings are George Nelson's "Bou,
quet of Asters" and "Hollyhocks."
Other artists represented are Joseph
A. Boston, N. A.; Charles C. Curran.
N. A; Elliott Clark, Elizabeth B.
Haven, Frank B. Haven, Glenn Newell,
William Otis SWEET and Gustave Vie
gand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

something of the same dramatic quality
attaches to the study of the SOLITARY
nag lifted above nondescript roofs in
ohe impression of view across Cen
trail Park at Fifty-ninth Street. The
Flags of Fifty-seventh Street." painted
on snowy day in 1918, is striking in
us dellneatlon of numbering vehicles.
The traffic is. always turned to pict-
Yresque account in this artists street
scenes. Two Or three figure subjects.
IN which pretty girl looks out upon
the flags, have a sentimental as we'll as
an artistic interest. They disclose Mr..
Hassam's aim to preserve the human.
emotional aspect of his gorgeous pa
gcant.
Apropos of the decorative paintings
by Hubert Robert which are trayersed
on this page to-day, attention may here
be drawn to the exhibition recently or
gained in the print galleries at the
Metropolitan Museum. 1t is a mina If
suggestion in the decorative field.
Italian and French schools are illus-
trated, with an abundance of data illu-
mlnating old German and later English
practice. The craftsman and designer
are served by Invaluable EXAMPLES
bearing upon the minutias of ornament
but for the artist bordering larger
conceptions there is also inspiration in
these engravings and drawings. Thew
point to the lesson enforced by Hubert
Robert, the lesson of inventiveness
disciplined by tradition.
In the room Of recent accessions at
the Museum, by the way, we are
vouchsafed a special boon in the shane
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Random Impressions
ln Current Exhibitions

The exhibition of modernist works
of art at the Bourgeois galleries is to
be kept open for week longer. 1t is
that it will last until Nav 81
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
SWISS TORE
OFF HER CLOTHES
American Girl Declares She
Was Subjected to Indigni- ?
ties by Border Officers.

PARIS, Nov. 15.-Diplomstic ex-
changes between the United States
and Switzerland are probable an .
result Of n complaint by Miss Ger
trude Brandenberg, OF Scranton. Pa.
buyer for a New York firm
She charges that the Swiss authors
ties treated her 'brutally." After
they held her up at Frssne, on the
Swiss border. She said. 70
Most passengers were allowed 10
stay in the train, but / was forced
TO get of and enter a police Office
where my passport WAS minutely
scrutinized. An official then Ques-
toned me in German. / don't un-
derstand German. -
when 1 shook my head in be-
wilderment he pushed me into q
small room where a woman com
manded me co undress.
Il refused. The woman seized my
cloak and tore IL OF. saw resist
ance was useless, so / complied, the
woman searching every particle Of
my clothing. =
Finding nothing to bear out their
evident suspicious, they put me un-
der the third degree for two hours
until ! was a nervous wreck. -
when 1 was finally released with
out explanation, / was forced 90 wait
five hours for the next train, in az
unheated waiting room"
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
KOLCHAK REGIME
CALLED TERRORISM
Kerensky Says White Army
Has Perpetrated 0utrages
With Allies Sanction.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.--Aiexander
T. Kerensky says he has received re-
liable information from Russia which
shows that both in Siberia and in
South Russia the terrorism and an
archy created under the regime OF
Admiral Kolchak and General Deni-
ken passes belief, according to q
copyrighted dispatch from London 70
the New York World.
1T is this terror and anarchy"
said Kerensky, that explain the def.
mite debacle of -Kolchak's forces,
Deniken's failure, and the fate OF
fudenitch. Around these three are
gathered all the scoundrels OF the old
regime. Thanks to Kolchak. the pub
lie and economic life of Siberia has
been destroyed and new and
strengthened Bolshevik movement has
been created.
There is no crime that has no,
been perpetrated by agents of Kol-
chak against the population. In 81.
oeria there are not only individual
cases of execution and torture. bu,
whole villages have been fiogged. no,
excepting school teachers and intel
hgents. The administration of the
country is reduced to a shameless
and uupunished system of pillage.
with full sense of responsibility
declare that the reactionary cour
d'etat at Archangel and Omsk tool
place with direct help from the Brit
ish. These acts of the British have
made the name OF England and the
whole entente stand for the blackes,
reaction and tyranny in the eyes OF
the Russian people"
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
BETTER BUILDING METHODS
URGED BY FIRE MARSHAL

The urgent need OF enforcing regu-
lations directing the proper use ot
materials in building is shown in the
second annual report of the State IRE
marshal OF Oregon. who gives the fol-
lowing as a record OF defects found
by the oregon State Inspector durlnr
the year ended March, 1919:
Defective wiring. 229; floor and
walls unprotected from stoves IaI;
defective pipes, stoves and fiues. I25;
found ehimneys on brackets. 4Ss: ex-
posed and unprotected openings, Izf.
The fact that 4Ss chimneys were
found supported on brackets, it 10
stated. lie an indication that a most
primitive method OF construction stss
caused an explosion ea-ly today which
exists. and emphasize the fact that
proper building regulations are most
essential in all oities, large and mail,
Ior FIRE prevention. a.
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LAKE VESSEL SINKS:
ANOTHER NDANCER
Seventeen Rescued From Ship
Being Dashed To Pieces
On Graveyard"

SAuLTE STE MARIE, Mich.
Nov. 15.-Crews of vessels arriving
at this port today report that one yes
sci, supposed to be the John Owens.
owned by the Richardson Transporta-
ton Company of Cleveland. has gone
to pieces and that the steamer Rey-
nolds is breaking up In the seas
sweeping Grand Marias Banks, the
graveyard Of the lakes.
Seventeen men of the crew of the
Reynolds were rescued by coast
guards this morning after they had
shot life line to the breaking ves-
sci.
Bodies in life preservers, upturned
life boats, and other wreckage mark
the spot where the Owens Is believed
to have gone to pieces.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
'PUSSYFO0T' LAID
UP FOR LONG REST
Prohibitionist Would Like to
Find Chap Who Caved In
His Eye With Rock

LONDON, Nov. NV. L. johnson.
American leader Of the "dry'' forces
in England. who was roughly hsndlel
by a crowd OF college students Thurs
day afternoon during prohibiticn'
meeting, today entered upon lonE
period OF rect on orders from his.
doctors, and IL will be some item be-
fore he is again able TO appear in pub
lie against the demon rum"
The term ''pussyfoot." which for
merly was applied TO Mr. johnson in
derision by the 'wets," may yet be-
come a title OF honor. the Daily News
stated today In commenting upon the
game and sportsmanlike way In which
the American "dry" leader treated tho
incident. Mr.. johnson hal made many
new friends.
The specialist who examined Nh
Johonson's injured eye was unable to
say whether the sight would be wholly
lost The eye ball was ruptured-
Despite his pain. Mr.. johnson We
cheerful
Everything Is all right" he de-
clared. ''but ! would like to find the
chap who threw that rock against
my eye"
Many prominent persons have conn
to the defense OF the American dry
leader. although all OF them do not
share his viesw on prohibition y.
Mr.. johnson was invited here BY
English people sharing his own views
and he is entitled 20 the right to ex-
press his opinions" said Lord Birl<en-
head, the lord chancellor.
Evelyn Wrench. chairman OF the
Overseas Club. declared that IL the
medical students who broke up the
Essex Hall meeting wish to make
honorable amends. they should invite
him 10 state his case 70 them.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
SENTENCE GORILLA.
ROBBER OF WOMEN
Twenty-Five Years Given 70
Leader Of Desperate,
Band.

NEW YORK. Nov. l5.-Judge Mott
in general sessions. imposed q SEN
tence of~twenty-fve years on sohn
Carlovsr rtwenty-nine years old. Rus-
sian. on his conviction of robbery ia
the hrst degree as a second offender.
The severity OF the sentence ~ss due
t. the gorillalike manner In which
he attacked Mrs. Harry SospowsxkL
while he was robbing her OF her life
savings, amounting to x575. -
James NJ. Donohue aud John p.
Joyce. assistant district at,orneyav
told Judge Mott that the. mao was .,
fiend and the head OF band Of Rue
SLAMS who for several months have
been preying on Russian women
MT Joyce declared that inveetiga-
tion by the police had led to the sus-
picion that Carlow participated In the
murder of Nrs. Branislaw Kuoharsky.
who was robbed and cboked 20 death
last July.
Evidence produced by Mr.. Donohue
in the trial revealed that Carlow was
aided in the preparations for The rob
berry of Mrs. Sosnowszki by a woman
who is now being sought by the po-
lice. She vas one OF three women
who aided carlow's band by akiug
the acquaintance of Russian women
and learning where they kept tsetr
savings.
Carlow Is the leader Of a mos, des-
perate band. OF robbers" Mr.. Donohue
declared later. He has a grip Of iron.
and once he gets woman in his
clutches he soueezes her wirdpipe
with the strength of a gorilla. The
women members OF the band are
equally as desperate. They have lured
many men TO their apartments oa
the east side. where they were robbed
after being drugged-" -
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
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COW EATS HER WAY
OUT Of STRAWP|LE

JACKSONVILLE. Ill, Nov. 15.-
William White, a farmer living near
here, had a COW which mysteriously
disappeared more than two weeks
tgo. The bovine emerged from a
straw stack the other day. Mr..
White said II ate it's way through the
stack, and that it was inside all the
ii - without water. eating nothing
bI, straw. He declares the animal
ost 300 pounds during the ordeal
How did ii get In the straw? Well
Mr. White does not know.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
WILL READ BOOK
TO PROVE ORIGIN

LONDON, Nov. 15.-Miss Daisy
Ashford, who wrote THE Young
Visiters," the authorship Of which
aroused a controversy that extended
10 the United States, was to emerge
from her obscurity today, when she
was to have read the book aloud al
a meeting for the benefit OF the Brit
ish drama league.
THE appearance of Miss Ashford
will show that she and not Sir James
NJ. Barrie wrote The Young Visiters," {"
declared Godfrey Whitworth, secre-
tary of the league.
The Washington times., 1919-11-15
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