New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

Ho eAlilplCioH OF mOdefnlSC works
of art at the Bourgeois galleries is to
be kept open for a week longer. 1t is
announced that it will last until MAY 81
An interesting collection of prints
and drawings has been placed on view
at the Anderson galleries, where it
will be sold next Wednesday evening.
1t is composed of etchings, engrav-
ings, Autographs, color prints and
drawings by contemporary artists.
Much of the material is from the stock
of the late E. d. Brooks, of Mime
apolis. The rest is from the collcc-
tions Of Mrs A. E. Thomas, of New
York, and others. The prints range
from Durer and Rembrandt to Cameron
and Maclaughlan. The drawings make
an unusual little gathering. 1t is only
too seldom that the sale room presents
originals by Abbey, Phil May, A. B.
Davies, Maxfield Parrish and Hugh
Thomson. There are also about a
dozen of Thackeray's inimitable
sketches,
The usual summer exhibition in tbe
print room of the Public Library has
been opened. 1t is devoted to "ulus-
trated Books of the Past Four Centu
ries." The subject is rich in fasci
mating details. 1t embraces triumphs
like the fifteenth century "Hypneroto-
machla," austerely great names like
that of Durer, and, in France, such
merely delightful masters as Eisen.
Gravelot and Moreau lie Jeune. But the
print room show is not confined to the
historic past 1t embraces the modern
men, such as Verge, Menzel, William
Morris, Beardsley and our own Howard
Pyle. For pleasure and instruction a
better exhibition for the long summer
months could hardly have been chosen
Mr.. Hassam has brought to the Milch
gallery the flag pictures which he first
exhibited in this city last November
enlarging the collection SO that it con-
stltutes an extraordinarily full record
OF our Avenue of the Allies" 1t is
as record that this body of paint
lngs is chiefly to be valued. Mr..
Hassam seized at once upon the his
torlcal significance of the spectacIe
presented by Fifth Avenue when it be-
gan TO take on its panoply of banners.
he has always been skilful inter
prefer of street scenes, and his feel
ing tor color was naturally stimulated
by the kaleidoscope of bunting thrown
TO the winds. Unfortunately for him.
as we noted at the time of the earlier
snow. this mass of color did not of
itself split up into particularly MIC
torlal episodes. 1t was as mass too
heterogeneous, too crowded, and he
old not mend matters by studying his
nass IN repose rather than whipped
ABOUT by the breeze. A certain move
ment, certain gayety, would appear
TO be essential to the fullest exnlo;ta-
''on OF theme of the kind. We re-
cail some sketches by Helleu, brim-
ming over with flags. The latter were
Eli a-Hutter. Their flashing liveliness
was what won the day.
For once, too, Mr. Hassam has drawn
out slenderly upon the luminous kew
Usually characteristic Of him. His flaps
nang IN kind of gray stiffness. On |
me other hand, this has permitted him
20 give a national emblem eyerv ounce
II Its historical value This series of
paintings might be described as a rec
'rd IN which the Allies make their nm
nlstakable salutes. Great Britain
rance, Belgium, Greece, Brazil or
Jzecho-Slovakia, as the case NAV he
re clearly and handsomely proclaimed
through the whole panorama the Stnrs
nd Stripes are ceaselessly in evidence
nd some of the artists most success. n
I'll canvases are dedicated altogetbor
our own colors. Especially effective
the Just Off the Avenue" in which
ne flag glorifes quiet street. and