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sophIstication. Take, for example, a
drawing like IIuct's "Lc Coulter de la
Bergere.' 1t would be difficult to
imagine a more artificial pastoral.
Every detail in it is arranged with the
factitlous touch of an incurably thea
trical designer. But the mans heart. as
well as his wits, is in it, The charm
OF the piece rings true
Mr.. Parker's examples have double
attractiveness. They include some Of
the most characteristic productions Of
the masters of the period, like Janinets
plate after Houin's portrait of Nine.
Dugazon as Nina, or the set by Debu-
court in which la Noce de VILLAGE"
mas peculiar rcnOwn. And added to
TINS representative nature Of the col
lection there is the virtue which the
amateur OF this school Will appreciate
the virtue Of "perfect condition." The
impressions Of the various plates are
generally GOOD and sometimes bril-.
liant. Among the engravines even
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erlck Wedmore is quoted as saving
that the "Wcst Front of the Cathedral
Of Rouen" is great masterniecc of
wood cutting. He is RIGHT. if A great
masterpiece must be bio. full dress
affair. For our own part, We would at
tach a finer significance to the smaller.
more informal blocks in which Lepcre
registered his casual Impressions of the
Paris that he loved.
A contemporary of his. Fantin-Latour
Is represented at the Harlow gallery
by q choice collection of his lthocraphs
They renew interest in curiously de-
tached member of famous group
Fantin-Latour belongs, through his
friendships. among the rcbelrous figures
OF the Cos, men like Manet on tine
one hand, and Whistler on the other.
But if he was in their world he was not
altogether Of it, DelacroiN was one of
his demigods He was one of the first
Of the Wagnerlans, lover of Berlioz.
and, altogether, a devotee of music,
drawing many OF his themes from oper-
attic scores. In short, whore Manet and
Whistler set out TO divorce painting
from everything save, strictly. the art
Of painting, Fantin-Latour stayed
full-bown romantcst. for whom art
had to have not only technique but SEN
timent. In painting he specialized in
the exquisite Interpretation of the very
souls of flowers. His portraits are
gracious, almost tender. studies of char
actor. In hthography he illustrated the
design of the poets and composers. set
ting lovely forms in a delicate gray
penumbra into which there flashes a
romantic illumination, like spray from
some spectral fountain. He drew grace
fully rather than powerfully. His fig
ures are somewhat conventional in
structure. He is unQuestionably con-
ventional in his draperies But he had
invention and his emotional fervor was
kept we'll in check by a sound pictorial
habit. For the special potentialties of
lithography he had wonderful flair
There viii be sold next Tuesday eve
ming at the Anderson Galleries coT-
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Prints by Lepre
And Others

Always the opening Of season is
marked by the appearance Of num-
Der Of print exhibitions and this year
they are of unusual interest At the
knoedler Gallery two rooms are filled
with The wood engravings of August
Leperc who died in 1913. The col
lection was brought together by the
same amateur who gathered the etch-
ings shown at this place last winter,
NJ. Georges Petit-Didier. His good
taste and his good luck are reflected
in these Impressions He obtained his
friends work in interesting states and
perfect proofs. Here one may appre-
hend to the full the qualities Of lie
pcre's genius He had genius. There
is. indeed, no other word to express
the animating force in this remarkable
Frenchman. incidentally. contact with
his prints brings up the immemorial
question of environment III art.
Americans have always been proud
and justly proud-of the school Of re
productive engravers that tiourished in
our magazines before the half-tone
came in 1t embraced men of brilliant
gifts and they were given, for time,
their opportunity. But they owed IT
to a few enlightened editors. like the
late Alexander W Drake, of The Cen
tury Magazine. There was no insistent
public sympathy to keep them going
when a new and cheaper process was
introduced. Just now some Of our
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Vincent Van Gogh Seen
At His Best and His Worst

are re" IN number compared with the
broad drift Of Van Gogh's work and
with the development of what mov ho
ciass'hed as his Post-lmpressionist
/ productions-the productions over
"hlch the 1calots uplift their voices
'ncy disappear altogether. This painter
was under forty when he died. and no
was mentally unbalanced before he
committed suicide. 1t would not no
AR therefore, to assume that with
years and health he would not have
oea'en out better conceptions of
landscapes and of form than he loft
'eh'nd nm as the fruits of his later
PERIOD. But Hypothetical guesses. one
way or the other, are beside the point
f>'i 'nat we are justified in consider
ing IS the intrinsic quality of what ne
actually did. This is not impressive
'liS portraits have the vitality of a
"'"o OF rough truth. They are crude
!" "ahdHng, commonplace in dcsipn
"no quite without distinction Of stvlc
ne Self Portrait" which is tho bes+
OF them all, has vividnese of oh.u
"c'eriIation which is not to be denied
emo mere IS some clever painting in
IL 'n'o the bargain, but this is NOT
m0'N oi more than ordinary merit
laKlng the later PAINTINGS in q oo,x
',eS marx not gains, but losses. The
ola sense of form which Millet had
s'lrred IN him is gone. SO is the reso-
"""oe OF luminous color, which is char
ac'erlstlc of what we NAV doscriho oo
ms unadventurous impressionism 10
seems now to be moving about ~
"0rlo unreallzed, to be feeling his wav
toward solution of his problen,
"h'eh ne may have vsualized in his
MINER eye, but which he has failed 70
place convncingly on the canvas Ho
uses thick impasto and leaves nno,
ms surface great ridges of claylike
pigment. Above all, he appears to have
'hro"n overheard any feeling that he
may nave possessed for pictorial in
Vention and feeling for beauty. There
IS pathos IN the story of his career
yet 1t IS only a weak sentimentalitv
which Will allow his personal mis-
fortunes to obscure the truth about his
''i'" 1t was not a great art Let the /
open-mlnded observer look closely at
any OF the pictures we have cited, let
him look at the childish "Chairv or at
the profile portrait, young Girl-Blue
Background and ask himself if these
pictures and others like them in the !
'Nhloltlon convey anything like the
iensation that he feels when work Of
authentic beauty swims into his ken.
~ight years ago, when some of the
paintings of Van GoeA appeared in the
-amous Armory exhibition, we said that
Al they had to tell us was that he was
~ moderately competent lmpressionist.
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WOMAN DIGGING POTATOES
rom the painting by Vincent Van ogh the gallery

who was hcavy-handed, had little, if
any, sense of beauty and spoiled lot
of canvas with crude, quite unimpor-
tant pictures.' The present exhibi-
tion gives us no reason for revising
this Judgment. It shows us what we
knew before, that he had his lucky
moments. 1t makes his limitations
equally plain. But rs summing up
of the whole matter this collection is,
we repeat, more serviceable than any
thing hitherto encountered in clearing
up the status of Van Gogh.
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lection of eighteenth century French
engravings and drawings formed by Mr..
ELLIS Parker, about fourscorc pieces.
VI nigh merit in itself it is also sug-
gestive of some of the elements in the
ancestry, so to say. of men like Lepere
and Fantin-Latour. Neither Of those
artists has any obvious points of con-
tact with the earlier period, but both
are really offshoots from its tradition.
Both. that is to say. are faithful to the
old French laws of honest workmanship.
of thoughtful composition, of realism
heightened by sense of elegance and
polish The eighteenth century in France
is inexhaustibly delightful in sincere
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- The Opening Of the Art Season

younger artists arc seeking to rev;vo
the old craft. For their success an en-
''reiy new atmosphere of appreciation
must be created. Lcpere had better
fortune. He, too, had to reckon with
'ne half-tonc. Practical as we'll as
aesthetic considerations doubtless en-.
tered into the diversion of his talent
INTO the field of etching. Nevertheless
all his life long France recognized the
value of his wood engravings. He JUS
titled this recognition. His work was
creative.
1t was creative in that it drew IFS
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Platt, who is represented by a group
Of his earlier plates, and by Paul
Dougherty, who has been making some
tentative ventures with the needle with
uncommon success. The bulk of the
etchings are by such types as Arthur
3. Davies, Walt Kuhn ara Walter Pach.
salient figure in the company is
Mahonri Young, who not only knows
his craft but has refreshinglv in
dividual and interesting touch.
Lovers of etching and the kindred
arts will welcome the new quarterly
which has just appeared in their field,
The Print Connoisseur. edited and pub
lished by Mr.. Winfred Porter Trues
dell. 1t is we'll made octave Of about
100 pages, chiefly filled on this occa-
sion with four readable ESSAYS. The
number opens with a study by the late
W. II. de B. Nelson on the work of
Frederick Reynolds, the American mez-
zotinter. Mr. George S. Hellman fol-
lows with some scholarly notes on the
Italian drawings in the Schiff collec
ton. Mr. Walter Pach sympatheticallv
surveys the etchings AID litograDhs
of Odilon Redon and Mr.. Frank Welt
enkampf discusses New York in Re-
cent Graphic Art" drawing upon the
productions Of Arms, Pennell. Platt,
Whlte and others. After the ESSAYS is
placed brief editorial, which rouses
agreeable anticipations as to the policv
governing the new magazine and
handful of useful book reviews js
added. This publication is we'll printed
and the illustrations, generous in num-
per and ludlciously chosen, are given in
good halftones. Altogether The Print
Connolsseur, which is needed. makes
happy start
The twenty-second annual exhibition
OF the American Society of Miniature
Painters is being held at the Arden gal
lery, to continue until November Is.
BESIDES the many portraits there are
several we'll done scenes. AN Autumn
Day by Elizabeth A. NEG. Knowles,
IS one of these and "Moonrise in the
Harbor' is another by the same artist.
a portrait Of Theodore Roosevelt. by
Caflotta Saint-Gaudens, is on display.
Also there are portraits Of Robert Tn
derwood johnson and his grandson, by
Grace IL. Murray: William Dean How
ellis, by Marie Marguerite Frechette;
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h. j. Davidson. by Mary Coleman Allen,
and Major Teurssanu, military attache
OF the Rumanian Legation, by Bertha
f. Pierre. A group Of baby pictures is
the work Of Lydia Longacre. These are
Betty Emily Anne" and the "Por
trait OF Baby Each little person
has been caught in an expressive pose.
seventeen by Rosina C. Boardman,
portrays young girl with beautiful
red hair. Tamaki Miura's miniature, by
hda Nemoede Castcrton, and that Of
General William j. Nicholson, by Bre-
netta Herman Crawford. are weN done.
Besides the more or less conventional
portraits several of Inc artists haze
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The Sitting of a
Reputation

There is famous sonnet i'm which
that brilliant parodist J. X Stephen
onco paid his compliments to Words
worth A line from 1t viii serve our
purpose here: "Two voices arc there
one is Of the deep, and the other
talked rubbish. The criticism IS opposite
IN approaching the work of Vincent van
Goeh, which has been assembled in re-
maraably representative form at the
Mon.ross gallery. This collection OF
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hundred numbers, depicts in it's plates
little cosmos Of fine things There
are whole rooms brought down intact
from the times of Elizabeth and Anne.
The old oak cupboards, even in the
illustrations, convey an impression of
carven magnificences Early English
furniture is conspicuous, but there are
numerous pieces of French and Italian
origin. The tapestries make a rich
category by themselves and clearly
include sonic superb pieces. The
paintings. as is usual in a collection of
the kind. seem mostly to be decorative
portraits and flower subjects. por-
cclains rugs and miscellaneous objects
complete the mass, Three suits of
Jacobean pageant armor are under
lined. The paintings Will be sold at
the Plaza ON the evening Of November
II. Everything else will be DISPOSED
OF in six afternoon sessions at the
American Art Galleries, beginning on
November 10 and closing on the 10th.
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N'S" dt tiiv -uOIllOSS gallery
threeseore paintings. water colors. draw
.ngs aad l'loeraphs shows his art at
full length for the first time in New
lotk. and ve do not doub. that by a
certain ,.ro of Post-lmprcssionist ia
natic il wN be regarded as thereby
demonstrating tine perfection of his
Qualities "Now.' VIC will be told. you
Can see just Vha, Van Gogh is like. An.
O. course you see that he is MASTER"
The real V-.ue OF the exhibition lies
not 'a any ua Affirmation of supreme
talea' bu, n clear exposition of the
artist 0V.. es good and bad Ii is
not calcula.c4 To sweep the judiciouS
inquirer of his feet. 1t is calculated
rather to afford that inquirer the op-
por'unity for cool Judgment Appro-
citation Of Van Gogh has been grossly
oyerdone NHn the evidence now at
hand there moro chance that the bal
anoe may Dr. rightly struck.
The first i-ht reat is thrown upon
the subjecf .ae evidence illuminates
what may fairly hc called the conven-
uonal bases oi Van Gogh's art. He
Lad at bottom ae capacities Of an or
binary realistic contributor to the
Salon There is a picture here of q
large Bible laid open upon
table beside candlcstick. 1t might
have been painted by almost any
clever young fellow in Paris who
mad dabb!ed i'm the "brown sauce of
the OIL Dutch school In its quiet
way it is almost handsome 1t has
weight. 1t is "a good bit of painting.
1t is not, on the other hand, noticeably
beautiful A certain measure Of truth.
boldly stated, would appear to have
been the artists sole aim There arc
few other oanvases Of Kindred
character which invite much the same
comment' leaving one with the
Impression that if Van Gogh had gone
on In this Vein we would never have
heard much about him. What would
nave happened if, instead, he had per-
sisted IN cuItivating the influence Of
"lllet as is reflected in several of
'he paintings and drawings now dis
Played? lie was moved not only to
emulate but TO copy the master. A
d'scipeship SO pronounced might easily
lave carried him far. There is one
Of the drawings, "Woman Digging
Potatoes which shows that as a
craftsman he could be not unworthy
OF Millet For moment imagination
pauses upon the idea that at one time
van Gogh must have had in him po-
'entalitles as a delireator of form. !
over and over again in hin black and
whites We come upon testimonies to
, 'ne Tact that he could draw, not bril-
out with the ability of sound work /
man But then the influence Of Nil .
let fades and that Of the Impression |
s's takes its place.
1t Is neither from Manet nor from
Monet that his impressionism derives
When We look al the "Moulin de la /
ualette' or at the "Restaurant /
.rstal' or at the Garden Of Dsr-
O'gny' we think Of sisley and Pissarro.
"a las something Of their light
'0uch- something Of their springlike /
eamut Of color.
Ut is interesting to note, by the way.
"Ow much the "Restaurant Cristal (
,,esembles IN key certain pictures by
NJ. Childc HassamD In one of these
sp's'htlngs, the Garden of Daubgny,'
,ah Gogh possesses what Pissarro and
ss'ey possess. He has charm, and
@'s peeps out again IN the lovely color
'a0 delicate surface of his Still Life
Tug and Lemons" But these flashes
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skept'cs from the start, published the
results of an Investigation he made in
iarls IN the summer He went to see
M'gnon, taking with him one Of the
drawings, and the artist spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Miller came TO see 10 last
lail. lie brought an Introduction from
another dealer. He expressed himself
as dellghted with my work ard bought
a large number of my sketches in oil
ana OF my drawings. | signed them
all, as always do, with work which |
sell have his card somewhere. On.
| think put it in this desk Yes, here
1t is. C.. V. Miller 249 Fifth Avenue,
New York. You said you had brought
with you one Of the drawings from the
sale. Let me see it. Yes, remems.,r it
we'll, and here is whole portfolio of
drawings which you will immediately
recognize as being by the same hand
| am glad you like them You want me
to write on the back of the drawing
few words to confirm what have
SAID! Let me have it again.
Mr.. Field handed over the drawing
and NJ. Mignon wrote on the back Of il
what is translated in The BROOKLYN
Eagle thus: "I affirm that it is who
made this drawing and that originally
it bore my signature. The series of
these drawings was. sold by me at my
residence, l Rue Surcouf, Paris. in Oc-
tobcr. 1919, to Mr.. c. V. Miller, of New
York, 249 Fifth Avenue. LUCIEN
MIGNON."
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done some striking character studies.
One of the best examples of this type
IS Michael" by Efie c. Trader. Pastel
ants are suggested in the pictures by
Mabel K. Welsh. Another miniature in
which these dainty tints are used is
that OF Alice Baker Jones' by Elsie
Metz Lowden.
"still Life" by Rosalie s. Wilson,
and group called "Old Friends" By
Helen Wilslow Durkee. are tiny pic
lures Of little art and household OBJ
Jects. The "Old Friends" shows a tea
pot, Japanese doll and several other
colorful pieces. A miniature exhibi-
ton does not engence- the same con-
temp!atlve spirit that the display Of
larger pictures affords If il were onlv
practicable we should have Fixed to
nave been able 10 take the pictures out
Of their frame cases on the wall and
examine them. To enjoy miniatures
close study Of them IS necessary. and
there is somehow the desire to hold
one and another OF them in YOUR hand
to study it,
The Frankl gallery. 4 East Fortv-
eighth Street. has opened its fail season
with an exhibition Of antique French
and Italian brocades. A specimen of
rocco brocade is one Of the most in
teresting pieces displayed. This is
made into a sort of drapery for window
or chancel, of old white silk with
small flower pattern Of embroidery.
The needlework is fne and the colors
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Antiquities
AT Auction

The illustrated catalogue Of the
Charles collection, which is to be
placed on view at the American Art
galleries next Wednesday,, promises
an important event in the Course Of
the seasons sales. This dealer has
long enjoyed a solid repute in London
and New York for the authenticity and
beauty of his examples of period fur
nlture and other decorative objects.
The catalogue, running to nearly twelve
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Random Impressions
I'm Current Exhibitions

he architectural monuments of
France, some of them showing marks
OF the war have provided the subjects
tor the Autographs by Mr. Howard
Leigh which will be exhibited at the
Anderson Galleries beginning Wcdnos-
day. Mr.. Leigh is a young man. who
has had only year at the Fcole des
Eeaux Arts, but he has already received
the distinction of an exhibition In
Paris and sets Of his prints have been
placed m the Carnavalet and IN the
Musee de la Guerrc.
Just a year ago at the Gjmpcl &
N'ldenstcin gallery company of
forty-odd mcg made an exhibition as
the Society of American Painters
Sculptors and Gravers. Its beginning
was auspicious. and it is good to know
that the organization has come TO stay.
Io-morrow at the same place there will
be private view of is second annual
exhibition The original and some
what cumbrous name has been aban-
doned, and the contributors now an
nouncc themselves as forming simply
the New Society of Artists.
The demolition of the old Windsor
Arcade has obliged several dealers to
find new homes. The Ralston gallery
is now in East Forty-eighth Street.
For the Reinhardt gallery new two
sto'y building is in course of erection
further up the avenue. The Hahlo gal
lory' which by change in the owners
name is now known as the Harlow gal
lery, is established in uncommonly
spacious and handsome quarters i'm
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The opening exhibition of the Daniel
gallery this fall gives space, of course,
to the modcrnists, to men like Mac
donald Wright, Charlas Shecler and
Thomas II. Benton. But their rather
bloodless performances are counter
balanced by group of painters who
bring into the rooms the exhilaration
of unstrained ideas and vigorous work
manship. Mr.. Henri sends couple
of vivid portraits. There is a paint
ing by Mr.. Hayes Miller, The
Bathers," which adds to beauty of tone
a fine feeling in the Interpretation Of
form Mr. Ernest Lawson exhibits
some charming landscapes, and there
is Bathing Beach by Mr.. Glackens.
which is perhaps the most sparkling
thing in color he has ever based on
this theme. Mr.. Jerome Myers strikes
note that is ncw for him and very
ingratiating in his Park Dancing"
The newest talent in the show IS that
Of Mr.. W. Boylan, a promising painter
Of landscape. with an unmistakable
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fund Of directness and energy

fund Of directness and energy.
At tho gallery Of the societe
Anonyme the modernists are in full
swing. The current exhibition there
is made u9 Of examples OF Kandinsky,
Carl Mense, Deraln, Ian Ray, schwit-
tcrs, Stella, Walkowitz, Bauer, Herms-
kerck and Narsden Hartley
Besides the works by Van Gogh.
which make the main feature at the
Montross Gallery this month, there
may be seen small collection Of
prints by American etchers The con-
servative wing is upheld by Charles A.
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more than among the drawings, the
coliector Will find beguiling chances.
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Fifth Avenue, just above Fiftv-Hfth
street. so roomy is this place that
BESIDES having exceptional wall space
lor prints there is special gallery set
apart for paintings The Folsom qai-
lery. which was for time at Fifth
Avenue and Forty-seventh Street. has
just opened at new location. lO4 West
I'Ity-scVenth Street, with an exhibition
o. paintings by Robert Henri. CIV
Pene du Bois, Clifford Bcal. Jonas Lie
{. W. Hawthorne, Ernest Lawson and
other Americans
The question Of the drawings attrib-
uted to Augustc Renoir which were
sold at the Anderson Galleries asst
spring has been brought up again. 1t
will be remembered that dispatches
from Paris quoted Lucien Mignon as
claiming to have made both the draw
ings and the paintings previously sold
under the same name He said that he
had sold them, "all his own except
two to Fifth Avenue dealer in Oc
tober, 1919. The origin of the draw
ings. which had previously been
ascribed in The Tribune to an "un-
known seemed thus cleared up. But
efforts were made to obtain further
information and representative Of
this paper learned from the secretary
of Nh Mitchell Kcnncrley that the
drawings had been brought to the An
derson Galleries by &C Y. Miller. of
the Louis " Antique Gallery 80
additional light thereafter reached us
until last week, when Mr.. Hamilton
Easter Field. art critic of The Brook
'yn Eagle, who had been among the
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