New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

ing the character of building. Mr..
tedden is cordially to be welcomed in
the always growing company of for
eign visitors here.
The Newark Museum Association.
constantly solicitous Of the interests Of
art in its city, has lately installed some
excellent works in the galleries Of
that spacious building which contains
the Public Library. They form the
hrst instalment Of gift from DR.. J.
Alderman Coles, who has long de-
sired to dispose in this way of objects
belonging to himself and his sister
Emile. The list is headed by an ad-
mirahle group of copies from the old
masters, Titan, Raphael and others.
''Ihe Triumph of Aurelian" is beautiful
enough to have been painted by Tiepolo
hlmself, whose name is associated with
1t. The American school is represented
by +. S. Church. ]. F. Cropsey, George
II. Boughton, A. Bierstadt, Thomas
Moran and Louis Moeller, who all figure
go 6N0Nt Cuai dCOSTlSLlC EXAMPLES.
Among the foreign paintings there is
a fine canvas by Martin Rico, a land
scape painted in his earlier period, be-
fore he had settled down to the con-
vent1onality of those Venetian subjects
by which he is generally known. and
there Is handsome illustration of the
French school of Jean Alfred
Marioton's "Ulysses and Nausicaa"
One Of the most celebrated of Tis-
sert's pictures, antedating his Biblical
studies, the "Girl with Oarsmen." is
included. Besides the pictures there
are marbl es, bronzes, furniture and
art books in the Coles gift. 1t makes
an auspicious episode for Newark. from
which admirable developments will
doubtless flow.
In the exhibition of portraits recent
ly opened at the Levy gallery it has
been interesting to come upon nurner
OF canvases executed for the National
Portrait Foundation" These embrace
several studies Of conspicuous men,
portrait Of Colonel House by Mr.. Nc
Clure Hamilton, which is as artistic as
1t is veracious; strong but also en-
gaglngly suave portrait of Charles
Dana Gibson, by Eugene Speicher, and
portrait Of Bernard Baruch, by Robert
Henri, in which that adroit craftsman
surprises us by being, for once, not
only adroit but subtle Among tn.
other portraits of men the vivid "Kalil
Glbran" of Maurice Fromkes is the one
salient piece. For the rest this Ia
charming little show of portraits of
women, gracious canvases by Dana
Pond, Walter Dean Goldbeck, G. l.. Nell
son, Miss Kremelberg and others.
A new gallery has been established
in New York by the Soci6te Anonyme.
1t is in East Forty-seventh Street and
is devoted to "the various expression
istic schools" Man Ray and Scham-
berg are among the Americans in the
first exhibition, which brings forward
in its foreign contingent, Van Gogh.
Picabia, jacques Villon. Duchamp,
Stella, Brancusi and others.
The exhibition just opened at the
Gimpel and WSdenstein gallery takes
US into one of the friendliest bypaths
of eighteenth century French painting.
that in which the decorators of the
period conventionalized masses of
flowers and fruits upon their canvases.
They followed the tradition of old
Dutch still life. They knew nothing
about the poetry with which the floral
motive could be invested. They never
even dimly foreshadowed by the spirit
uelized painting of such a modern
master as Fantin-Latour. But thew
had good drawing, they had rich color,
and, above all. they had the compost
ton which was in the very blood of
their school. Two of the principal panels
IN this collection are the products Of
collaboration between Savage and
Van Spaendock, the panels (No. 38)
IN which medallions of cupids are set
with garlands of flowers and grapes.
They superbly exemplify the old mode
of giving to the most fragile of sub
jects truly architectural function,
light, yet somehow monumental and
decorative. The show revives only a |
few famous names, like those Of Van
Spaendonck, Oudry, Desportes and J. |
B. Monnoyer, but there are divers |
others which, if less imposing, are al |
most equally significant of good and /
charming work. The truth is that
this is not an exhibition of great old
masters. 1t is one, rather, of great
little craftsmen, decorators who, in a !
modest way, embodied the incompara-
BILE spirit of their time as it fused ar
tistic taste with a social atmosphere, |
At the Enrich gallery there Is
smaller collection Of similar paintings.
Monnoyer and one or two other French /
types occur here, too, and there are
some striking Dutch examples, includ d
ing noble Table With Fruit" by Jan |
de Heem This gallery also announces
an exhibition of paintings depicting
"The Return Of Christ" by j. Mortimer
Block.