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The New York herald., 1921-01-30
THE BALTIMOREAN WHIsTLERs

Joseph Pennell i'm letter to the
Christian Science Monitor gives differ
ent version Of the much heralded find
of forty water colors by Whistler in
the Lucas collection OF the Maryland
Institute in Baltimore He says in part:
I'VE saw 1t first in 1904 in Paris in
Lucas's apartment. We saw 1t several
times in Baltimore, as best we could. In
it's then neglect and confusion. in the
Maryland Institute in 1919. We told
the then director what treasures he
possessed and did not appreciate; later
Mr.. Darlington called to tell what he
had found And we saw II again
few weeks ago after the reported and
reputed great find had been made in
the papers. We saw. too, that the new
director, Mr.. Bement, was doing all ne
could with the advice that had been
given him to get it in order. We went
to Baltimore to see the forty water
colors and thirty-five scratched plates
and the two lovely little drawings he
made for the Miss Alexander portrait
I'VE thought and hoped that out OF
the chaos and confusion or the l4,OOO
prints these treasures might have come
though we had never seen or heard or
them. But there they were. as Mr.. Car
rington of the Print Room or the Boston
Museum said or was made to say-and
he has not denied 1t publicly. And what
we saw was one water color unsigned
but evidently Whistler--which we do
not remember to have seem We hunted
In vain for the thirty-nine others. One
black and white drawing In wash. so
bad that IL was not used. and nineteen
or twenty autotype reproductions, de-
scribed as drawings by the authorities.
for Sir Henry Thompson's Catalogue
of Blue and White Nankeen Porcelain
which Whistler helped Sir Henry illus
trate and which originals and repro
ductions we knew.
1--WE saw one little pen drawing
there were two other pencil sketches;
did O. II. see them?-and a process
block reproduction OF the pen drawing
published, we think in Durets Whist
ier." made not for. but from, the paint
ing of Miss Alexander
I'VE saw the '35 scratched plates
deliberately catalogued by the director
and published by q. r. as a find in
your columns. and VIC were forced to
tell the director that these DESTROYED
platas had all been published. after
whistlers bankruptcy, In volume by
the Fine Arts Society OF London ana
we told the director further that Mr.
Lucas had showed them to us in Paris
i'm 1904 and told us he had broken up
the volume TO add these plates TO his
collection.
"And we also told the director that we
possessed the volume intact ourselves
and that II comes up occasionally Tor
sale. Two were sold last year in New
York. And we had TO tell the director
of the Maryland Institute that he had
one solitary water color We could not
remember to have seen-and we asked
where the portraits of Lucas and Maude
were that we had seen In Paris In
1904. and neither the director nor the
Lucas family know OF their where
abouts.
This Is the story. these are the facts
about the amazing discovery in Balti-
more OF forty water colors, two pen
drawings and thirty-five scratched
plates"
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

through the mood OF the artist and not
through his method. IL II had been
methoPit could have been repeated. and
the "Pawbroker's Daughter" Is not a
thing that could be repeated nor even
copied. Who could copy the Jonah" OF
Ryder? But almost any mediocre art
student could give fairly accurate inli-
tation Of Chase or Sargent.
1t is surmisable. however. that Luks.
looking at these old and often acclaimed
but at yet not-in-the-museum pictures.
felt disturbed In his mind by the dingi-
ness of them. They are dark and no
longer shout at the man in the street.
II is rather fun to shout at the man
In the street 1t is an artistic tempta-
ton that can be understood. Apparently
Luks yielded to It. He has piled on the
pigment and the color until even the
cubists turn from him ashamed. Now
though this is understandable and for
givable ii Is nevertheless regretable.
There are many shallow technicians--one
cannot bo a complete technlcian without
being shallow-but poets. especially poets
with the satiric touch. are rare.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

on Fourteenths of July that the picture
may be taken to be as typically French
as the rude figure of the "Marselllaise"
on the Arc de Triomphe.
Those deeply in the Rousseau cut will
see the same genuineness in the portrait
Of Rousseau's doctor In the present exhi-
bition. 1t is a truly delicious picture. II
is a bursting likeness, that we may be
sure. But there is no harm in laughing
at it. The most devout worshipper Of
Rousseau's genius laughs at it and loves
ii too. Its all out of drawing-that is
it's out of schoolroom drawing-but 1t Is
instinct with feeling and vitality, which
ere much better than schoolroom draw
ing.
The doctor evidently was fine figure
of a man, somewhat plump, with a
frock coat. a tall collar and narrow
black cravat that Rousseau has painted
with touching particularly. Rousseau
has been dead long enough for legends
to grow up around his performances.
Someone told me that he painted this
portrait of the doctor out of gratitud e
for cure, but Mr.. De Zayas pooh
hoohs this tale and says that Rousseau
was Ill only once in his life and died of
it. So whatever the work may be, 1t Is
clear it is not votive offering.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Some of His Very Best Work
Displayed at the De Zayas
Galleries.
by HENRY MCBRIDE.

T. NOUGH paintings by the artist
who is called Rousseau "le
Douanier," to distinguish him
from the other and Barbizon Rous-
seau, have arrived in this country to
make an exhibition, and now all those
who are in the know are making
pilgrimages to the De Zayas Galleries.
whore they are.
This Rousseau, who TO many is the
great Rousseau, first appeared here
with so much that was surprising at
the famous Armory Show on Lexing-
ton avenue, where one of his greatest
pictures-the group of dancing peas
ants-won the attention of those who
were sensitive to genuine art. Later
one or two admirable canvases We're
shown in the gallery that was opened
by the late Robert j. Coady, but this
is the first time in New York that a
roomful OF works by this Rousseau
has been available.
Fortunately the collection contains
one of the Douanier's very best things,
THE Jungle"-to put title upon a
work that hasn't one and doesn't need
one. All the pictures present are de-
lightful, with various charms of ma
ivete or decorativeness, but the big
picture in which Rousseau put down
his recollections of the Mexico he had
once visited, is one of those miracles
of ars that take the breath away.
Curiously enough. it is perfect pic
ture from any point of view. The con-
ventional minded, finding it in mixed
exhibition, would be apt to accept 1t
without suspecting the school that II
sprang from. The "moderns" on the
other hand regard it as the justifica-
ton of all that they have preached.
Rousseau himself, probably, when
painting this work was just as unself-
conscious as he was in all his other pic-
lures, but the imposing size Of the work
In itself shows that our honest painter
consecrated himself in it to emotions
that he thought sacred. 1t is by far the
largest painting of his that have seen
r'he monkeys whose faces peer here ana
there through the gigantic green fronds
Of a peculiarly rampant vegetation
suggest almost the realism OF scientist
They are so artfully placed that even the
most experienced lfhdsiHo tiieaI iuoi V
monkeys are there than are actually
painted and quit the picture with the
feeling t'lat upon a longer acquaintance
with the work they might be located.
But something Of this uncanny realism
Is in all of Rousseau's productions. 1t is
not the realism of measurements. but is
due to the intensity of the feeling back
OF the painting. The furious rhythm In
the picture of the dancing peasants al
ready referred to echoes so exactly the
spirit that one sees anywhere in France
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
GEORGE LUKS'S LATEST WORK.

George Luks is showing n dozen of his
latest pictures and two of those that
first made him known, in the Kraus-
haar Galleries. "The Sand Artist" and
THE Old Duchess" arc charming ac-
luaintances whom ii is pleasant TO re-
encounter. They wear exceedingly well.
It is rather a pity that they haven't a.
ornament abiding place-but I suppose
there's no hurry--they are sure to get
into the museum some day. have been
told that not a single public museum
n the country owns a Luks, but that
seems incredible.
Luks's career is curious, and 1t has
already extended through several phases
and into all them ! cannot follow the
artist. To be frank. do not bow low
to all that he does at present. but that's
no matter: bow TO the ground to
George Luks for the twenty or thirty
pictures OF tho vintage OF the "Old
Duchess" which will surely take rank
among the memorable things In Ameri-
can art. THE Pawnbroker's Daughter"
the "Spieiers," the Boxer and a dozen
others that / remember perfectly well
without recalling their names will pass
on terms OF absolute equality In an i'm
aginable but as yet non-existent coll
lection of great American paintings that
shall include the best things OF George
Fuller. Thomas Eakins. Winslow Homer
and Albert p. Ryder. In other words he
has already accomplished enough, and
that long ago, to have secured his place
yet no American museum director
knows this.
Under such circumstances and with
such an artist when one does take ex-
ception to certain works the exception is
OF no great Importance. ! am even
more than willing TO allow the lack of
response TO some Of the Luks things of
the present to pass as a personal limita-
ton OF my own, But as most criticism
consists of Just that--of describing the
critics own horizons--I must proceed
with my own portrait
THE Sand Artist and the Duchess"
then, are products OF the imagination.
They pierce as straight into the realms
of fantasy as do the panels OF Ryder, and
for the same reason; they are compound
ed from feeling rather than from paint.
In his later works technique predoml-
mates, and as a result something rirEs
false. The spectator Is annoyed at e.,
somewhat heavily employed brush gym
nastics and IS inclined to resent the alb
sence OF the poetry that has been asso-
ciated with the name OF Luks.
In my opinion LulSs Is not the man
for gymnastics any more than Ryder
was. 1t will astonish him TO have IL
said. but he never was much OF a paint
er. There was plenty of monss9ously
fine painting In his best pictures-tne
bottle In the "Pawnbroker's Daughter"
was the perfection OF painting-but.
paradox as It may be. It came about
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
POLISH DANCER by GEORGE LUkS
kRAUSHAAR GALLERIES

at the Waldorf-Astoria on Esbruary 2S.
stepped over the border with its repre-
sentation at the Toronto Museum this
year. Last year at the close of It's ex-
hibtion a number of it's exhibitors were
asked to send their work to the Worces-
ter Museum. The Cleveland Museum
completed the chain when 1t chose a
number of the independent pictures to
visit It from those on view at the To-
ronto Museum. Recently the Indepen-
dents received letter from the Carnegie
Institute at Pittsburg suggesting loan
of a miniature Independent exhibition.
but the matter has not yet been dcfi-
nitely decided upon.
Just how these Independents came to
travel dates back to the year before
last, when at the convention of museum
directors held at Minneapolis Raymond
Wyer OF the Worcester Museum read a
paper on Contemporary Modern Art"
1t was suggested there that when the
next congress met the Worcester Mu-
scum have on exhibition some examples
of modern art. The Independents fur
nished more than the majority OF the
exhibits. Then came the invitation from
the Toronto Museum and then the Cleve-
land Museum.
1t is interesting TO note that man
who is very little known here received
high praise from visitors at the Toronto
Museum. Prosper Invernizzi has ex-
hibited annually with the Independents
but at the Toronto Museum his work
attracted more attention than 1t had
even in New York.
The Independents hope to achieve SIM
ilar results with their exhibition this
year.
The Whitney Studio Club at lat West
Fourth street organized and carried on
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
PREMIER BRATIANO by CHARLES s. HOPKiNSON
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

commanding manner. His color Is
distinguished and seems to lend itself
peculiarly to the new medium. M. Hell
leu had been previously so complete an
etcher that it seemed impossible to i'm
agine him anything else. Those who
might happen to make the artists ac-
quaintance. now through the suave pas
tells would for the same reason proba-
bly, have fresh surprise at the etch-
ings. Some of the famous etchings are
included in the collection, SO the con-
tingency may arrive.
Two of the pastels are portraits Of
"fair unlxnowns." Ono is of NAAuty
somewhat mature. who is however, the
essence Of everything chic. The lady
herself is not only chic. but so is every
touch Of the painter that portrays her.
1t is an excessively smart portrait. The
other fair unknown is youthful and
soulful. Having a soul, however, has
not prevented her from giving a
thought to her costume, and her furs
are superb. Mr. Helleu has rendered
them and also the soul deftly.
Mr.. Helleu paints beauties and
beauties only 1t is matter of prin-
ciple with him. There was time when
his talent was almost monopolzed by
the crowned and coroneted heads of
Europe; but times change. and new
aristocracy is arising. Mr.. Helleu has
been in America but short time but he
seems TO have sensed this. Perhaps he
was forewarned. But at any rate this
portraitist of beautiful women has in
vaded the movies. He has made pastels
of some of the stars of the films. Miss
Ruby de Remer has inspired one of his
most dashing performances, and Miss
Lillian Gish another. For purposes OF
comparison. the famous etched portraits
Of Queen Alexandra and the Duchess of
Marlborough are included in the exhibi-
tion.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
PASTEL PORTRAITS BY HELLEU

Paul Helleu, French artist widely
known in this country as an etcher OF
beautiful women, makes first exhibit
ton in the Wildenstein Gallery OF his
portraits in pastel. 1t Is no surprise to
find in them the familiar virtuosity.
M. Helleu has a sweeping stroke and
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Army Orders.
Special Despatch to the NEW YORK HrrALp.
New York Herald Bureau,
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Jan. 20.


Theac army orders have been made public:
INFANTRY--Major zida y. Drollngcr. as
signed Thirty-fifth Capt. Thomas b. May,
transferred 10 Fifty ninth; Col. David J.
Baker, now attached to Fifty-seVe enth. Is
ASSIGNED 10 that regiment, Major Louis p.
Ford, this city, report 20 chief OF infantry,
Washington, for duty; First Lieut.. Oscar ].
Neundorfer, Jr, transferred to the Tanks,
win report to commanding officer, tank
entire. Camp Meade: Capt. Wendell s. Wool
worth, unassigned, IL assigned TO Forty
second, will report 20 commanding officer OF
that regiment. First Lieut.. Charles 9. Holli-
day, transferred to Twentieth, upon arrival
In the United States win report 20 command
Ing general, Camp Travis. The following
Officers now on duty with the Fifteenth are
assigned TO that regiment: First Lieuts. Ar
thur c. Hutchinson, Robert y. Cummings,
Leroy w. Nichols, Miner W. Bonwell, Gerald
T.. Marsh. Walter u. Kotcham and Alfred
T. Wright. The following named officers
arc assigned rs hereinafter indicated: Upon
arrival In the United states from Manila
will report TO commanding general: First
Lieuts. Ernest c. Aver 20 Twentieth, Camp
Travis Joseph w. Mcintyre, to First, Camp
Travis; John +. Paslke. Ninth, Camp Travis;
Lloyd II. Yates, Ninth, Camp Travis; Walter
A. Ball, Twenty-thlrd, Camp Travis; First
Lieut.. Michael A. Quinn, Forty-seventh,
Camp Lewis; First Lieut.. Ernest G. Cooling,
relieved Camp Lewis, 10 Camp Travis The
following named officers, relieved Twenty
ninth, report 10 commanding general, Damp
Bcnning; Capt, francis @. Bonham, Capt.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

The Babcock Galleries will open to-
morrow with an exhibition Of landscapes
and sand dune pictures by H. Melville
Fisher. who 10 n brother of the noted
illustrator Harrison Fisher, and whose
father was Antoine Fisher, a successful
American landscape painter Of the past
decade.
He makes his bow to the American art
public after years OF European success.
In London and Paris he is we'll known.
He was n student with Whistler at the
time when Sorolla and Zuloaga were his
classmates. and both Af these painters.
much older than he, gave him sincere
encouragement and bespoke his promise.
Last summer he went to Provincetown
and other picturesque New England re-
sorts. and there he painted a series of
sand dune pictures fine in color. truthful
and sincere, that will be certain to stir
interest.
The works have the quality of Cain.
although the artist has in no way been
influenced by the French painter but has
evolved from his studies with Jean Paul
Laurens and Courbet and his own wide
experience personal vision that COM
mands respect. In addition to the sand
dune subjects there are n number of
landscapes that show his firm belief in
tho beauties OF nature with combined
poetry, charm OF color and interesting
selection.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
NOTES AND ACTIVITIES
IN THE ART WORLD

The Society OF Independent Artists.
which opens it's fifth annual exhibition
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

At the Public Library the third in
the series Of exhibitions of French
prints to be on view in the Stuart Cal
lery throughout February will be de-
voted to portraits by modern masters.
In such a show the interest of subject
adds its strong appeal. Most of the
people portrayed are nineteenth century
Frenchmen, and not few OF them are
artists. SO we have. in etching. Cogniet
interpreted by Bonnat. Whistler by
Guerard. Seymour Haden by Flameng
and Legros (mezzotint). Bracquemond
by Rajon and Deltell, Legros and
Meryon by Bracquemond. Renoir. Dau-
mier and Manet by Desboutin, who has
also drypointed himself with rich ges-
ture. Delatre the noted printer of etch-
ings, is presented by Legros, Flameng.
and by his son Eugene Gin a wood cut)
And there is Bracquemonds big half
length Of Ed. de Goncourt, Carrieres
presentation OF the same subject in
mystic sauce and Gavarnis crayon
sketch of the Goncourt brothers, which
one may contrast, for lithographic tech
nique. with Grevedon's portraits of la
dies. OF smooth elegance. Legros Of
fers contrasts himself: the head Of
Tennyson. OF a silver pointlike delicacy,
and the more vigorously crayoned heads
Oh Shainpneufy ana 10. IL. Adams. Other
litterateurs: Hugo by Deveria and by
Rodin. Dumas by Baude (wood engrav-
ing), and our own Hawthorne and Poe
by Lefort And yet other artists rep
resented; Raffaell and Helleu, Gaillard
and Manet. and Egusquiza.
No lack OF interest, then, in this show.
whether it be the artist or the subject
or technique pure and simple or the
general view of French graphic art in
the nineteenth century. that attracts the
visitor In March Manet will have his
say in this gallery.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
N and Repes of Art Paintings by Rousseau Ie Douan Attract

by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney in the
interest of her fellow artists, is opening
for view this week an interesting ex-
hibition of paintings by Olaf Olesen and
etchings and drawings by John Sloan
and Randall Davey.
This is the first exhibition in New
York Of Mr.. Olesens work. 1t has been
shown formerly in Chicago, where he
received his education, and in Copen-
hagen, where he was the first American
trained artist TO have a one man show.
Mr.. Olesen cut short his stay in Europe
because he wished to remain distinctly
American in his work, and he finds the
atmosphere. color and life in Europe
very different than he does in America.
Mr.. Sioan's work is very well known
and appreciated. The present collection
Of etchings and drawings is intensely
interesting. Mr.. Davey has sent on some
charming studies of New Mexico. where
he has been working Tor the last six
months.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-04
C0UNTY'S MELON
CROP ONLY HALF
USUAL QUANTITY
Price is Considered Fair by Crow
ers. 20 Pound Melons Are Best
Sellers County Agent
Says.

Grady county's melon crop will
only be about half as large as last
year, and less than so per cent of
the estimate Of month ago, ac-
cording to county agent A. +. ITous-
ton.
Rush Springs, the biggest ship
ping point for melons in tho state,
will only ship about $50 cars, while
they sent out 500 cars last year.
Alex has ordered only rs cars to
care for the melon shipment from
that point, where they usually send
100 car loads at the least.
The price is considered fair by
the growers, Houston said. The %
pound melon is selling for 55 cents
a hundred pounds. The 20 pound
association melon brought a higher
price Wednesday than the individual
S5 pound variety, Houston stated.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-04
ENID IN RACF
FOR A BATTERY

While the Enid and Chickasha
baseball teams are battling for su-
premacy on the diamond. the cities
will also be fighting to SEQ which
gets the Service battery, according
to Captain A. Noble Ladd, o. N. G.
Enid has entered the race for the
Service battery and work there Is
progressing rapidly. so II Chickasha
wants the battery they viii have
to move fast. Ladd says.
The band has secured 20 men and
needs 20 more. The service battery
has signed un 80 men and must
have So more to make the quota.
Battery d, will go TO Ft. sin for
training on August 26, IL appropria
tion for the Is days camp goes
through. Notification Uhat the equip.
ment for Battery d, will arrive In
September, has been received by the
officers of the battery.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-04
Sees Baker Draw Gun

That Baker drew his gun as h,
and Gilbreath were walking west
on Chickasha avenue between tho
American cafe and the scene OF
the shooting was the testimony Of
D. w. Green, farmer living eight
miles northeast oi Chickasha and
who stated on the stand that he
was a witness to the whole affair.
The witness stated that he saw
the deceased and defendant coming
toward him. The defendant was
holding the deceased by the arm.
He was especially attracted to the
pair, he said when he saw Baker
draw a gun. Baker held the gun
down by his side while they went
to the car, in which was sitting a
woman and child. They stood there
moment talking. The first shot
was fired, witness said, with Baker
holding the gun, leveled at about
the height of his vaistlne. He saw
the first flash of the gun, he said,
after which the deceased startoI
running, with the defendant follow,
ing and shooting. Witness said he
saw the deceased grab for the gun,
just before the first shot was fired.
The men were standing close to.
gether. Witness couldn't tell what
they said because the engine of an
automobile standing just beyond
them was running.
Opal Giibreath, sister Of the de.
ceased and one or two other Qmia0r
witnesses were placed on the bstarG.
They simply testified that they were
not present at the shooting and
knew nothing about the actual ira.
gedy as it was enacted.
The defense did not give an ink.
ling OF the line by which the pro.
secution's attack will be met at the
district court hearing. The testi.
mony brought out by the defense
was for the purpose of getting !.
ON record in order to determine what
would have to be met at the dis
trict court trial.