The New York herald., 1921-12-18
ART NEWS AND REVIEWS-TIIAYER MEMORIAL EXHIBITION AT
Notes and Activities
OF the World of Art

Grl1in OF Maine, nut dlter Wrltih6 tie
lines I never heard from nor saw the
artist until one day last week when he
was encountered in the Knoedler Gal
leries engaged in conversation with Mr..
Charles Knoedler. Griffin. who was
brought up as an artist in France and
knows that notices In the public press
should always be acknowledged by a
pretty letter. overwhelmed me with ex
pressions OF gratitude and remorse for
not having written the pretty letter.
Il tell you. old man. that was great"
said he. You wrote my obituary. Yes.
sir. you wrote my obituary
This strain was ontinued at some
length, but the word Obituary" which
occurred at frequent intervals, puzzled.
naturally enough. Mr.. Charles Knoedler.
who could not be presumed to know
what it referred to.
"They wrote my obituary once" said
the latter, II fell from a horse and
there was rumor ] was dead and they
rushed an obituary into the paper. Did
you meet with an accident, too" turn
ing to Griffin.
Accident? Did meet with an ac-
cident?" Mr.. Griffin retorted, you bet
| met with an accident. 1 got a good
write up from Mcbride"
and half abroad, returned to town lust
in time to off1ciate as best man for his
friend. Mr.. Stephen Bourgeois Of the
Bourgeois Galleries. Mr.. Bourgeois mar
ried the famous Miss Thcrese Duncan
Of the Duncan School Of Dancing.
MIR. Samuel Barlow, who is now in
France, recently purchased at a sale at
TIE Hotel Drouot two paintings by
Vlaminck, two by Picasso and one by
Derain.
Mr.. Hartpence reports that upon the
occasion of recent visit to the exhibi-
tion of modern French art in the Bel
rnaison Galleries at Wanamaker's q lady
from the upper Riverside Drive section
| appeared to be very much mystifed by
the cubistic pictures. II would like to
know what these pictures are about,
she was heard to utter shortly after en-
tering the rooms, and later and still
more distinctly she said: II would very
much like to know what these pictures
are about" But after touring the rooms
she evidently came to a conclusion. for
as she went out she was heard eK.
claiming: They are probably historical
subjects that we don't know about"
roiioWiuS Tie TeCeIlI Qedtn or "A. AU
gustus Healy. the Brooklyn Museum has
received from the estate his bequest OF
twenty valuable paintings. Many of
| these have never teen exhibited in the
museum others have been shown In the
! museum galleries as loans at various
times. Among the pictures never pre-
viously seen in public Is Mr.. Healy's
own portrait by Sargent An installa-
tion has been made of these paintings
and associated with them are all those
presented to the museum by Mr.. Healy
during his lifetime to the number of
! twenty-five.
belonging to the bequest: st Jerome"
by Gentle Bellini: Madonna and Child
with Female Saint" by Boccaccio Boo
caccino Roman Landscape" by Arnold
Boecklin Statue OF Colleoni Near Santi
Giovanni Paolo. Venice" by Canaletto: !:
"Lucretia," by Lucas Cranach the Elder /;
Portrait of Catellanus Trivulclus," by
Bernardino del Conti Laughing Fish
erwoman," by Frans Halls; THE Danger
| Signal" by Josef Israels; After the
Storm" by Jacob Maris; "Ploughing
Scene" by Mauve: The Chateau" by
J. +. Millet; "Christs Ascension" by
Rubcns: Portrait of A. Augustus
Healy," by Sargent; Dolce far Niente.
|
Under the Trees" by Steer: "Sketch fol
an Altarpiece," by Tiepolo; Madonna
and Child. Saint Catherine and Saint
Sebastian" ascribed to Palma Vecchio
Portrait OF a Woman" by Bartololom'
meo Veneto, and four miniatures of the
Evangelists by an unknown artist.
Among the twenty-five paintings pre-.
vfously presented by Mr.. Healy, the fol-
lowing may be noted: Works by Giulio
Clovio, Canalctto. Piranesi. Taddet
Gaddi Jordaens. Jan Steen, Sir Martin
Shea, Isaac Israels, Daubigny, Annie ;
Swynerton and the Portrait OF Whist
ler." by Boldini.
Two alcoves Of the eastern picture gal
lery have been devoted to exhibits of his
| toric furniture. In one alcove Is col
lection of English furniture, mostly oi
the eighteenth century. including a bed
stead which belonged to the first Duke
OF Marlborough. In the opposite alcovf
is a collection of colonial and early
American furniture.
The Tissot collection Of pictures rep
resenting the life Of Christ, has been re-
hung for the period of the Christmas
| holidays.
The exhibition of water color paint
ings by American artists. which has at
tracted such favorable notice. will be re-
moved from exhibition after to-day.
The fifth annual meeting Of the Brook
lyn Society of Artists was held Tuesday
December 13, at 106 Columbia Heights
Brooklyn.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: Hamilton Easter Field, presi-
dent; Leon Dabo. first vice-president
Edrnbnd Veil. second vice-presfdent
Robert Laurent. corresponding secre-
tary; William J. BNylan. recording sec
retary: william L. Spader, treasurer.
The ten members OF the new board OF
governors are p. Irving Ballou. Alexan-
der p. Conard, Maurice G. Debonnet,
william Howard Donahue, Benjamin
Eggleston, Harry Herring. A. NJ. Hopf-
miller. William A. Patty, Clara Stroud
and Isabel Whitney. The new hanging
committee is Boylan, Debonnet, Laurent,
Spader and Well.
The English Speaking Union. whose
| object Is to promote mutual UNDER
standing, friendship and cooperation
between the English speaking nations
OF the world. has asked the Architec-
tural League 10 hold competition for
a symbolic design. or trademark, as 1t
were. illustrating the spirit and purpose
OF the society for which II win award
three prizes, amounting to $3.50 as fol-
iovs. First $50: second, SIS; third, S25.