New-York tribune., 1921-12-25


late A. Augustus Healy, some of them
not previously exhibited. Old and mod
ern masters figure in the collection.
Among the paintings never before
shown is Sargent's portrait of Mr..
Healy
special exhibition has been opened
at the Ferargil gallery, to last until
January /. 1t is composed of paintings
by John Twachtman, Theodore Robin
son and Emil Carlson.
Circulars are out for the 117th an
nual exhibition at the Pennsylvania
Academy. 1t will open to the public on
Sunday, February 5, and will last until
Sunday, March 26 Ten medals and
cash prizes are announced. The Art
Alliance in Philadelphia is holding an
exhibition Of twenty-eight paintings
and drawings by Benjamin West.
Under the same auspices the ph;la-
delphia chapter of the National As
sociation of Women Painters and
Sculptors will have an exhibition. last
Ing from January to II.
There may be seen at the Fearon
gallery collection Of water colors bv
a British artist, Mr., Charles John Col
lings, unfamiliar here and deserving
or a cordial welcome. His LANDSCAPES.
woodland and river scenes are drawn
mostly from the Canadian Rockies. They
are painted on small scale, with an
interesting feeling for color and with
unusually good craftsmanship. His
linear quality is perhaps the most ar
resting merit of this artist. 1t enters
into the construction of his pictures.
ground and tree forms are admirably
defined. In method he plainly belongs
to the English school, which is to saw
that he is more painstaking than spon-
taneous. But he avoids the wooliness
characteristic Of so many of his col
leagues. There is some good tone in
his paintings. They have a fresh, en-
gaging accent. Mr.. Ceilings we'll de-
taches himself from the rank and file.
even though there is nothing exactly
brilliant about his art.
Mr.. A. W. Bahr, who was long a resi-
dent of Shanghai, has in the last five
years brought together a considerable
number of Chinese antiquities and
other Oriental objects. The collection
will be placed on view at the American
Art Galleries on January 4, and will be
sold there on the afternoons of the
sth. 10th and 11th. Snuff bottles, man
DARN beads, porcelains, feather panels
and screens, textiles and sculptures in
marble and stole will appear There
will also be group OF early Chinese
paintings.
The exhibition at the Royal Institute
Of British Architects, in London, of a.
collection of drawings and photographs
illustrating American architecture, has
greatly interested the English public.
One commentator welcomes it as calcu-
lated to eradicate the old impression
that our builders and architects had
entered into a conspiracy to cover the
United States with skyscrapers. The
exhibition is rich in pictures of less
aggressive dimensions. 1t was organ
ized to show the gradual expansion and
development from the early work of the
Colonial period to the types of our
own time. The skyscraper, by the way,
evokes from writer in "The Morning
Post an extraordinary remark Prior
to the creation of that kind of build
ing. we are told, modern America had
architects, but no architectural style
OF it's own. Now that it has evolved a
peculiar form OF building, based on
cubistic principles, it will be interest
ing to watch its developments" Inter
esting, indeed. 1t is said that this ex-
hibition is to be followed by one in
Washington Of drawings and photo
graphs invited from England
notable contribution to the current
exhibition at the Gallerie Intime is
made by the portrait OF q young girl
by Charles W. Hawthorne. There are
many other good paintings by ten we'll
known men, but none is quite so spou-