The New York herald., 1921-05-23
s---Museum Purchases a BreugheI

portrait, that OF Lieut-Gen. Sir George
Fowke. mainly interesting because OF the
new rendering OF khaki which the artist
has managed to furnish In. II. really
decorative touch IS contrived In what
would otherwise be a purely convention
al treatment by the vividness of the
decorations or rather ribbons that APP
pear on the soldiers uniform. Since
1914 many a military portrait has been
painted, but none in which externals
have been handled in so individual
manner.
"Sir John Lavery, whose lady sitters
display an ever increasing disposition TO
approxirnate in style and feature TO the
artists wife, sends In addition TO some
accomplished portraits an interior taken
az Beaulieu and another of the Van
dyck room at Wilton, themes In which he
evinces himself possessed Of considerable
elegance and grace"
II IS reported that seventeen sales were
made at the moderni5t show in the Phil
adelphia Academy of Fine Arts. cor
respondent, in writing of this exhibition,
says:
Last week saw the modern art show
at the Philadelphia Academy ana founa
il q thriller. although had seen many
Of the paintings In New York. was giod
TO see several by my old friend Demuth.
We were at the academy at the same
time as students. Some Of the visitors
were very amusing, becoming violently
incensed, and taking the whole affair as
a personal affront and an Insult TO hu-
man intelligence Chat was the very
term used by ono of thenn)."
The Masonic associates of the late
Admiral Robert Il. Peary have comfnis-
stoned John c. Johansen, whose por-
traits OF Gems. Ha.g. Joffre, Diaz and
Premier Orlando were recently exhipiten
in the Metropolitan Museum or ATT, 10
naint the portrait of the Admiral Tor
the reception room of Kane Lodge OF
Masons, in the Masonic Temple. work
has already been begun on the portrait,
which, however, Is not to be uhVelleu
until next fall.
Mr.. Johansen has won much attention
through the portraits named above,
which he went abroad to paint at the
request of the National Art Committee
These will be shown later at the Ma
tional Portrait Gallery, which is TO be
established at Washington. With them
will also be exhibited Mr.. Johansens
picture of the signing OF the Peace
Treaty. Mr.. Johansen was born In Co
nenhagen, Denmark, but was educated
IN America and has for some time re-
sided In New York. He is member
OF the National Academy and winner
of medals in many exhibitions.
The Brooklyn Museum has opened 10
the public an exhibition of costumes. tex
tiles and embroideries collected by the
museums carator of ethnology IN
Czecho- -Slovakia and the Balkan coun-
tries during the last summer. The ex-
hibition also will include collection
made at the same time and in the same
territories, of furniture and original
drawings and water color designs OF
tvpes OF national costumes In the mu-
seums of these countries. There also IS
large collection of caps and head
dresses, and another of costume dolls
and portrait dolls from the same source,
many executed by trained artists.
In addition to these collections there
is a display of garments designed by
professional American designers of styles
and decorations suggested by costumes
from Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and
other Balkan countries in the Brooklyn
Museum. This exhibit Is practical con-