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New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Museum Picture and
Some Recent Art Studies

panel revealed signature, that Of
breughel,' simply, but the lettering
was FOUND to correspond exactly with
that characteristic of the Flemish mas
ter. Mr.. Burroughs ,eproduces certain
other examples which make the origin
of this painting even more obvious.
They form series Of landscapes dedi-
Gated TO periods of the year. The pic
lures of January, February and No
vember are at Vienna. The one for
June hangs in the Chateau de Raud-
nitz, the property of Prince Lobkowitz.
Enthusiastically the panel in the Metro
politan belongs to the sequence. There
do not appear to have been any further
members OF the group.
Breughel is a notable figure in six
teenth century Flemish painting. He
was reared in the tradition of Jerome
Bosch, who had passed from the scene
long before Breughers birth, but whose
satirical habit persisted in the school.
The later man had plenty Of his prede-
cessor's wild humor and plenty Of his
grimness. Some Of Breughel's visions
of angels and devils reach an amazing
pitch of fantasy. The alchemist pro-
vided him with some of his weird
themes. He portrayed cripples, NAL
formed creatures as terrible as those
which fascinated Leonardo. He added,
in his way, q shudder to art. But the
important point about Breughel, richly
enforced by the design at the Metro
politan, is the gracious turn taken by
his imagination. He had travelled in
Italy, and in his later work there are
elements significant of his response to
the sheer beauty in nature. The real
ist IN him was never suppressed. He
peopled his scenes with figures drawn
straight from Flemish life, and about
these as he portrays them there al
ways hovers the family grotesoue
quality which devotion TO macabre sub
jects fairly ingrained in his art. In
this series there are only three figures,
the comely women haymakers striding
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stinct he was forever turning up
bonanzas. If that was all he had done
there would be, perhaps, no great rea-
son for the publication of his biog-
raphy. But Lady Gregory charmingly
exhibits the lovableness of Lane, his
unseltishness, his disinterested passion
for beautiful works Of art and, above
all, his public spirit. He would throw
himself into the organization of an ex-
hibition or a new public library as
though nothing else in the world mat
tered. He was indispensable in the
launching of the galleries founded at
johannesburg and Cape Town by
Lady Phillips and Mr.. Michaelis. He
moved heaven and earth to dover
Dublin with municipal art gallery and
did invaluable work as director of the
National Gallery of Ireland. His gifts
to the latter institution were princely.
In the earlier years of his activity
he was all for the old masters, but in
time he came to be an enthusiastic col
lector of modern French painting
Lady Gregory reproduces some of his
treasures. In her notes, too, she re-
cords some of the great works that
passed through his hands. A few of
them are in American galleries. 1t
was from him that Mrs. Emery obtained
the great Titan she presented to Gin
cinnati. A Titan and Holbein thai
he owned are to-day in the Frick COLI
lection. His trail leads across an as
tonishing tract in the collectors world.
AS Lady Gregory delineates him he
seems to have carried off all his pro-
digious operations with a gesture elo-
quent of youthful ardor and charm.
Sargent's portrait of him, prefxed to
this memoir, shows high bred, spirited
personality. He went out in one of the
great tragedies Of the war. But about
Lady Gregory's record of it there is
something joyous, Lanes life was in
deed one Of achievement, and, despite
some discouragements, of genuine hap
riness-the happiness that comes to a
man from unreserved identification with
the things Of the mind.
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across the June picture, which have
anything like charm. But to his scene
as whole Breughel gave abundant
charm.
That is the only epithet to be applied
to the Museum panel. Apart from the
square topped masses of the wheat
fields everything in the composition is
painted with positive tenderness for
landscape beauty. The exquisitely drawn
tree in the foreground separates two
most beguiling vistas, one of rolling
country, the other of church nesting
amid foliage. The painting comes from
the north, but it has all the sweetness
of southern pastoral. 1t is more than
welcome among the treasures Of the
Metropolitan, beautiful thing in it.
self and of peculiar interest in the
history of art as rounding out famous
series. Mr.. Burroughs is to be con-
graduated on his discovery.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Daniel Gardner
A Little known Artist of the
Eighteenth Century

DR.. G! C, Williamson is doing good
work in the revival of languishing repu-
tations. He made useful book about
Ozias Humphreys, and in another one,
written in collaboration with Lady Vic
toria Manners, he performed an equally
important service for John Zotfany.
Now, in handsome quarto bearing the
imprint of the same publishing hoase,
the John Lane Company, he gives us all
the available facts concerning an Eng
lish painter practically unknown in this
country, Daniel Gardner, whose works
have from time to time been attributed
variously to Reynolds, Gainsborough,
Lawrence and Romney. He was the
friend Of Sir Joshua, knew the other
leaders of the eighteenth century Eng
lish school, and cultivated their style.
Incidentally, he had qualities of his own
and though modern connoisseurship has
been slow in according him recognition,
it is plain that his contemporaries made
much of him. He accumulated a small
fortune, painting portraits in water
color and pastel, and was able to re-
tire from his profession before his race
was run. Perhaps his prosaic willing
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
No Fear of Foreign Film
Producers, Says Coldwyn,
Returning From Europe

Returning from three months tour
of England, France, Germany and Italy
Samuel Goldwyn, president of the
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, aims .
blow at the movement to check the i'm
portation Of motion picture produc~
tions.
Producers of other nations have
made pictures for an appeal only on
their own soil. But the American in
dustry has become prosperous because
it made pictures for the world.
Restrict American pictures to our
own country and you put US in the
same isolated position as those coun-
tries which have not yet learned to
make productions of universal in
terest.
"Actors and directors salaries have
been high and employment plentiful
only because American pictures enter
tain the world and not just Americs.
Limit the market, cut off the foreign
countries and you'll see the corre-
spending cut in salaries and employ
ment
There is no sound argument,
economic, artistic or otherwise, which
favors restrictive movement against
films made abroad.
eve have nothing to fear from Eu-
rope in the matter Of competition. We
have already seen the cream Of the
German product in American theaters.
The average standard of European pic
lures is far below ours. And even if
Europe is to produce great photoplsys
America wants to see them and to bene-
fit by them. No matter what countries
in Europe exercise a restriction, we
should keep our barrier down. We do
not restrict books, plays, operas or
paintings from Europe, and there is
less reason for US to restrict motion
pictures. Perhaps on motion pictures
| depends greater world understanding.
LAS for Germany, it is no exaggera-
tion TO say that less than per cent
Of the German pictures will be fit for
presentation here. Italy is the lead
ing producer in Europe The nation
that gave US 'Cabiria' and Quo Vadia'
/ has been busy in the art of the screen.
and if there IS any tremendous contri-
button to the photoplay to be made
within the next year it will come from
the Italians"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
BY ROYAL Cortissoz

49,, * the period III which the in
Is Of contemporary art are largely
..sntrsted in Paris and London.
sNew' Salon has been opened, and
/. said that the war spirit still
a. ever IL, being especially mani
..4 IN works of sculpture. Bour-
81, :. secupies the place of honor with
,vmbolic statues, one destined for
si.stisn Vosges and the other i'm
',,.r..iag the defense of Poland. The
' rsa,, correspondent of The Ameri-
Art News reports an interesting
instance disclosed by the Royal
s.;.nv. The jury has enormously
& ...sa the number of pictures hung.
!. ,s,s there were thirteen hundred.
=, season. there are only eight hun
., On neither side of the Channel
81 ANYTHING of unusual character
~ 10 have appeared. The big shows,
gather, do no more than mark
80 The only piQuant news that
,,,sss from Burlington House is to
i. eject that Mr. Augustus John has
81, elected sn associate of the Royal
s,tsspy. The Morning Post remarks
A,e the honor bestowed upon him
.-v be the saving of him, may be
4, moral and intellectual goad hither~
. scking in his artistic development"
4, is described IS having been
.,r.ured on the milk of adulation, which
!, seemed at times to enervate his
ssius. Disinterested observers can
III believe this. This cult for Mr.. Au-
rs.ns John has been a fearful and won
hrful thing. On the other hand, it is q
;ls difficult TO see just how the latest
ittsry offered him is calculated to
sunteract the influence of his too
s.leus partisans. The Royal Academy
Is "moral and intellectual goad" is
rurious conception, to say the least.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Hugh Lane
The Life of Born Lover of
Pictures

Lady Gregory has written in Hugh
Lanes Life and Achievement (E. P.
Dutton G. CO.. precisely the kind of
memoir that was desired of brilliant
young Irishman, untimely lost. When
Lane went down with the Lusitania he
was only thirty-nine, but he had ac-
complished more in his short life than
could be credited TO most picture deal
ers of twice his age. The story is told
If friend of his who had observed
his adventures in the auction room for
ONE time. There is no chance now
IF bargains at Christie s." said this
commentator. This man knows too
much" How did he learn it? By
natural fair. Lady Gregory tells how
her nephew began his career in an in
definite position at Colnaghi's, earning
20 shillings a week. The mere prox-
unity of works of art appears to have
not merely stimulated, but clarified
and formed his inborn taste. Within
a short time he had mastered the pic
ture trade and had started "on his
own"
The secret of his success in the mar
ket resided in his faculty for discov-
ering beneath the varnish and dust Of
some old canvas, neglected by every
body else, the touch of master. He
would buy for song and sell at a
profit. Other dealers have done this,
but Lanes experience was unique, he
rose to such romantic heights in SO
short time. With his uncanny in
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q Breughel, Daniel Gardner and Others

the students have excelled in an
artistic way. Various rooms in
the Adam, Italian Renaissance,
Modern English and eighteenth CEN
tury French periods are pictured.
Another branch Of study in the field Of
classical architectt re has revealed
some fine plates illustrative OF tbs
three dominant orders--the Ionic,
Corinthian and Doric--in ancient build
ing. Forty-eight prizes and scholar
ship awards have been given for merit.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

the touch of an instinctively brilliant
or thoroughly disciplined craftsman.
His draperies are sometimes very slug
gishly handled. In style he has nothing
like the power of Reynolds, nothing like
the dexterity of Gainsborough. His
merit is that Of pleasing decorative
maker of portraits, with about the aver
age feeling for character typical of the
rank and file in his period. Beside the
masters he seems, to tell the truth, al
most if not quite a mediocrity. What
saves him is the grace to which we have
alluded. There are three ovals of his,
portraits of the son and daughters of
David Lewis, of Malvern Hall, which are
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ness to do this supplies the key to the
rather evanescent nature of his fame.
He had talent, remarkable talent, but
no genius at all. Or. Williamson has
commemorated him not only in sympa-
thetic text, but in a voluminous collec-
tion of fine reproductions, so that one
can see well enough what manner Of
craftsman was this minor celebrant of
fashionable types and people in the
squirearchy. He had elegance and grace,
He could put a family group together
with a certain sense of composition. His
touch was agreeably light 1t was not
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

cent additions made in all the schools,
old and modern.
Apropos of print rooms, it may be
noted that special exhibit has lately
been arranged in the Library of Con-
gress, at Washington, of the Joseph
and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collec-
tion of Whistleriana, presented by
them to the nation. A permanent rec
ord of this collection has been framed
in the shape of good catalogue.
Collectors of prints are now we'll
served as regards periodicals. The
Print Connoisseur, which made its
debut auspiciously last fall, leaves an
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

At the New York School of Applie4
Design for Women, the twenty-ninth
annual exhibition of the work f mer-
bers has been attracting considerable
attention. Important strides in the
atudy of advertising art and interio~
design are revealed. The students have
undertaken their problems in thor
onghly practical manner, illustrating
originality and inventivcness. There
are examples of art lettering, book
lets, layouts and designs for adver-
tising campaigns. But it is in
the work of interior decoration that
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

not by any means masterpieces but
which have winning sparkle. That is
the way with Gardner. He does not i'm
press, but somehow he pleases. Prob
ably American collectors will hear more
of him. In recent years the value of
his works has steadily risen in the Eng
lsh auction room. For light on him
every one will have to turn to this book.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Pieter Breughel
is harvesters" at the Metro.
politan Museum

20 monthly announcements of ae-
ssssi0hs at the Museum repeatedly con-
.S'a delightful surprises, but not In a
tlme has the Bulletin recorded a
-.sSs = interesting episode than that of
picture now given to Pieter
ghe' the Elder. Mr.. Burroughs, in
: Illuminating essay, tells how this
"a mas come to be identified. 1t
~ puscnased several years ago as a
~. ~ piece, perhaps painted by Jan
Sghei' Recently cleaning OF the
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Anita Loos's Good for Nothing

John Emerson and Anita Loos have
completed the synopsis of their new
original photoplay, Good for Moth.
ing" for Constance TaImadge, and are
working on the continuity. Mr.. Emer-
son and Miss Loos will have the
scenario ready in about a fortnight,
when it will be produced under the
direction Of Victor Fleming
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

The Print Department at the Public
Library has been unusually busy of
late. More than one exhibition may
be examined there. One is devoted to
American wood blocks of the present
day. Another, drawn entirely from the
Avery collection, is given to animals in
etching and lithography. A third, which
lasts until the fall, illustrates the re-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Art in Germany
Queer Traits Revealed by the
Berlin Secessionists

Berlin SecessiOnists
Locking back at the doings of the
ssrlin and Munich secessionists long
ssfare the war, we recall incredible
relters Of talent and absurdity, with
.grofOund German coarseness pervad-
ing the newer groups in both cities
fine wrought some changes. More
sable types entered into the folds. In
5srlin, at all events, the war is re
prtsd to have given the pendulum an
ltaer swing. The old extremist va
pries Of the secession have been re-
tered to their original sway. A letter
tHnted in The London Morning Post
Fyss an extraordinary picture of the
Ehibition just opened in the Kur-
tarstendam. The secession is described
herein as having fallen between two
tools. "To the right of it are the
people who can paint and are willing
. paint; to the left are the real rewo-
@tianaries of the Storm and beyond
tasn is Dadaism, and beyond that the
eHble unknown" The most interest
mgthing about "The Barricade," g con-
Rituous picture by Arthur Dix, of
Dresden, is the fact that it "dispenses
sliogather with the art of painting"
al the figures are done in the oleo-
graphic style, and to heightep the ef-
;ect the artist has gummed labels and
al manner of things onto his canvas!
In the foreground of ''The Barricade"
here is wooden crate. To this the
artist has pasted two actual labels bor-
'owed from biscuit tins. A sailor is
represented, firing across the body Of
dead comrade. The wounds in the
corpse are Indicated by gaping blood
rmmsd holes in the canvas. One fig.
IRE kneels on an antimacassar, and
his turns out to be the real thing,
Eidently fastened to the canvas before
the figure was painted. The writer in
the Morning Post is glad, however, at
saving begun with the ingenious Herr
ulx for mis- methods have an almost
asarming simplicity. Elsewhere "you
gaze at pictures which can only be de-
lasrate leg-pulls." Some are utterly
a'yond solution. Others are labeled
as to prevent mistake. Thus a
Paerical head black-eyed and red
@seked like wooden doll, is offered
ay The artist as presentment of the
Almighty. Portraits and sketches of
supposedly human beings are executed
the same manner. The one exhibitor
sHo is pronounced to be really gifted
H Willy Jaeckel, who has q room de-
fO'sd to his etchings. In a series Of
axT prints he undertakes to make
asiale the whole process of the evo-
Ntion of consciousness, from uneon-
sclcus matter 10 q man conscious of
alS part IN divinity, and beyond that to
naA himself divine. Herr Jaeckel, it
70 be surmised, has something 20
@S But even he is infected by the
Saffent passion for obscurity. His
sehings are accompanied by written
sxpianations.
Inc Berlin secessionists, in short
are sunk deep in the mire of that
gfeelous modernism" about which we
aSar so much. The fact that it has s.
'Vgue' OF kind, not only in Berlin,
s91'in Paris and London, will quickly
PERSUADE some people, of course, that
p'ete must be a justification of the
y ''sue 1t Is struggling to achieve in the
saised States. But in the long run,
~ " believe, American sanity--and
@S'o0r-will crumple up this quackery.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Random Impressions
In Current Exhibitions

The Painter Gravers of America are
holding their fifth annual exhibition.
1t occurs at the Brown Robertson gal
lery, and will remain on view until
juno 4.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

The French line figures Of Miss
Helen Dryden have never been shown
to such advantage as in her present ex-
hlb1tlon at the Museum of French Art
Here her costume drawings of Miss
Ethel Barrymore in Clair de Lunew
tall in peculiarly sympathetic envi-
ronment. Combined in them are an
artistic style and subject matter dis
tInctly French in character, and the
auspices under which they are shown
contribute to their greater apprecia-
tion. AS art studies the sketches have
fascinating superficial appeal; and as
design they denote cleverness and orig
inality in the Interpretation of the
pompous crnamentality of French dress
Of the eighteenth century. Miss Dry
den has made some facile costume
sketches also of Miss Violet Kemble
Cooper and some court lady ard slave
girl sketches. Two stage settings de-
signed by John Barrymore and executed
in miniature by Homer T. Emens, show
ing deck view of an early frigate and
q formal garden subject, once again
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Another institution which has just
emerged from a retirement caused by
the war is the Vasari Society, the
London organization which was estab-
lished in 1905 for the reproduction of
drawings by the old masters. 1t has
brought out the first portfolio in a
second series, containing twenty three
drawings. The size of the publication
has been reduced, but this is really an
Improvement, cutting down useless
margins and leaving the reproductions
0t a sufficient scale. They are printed
now, too, on the page itself, instead
of being mounted on another sheet.
The selection this time is good rang
ing from an early drawing of the
Paduan school through souvenirs of
Leonardo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Alt
dorfer and others to drawings by Claude
and Corot, Gainsborough and Blake,
Watts. Rossetti, and the sculptor AL
fred Stevens. The reproductions have
been made by the collotype process.
The text is printed in a convenient
small pamphlet and uniform with this
an index to all the drawings in the ten
parts of the first series is supplied. We
rejoice in the resumption of the Vasari
society's activities, so valuable for
students of old drawings. The next
piece of good news ought to be an an
nouncement that NJ Doucet's Paris
society is once more in the field.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Landscape and house creations by
Oscar Bluemner and a group Of modern
paintings and sculptures by other
artists are showing at the Bourgeois
Galleries this week. Bluemner has elab-
Grated upon series of architectural
studies of various estates, showing
them in their existing landscape set
tings. He has thus attempted to
bridge the gap between the originally
conceived plan and the final develop
ment Of the house and its landscap :
surroundings. A large decorative panel
BY Joseph Stella, composed of fQliag
and birds in fanciful profusion, is an
artistic and colorful illusion which is
a bright spot in the exhibition. Tw5
drawings and a portrait sculpture II
young woman by Maurice Sterns also
are shown. Emile Blanchard and Jen-
nings Tofel are represented by several
examples Of modernist painting, and
Alfeo Faggi, by two sculpture pieces Of
religious and symbolic import.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

In view of the recent death of John
Burroughs, the current exhibition of
portraits and crayon sketches by his
friend. Orlando Rouland is timely
and interesting. By virtue of a close
intimacy with his subject, the painter
has been enabled to reproduce a series
of charming informal glimpses of the
venerable naturalist's rugged and pic
turesque personality These works are
on view at the Enrich gallery. Thev
show the naturalist in various moods
through a period beginning in 1908
and continuing until his later years.
1t is John Burroughs the simple-lived
lover of nature that is most frequently
pictured. The studio setting is re-
placed by the homely scenes of his
country retreats or the seaside at Pc
comic Bay, where he visited his artist
friend. The formal painting in the
robes of a doctor of letters, degree
granted by Yale University, has been
loaned by that institution. Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt also contributed small
painting which was formerly the prop
erty of her husband. One of the most
interesting is the painting done in
1907, after serious illness of Mr..
Burroughs, which portrays the latter
at his writing table dressed in blue
house robe. In each study the artist
has found some new possibility in his
subject, such as occasions when the
conversation between them dwelt upon
philosophy and mature fakers,' as re-
lated in connection with two of the
pictures. 1t is a valuable pictorial
record of the sidelights on great
personality. Several landscapes of the
naturalist's retreats at Roxbury and
West Park and out-of-door studies Of
the author at the seashore are shown.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

That capital miscellany, The Print
Collectors Quarterly, which was
founded by Mr.. Fitz Roy Darlington
ten years ago, was suspended at the
close of it's seventh volume on account
of war conditions, Now it is revived
under an English editor, Mr.. Campbell
Dodgson, and is brought out by an
English publisher, MIR. J. NJ. Dent. But
the form remains the same, Mr. Car
rington continues as American editor
and New York bookseller, Mr.. E.
Weyhe, acts as agent here. The eighth
volume opens with studies of four sub
jects, The etchings of Forain, Tiepolo
and E. S. Lumsden and the drawings
of Alexander Cozzens. The pages on
Forain are particularly worth while.
There are, as in the earlier days of
the periodical, plenty of illustrations,
well printed. The first seven volumes
have gone to premium. The new one
promises to win the same approval.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

The Arden gallery announces a sum
mer exhibition of decorative paintings
and reproductions of American furni-
tire and antique objets dart which
will run until October /.