New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Old Masters of
Several Periods
To Go ON Sale
Paintings From Late Mrs.
Franklin Bartlett Collec-
ton OIL Display at the
American Art Galleries
One Portrait a Gem
Varied Lot of Prints and
Etchings Are Being Shown;
Fine Group of Whistlers
By Royal Cortissoz

II is curious group of some three
score pictures which has been placed
on exhibition at the American Art
Galleries. to be sold there tomorrow
night. The late Mrs. Franklin Bart
lett is one of the collectors represent
ed, there are works drawn from other
sources and the result is that old and
modern schools iostle one another in
rather unexpected fashion. In the
midst of the miscellaneous company
one painting is conspicuous, valuable
souvenir of the early American school.
General Joseph H. Reed was a man
of both military and civic activities,
person Of consequence in the public
affairs Of Pennsylvania. For period
he was on the staff of Washington.
1t is his portrait, painted by Charles
Wilson Peale, that makes the star
piece of the present exhibition. Peale
was never master of the highest
rank. But he was sound workman,
who used to good purpose the pol
ished drawing characteristic of his
school, kept his color we'll within the
bounds of good taste, and altogether
turned out refined and notably dig
nified type of portrait. This General
Joseph Reed" is an admirable speci
men of his craft. 1t will excite COM
petition at the sale.
Surrounding it are quantities of re-
spectacle but not at all inspired old
masters, excellent school pieces OF 1tal-
ian, Flemish and Dutch origin, pleas
ant landscapes and decorative compost
tions, religious subjects, interiors. and
SO on. They are unimportant, but they
strike a slightly higher average than is
observed in most gatherings of the
sort.
In the modern contingent there are
several attractive things Students of
American art who remember the late
William Bliss Baker, untimely lost,
will welcome the chance to regard once
more. in "The Winding Stream" his
gracious method of landscape painting,
of forms. This is a charming study,
free from the hardness which was
sometimes the defect of his quality.
"a Dutch Corner" by G. H. Breitner, is
good example of a painter not gen.
orally known here. 1t figured, by the
way in the sale of the collection of
William NJ. Chase. The Spaniel
Asleep" by Joseph Stevens, is Of in
terest because it is we'll painted and
because Of the family associations Of
this artists name There is a single
walls, landscape by Daubigny.
The print rooms at this place are
filled with varied lot of etchings and
engravings One mass, running to 24o
numbers, consigned by eleven different
owners, is composed of the works of
moderrs like Bracquem Manett,
Platt and Pennell, but takes its char
acter more from the earlier French
engravers. The other, with 444 en-
tries in the catalogue, drawn from a
dozen or more collections, is richest
in modern etchings. The Whistlers
form large and uncommonly fine
group, abounding in first rate impress
sions Haden is we'll represented. So
is Zorn, SO are Brangwyn and d. 7
Cameron. There is a choice little col
lection of the plates of Seymour Haden
Abou. twenty of the etchngs of Felix
Buhot afford the connoisseur an op-
portunity such as does not often re-