The New York herald., 1922-03-12

be sold. they are to be on view at the
Architectural League, 215 West Fifty
seventh street from this afternoon,
through the three days preceding the
auction. Bids may be filed at any time
during the exhibition.
An opportunity will be offered TO Sc
cure such small and charming bronzes
as Harriet Frishmuth's Flower Holder"
Edith Howland's "Sakcee Squaw." Mabel
Conkling's spirit OF YOUTH Elizabeth
Sturtevant Theobald contributes THE
Mother" Lucy Perkins Ripley and Lind
sey Morris Sterling contribute original
and effective works in plaster. while from
Lois Whitcomb Rhead of Ohio come two
porcelain panels. Other sculptors to be
represented are Helen Sahler and Beat
rice Fenton, who recently won the Wild
ener Gold Medal at the exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Among the water color paintings will be
found Hilda Belcher's delightful "Prunes
and Prisms," a characteristic child study
GLADYS Brannigans decorative arrange
ment or flowers and porcelain. Eleanor
Abrams decoration and Lucy Hurry's
well-known figure painting.
The paintings will include excellent
examples of the work of Ruth Anderson,
Theresa Bernstein. Cora S. Brooks. who
sends a richly beautiful still life Jo-
sephine Barnard. Edith Barry. Marion
Bullard. who is represented by win
ter Morning.: Isabel b. Cartwright
Fern i. Coppedge, whose contribution Is
a recent and able snowscape; Nancy
Ferguson. with a characteristics street
scene. and Christine Herter. who sends
figure painting, Girl Combing Hair"
Elizabeth Hardenbergh offers a floral
study. Lucille Howard. an Irish land.
scape. while from Chicago Irma ,Kohn
sends one of her strong studies, Sun
shine and Shadow" Helen Mccarthy,
Edith Penman and Bertha Menzler Pey-
ton add to the exhibition by their ex-
celient landscapes. NJ Elizabeth Price
sends decorative panel and Alice
Beach Winter is represented by a figure
painting. Harriet Lord, Elizabeth Spen-
GER, Florence f. Smell, Felicie Howell,
Jane Peterson and Christina Morton will
contribute interesting canvases in their
varied and well known styles.
At the National Arts Club artistic
lithography is in the spot light. On the
Sth an appreciative audience crowded
the gallery to hear and see Bolton
Brown lecture and simultaneously make
and print a lithograph from a crayon
drawing on stone. A crayonstone
lithograph, Mr.. Brown called it, by dis
tinction from transfer Autographs
distinction this technician and artist has
long been fighting for
During the accompanying exhibition,
open till April 3. there will be present
the unique addition of the complete shop
equipment, press. etc, with which the
prints were made. together with the
man who made them-the equipment
and Mr.. Browns services being avail
able educationally to all visitors. In the
seven years since he put aside brush
| and canvas in favor of crayon and
| stone, Mr.. Brown has become the pecu-
liar exponent of this process of print
| production. The artistic merit OF the
work has been recognized by its In
clusion in the British Museum and else
where.
This exhibition has, however, been 20
selected as to give the visitor an idea
OF the extraordinary technical range OF
| this form of drawing. This intention
is carried out in the inclusion of few
illustrative examples OF work by other
early and contemporaneous masters.
some of them. as Mr.. Chauncey f.
Ryder. N. A.. Mr.. Charles Piclsen and
others. newcomers in this field. There
is also an interesting group of transfer
Il
loaned by Kennedy &c Co., from the coll
lection formed by Goulding. who printed
them himself.
Tho Baroness Burdett- Coutts, whose
are collections are now to be sold at
Christic's. in London, is not SO well
known to this generation as she was to
the former. and on account OF the be-
ginnings of her family and fortune may
not be without interest at this time.
The fortune began with Thomas
Coutts founder of the famous banking
house of Coutts & Co, who married
first Elizabeth Starkey. by whom he had
three daughters. who subsequently mar
ried fa) the Earl of Guilford, (b) the
first Marquis OF Butte, (c) Sir Francis
Burdette. Mrs. Coutts elizabeth Star
key). dying in 1915. Mr.. Coutts soon
after married Miss Harriet Mellon, the
popular actress. to whom. on his death,
he left the whole OF his immense fortune.
Mr.. Coutts died in 1922 and his wife
| formerly Miss Mellon) married again
in 1927. the ninth Duke of st. Albans
When she died, I'm 1887, she left the
whole of the Coutts fortune to Miss An
gela Burdette. the youngest daughter oi
Sir Francis Burdett, who assumed the
additional name and arms OF Coutts. In
\ 1871 this lady was created Baroness
| Burdett-Coutts I'm her own right on ac-
count of her great services to charity
The Baroness married Mr.. w. l.. Ash.
mead Bartlett, who assumed the name
OF Burdett-Coutts. The Baroness died
in 1906 and the collection Is now sold
owing to the death OF her husband last