The New York herald., 1922-01-08


Vile" or LA Cathedral de Rouen."
Among the well known paintings in this
exhibition are group of the famous
studies Of water lilies and group of tne
still more famous London bridges.
Five Boston artists are represented in
the present collection in the Enrich Cal
leries: Marion Boyd Allen, Frederick X.
Bosley. William Baxter Closson. Ernest
l.. Major and II. Winthrop Pierce. All
OF these painters are much trained and
conventional In style and work in the
style that is approved on West Fifty.
seventh street. They ought, II they do
not already, resolve to contribute each
year to the autumn Academy, for figure
painters grow scarcer and scarcer and
command prizes. Miss Aliens portrait
Of Anna Vaughn Hyatt at work on her
sketch model for her Jeanne dare occu-
pies the place OF honor.
Frederick Ballard Williams shows the
recent landscapes he made in California
in the Macbeth Galleries. He confesses
to having received fresh inspiration on
the coast and paints with marked
access of freedom. Speaking of his ex-
periences in the West he said:
There is a dense and tangled quality
about the underground and grasses; an
all pervading warmth of color, relieved
and balanced by the cooler notes of the
oaks and eucalyptus. and all is compile
mented by the wonderful deep blue of
the sky. The beauty of California in
the summer time has an appeal all its
own. There is then. to be sure, a dry
quality to the whole landscape, but not
at the expense of great virility and life %
On Saturday evenings in January
there will be given free orchestral con-
certs at the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art. Fifth avenue and Eighty-seconL
street, Manhattan. As In previous years,
the conductor will be David Names
and the music will be of the same high
order. The concerts. which begin
promptly at o'clock and last until 10,
are free to all without tickets of admIs-
sion. The Museum will be open on these
Saturdays from 10 o'clock in the morn
visitors to combine seeing the Museums
collections with attending the concerts.
Drawings by d. Putnam Brisley OF
the war ruins of Europe are now on
historical value OF these records. all OF
which were made on the spot. between
October. 1918. and March, 1919. must
be evident. The drawings are not only
convincingly true as drawings. but are
vigorously dramatic. One of the most
telling Is a study of the St Quentin
Cathedral. still beautiful in it's ruin.
Other places where the artist studied
we're Montidler. Chateau-Thierry. Cam
brai. scissors. Arras. Noyon. Verdun
and Sommepy.
A selected group of objects of cur
rent manufacture. the design OF which
is based upon sources in the Metropoli-
tan Museum OF Art. will be shown ther,
from January 10 to February 26. This
Is the sixth annual exhibition OF Indus
trial Art
II has not been the purpose TO show
all that has been done as n result OF
museum study in the year 1921. nor yet
TO show the best that can be done. but
rather to exhibit a limited number Of
worthy pieces considered representative
by the Industries which produced them
At the same time Il demonstrates the
wide variety of material style form.
color. texture and technique generally.
in order to indicate as many as possible
OF the myriad points OF contact which
the trades have made and can yet de-
velop. in the study OF historic material
In the museum.
NJ. Knoedler G. Co. announce an i'm.
portant exhibition OF eighteenth century
mezzotints beginning January s. 1922.
and continuing through the month.
Beginning January IS. portraits by
Philip A. de Laszlo will be exhibited for
two weeks. Among the portraits shown
will be those of President Harding. Gen.
Pershing. Elihu Root. Mrs. Marshall
Field and the family OF +. =. Garvan.
There will also be portraits Of several
members OF the Conference on the
Limitation OF Armament The Right
Hon. Lord Lee. the Right Hon. Arthur
J. Baifour. the Earl OF Beatty and the
Earl OF Cavan.
The memorial exhibition Of the works
of Benjamin West at the Art Alliance.
Rittenhouse square. Philadelphia, has
been tho means OF bringing information
concerning the early activities of West
In America. writes Albert Rosenthal
and through the courtesy OF member
OF the West family here the gold medal
given to West on his election 10 the
Royal Academy as president has been
loaned TO the exhibition. The important
discovery. however both from an artistic
and historical viewpoint Is the original
painted by West OF himself Of
the age OF 49, and with II the journal OF
Preston G. +. West, which gives direct
and personal Information from West
himself as 20 the miniature and other
paintings and intimate matters never
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Wilcox Of the Military Academy Of
West Point brought the miniature and
journal personally 20 Philadelphia. He
Informs me that this miniature was pur-
chased In the middle OF the last century
by Clement West Of PHILADELPHIA