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The New York herald., 1922-05-28
New Prints at the
New York Library

TINE annual exhibition of Recent
Additions" to the print collection
ofthe New York Public Library
has been opened in the Stuart Gallery
and will remain on view until autumn.
Such exhibitions are naturally apt to
be OF miscellaneous character. Yet
happy chance and opportunity may
bring together a lot of prints so in
elusive in scope that they add the in
terest of review of the development
of print making. That means that they
exemplify the various processes-line
engraving, wood engraving. etching.
lithography-as we'll as offering ex-
amples of the use artists have made OF
them In various countries and at various
times.
A review is not entirely, nor neces-
sarily, systematic. but touching on high
lights of. the history of the graphic arts
and dipping also into bypaths unfa-
miliar and worth exploring. There IS
something alluring in the very desul-
toriness of this wandering among the
known and the unfamiliar. noting an
old friend here and making new one
there, refreshing the memory and adding
to it.
So. then, In the present exhibition
there is touch of early Italian work,
a panel of ornament, in the style OF
Peregrini German primitive, too: an
early wood cut, Interpretation of the
Mass" and an early copper engraving
by Glockenton Christ Entering Jerusa-
lem" and Ladenspelder, ''The Holy Trim
ity" Then there is the accomplished
craftsmanship of Duerer. shown In his
Goat of Arms with the Cock" and the
"Melarcholia," that strange picture that
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
ART NEWS AND REVIEWS UROPEAN SHOWS DISAPPOINT

nson. Looking Through Brooklyn
Bridge; L. Bampied, s"Soup," and
Troy Kinney. Vera Kokine in Her
Dance OF Sa1ome", an aquatint Der
entwater-Evening" by Gaskel. and
wood engrawngs by ]. F. S. Ten Kloo-
ster
Other modern works added are self
portrait" by Fritz Endell and. for the
lover of color prints. a mezzotint by
Macbeth Raeburn. THE McNab." af-
ter Raeburn. and progressive proofs of
some prints by T. F. Simon of Czecho-
Slovaka and Paris. And. apropos of
printing beyond the confines OF black
and white. here are also some Of those
late chiaroscuros. done by the English
men Kirkall and Jackson.
Finally. as always, are a number of
accessions to the portfolios of contem-
porary American art. etchines by ].
Andre Smith, F. w. Benson. George o.
Hart. f. T. Weber, A. C. Learned. G.
II. Plowman, the late c. II. Miller and
the veteran J. S. King; line engravings,
bookplates. by w. F. Hopson and a.
n. Macdonald; woodcuts. In black and
white and in color. by Adolf Treidler.
w. A. Dwiggins. Gustave Baumann, J.
j. Lankes (book plates). Ruzicka, A. A.
Lewis, w. and M. Zorack, Percy A.
Grassby. j. w. Evans (portrait Of the
late George c. Bauer in the act of pull
ing a proof from woodblock) and
w. j. Lintons portrait of Edwin Booth
as Benedict. after w. J. Hennessy.
Autographs there are by Bolton
Brown. indefatigabie agitator for fine
printing of painter Autographs,
George o. Hart. William Oberhardt
(portraits Of Joe Cannon and II. c.
Lodge, and Thornton Oakley (part of
the Hog Island series and book plates
by Jay Chambers.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
SPECTATORS Rather Than Works Attract Reviewers
Subject Pictures Failing in Quaty-Amercan
Miniaturists Grouped in New Book
BY HENRY M'BRIDE.

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than the works display.
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old still faithful Salon.
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their last of genuine inspiration astonsh
the London journals
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XVI,
old what
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bishops
Ministers officials all with various
academic still
pictures which have totally disappeared from other exhibitions
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
"A CANADIAN JOHN
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, t922

head OF American miniaturlsts are
four-Edward Malbone Charles Fraser.
Benjamin Trott and Robert Field. the
latter being an Englishman. who. how
ever. achieved almost ell OF his career
upon this side of the Atlantic. Portrait
painters I'm oil. who also worked In min
iaturo. are Henry Inman, John Wesle
Jarvis. Matthew Harris Jouctt and
Thomas Sully. Mr.. Bolton lists only the
artists who flourished tefore 1850 when
the advent of the camera doomed the
vogue OF the mlniaturlsts, yet he ac-
counts for more than three hundred
artists.
The notes that Mr.. Bolton has sup
piled upon the work OF these r-sn are
distinguished for clearness and common
sense. II is rare that writer's upon art
are so free from affectation. and the
student OF miniatures win be grateful
to Mr. Bolton. not only for the many
human touches that he has dug up
from the archives of the past but also
for the fact that he knows when to
quit. His biogra phcal sketches are
never overloaded.
M1NTATURISTS DESCRIBED.
A few quotations viii show the style
OF tho work In the account of Edward
Malbone there is this you may enjoy
your mirth but you shall one day see
my head engraved Such were the
words OF Edward Malbone to his sisters.
He was the boyhood friend of Wash
ington Allston, with whom he received
casual instruction In art from Samues
King. about 1902, in Newport. Even
earlier than this he had helped paint
theater scenery and copied on paper
portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence that
he greatly admired. Soon he prepared
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

his own ivory to paint on and the
miniature of Nicholas Power, dated from
1898, was his first commission. In
1894 he left home, telling only his sister
of his departure. to start as profess
sional miniature painter in Providence.
Here his success was quickly assured.
as he informed his father after three
weeks. In 1896 he moved to Boston.
where he removed his friendship with
Allston and continued the success he
enjoyed the rest of his life.
"of all the American miniaturists
none surpassed and few reached the ex-
cellence of Edward Malbone. His work
is comparable with that of Samuel
Cooper Hans Holbein. John Smart and
Isabey."
on Charles w. Peale there is this !:
Before the American Revolution he
was both in New York and Philadelphia
and when the war broke out he served
with Washington at Trenton and Prince
ton. His children were Rembrandt,
Raphaelle. Titan, Rubens. Vandyck. So
phonsba. Angelica Kaufman. Linnaeus
and Franklin. In his later years he es-
tablished museum and was instru-
mental in founding the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts"
OF the Kentuckian Matthew Jouett,
tnere is thlS AT the end OF tne war
of 1912 he abandoned the law and took
to his favorite vocation. painting. His
father was greatly displeased at this
step and looked upon the education spent
on his son as wasted. However. young
Jouett thrived at painting portraits at
s25 apiece and finally earned enough to
go East to study. In 1917 he set out on
horseback for Philadelphia and Boston
In Boston he met Gilbert Stuart and
became favorite pupil. George F. A.
Healy wrote that Stuart always adj
dressed Jouett as Kentucky Jouett
remained the rest of the summer and
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

A court event, which may have taken
place centuries before. amid magnificent
surroundings, is repeated with every de-
tail of speech and costume, but with
practically no stage furnishings. The
Chinese imagination has been so fed
up on symbol and tradition that 1t read
lily sees river where there is no water.
and a mountain where none has been
painted.
"If some character must climb
mountain, pantomimic motions assume
the presence Of the granite hill. If
criminal is to be executed it Is ac-
complished with bamboo pole and ira
ditional movements upon the part OF
the actor. He, the criminal, walls
confession of guilt, walks to one side OF
the stage and stands under bamboo
pole, on which a cloth is tied. He in
dicates strangulation by throwing back
his head and looking up to heaven. If,
in stage story, general goes upon
journey the scene is not changed to
transport ones mind to another place;
instead, the soldier cracks a whip.
dashes across the stage to crash OF
cymbals, and announces that he has ar
rived To dismount from his absent
steed he pirouettes upon one foot and
drops his whip; to mount he turns upon
the other foot and picks up his whip"
But II the settings exist only in i'm
aeination the costumes are splendidly
authentic. Chinese costume. like plum
cakes, from the very richness Of its
material. is long lived; and the clothes.
used in to-day's theater. may have been
worn several centuries ago by man.
darins and court officials, by emperors,
their wives and concubines.
THE majority of the roles require
painted face. and colors symbolic
types. A sly but dignified person paints
with white; sacred person. either a
deity or an emperor. uses red coloring
black belongs to the honest workman
green sometimes means a demon and
gold is the property of the gods. Vari-
ations on these definite types may Re
suggested by mixed colors.
'sThe effect that is obtained. even
without scenery. by groups of painted
figures dressed in stiff brocade of all
tints. by the glitter of immense Jewels.
of gold traceries. and silver tissue. of
tufted plumes and long pheasant feath-
ers that wave above glistening head
dresses. of Glinting swords and brill
liantly uniformed soldiery. is of MEM
orable dazzle and magnificence."
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

since been associated with these gal
leries. There is decorative reminisence
of the West by Arthur B. Davies. show
ing young man with some hunting
dogs just emerging from a wood aud
gazing over a beautiful naEs-a-aA; a
characteristically cool and sure land
scape by Ben Foster highly finished
still life by Emil Carlson a subtle land.
scape by William Sartain and works by
Childe Hassam, Charles Warren Eaton,
George Inness. Elliott Daingerfield, j.
Francis Murphy and ]. Alden Weir.
for the manufacture OF figured fabrics
is on view at the Art Center. This
exhibition of decorative materials rep
resents the leading textile manufacturers
of America and numerous imported tex
tiles of rare beauty are included.
These are cretonncs. linens. tapestries.
brocades. damasks. warp prints, velvets
and silk, from the most simple. hand
blocked patterns to elaborate designs
executed on the jacquard loom. Ex-
amples of cut velvet show interesting
contrasts of shading and color secured
cutting around the pattern in the back
ground.
Damask silks of exquisite detail have
attained the superlative of modern
craftsmanship. In some cases these have
required over twenty-five thousapu
jacquard cards before the first stitch
could be taken. and the expenditure.,ofi
thousands of dollars. Machine made
tapestries also have reached high state
of perfection, so cleverly devised with
interchange of gros point and petit point
as to largely resemble the quaint and
varied effect of the hand made article.
Every method by which artistic in
spration may be expressed In textiles
Is represented In the present exhibition
which Is Of unusual interest to textile
designers. as well as to householders
wishing to learn the resources OF mod
ern Industrial arr as applied to home
making.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Salons of America
To Exhibit Twice

TIME Salons OF America" the asso-
citation of artists that moro or
less seceded from the Indepen-
dent Society. announces its plans for
two exhibitions next year. 1t is i'm
possible not to feel. from the wording
of this announcement. that an opposition
to the Independents is attempted, and
this seems a pity. There is a distinct
field for n progressive" society, and
the salons of America might be that
II II chooses, but to run an opposition
independent society is death to both
concerns. There is not enough inde-
pendent material to divide IN two.
The excitement over the publicity Is
a futile matter IL is n thing to be
corrected within the meetings of the
society and the new society will face
exactly the same situation as the old.
since too much publicity is not "A thing
that Is even desirable for the raw re-
cruits to art circles. 1t seems to have
gone to the heads Of the older men on
this occasion. as 1t is. The announce
ment. in part. is as follows:
The death of Mr.. Hamilton Easter
Field, our president. so early in the life
of our new organization, was n great
blow TO us ALL We wish TO announce
to the public. and to such artists as
are interested. that full arrangements
have been made to carry on the plans
so ably started by Mr.. Field.
THAT we stand squarely behind the
principle stated by Mr. Field In the
question-'My stand Is that the official
publicity should not in any way feature
any member. for In so doing the so
ciety is not true to its principles as IL is
not giving an equal opportunity TO every
member Realizing the great need of
annual exhibitions. where any artist may
show his output and be assured OF an
equal chance with the other exhibitors.
we feel as II would seem quite evident
from the returns that VIC have received
from the fret announcement OF the or
eanizatlon sent out. that a great many
other artists feel the same
There can be devised no scheme
which will entirely accomplish this OBJ
ject, but we believe the Salons of
America can. and will, get as near as
possible TO the ideal
Two annual exhibitions will be held
open to all on payment of fee. There
will be no official publicity featuring
any member of the society. The two
annual exhibitions will be held the first
year at the Anderson Galleries. One
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Describes American
Miniature Painters

THEQDORE BOTTOMS EARLY
American Portrait Painters in
Miniature" privately printed for
him by Frederic Fairchild Sherman. is
a compilation that presented many diff
ficulties we'll surmounted. The records
he presents are amazingly ample, and
1t will doubtless surprise many people
to know that so vast an enthusiasm for
miniatures reigned in the early years
of this country.
Portraiture in general appears to have
been one of the first fads of our peo-
pie. developing in the first leisure that
came to our early citizens, and the
country was at one time mad on the
subject" as Mr.. John Hill Morgan says.
Nina ture painting here began with no
higher aim than TO provide decorations
for bracelets and lids for snuff boxes,
even Charles Wilson Peale working in
this wise, but It speedily developed un-
til there were a number of artists
whose work challenged comparison with
that of the European masters.
Those whom Mr.. Bolton places at the
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Brilliant Color in
The Chinese Theater
rcrcNrrpc -. a.. 49,. -,

~ ESIGNERS for the stage and stu
dents OF pictorial aspects OF the
theater will find much that is
suggestive In the studies Of "The Chi
nese Drama" by Kate Buss. just issued
by the -Four Seas Company OF Boston.
Miss Buss has refused to be. disturbed
by the battling incongruities that seem
TO have been especially designed by tie
Chinese TO keep trifling Westerners
away from their theater and with great
calmness and courage reduces her essay
TO such n clear account that the innocent
reader. finding their reading easy, may
be nisead into an underestimate OF
the achievement But those who have
attempted Chinese before and have come
to grief. will know how 20 be grateful.
The book takes up the types Of plays
and actors. the music. traditions, origin
and customs Of the playhouse, but all
that concerns us here Is what Miss Buss
has TO say OF the settings and costumes
In the first place. scenery, 10 the Chi
nese. is a Silly and unnecessary bother.'r
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

in the fall returned to Lexington, opened
a studio and doubled the price for his
portraits. Here he remained the rest
OF his life, spending his winters in New
Orleans
"Jouett was portrait painter OF the
first rank That he was successful in
Kentucky Is proved by the story told
Of John Neagle. who intended to settle
in Lexington. but left when he saw the
excellence OF Jouett's work.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

will be held the first three weeks in
October. known as the Autumn Salon.
The other. the first three weeks in May.
known as the Spring Salon. The AM
derson Galleries will take complete
charge OF installation, of the hanging,
and OF the sale of the works of art
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Notes and Activities
In the World of Art

.HE Macbeth Galleries. showing no
signs of smoke. or SCOT or any
other souvenirs Of their recent
little encounter with the Fire Depart
ment, have opened summer exhibition
of works by Americans who have long
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
When Electric Cleaning
Enters Your Home

nF all housekeeping drudgery and monotony
~ that of cleaning is the worst. You can, in
a pinch, farm out your washing and ironing
and you can<dine out. But dusty, dirty floor
coverings, hangings and furnishings cannot be
comfort. They must be cleaned at home either
by the tired housewife or by engaging expensive
outside help
Broom-and-duster cleaning never cleans clean.
1t is but d-a-promise,' driving the
dirt from room to room, into hidden, inaccessible
places where it collects disease germs and is an
ever present menace to health and happiness.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

nothing that enhances his reputation
or suggests developments"
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

Several million housewives have found the
anssver in the electric vacuum cleaner.
The difference between cleaning the old
way and electric cleaning is like the differences
between washing with plain water and washing
with soap. You cannot wash clean withoue
soap nor clean clean without the electric vac
uum cleaner
The electric vacuum cleaner soon pays for
itself by saving costly cleaning labor, time, and
by preserving cherished household furnishings.
Furthermore, the housewife will pay less for
the electricity to run her machine than she
now spends for soap.
Your dealer or lighting company
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

The home must be cleaned and
kept clean for hygienic if not for other
reasons. The problem is how to do it
thoroughly, completely and cheaply.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

Your dealer or lighting company
will gladly prove these things to
you. Telephone for demonstration
of electric vacuum cleaning.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

Communities having that
grade of electric light and
power service which it is
possible to give only when
the company receives fair
treatment invariably are
the leading communities,
industrially, commercially
and socially.
These progressive COM
munities are the chief ad-
vocates Of electric labor
savers such as the electric
vacuum cleaner.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-08-02
Election-Day Slackers

French stay-at-homes will lose the
right to vote if the bill approved by
the election committee of the cham
Der of deputies becomes law, as is
quite likely. The bill provides that
the names Of eligible voters who alb
stain from any election will be posted
after the first offense, they will be
fined after the second, after the third
they will have their fines and taxes
increased and after the fourth their
names will be stricken from the reg
lister Of votes.
We have long been plagued with
the question of the election-day slack
er in this country. He is not confined
to one party, or section, Or employ
ment. Here is Republican, there
Democrat. Here he may be north
ern, there a southern man; here an
eastern, there western man, Here
he may be merchant, there farmer.
TIL result is the frequent-too fire.
quent- announcement, whether prl-
mary or other contest, that "only a
light vote was polled."
The reason given show how lightly
suffrage is regarded. 1t is explained
in the case of a Stacker merchant
either that he was absent from home
stocking up, or at home busy selling
new stock In the case of the Stacker
farmer, either that the weather was
bad and prevented a trip to the polls,
or that the weather was so good he
felt obliged to stay at home and make
hay while the sun shone.
Should not such slackers be pun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-08-02

the important strides it has as con-
sequence of the recent Washington
conference and the leadership giver
the movement by Secretary Hughes
the present has seemed to the Canad-
ian government an opportune time tc
approach the government of the Unit
ed States with view to perpetuate
the ideals which the trainers of the
Rush-Bagot agreement had in mind
by having permanency given to the
essential principles underlying the
Rush-Bagot agreement through their
embodiment in a formal treaty be-
tween the two countries, respecting
the limitation of ornaments in the
| Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river
The old arrangement still stands.
There is no thought on either side of
the boundary of changing it. To
change it in the slightest degree
would be a world tragedy. No doubt
it would run, as it is, until the sands
Of time run out.
But to renew it, in permanent form,
embodying it's principles in new a
greement, would be to make it fresh
in the thought of every dweller in each
nation, and it would, in spectacular
way, show the world the way, and the
only way, out of it's utterly needless
burden of ornaments.
This is proposal that the United
States should and undoubtedly will
meet more than half way, and with
the utmost readiness. Such an exam
pie is needed in the world just now,
that the nations that have wasted
themselves in wars and military rival
ries may be reminded Of how men and
nations CAN live, and will live and
must live if civilization is not to de-
stroy itself and gasp out it's last breath
in the ruins of it's own house.-Duluth
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-08-02

islature to change the law in the in
terest of greater fairness, rather than
up to the court to wipe the law off the
statute books.
The principal objection is that own
ers of old cars have been forced to
pay more for licenses than purchasers
of new cars of the same model. An
other defect is in the fact that if car
is destroyed by fire day after the
license is bought the owner cannot get
a refund.
The law recognizes only SO per cent
depreciation in car, no matter how
old. The result of this is unduly to
penalize old cars of standard high
priced makes. Another vagary is the
taxing of cars in dead storage exactly
as if they were in use.
A tax on gasoline some day will
supersede the present system of taxa
ton. To our way of thinking that is
the only just means of placing the
burden Of the cost of good roads on
the persons who use them and wear
them out.
But until satisfactory way of tax
ing gasoline can be worked out, the
present method, with the flaws ironed
out, will be better than any other tax
alton system yet devised.
While motorists will grumble bit
at the inconsistencies of the present
law, most of them will agree that the
good roads we are rapidly acquiring
are worth every cent we are paying
for them.-Minneapolis Daily News.