The New York herald., 1922-05-06
Old Time Crafts
ShOWn as Workers
Ply Their Trades
Quaint Works Of Art in Jane
Teller Exhibition-Ehrich
Paintings on View.

The Jane Teller antiques and the
Enrich Gallery early American paint
ings. just opened at the Anderson Gal
leries. constitute an art show that
makes distinctly popular appeal The
antiques have been installed with spe-
cial care. and to heighten the interest
number of workers at the old time crafts
ply their various trades, and these work
ers and all the attendants have been cos
TUNED as in the Colonial period.
The antiques come from the Jane
Teller residence. at East Sixty-first
street and the river. This house is the
one that was built by Gen. William
Stevens Smith, aid de camp to Wash
ington. in 1899. and it was called
Smiths Folly because it was so far
times had become cheap tenement
but was restored by Miss Teller who
made it the center of community work
in connection with her business Of buy
ing and selling antiques. She inter-
ested the people of the neighborhood in
weaving rug making. candle making,
&c. and 1t is they who now assist her
in making the present exhibition so in
teresting.
Old fashioned hooked rugs are being
made. wool is spun upon the spinning
wheel. homespun fabrics are woven
upon the looms and chairs are being
rush bottomed. 1t was this last craft
that seemed to provoke most enthusiasm
yesterday. and the worker was at all
Times surrounded by an eager throng
who had many questions to ask.
An Enticfng Craft.
Apparently rush bottoming is soon to
become the fashionable dissipation OF
the idle wealthy, as well as an en-
royment for the needy poor. 1t is GER
tainly an entlcing craft, and the ex-
position of 1t was made doubly i'm
Iortant by the many fine old rush bot
toned chairs in the collection.
Miss Teller says She has not been so
concerned with important" pieces OF
furniture as with expressive" pieces.
This is indeed apparent after study
O. the collection. 1t is very varied. and
il ramnifes I'm all sorts of directions,
but always ii has the human touch.
There are quaint tavern tables, rocking
chairs with hamboyant batsls highboys.
cabinets. desks. chests and q thousand
unexpected articles that have the fac
ulty OF jarring the placid. present day
spectators into a contemplation of the
rast. In that respect it is more in
siructlve than most museums devoted
t. Colonial arts.
Most of the old desks and chests OF
Ira haN GnfG In ho
ural color OF the original wood. There
are such curlosities as "slaw' bed, a
mahogany two backed Hepplewhite
love seat" Gen. Dearborns cherry
wood secretary. sheet metal 'Jeffer-
son" stove. the figure head of the ship
Morning Star, nuptial key box, patch
work quilts and early kitchen utensils,
There also is an imposing array OF old
china. old American glass and old silver.
speciaIixes I'm Old Masters.
The Enrich Galleries have for years
specialized In old masters. with a .dis-
tnct bias toward the work OF early
american painters, so the sale they have
arranged fits very well into the present
COLONEL atmosphere of the building. The
enthusiasm for American paintings,
which haS been the most marked devel-
opment of the market here during re-
cent years. extends 90 the early produc-
tions as well, and our own "old mas
ters" are very much in vogue.
The chief OF these. of course. is Gil
bert Stuart. and he is represented In
the Enrich collection by a portrait OF
Mr. Sutcliffe, who wears a wig. a plum
colored coat and a neckerchief. BY
Samuel Waldo there Is a portrait OF
Marie Allaire Van Zandt. with quaint
garments and distinguished mien. Her
husband was on the committee that built
our City Hall. Chester Harding is the
painter who did Daniel Webster, ana
Thomas Sully signs an interesting por-
trait OF Walter Price that Is easy and
natural. There are works also by Ben
jamin West, Rembrandt Peale. A. b
Durand and d. Huntington.
In the foreign division of chief inter-
est Is the Van Dyck portrait Of Thomas
Challoner, who distinguished himself
chiefly by signing the death warrant for
Charles III. There also is a spirited
sketch for hunting scene by Rubens a
Madonna and Child" by Pietro da Mes
slna. a portrait of "A gentleman by Sir
William Beechy. a portrait OF Mrs. Hale
10y John Opie; portrait by Christopher
Amberger Of Conrad Zeller: portrait
by Ambrosius Benson, and Madonna"
by the Master Of Frankfort The sale
of the Jane Teller antiques begins on
May 9. and che Enrich paintings are to
be sold on May and TO-