The New York herald., 1922-02-23
Illnesses and
BIakeIOckS in
Art Exhibition
Native and Foreign Pictures
Shown Before Sale at
Auction.

An important collection of pictures on
ton Galleries makes a special appeal
to the local pride in that many of the
pic-sres are by American painters ara
thess dominate the show. The paintings
are owned by Duncan Phillips, who has
been assiduously collecting American art
for memorial collection to his father.
and now finds he has more pictures than
he has room for. There are a)so can
vases from certain estates, such as those
of the late Edward v. w. Rossiter. DR..
Francis Sprague and DR.. Albert P. Coll,
the latter long an associate of DIR. Frank
E. Miller. Some of these paintings are
to be sold at the Plaza Hotel February
27 and others at the association galleries
February 2S.
1t has been evident for some time that
auction interest has been keener in the
dispersal of the native works of art
than in the foreign. So far from dimin-
ishing the interest in American pictures
the war seems to have augmented 1t.
The present collection happens to be
headed by Indian Summer" a fine ex-
ample of the late period Of George In
ness, and Inness has achieved the most
widespread popularity of any American
landscapist to date. This Inness was
painted in 1894, one of his last works.
1t has all the mellowness. simplicity and
richness of the final Inness period. The
details which were so carefully insisted
upon in the early paintings are almost
eliminated. The slender trees have TO-
liage touched with the gay colors OF
autumn and further strengthened by
rays from the fading sun, while the
meadow sinks into soft green's that have
the qualities of old enamels. The sky
is turquoise and there Is a suggestion
of figure seated upon a log, which
Is, however. but an accent in the poetic
scene.
Indian Summer was originally pur-
chased from the artist by the congre-
cation of the Central Church of Chi
cago for presentation to their then
pastor, the Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight
Hills, who was resigning to go to
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn.
Another great American who is worth
lily represented is Ralph Blakelock
whose "Old New York" will astonish
new New York as much by its theme as
by the sureness of its style, for it de-
picts the now almost forgotten "Shanty-
town" that used to adorn unimproved
lots in the upper section Of Manhattan.
This particular group of shanties has
been reproduced with rare fidelity by
Blakelock. Each board seems to speak
for itself it has been so intensely
painted. yet the composition as a whole
is broad and sure.
There are four small landscapes by
J. Francis Murphy that have his lumi-
Mostly and unctous brushwork; two
other delightful Illnesses. and canvasses
by Alexander Wyant, Abbot Thayer, r.
NJ Shurtleff. Thomas Moran, J. G..
Brown, Robert Blum. Asher Durand.
William H. Howe, and other academi-
clans.
OF the later Americans there is a
landscape by George Bellows. "A Wet
Night that is one Of the most attrac-
tive landscapes that he has painted a
figure piece by F. w. Benson showing
young woman looking at herself in
hand glass; large and tumultuous
marine by Paul Dougherty; a colorful
Venetian picture by Walter Griffin a
characteristic example by w. L. Met
calf. the "Pont Royal, Paris; n re-
strained and elegant winter scene by
c. A. Platt: "Cobbler of Old Paris by
Theodore Robinson, and figure study
by Helen NJ. Turner.
Raffaelli stands out from the group
OF foreign painters principally because
he Is so we'll represented. His picture
Is called "Notre Dame" In the facetious
manner of painters. for though the
cathedral towers can be seen just ap-
pearing above the lie de Ia Cite, Il is
really the river and the activities Of the
quay that give him his theme. It Is
painted with suavity and ease that
Raffaelli seldom bettered