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saturday, January 12, 1924 THE ART NEWS 9

RARE ART-WORKS & OLD MASTERS

I5,5AVENUE DES UCHAMPS-.ELYSEES

f ANCIEN HOTEL. DU DUC DE MORNY)

PA R I S

Birds as a Decorative Theme

"SEA GULLS" Water color by KATHERINE McEWAN In the Antniual Comibined Exhibition of the New York Water Color Cluib eild the

Amle ican Water Color Society

This is one of the striking pictuires at the water-color show, with its bir ' ow!;fs woven intto a spontaneous anid living desiff.

A Vade Mecum for Collectors By KURT WALTER BACHSTITZ

*.To collect works of art requires a very varied knowledge. If the collector 46is not possess that knowledge he should buy only from art dealers whose ;Kinciples give him the certainty that the ,2rt objects he wishes to acquire are menuine, of very first rank and quality, ss>ieellent preservation. If an oppor tiity is offered 'of getting into touch

'tith the museum curator of his home 4.wn he should take advantage of his adice and experience in every possible y The object of museums is not

only to Collect art objects but its prin pal mission is to aid collectors, make *8m familiar with the works of the asters and through them, with the mas ters themselves. iThe example of the celebrated Dr. n Bode shows what great success may b'. achieved in that way. He has not .only made the Kaiser Frederick Museum one of the largest and most important,

but all his life he has been the adviser *Qfcollectors such as Huldschinski, Hol lIficher and others, whose collections ae become famous. :What should be the first thought when acquiring an object of art? T(1) Its genuineness: doubtful objects mf.ust never be bought, because they have

.esther the monetary value, nor can they glye: permanent esthetic pleasure. t(2) The state-of preservation: an art

st show the hand of the mas who fashioned it, not that of a re

rer. Every work of art is the result 9,te spiritual life of its creator, whether

*shows his reaction against his own *9tomeone's else experience. Now, it

ot be otherwise than that any re -f^'er who oversteps his limits and re

-snts or refashions parts of a work of ttdestroys its very character. Even ;removing of the first fine film of

aish of a painting, when cleaning, so dmishes its charm and interest that

iot only is its commercial value affected but it loses a great deal of its esthetic appeal.

(3) How should one collect? Collec tors who are not in the position to ac

quire examples by the foremost masters should first of all see to it, when buying ,he work of a lesser master, that they

get a genuine work of his best and maturest period. Very often such works are niot inferior in their artistic qualities to the works of the great masters that do not belong to their highest efforts or their best period.

In these few lines it is of course im possible to mention all the important poinlts wlhich ought to be considered when acquiring a work of art, but if these fundamental principles are followed the collector cannot go far astray.

The dealer in works of art should be fully conscious of the great responsi bility he is assuming, by not on'y en deavoring to be, as it were, an esthetic adviser of his clients, but also, so to 3peak, an administr-ator of the amount of capital which they are willing to in vest in all objects. Every art object, judiciously acquired, ought not to be

merely of intrinsic value, but in addi tion it should retain its full market value plus interest onl the investment, and it is only authenticated art objects in the best state of preservation and of very first quality that will retain their full financial value anid increase in worth.

XIVth Century Carving Found LONDON-At Shaftesbury in Dorset

a XIVth century panel of carved ala baster, representing the interment of St. Catherine by angels on Mount Sinai, was unearthed behind a fireplace in a private house, when a Tudor grate, unsuspected behind the Queen Anne fitment, was dis closed.

LOS ANGELES AND PASADENA

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Paintings by ALSON S. CLARK ROBERT VONNOH

t JOHN FROST GUY ROSE ARMIN HANSEN WILLIAM WENDT

ISTUDIO NOTES

Robert Reid came on from Colorado Springs and spent the holidays in New York. He returned west this week, but is thinking of again openinlg a studio in New York. Willard Nash is painting in Santa Fe.

N. M. With Witter Bynner, Mary Aus tin, Robert Herrick and several others he is contributing to a peculiar periodical called Laughing Horse. Willard's part is black-and-white illustration-or black and brown, for the pages vary.

Paintings by Douglass Parshall will be shown at the Toledo Museum of Art during January.

Samuel Halpert has joined the faculty of the Master Institute of United Arts, 310 Riverside Drive. Mr. Halpert is a

member of the New Society of Artists. His work has been exhibited in the Paris Salon, iin the Carnegie Institute, and in

umerous other exhibitions. Mlary Tannlahill, who lhas been abroad

for the pa-;t year, returnied to New York last week onl the Patria. She has taken a stuidio at 400 West 118tlh St. for the winter.

J. Barry Green, whose exhibition closed last week at the Howard Young Gal leries, will sail for France onI Jani. 16, LO remain indefiniit'ely.

Apau'a Abbate, sculptor, who was in jured by being thrown from a Fifth

Ave. stage about two moinths ago, and who spent several weeks in St. Luke's do-p'tal, has recovered and has re turned to his studio, 1931 Broadway.

George Elmer Brownie, who has b-een holdi,ng a series of exhibitions in the .Vlidd.e West, has returnied to his stud'o in the Sherwood. At South Bend, Iiid., four of his painitings were sold.

Harold Browne, son of George Elmer Browne, is spendinig the winter in South America. At Lima, Peru, he recently painted three portraits and sold several paintings.

Lilla Cabot Perry's painting "The Open Window," in the Ninth Bieninial in Washington, has been invited for the fifteenth aninual exhibition of the Char coal Club in Baltimore. She will have a one-woman show at the Arts Club in Washington April 5 to 18. Maurice Fromkes, who has been in

Spain for the last three years, writes that he will return to this counitry early this year.

Ivan Clinsky has returned from Chi cago, where he painted three portraits.

Frederick C. Frieseke has just sent from Paris to the Macbeth Galleries a

group of fifteen new canvases. F. Luis Mora, who was in Dallas,

Tex., recently as the guest of the Art Association of that city, spent the holi days in his Connecticut home. He has since returned to Dallas with his family to execute a number of commissions for

murals and portraits, among which is one of Mrs. George K. Meyer, presi dent of the Dallas Art Association, which will be presented to the Dallas Museum.

Bertha Menzler Peyton has been in vited to send two of her pictures to Philadelphia. One, "Summer Idyl" hung in the Spring Academy, and the other, "Sunday Morning," was in the last Car negie International.

Rowbert J. Cole, former art critic o f the Evening SunJ, was struck by an auto

mobile recently and severely injured. He is now convalescing at the French Hos pital, 450 West 34th St.

Oswald Birley, English portrait paint er, arrived on the Majestic.

Howard L. Hildebrandt has returned from Boston, where he has been paint ing portraits, including one of Mrs.

Arthur Chute. Twenty-five pictures and small sculp

ture were sold at the exhibition of the

National Association of Women Painters

and Sculptors at the Ferargil Galleries.

A total of over $1,300) was realized. Seventeen portraits in bronze by

George Fite Waters were shown at the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris. The col

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"OLD TIMERS" Water color by WILLIAM KAT This work l;as an intcrest apart fromt its color and design for it is a record of a

plhase of sltippintg nowv fast disappearing.

lection included likenesses of Sacha Guitry, James K. Hackett, Puccini, Pearl White and E!sie Janis.

George Biddle exhibited paintings oi Tahitiani scenes and people at the Galerie Barbazanges, Paris. Mr. Biddle has given almost as much attenition to sculp ture as to oil and water color ,and has

done pleasing and original work in block priints and marqueterie.

Harvey Leepa, American painter, spent several months in Russia. His drawings

were mostly of domed churches. Cus toms officers tcok them away from him at the Polish frontier, as it is forbidden to allow photographs, drawings or rep resentative works of the kind to be taken out of Russia.

Leonard M. Davis has been painting in the Canadian Rockies during the past summer and has given exhibitions at

Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ot tawa.

Mary H. Wicker's canvas, "In France," wh ch received honorable mention at the American Paintinig and Sculpture Exhi bition in Chicago, has been sold to a private collector.

A Western collector has acquired Tom P. Barnett's painting entitled "The Gamblers," a Gloucester subject. The Friends of Local Art in St. Louis have purchased Mr. Barnett's winter painting

'Close of Day" and have presented it to the art department of the public schools. This picture was awarded the

Artists' Guild prize of $300 for the best work of art in the present exhibition of the Guild. The Shortridge Galleries have sold two of Mr. Barnett's paintings. "The Blue Boats" and "October Days."

Robert Hamilton has completed and in stalled a set of murals, in the Jonas

Bronx public schoGA 43, entitled "The Four Seasons." Mr. Hamilton is pre paring an exhibition of his landscapes, with a. sample of his portra.ture, in the Babcock Galleries, March 10 to 22.

Obituary LORUS PRATT

Lorus Pratt, 68 years of age, painter of the pictures in the Mormon Temple 1n Salt Lake City and other temples of

the Mormon church, is dead. He studied art in Paris in the early '90s. His father was Orson Pratt, Utah pioneer and author.

To Present Poole's Naval Picture Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, who

commanded the Sixth Battle Squadron of American ships that cooperated, during the war, with the British Grand Fleet, has completed arrangements to present to the British Admiralty a large picture,

measuring 5 feet wide and 4 high, of his squadron as it appeared in war service. The picture was painted by the marine artist, Burnell Poole, who was with vari ous ships otf the navy during the war. The painting shows ships of the Sixth Squadron in line-ahead formation on duty with the Grand Fleet.

Appointments at the Louvre PARIS-J. Marquet de Vasselot, as

sistant curator of the department of objets d'art of the Middle Ages, of the Renaissance and of Modern Times, at the Louvre, has been appointed curator in place of M. Migeon. Louis Haute coeur, professor of literature at Caen, has been made assistant curator of the department of paintings.

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