International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

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Classification by subject. Hints are also given on
selections suitable for the decoration of the various
parts of a home. A complete list of the company’s
fine art books and portfolios is appended.
Readers of these columns who recall the
description in our January issue of the singularly
effective use in decoration made of shells, stones and
glass by Mr. Cole Brigham, in what he calls “ma-,
rine mosaic,” will be glad to avail themselves of the
opportunity now afforded by Air. William H.
Powell to see specimens of work in this original
process at the Powell Art Gallery in Sixth Avenue
near Fifty-fifth Street. This “marine mosaic” has
been used in place of rieh stained glass for yacht
port lights, openings in private houses, cabinet
doors, fire screens, hanging lamps, and even for
memorial church Windows, with most original effect
and excellent success.
The colouring of plaster casts is ordinarily ä
crude affair. In the work of Air. F. W. Miller a
new departure has been made in this branch of
reproduction, that lifts it at once to dignity and
makes it well worth bringing to notice, particularly
at this season of gifts. Too often the colouring of
casts, even when done by artists,is a matter of mere
personal taste. But to allow such haphazard pre-
dilection or uncertain recollection of the original
tones to control the work of reproduction is plainly
insufficient. Air. Miller has studied the Originals
in Europe and made careful notes in colour on the
spot to secure faithfulness for the copy. The work
to be seen at 17 West 14Ü1 Street, N. Y., shows re-
markable management of tints, as in the effects
reproducing bronze, old wood and ivory.
An Exhibition of water-colours by George
Elbert Burr has recently been on view at the Klack-
ner Gallery, New York. The tone of the collection
was mainly bright in colour. Some thirty charm-
ing water-colours in the bright tones of morning,
noon and sunset show studies in Italy and in Swit-
zerland, as well äs other scenes at Monte Carlo.
Air. Klackner’s reproductions of etchings have been
already commented upon in these columns. Note-
worthy among his more recent offerings are his
effective fac-similes in colour. We show herewith a
reproduction of a print of St. John’s Park, once a
spot of beauty but obliterated by a railway fran-
chise. The plate is altogether charming in the sense
of the ease and dignity of metropolitan life in an
earlier time of this city. Of course, the half-tone
cannot do justice to the colour, and the richness of

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Copyright, 1905, by C. Klackner

SAINT JOHN’S PARK AND CHAPEL BY E. L. HENRY
VARICK STREET, NEW YORK

the tones in this plate certainly deserve to be seen
by any one interested in the possibilities of such a
commendable process.
Our readers will notice in the fac-simile reproduc-
tion opposite page 156 an error in the title discov-
ered too late for correction. The etching by AI. A.
J. Bauer, from which this reproduction is made, is
entitled Funeral Ceremony, Benares.
A Meeting to protest against the present tariff
on works of art was to be held, shortly after we went
to press, in the Hudson Theatre, Forty-fourth Street.
New York, under the auspices of the League for
Political Education. The Speakers announced
were J. Carroll Beckwith, Richard Watson Gilder,
John W. Alexander and Ivenyon Cox. The
American Free Art League is continuing its work
in the same direction. Upon the call of the Copley
Society, of Boston, a meeting was held in the spring
in the University Club, this city. After a summer
spent in collecting material for the campaign, the
Executive Committee met in New York and again
in Chicago last month for the purpose of completing
its plans.

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