International studio (40.1910)

In the Galleries

long intervals between recurring conjunctions, and amount of diffused light emitted by the dominating
the necessity of atmospheric conditions being favor- light that the blue color of a shadow is due.
able, one evening when there lingered about an Nature shadows existing in bodies or masses, and
hour's low-toned daylight reflected from the zenith, blue bases of shadows the bodies of which, though
and the moon was full, a pure blue shadow on a blue, are invisible, and other cognate manifesta-
white envelope was obtained. tions of them, will be dealt with in a future article.

The shadow of the sun on snow being blue (To be continued)

through the influence of daylight, an unbroken suc-
cession of instances of color dominance has been N THE GALLERIES
shown. And as the sun itself is thus dominated, I

and daylight and moonlight are the most diffused of : By the death of Seth Morton Vose in his
all illuminants, it is evident that transmitted light X seventy-ninth year at Providence, R. I., last
plays no part in such dominance. Again, as in the month Boston loses its oldest art dealer. Mr.

•conjunction of two artificial lights, the dominating Vose was as well the oldest art dealer in America
light was observed to be also the more diffused, it and was known among his fellow connoisseurs as
follows that it is to the action of the preponderating the dean. For many years his gallery in the Old

Studio Building was the
rendezvous of art lovers
from all parts of the
world. He introduced
into this country the now
famous Barbizon School
of French painters of the
period of 1830.

Corot and Daubigny
were Mr. Vose's favor-
ites. He began buying
Corots in 1852—when it
was hardly possible to
sell these now highly
valued paintings at even
a nominal sum—Troy-
ons in 1854, and by 1857
he owned a large collec-
tion of paintings by these
artists, Millet, Delacroix
and others of the same
schools. In 1873 when
Mr. Vose's collection of
Corot's, which cost him
$25,000, was offered for
sale at a public exhi-
bition the highest price
asked for a single pic-
ture was $1,250. By
good chance not a single
one was sold, for in 1887
for a small portion of
the collection he receiv-
ed $92,000, selling five
at $10,000 each, which
would now be considered

Courtesy oj n. e. Moniross an insignificant sum for

the shell by robert reid these pictures.

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