International studio (48.1913)

In the Galleries

folds of almost classic
grace, is shown standing
beside a table on which
are a kneeling Venus and
the head of a boy in marble.
Books and portfolios are
strewn incongruously at
her feet. Her left hand
holds a green scroll, her
right a pencil. The waist
is encircled by a blue green
sash. All of the great Eng-
lishman’s refined and ro-
mantic color are here; his
idealistic version of reality;
his love of the decorative
and the dignified.
A pair of companion
pictures by the Master of
Frankfort are among the
prizes brought over from
the other side of the water,
for the coming season, at
the Ehrich Gallery.
The purchase, by Moul-
ton & Ricketts, of the
American interests of
Arthur Tooth & Sons, is
one of the important busi-
ness changes of the season
in New York. The house
of Moulton & Ricketts, for
thirty years identified with
the art development of the
Middle West, has, during
this period conducted its
present establishment in
Chicago, the present loca-
tion being 73 East Van
Buren Street. The influ-
ence and the clientele, how-
ever, has extended to most

Courtesy of Theron R. Blakeslee
LADY ANNE STANHOPE BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS


of the important centers of
the West. Some five years ago the firm erected
in Milwaukee a building of its own, one of the
most beautiful and complete of the kind in the
country, and one year ago, to accommodate its
rapidly increasing eastern business, opened attrac-
tive galleries at 12 West 45th Street, New York.
The New York galleries of Moulton & Ricketts
have now been transferred to the premises pre-
viously occupied by Arthur Tooth & Sons at

537 Fifth Avenue and will be in charge of Mr.
Arthur B. Hughes, who for a number of years
was connected with that firm.
While Arthur Tooth & Sons nominally retire,
after a long business career in the United States,
their influence will in nowise be withdrawn from
this country, inasmuch as there will exist close
working relations between the two firms.
Mr. R. R. Ricketts, who is the active head of

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