, JULY 24. 1916 



The Fine A rts 



THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES 



Retrospective View of Boston Art Activi- 

 ties Forty-Odd Years Ago Outlined by 

 Old Catalogues 



catalogue; 

 lor purpo 



lOple save their old art 

 parati'Vely tow. Ami yel 

 rMetanee .many ot those 



i to the histori&j 

 of Mr. A. \v. E 

 1 Art Publieatic 

 nent lias had tl" 



clivitie 



; retr-ospeotive 

 of forty-odd ye 



:ugg< 



:ed : 



■oug'h tlie cour- 

 iresident of cna 



ipany, this de- 

 ilege Of a very 

 rttpae ol the an 

 rs ago in Boa- 

 us by the cata- 

 u'b exhibitlor. 

 MinuaJ Sale' 



Art Glut 



of Uhe Boston Art CI 

 ot 1873 and of the "Artists' A 

 of the spring of 1875. -The Bos 

 exhibition ot 1873 contained 183 works; of 

 this total about UK) were oil paintings, and 

 the rest were watercoloVs, paslole, draw- 

 ings and sculpture. Among the names ol 

 the artists In this catalogue we note those 

 of A. B. Copeland, George Snail, Alfred 

 Ordway, A. P. Bellows, F. P. Vinton, 

 Ellen Mobbing, Edwin Lord Weeks, Ern-aSt 

 tiongfellow, Benjamin Chamuney, J. Wells 

 Champney, William Babcoek, J. Foxc'roft 

 Cole. K. T. Billings, Frank II ill Smith, J. 

 Appleton Brawn, W. M. Fisher, S. W. 

 Griggs, William E. Norton. John II. Key, 

 George Inness, F. D. Williams, Walter M. 

 Bracket!, Anne Whitney, James M. Hart, 

 Thomas lioibinson and Helen M, Kno.wlton. 

 All but three or four of these artists are 

 dead. 



One peculiar feature of the exhibition i 

 the fact that more .than half of the picture 



1-hey 



tli. 



collections of such Bosb 

 Pi Kidder, a. D. Warren, Tio 

 worth, Francis Jaques, Benjamin «. Kobcn. 

 Dr. J. H. Wright, R. C. Greenleaf, and 

 Donald Kennedy. The 

 man lent a pencil dra 

 Charlotte BrontS. Th« 

 state where the exhibit 

 ability 



nas Wi. 



lamed gentle- 

 attributed to 

 )gue does not 

 is held, but it 

 ilu'b- 



street, opposite the 



ho'tise in Boylst' 

 Common. 



Who remembers the 'Artists' Annual 

 Sale" of March 17 and 18, 1875? it was 

 held in the gallery or the Studio Building, 

 m Tromont street, and the 107 paintings 

 were try eight artists—William iM. Hunt, 

 Thomas Robinson, John B. Johnston, Mar- 

 cus Waterman, S. S. Tuckenman, Frank 

 Hill Smith, F. W. Rogers and Miss H. M. 

 Knowlton. In this collection Hunt had no 

 less than twenty-eight paintings. They 

 were: "Spring Morning," "Cypress Tree 

 and Creek, Florida," "Hazy Autumn Morn- 

 ing," "Willow Tree," "The Rising Moon," 

 "Beach Scene ' with Horses," "The Garden 

 Gate," "Female Head— a study," "Autumn 

 Foliage, Newton Dower Falls," "MiUdam, 

 Neiwton Dower Falls," "Spring, Water- 

 town," "Silver Bake and Factory," 

 "Autumn Afternoon," "Magnolia Tree, St. 

 John's River," "Sunset, Newtonvllle," 

 "Poplars," "On Cliarles River," "Sketch," 

 "Cloudy Sunset," "Storm," "Milton Farm," 

 "Bemis Factory," "Banks of St. John's 

 River, Florida," "Charles River above 

 Waltham," "Autumn Sunset," "Land- 

 scape," "Silver Dake— sketch," and a 

 "Head." 



Marcus Waterman's principal contribu- 

 ' tion was his "Maaroof in the Market-Place, 

 1 from the Thousand and One Nights," and 

 he also sent in his "Black Birch Grove, 

 t October," "Sarkateau River, Moosehead 

 Dake," "Brother Jack, a Moosehead Dake 

 '• study," "November," and "Jessica." Salis- 

 bury Tuckerman had ten of his paintings 

 in the collection, comprising for the most 

 part ins marina pieces painted on the Eng- 

 lish coast, at Hastings, Yarmouth, Hartle- 

 pool, etc. Frank Hill Smith exhibited 

 eighteen paintings, made in Italy, France, 

 Holland and Canada. Tom Robinson was 

 represented by landscape subjects from 

 Marblehead, Quebec, Ecouen, Rhode 

 Island, etc., and by sevoral of his pictures 

 of animals. John B. Johnston was rep- 

 resented by several landscapes painted in 

 the suburbs of Boston; F. W. Rogers by 

 two or three landscapes of the neighbor- 

 hood of Hingham; and Miss Knowltoii by 

 a landscape and a flower piece. There wore 

 some excellent pictures In that collection, 

 beyond a doulbt, and no one who is ta- 

 mlllar with Boston auction prices for paint- 

 ings will question the surmise that many a 

 •bargain was to toe had. 



Mr. Elson has also handed this depart- 

 ment the catalogue of the second annual 

 exhibition of the Paint ami Clay club, 

 19S2. This was held in Mie picturesque old 

 sky parlor at 419 Washington street, 

 where Gilchrist's store now stands. The 

 exhibitors included Emil Carlson, J. Fox- 

 croft Cole, I. M. Gaugenglgl, W. F. Hal- 

 sall, John B. Johnston, W. D. Metcalf, Al- 

 fred Ordway, Charles F. Pierce, F. W. 

 Rogers, John Paul Selinger, Hy. Sandham, 

 Ross Turner, Marcus Waterman, George 

 B. Wasson, George Fuller, George W. Ed- 

 wards. Edmund H. Gmett, F. G. Attwood, 

 W. D. Taylor, W. B. Closson, and T. TI. 

 Bartlett. Although this show took place 

 only thirty-four years ago, of these twenty- 

 one men only seventeen survive today. 



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