Show iN N. N Y Museum Gets Havemeyer Art Collection Vast Number of Cherished Cher- Cher is Works by Modem Mod Mod- em ern Painters Are Included Included In- In in Group NEW Y Jan Long Cd-Long before before be be- fore reputable art connoisseurs an and such museums as the Louvre an anNew and New Yorks York's own Metropolitan l recognized roe rec- the works of the modern masters a young American girl t in 1875 was saving her money to bu buy i a a. Degas canvas as Front From this nucleus grow the If H. O. O Have Have- meyer art collection which was reI re re- re I bequeathed to the the- MetropolItan itan Art museum by b the will of Mrs Havemeyer who was Louisine Valdron Waldron Val Wal- dron Elder before her marriage It has been said that Mrs 1 Havemeyer Havemeyer Have Have- meyer was advised in her original or-Igina purchase by her Intimate th the American American- born American born artist Mary Cassatt But Horace Havemeyer son of 01 thc th I late connoisseur InsIsts that although al although al- al though his mother was Influenced to a great extent by Manet's dis elpie Mary lary Cassatt Mrs Havemeyer er bought her first paintings because lecause le- le cause she found In the moderns something allied to her own spirit This his is a logical conclusion when one remembers that Mrs 1 Havemeyer er demonstrated d in all all' her later life that she was attuned to whatever was progressive She was a a. founder found found- er ot of the National Womans Woman's party and a militant suffrage leader EXHIBITION CAUSED RIOT But it is noticeable that though her hel bequest multiplies the great modern art in the Metropolitan there are no contemporary mod modernists modern modern- Included in the tho collection When Paul Cezanne was but a name to evoke rIdicule and contempt Louisme Louis Louls- me ino Waldron Valdron Elder purchased sonic some of 01 lila hIs earlier canvases which the eccentric artists artist's wire had salvaged from the kitchen and barnyard barnard ot of their country home It was through her friendship with Mary al' al Cassatt whom Horace brace calls his mothers mother's girlhood chum that Miss Elder met a number of the tho young artists who were revolting against the traditions ot of the tha classical schools At this time the vogue was wa for or the picture that told a story the pretty calendar t type pe The radicals could not got get high prices but the canvases for which Mrs J Havemeyer then paid about each would now nosy sell for apiece An occurrence e a a. year eat after Miss l Elder bought her bel first Degas emphasizes emphasizes em- em the significance of this American girls girl's choosing such a painting The Tho Ruel Durand-Ruel galleries gal gal- In Paris held the first exhibitions exhibitions of this this' group in 1876 egas Renoir Monet and Berthe l were exhibited for forthe forthe the first time So many arguments were provoked before the canvases that the police had to be called to quell the riot Coincident with Ith the showing there was a L fire on the I street which called forth the state state- critic that lent 1 from a conservative consel another cal calamity mity has occurred In Inthe Inthe the Rue Lafitte where where- eight painters paint paint- ers s and one oman have the audacity au- au to their work and and sign it Louisin Waldron aldron Eldee and H. 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O to she was wa mar mar- ned were drawn together by en- en for art and particularly for the work ot of the moderns Both were wealthy nd out of their desire desire de- de sire to have hwe about them the beautiful ful things the they loved loyed grew the vast cOllection of fine canvases ing many works of Rembrandt and Hals as well as modern art INCREASES MODERNS The recent bequest has the warmest enthusiasm from the vials of 01 the Metropolitan museum who were criticized adversely in in- ina a book by Walter Pach Ananias I which found fault with the museum for not recognizing the moderns It would seem from a survey of 01 the moderns hanging in the tho museum that in their purchases s of the last twenty five years ears the directors have given preferenCe to contemporarY American painters rs rather than contemporary con con- temporary European artists It has been suggested in authoritative that the tho museum did not buy as many canvases front from the 1 1 Impressionist school because they knew or of the e existence or of collections col- col containing such pictures which the museum would inherit in time The Metropolitan mus ni has not differed radically in this respect from the of I the Louvre where a Monet was hung for fOl the first I time Lime about five years ago For For- many decades the tho Luxembourg galleries gal gal- lea er-lea have been treated as a sort of f clearing house for moderns from which an artists artist's canvases are not removed to the L ure until twenty years cars after h his death t At the present there is but one Degas Interior hanging In the local ocal museum mUSE and that lent by an anI I anonymous benefactor Because ot of tho he new collection there thero now will wille works from bo e eighteen additional this artists artist's brush To the one ronet at present in the museum s emen rs r's gift add seven sev- sev en n. n Portrait of 01 a a. aMan Man Ian viii bo be the first 01 of hi his in inthe the he possession of the Metropolitan ADDED ADDEO There Thele has been but one In he museum to which the tho bequest adds another Front From ten paintings the he Mary Iary Cassatt collection will be welled swelled to fourteen and to the five loyas GOas now in the possession ot of the museum five lve others are added There now will be six Cezanne canvases can can- vases rases where there long has hung but iut one Besides a wealth wenIth or of primitives tho he new bequest ivill swell this rather ather meager list of 01 mo moderns erns to tor extravagant r and even cen proportions The Boy Before Little Girl and two pastels 1 both called Mary lary Cassatt Cas Cas- Mother and Child by satt att are the tho only works of an American 1 included in the gift to the Metropolitan Not only were the erg interested In paintings s. s but the they possesse 1 a. a gallery ot of Chinese PO clams and potter Persian and ad Babylonian pottery hout the world There are helves pf ancient Greek va es and Iridescent gIas which once Was considered superior to that ot of the Metropolitan Museum or of Art Frequent mention has been made of 01 n a unique group roup or of sculpture which Mrs recently tnt to the museum and nd which was returned returned re- re turned shortly her death This was on an original set of seventY pieces b by Degas all cast C from and cIa clay figures found in his studIo During the life Ufe ot of the artist never ne had been een cast in bronze |