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CHARLES HENRY PHELPS JOHN P. EAST TELEPHONE BROAD 778 PHELPS & EAST COUNSELLORS AT LAW 30 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK 10, 1917 [[?]] Feb 10, 1917 - Art and Artists. - The Humphreys Collection at American Art Galleries. The Humphreys collection, at the American Art Galleries, probably represents the most important single group of American canvases ever offered at auction. Such a group, giving as it does a survey of art in this country for the last thirty or forty years, should be owned by our museum. Many of the painters are represented by numerous canvases. Among these are Inness, Martin, Homer, Hunt, Murphy, Ranger, Desar, Dearth, and Wyant. The impressionistic tendencies are well set forth by Hassam, Theodore Robinson and Twachtman. The ensemble apart from the pictures of these three shows the growth of American art at home, practically uninfluenced by foreign movements. The art of Inness, Wyant, Homer, and Martin has an unmistakable national character. It is aside from that art full of poetry and, in the case of Homer, sets forth the rugged dramatic side. His "A Voice From the Cliffs" shows three fisher maids glancing up in answer to a call from the cliffs, giving us one of the artist's most beautiful conceptions of life on the coasts. A group of twelve canvases by the late H. W. Ranger deserves special mention and will probably be of more than common interest to the picture loving public, for it will serve to rate his works. Artistically, Ranger attained a high pitch, enveloping his landscape in rich and glowing color. he reached for no new field in art, but painted with vigor and mastery the many phases of American landscape. There is also a group representative of Paul Dougherty at his best, and there are good examples of the work of Daingerfield, Blakelock, Chase, De Forest, Brush, Curran, and F. S. Church. THE WAVE JANUARY 24, 1917. THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY, HUNT WILL MAKING U. S. ARTISTS LOSERS - They Must Give Up Income From $250,000 if Alleged Later Testament Is Found. - American artists are interested in the hunt for a new will of Henry Ward Ranger, marine and landscape painter. His will now on file in the Hall of Records bequeaths the income from almost $250,000to the Council of the National Academy of Design for the purchase of paintings by American artists. Provided this search leads to nothing by next Nov. 17, American artists will find this added market for their works. The hunt has been started by Attorney James C. McEachen of No. 45 Broadway, legal representative of Miss Edith F. Ranger, sister of the deceased. She was not mentioned in her brother's will now on file. She has been informed at her home, No. 311 West Fifty-fifth Street, that three persons at least, one an aunt of hers, heard her brother say he made a will only a few months before his death, and in that one he left his estate to her. It was made at at later date than the one filed last Nov. 17. Mrs. L. M. Whitmore of Rochester, N. Y., aunt of the Rangers, has written a letter just delivered to Mr. McEachen, in which she tells of the artist talking of the will, saying he made it within a year. Other persons have come forward, saying they heard of it. Mr. McEachen has inserted an advertisement requesting any one having knowledge of the new will to communicate with him. The hunters have 298 days still in which to find the will. - [[?]] March 4, '17 - 130 Rangers To Be Sold - American Artist's Legacy To Members of His Profession The late Henry W. Ranger, one of the most successful of our landscape painters, bequeathed his fortune--estimated to be over $200,000--to the National Academy of Design. He directed that the income of the fund thus established should be devoted to the purchase of works by American artists. These pictures will be distributed among various public galleries. An important development of Mr. Ranger's purpose is announced by the American Art Association, which states that it has been authorized by the artist's executors, Mr. Charles Henry Phelps and Mr. William Macbeth, to sell his collection at auction. After a brief exhibition the paintings will be sold on the evenings of March 29 and 30. Mr. Ranger left in his studio 130 examples of his own work. Besides these he possessed pictures by a number of his contemporaries. The collection includes three landscapes by J. Francis Murphy, eight subjects--presumably Venetian--by the late William Gedney Bunce, paintings by Inness and Wyant, and examples of W. Henry Howe, C. H. Davis, L.P. Dessar, Horatio Wlaker, F. B. Williams, J. H. Twachtman and Carleton Wiggins. The modern Dutch school is represented by Kever, Ten Kate and Poggenbeek, and there is a landscape by Constable. Mr. Macbeth is preparing the catalogue, which will be profusely illustrated.
