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me and a little before! we went together to Delmonicos to attend Berth's breakfast to Spring. It was a most successful and delightful affair. Irving sat at Bertha's right and it was surprising to observe what a likeness there was between them. I sat between John McCullough and Mr Joseph Hatton with whom I had an interesting talk. He is a literary man, a friend of Irving and a correspondent of the Times and he and Irving are writing a book on America. He told me of the accidental death of a brilliant and most promising man. McCullough seemed much broken and Laurence Hatton told me he thought he had incipient softening of the brain. He seemed sad to me. On this card are the autographs of all present. We sat at table until near 5 oclock, when Eastman and I after coming to my room went and called on Professor Weir who is now 81 years old and who paints every day. He said he had not been out of the house since last October but he seemed and looked well. He had a picture nearly finished of Columbus before the Council of Salamanca which was not bad for a man of his years. 

Post. ART NOTES. Mar. 6" 1884

Some recent work by Mr. J. H. Twachtman was exhibited at the Art Students' League on Saturday and yesterday. The pictures, about twenty-five in number, were landscapes with one exception——a half-length study of a woman in black——most of them painted in oil. Half-a-dozen sketches in pastel formed an interesting part of the collection. Two winter landscapes marked by a delicate perception of subtle values were notably excellent, and in other pictures, which owing to the lack of a catalogue or titles on the frames it is impossible to designate, showed this quality together with agreeable and refined color and a somewhat too evident simplicity of handling. These pictures were especially good in decorative feeling, and possessed one excellent quality, comparatively rare in American landscape, in their accuracy and beauty of line.

A collection of seventy-five landscapes by Jervis McEntee is now on exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Galleries, and is to be sold at auction to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. Mr. McEntee is well known as a painter of landscapes, and in the present collection are to be found some of the more important of his recent works.

"The Eastern Sky at Sunset," No. 59, is such a work. It is a picture of a stretch of snow-covered country with hills in the distance painted in sober tones with a fine sky of broken clouds lighted up by the rays of the sun. It is both effective and truthful. Another winter scene is a dramatic little picture, "Funeral of a Veteran," No. 71, in which a procession of carriages with a little band of veterans preceding them is seen slowly moving along over a country road in a snowy landscape. "Up in the Humboldt Mountains," Nevada, No. 42, is an effect of sunlight on the barren landscape of a mountain top, excellent in character and local color. The majority of the subjects of the other pictures are placed in the Kaatskills or among the farms of Dutchess County, or on Long Island, and present familiar phases of nature in these picturesque localities.

Tuesday April 15" 1884. Rained all day and was so dark I did not paint. Edgar M. Ward called and also Lockwood DeForest who was to buy one of my studies. He had not time to look them over as I was obliged to leave to attend an Art Union meeting. Dined with the G. B. Club at Purcells. Marbury was there for the first time since his accident. Just as I was going out I got a note from Bram Stoker enclosing tickets for two seats for the Irving performances on Thursday evening. As that is the [[obscured]] reception I was obliged to return them to my [[obscured]] intimated in my note that it was the on- [[obscured]] which I had a positive engagement and I [[obscured]] for some other evening.

[[obscured]] all day on my Batavia Kill picture and have one [[obscured]] a better condition. Attended a general meeting [[obscured]] is hostility and criticism among certain cliques [[obscured]] J. N. Patterson gave expression to it. I begin to wish [[obscured]] to do with it. It is so hard to do anything for the artists in general for as a class they look for some individual profit and have no courage to make small sacrifices for the general welfare. 

Thursday 17. Did so much work today much of my furniture was not in a proper state still I advanced it somewhat. Mr. Gordon called to get a card for the reception this evening for a friend from Montreal. He spoke pleasantly of Booth and of a pleasant conversation he had once had with him at the Century. His time is all taken with dinners and receptions. I called for him, his son Will and Bob Tinker with a carriage at 845 this evening to take them to the reception. Saw his three daughters for a moment. We arrived at the Academy about 9. Gev.

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