. International studio. he actual, quotidian existence of those whodwell among them, and thus go much furthertoward fulfilling their original function than is oftenthe case. The most distinctive feature of this col-lection, as a whole, is its pronounced modernity. Itis the colorful and stimulating art of to-day whichMr. Reisinger alone gathers about him and ofwhich he is an acknowledged patron and a strictly contemporary choice he has addedanother significant quality, and that is a wholesomeeclecticism. Mr. Reisinger is in no sense a narrowspecialist in his favorite field. While in
. International studio. he actual, quotidian existence of those whodwell among them, and thus go much furthertoward fulfilling their original function than is oftenthe case. The most distinctive feature of this col-lection, as a whole, is its pronounced modernity. Itis the colorful and stimulating art of to-day whichMr. Reisinger alone gathers about him and ofwhich he is an acknowledged patron and a strictly contemporary choice he has addedanother significant quality, and that is a wholesomeeclecticism. Mr. Reisinger is in no sense a narrowspecialist in his favorite field. While in this collec-tion the modern German school naturally predom-inates, the Americans, Frenchmen, Dutchmen,Scandinavians and others are accorded ample recog-nition. In the matter of subject there is, perhaps, aleaning toward landscape, yet that, indeed, is butan added proof of the advanced character of thisparticular connoisseurs predilections. Numerically the strongest, and also the most com- XXIX Mr. Reisingers Collection. POLO PLAYERS, prehensively selected, it will be fitting to considerfirst the German work, and, for obvious reasons,the American painters will be treated next in point of fact, modern German and latter-dayAmerican art are not only contemporaneous butoften definitely parallel in their development. At years our own Sargent, Mel-chers, Alexander, Tarbell,Hitchcock, Weir, Hassam,Metcalf, Redfield and in each instance the so-journ proved correspond-ingly beneficial. The Ger-mans regained their frontiers,carrying with them, as didthe Americans overseas, thesame unforgettable lessonsin freedom of treatment andatmospheric truth. Withina score of years of the cen-turys close the seed of mod-ern art had, in short, beenscattered broadcast over theworld to spring forth every-where after its own he often went to Paris later, and becamethe friend of Meissonier and other Frenchmen of theday, it cannot be held that Menzel, save, perhaps,in his Th
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