Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 28

News and Notes of Art and Artists Recent Paintings Acquired by Phill’ifs Gallery Are 'Now on View—Philadelphia Artists Showing Their Work at the Arts Club—News From the American Academy in Rome. BY LEILA MECHLIN. NNOUNCEMENT was made_ in these columns last the recent acq! itlon by the Phillips Memorial Gallery of important works by Daumier and Courbet. These, with other not- able paintings not herefore exhibited in this city, are now on view. The Daumier has been placed ‘in the cen- ter of the right-hand wall of the main gallery, opposite the Phillips’ “El Greco” and in company with a number of much smaller pa'ntings by the same artist It makes a great focal interest, sounding a Sonorous, tragic note. In importance it vies with the Renoir, the purchase of which a year ago was & genuine Bencation. This painting, r Star last Sund newly discov- ered in Paris less than two years 2go and immediately exhibited in the Pm-re. attracting wide attention, for »aumier as a painter has long since come into his own. Later the picture was shown in the Leicester Galleries, oduced in The “IN NOVEMBER,” BY ELIZABETH WASHINGTON. THIS week of | two nudes as solitary as Adam and Eve after the expulsion. The Lawson 18 a summer landscape after rain and shows the worjd very green and very wat. It assists, however, in making the transit'on from the somberness of the Daumier group to the extreme cheerfulness of the Renoirs. Could there ever be greater contrast than between the “Revolution” and the “Canoelsts' Luncheo as truly Paris as the other. It is'per- haps this marked contrast between light and shadow which gives to ®aris its peculiar charm. * ¥ * % THE exnibition of paintings by a group of Philadeiphia artists now on view at the Arts Club, 2017 I street, is genuinely delightful. It comprises 46 paintings, all of which are admirably done, colorful, fresh and very engaging. Eighteen of the paintings are in the downstairs draw- ing room, 8 are in the room above. In both instances immediately upon entrance the visitor derives an im- presefon of pleasure, of the joyous- PAINTING 1S INCLUDED IN able seclusion ‘which his office and his tastes made . possible, the ideals, the standards of enjoyment which, alas, are regarded as a part of the past. Another anchor has let go: * ok k¥ ORD comes of interesting work belng done by fellowship holders And yet one is|a¢ the American Academy in Rome. “Two of our sculptors” writes the directors in charge of the School of Fine Arts, “have been developing in teresting sketches for war memorial Stevens, senior sculptor. has present- ed his idea for the heroic figure of America for the Belleau Wood Ceme- te-y Alvin Mevyer, second-year seulptor, has projected a scale model for a proposed monument to be pre- sented to Italy by the American Go ernment to commemorate the Ameri- can lives sacrificed on Italan soil during the World War. Frank Schwartz, senior painter of last year, has been doing a large triptych in tempera of an ‘Adoration,’ working A GROUP BY THE PHILADELPHIA PAINTERS NOW ON EXHIBITION AT THE ARTS CLUB. London, and now has come here—a Priceless posseesion here to remain At the time the picture was ex: hibited in London Arsene Alexandre wrote in the Burlington Magazine: “The picture Is the most important and the most impress've of those which we know or are likely to know of Daumier’s. There is no work of his of like importance among those which have escaped the knowledge of historians and the zeal of collectors.” Naming five or six of Daumier's most fmportant works, he goes on to say: “These are almost all the figure com- positions larger than an casel pic- ture which can be compared with the amazing ‘L'Emeute’ (‘Revolution’). Tt seems to us to equal any of these in pictoral value and even to surpass them in and human interest High praise, indeed, and thus he aptly characte the work: “As Delacroix expressed what we may call the Iyrical side of revolution, so Daumier has in this case, as it were, sculptured the features of a mob. He has done so by that power of imagi- nation which only real great painters have. Six figures, some gable ends ®f houses, the crowns of a few hats, was all that he needed to give the impression and to communicate the emotion of a whole crowd advancing passive but menacing through a ter- rified town. The picture makes one regret that ‘Les Miserables' was not fllustrated by Daumier, one never thinks of these ideas until too late.” Thus this eminent eritic sums up the spirit of Daumier's master paint- ing. As he says, so little has been made to indicate 5o much; so truly has lie interpreted the mob spirit that it is almost impossible to realize as one is looking at this picture that there are only six flgures actually portrayed. But in these figures Is the whole story of revolution. Here are the fanatic, the mentally incom- petent, the oppressed and the wronged. Here in the aggregate is that awful thing—human energy un- controlled, plunging headlong with- out guidance and without regard for consequences. A great wall cutting oft perspective seams to suggest not merely confinement of space but that battlement of prejudice and misun- derstanding which invariably precipi- tates revolution. It is a fearful pic- ture and yet magnificent. A lesser artist could never have presented such a theme and held perfect poise. It would have bacome merely hideous, fearful, perhaps even absurd. This is the work of a master painter and of » man who not only felt deeply but anderstood And how delightfully Daumier's sther roints of view—his versatility, his sense of humor. his love of har- monious color and beautiful tone, his sbility to strike precisely the right note at the right time—are indicated in the other little- pictures which mang adjacent to this great work. Where else in America can such a proup of Daumiers be seen? * x % HE other newcomer hangs on the opposite wall. It itled *Rocks at Ornans—Sunset” and Is a framatic work such as Courbet better than almost any other knew how to present. The rocky cliffs rise dark nnd high as a fortress, the foreground 1s in shadow, but bright patches of sunlight lie on the height, and the aky beyond is cold and blue and clear, with just enough cloud scud to lend It Interest. This hangs to the right of the “El Greco,” and to the left is @ second Courbet, “The Glen"; while on the opposite wall is yet a third by the same master of the French school of the nineteenth cen- tury—a picture of sky and sea, the Mediterranean, the former pale green- blue, the latter deepest sapphire. Tn this goodly, If somewhat tragic, tompany two works by Arthur B. Davies, two by John Sloan, one by Albert Ryder and one by Ernest Law- son, masters of our own day, Have been given place. One of the Davies has not been shown before and Is very unusual. It is entitled “The Flood” and shows a great onrush’ of water, the bending before the wind of sapling trees and follage, while in the left-hand - corner, .indicative of destitution amd human wreckage, are ¢ ! than Philadelphia, | wood-block printers, ete. ness of the sunny outdoor world There are landscapes, wharf scen boats and still life. but no portraits, and, after all. one is not sorry. Kathryn E. Cherry, who. by the way, comes from St Louls rather but is evidently a sympathetic member of the group: Lillian B. Meeser, Katherine Farrell and Laura S. D, Ladd all show flower paintings—and flower paintinzs of a very unusual and delightful sort. Especially may this be said of the raintings by Mrs. Sherry and Miss Meeser, who -get into their works & certain decorative quality which_is very satisfylng. They are virile paint- | ers and Mrs. Cherry’s landscapes and her Winter pictures and Miss Mceser's boats and harbor scenes are no le alluring than their still life. They both paint with great virility and apparent command of medium The place of honor in the room up- stairs is given to Elizabeth Washing- ton'’s Winter picture, entitled “No. vember.” - Katherine Farrell's “Early Spring” and “At the Float” are both charming works, as.are also Susette Keast's “Flower Show—Rittenhouse Square” and “Apple Trees” -Ethel Herrick Warwick's “Rittenhouse Square” and “A Connecticut Home" are cleverly interpreted. In fact, so even is the merit of the works shown in this exhibition that it is difficult to single out one above comment or praise. From first to last & remarkably high and even av- erage is attained and all of the art- ists represented show work pleas- antly sympathetic—a harmonious showing. * ok ok T the same time in the library at the Arts Club Sarah E. Cowan is showing silhouettes and portrait drawings in sanguine. Both are ex- cellent. The silhouettes. which, by the way, aré having renewed vogue at the present time, are of children and grown people, heads and full lengths, with and without accessorles, and are most clever delineations, well composed, - clear cut and -showing sensitive feeling in the matter of outline. as well as character-and per- sonality. The sanguine drawings are of an entirely different type, much subtler and fn some ways more un- usual. So delicately are these ren- dered that they suggest at a glance silver ‘points and preserve the best for those who linger. R THE print aivision of the Library of Congress has _sustained a loss in' the death of Prof. A. Rice. who for more than 10 years has been nominally its chief. Prof. Rice succeeded A. J. Parsons, under whose able and enthusiastic direction the division was originally formed and the collection bullt up. Prof. Rice was essentially a connols- seur and one whose inherent tastes were guided and controlled by schol- arly knowledge. Prior to his coming to Washington Mr. Rice was for 25 years préfessor of the history of art and civilization at Williams College. Doubtless dur- ing that long period many of ,those who passed through his classes caught the contagion, as it were, of love of art, or at least attained that attitude of curiositys which tempts in- quiry and eventually often leads to collecting. Prof. ‘Rice had the in- stinct of the born rollector and noth- ing but the best satisfled him, and yet by his advice - the print division of the Library of Congress. has dur- ing the past 8 or 10 years largely augmented, by purchase, its collec- ton of the works of cotemporary print makers, etchers, lithographers, During his incumbency also the Pennell. collec- tion of Whistleriana was given to the Library of Congress, catalogued and exhiblted: To Prof. Rice books and prints were, s they should be, closely asso- ciated in thought. Beautiful bind- ings, finely engraved plates, book fl= lustration and those processes by which lovely prints are brought into existence. were all Kkeenly delightful to him. He was one of those who seemed to have onrush of ocotemporaneot Richard tite other for | secaped from the |5 t. | fame at’ Anticoli. figures.” The composition shows is the height of the art sea- n, and the art museums through- ovut the country, as well as the deal are putting ‘on special displays The Detroit Institute of Arts lately held a notable loan exhibition of aeventeenth century Dutch paintin, collected by their new director, W. R. Valent'ner. Among the lenders are the Secretary of the Tre: ry. Mr. Melion; Mr. Widener of Philadelphia. Sir Joseph Duveen, Henry Goldma and others. It is amazing how rich in such treasures our American col- lections have become, and also how generous the collectors are in making loans. At the Carnegte Institute. Pitts- burgh, a notable exhibition of early American portraits, loaned by collec- tors and dealers, is now on view. Es- pecially interesting in this are por- traits of personages of historical such as -King George III of Cugland. Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Commodore John' Barry, etc. At the Reinhardt Galleries in New York, where the Zulosga paintings were ‘shown, Seraphim Soudbinine, the Russian artist who exhibited at the National Gallery in this city last Win- ter, is now showing portraits. Mr. Soudbinine has lately returned to the United States after several months abroa *ox ok K ] T is Interesting to know that Ma- honri Young, one of the most ver- satile and gifted of the younger painters of America, equal well known as sculptor and painter, has recently completed & Navajo Indian group, the third of a series of four life-size groups for the Museum of Natural History in New York. Two of Mr. Young's water colors, it will be remembered, were lately shown at the Phillips Memorial Gallery. 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