The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-08
Striking Canvasses
at Pan.HmeriCdn

TT IS RATHER strange. TO say the least th't
one American artist whose work is probably
4 best known through reproductions is utterly
Unreprescnted at She Pan. American eNpos.
tion and that another who has received honOrs at
the Paris Salon aud medal at the worlds fair
should also be conspicuous hy absence from this
exhibition. 1t is stll more peculiar that both
have claimed this region home and birth
place and are very well known in Scranton. The
first is Miss Jennie T'rowrscomhc, whose peace
BALI and many pictures Of New England life
and whose apple orchards in bloom are as familiar
TO this generation az "From Shore TO Shore" and
Washington Crossing the Delaware" were to
generation gone by. No painting from hcr hand
is cntaloGucd At the exposition. This may he
explained in part from TIE fact that she is abroad
and has been away flom America for some mon, h'.
Yet other artist, who have not been on their
native shores tor many a year are nohly repre-.
sented in the art gallery, through the enterprise
Of friends members Of tine committee
who have secured loans OF valuable works. Then,
too, klaykncr. the New York dealer who has
the exclusive right to Miss Brcwnscombes pic.
uros tor tic purposes OF reproduction, has loaned
the Daingcrhcld M-.oEna and other costly can.
vases and 1t would seem that he might naturally
have been expected to see TO it that the cS.
quisitclv lovely creations Of this favoritc Amcri
can artist were not overlooked. Mr.. John Rought,
formerly OF this city, is another who assurcdly
should be represented. and who unfortunately
Is not. He has done much excellent work. is a
true artist, and IL Is \ pity that he should not
have sent something to the exposition. The
may he said OF Mr. John Brlinard, OF Green
Ridge, whose genius and ability have been recog.
nizcd at home and abroad.
As was remarked in former article, no picture
in the exhibition eXctes more interest than the
single representation Of our Royal ACademician,
Edwin 4. Abbey, who has lived 50 much in
England that we half forget he is American until
we some Of his work in the Boston or the
Congressional library or read some old song IL.
mStratcd by his hand. This is mighty canvas
hanging in Room b. opposite the Sargent group.
1t is crowded with figures and by reason OF the
wonderful detail which renders every figure a
real person. and the brilliant scarlet uniform
Of the Lord High sheriff, people fock like moths
about it, The inscription, THE Pcnance oi
Eleanor, Duchess OF GloStcr' seems not to help
out the multitude in their gucsscs to the
STORY for, OF course, it is q picture with a
story. On the first day when the art gallery was
opened the catalogues were minus quality and
many were the Coniecturcs regarding this great
picture. People asked each other what she did
the beautiful lady amid the throng with her
feet barred and the look of despair on her lovely |
face, and attcrward when they secured cata
logucs and read the quotation from Shakespeare
appended to the number their enlightenment did |
not seem to enlarge. This is in the inscription, |
from King Henry VI:
Come you my crd 10 see my open shame9
Now thou dost pcnancc too. Look how they gaze!
See how the Giddy multitude do point
And nod their heads, and throw their eyes On |
thee.
All! GloStcr, hide thee from their hateful looks; |
And in thy closet pcnt up, rue my shame,
And ban thine enemies, both thine and mine"
O.
The picture presents the street scene when the |
duchess who, with the priests Hume and south. |
we'll the conjurcr Bongbrokc and a witch had |
been detected practicinG nccromsncy against the |
king in the dukes garden is made to do pen. |
auce amid the rahhc. She "cndures the ninty |
streets to tread them with her tcnder.teelng |
feet" wearing only sheet and carving lighted |
taper. Sir John Stanley. with the sheriff and |
officers make background for the slender, white. |
rohcd figure. Gloster, standing aside. gazcs pite, |
ou,ly at his dsGraccd duchess, 20 whom she says.
'McthinkS should not thus he led along
Mailed up in shame, with papers on my back
And followed with rahhc, that rejoice
To see my tears and hear my decp.fclt groans
The ruthless flint do cut my tender feet.
Sometime I'll say am Duke Humphreys wife,
And he a prince and ruler Of the land,
Vet 50 he ruled and such prince he was
As he stood by whilst !, his iorlorn duchess,
Vas made wonder and pointing stock
To every idle rascal follower"
Such was the penalty Of ambition and jealousy |
OF the queen and her power.
q
In this room, too, is the exquisite little cam
vas, "Ncnicc from the Ldgoons," by Thomas
Moran, and it has the wonderful Turnersoue blues |
Of sky and water, the soft atmosphere and the
fair distanGo Of a dream.
The five pictures Of F. u, Millet hang at the
eastern end. "The ESpansioniSt" is SO rich in |
detail, so mdryelouSly definite and clear that one
enters the very room with the little maid in her |
quaint garh, They are all interiors and give an |
opportunity for the study OF this ar.
lists style. Among the minor pictures in this |
room is little canvas, badly skied. II is so |
vague in outline, so poetic in conception that |
few people study it closely. When they do they |
see frl!l. small nude figure lying prone on its |
face, the fragile wings bruised and broken and |
over il all weird crimson light That is all. |
Consulting the catalogue it is found TO be THE
Moth" by Guy Rose. To me there is an eXcep.
tionsl charm and originality in the idea
III. c. p.