The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-15
THU BUFFALO ART GALLERY
Formal Opening to Take Place on
Monday Next.
Scripture and Paintings Tint Form
One of the Most Attractive Fea-
lures of the Pan-Amcrican EXPOSE
ton - Conspicuous Contributions.

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the fine Albright Art Gallery, planned foI
! the exposition and to cost $50J.0g0. which
is now half finished and it has been sub
stituted with fireproof brick affair fan
| removed and hidden by trees from the
| other buildings OF the exposition and
| partly visible from the park lake It IS
| far from being what the Fine Arts Build
ing was at Chicago-one of the most con-
| spicuous at the fair-but is like the gen
eraI nature Of the Buffalo Exposition in
| comparison with the other-an artistic
gem, pleasing in detail and complete as
| representative of Pan-America instead OF
/ being massive in character and world
/ wide in scope.
| Yesterday there was a press view, and
| on Monday the gallery viii be formally
| opened. The exhibit in fine arts. espe-
| cially that Of paintings. is said to be the
| best ever made in America.
/ There is no American artist of distfnc-
/ ton who has not from one to twenty
/ works on exhibition This includes nearly
| all the Americans now living abroad.
| There is also what is called the interna-
| tionai collection. This is group Of pic
| lures by Albert Lynch, a native of Peru,
/ whose tone color has given him note in
| Paris. and several studies by Miss Camp
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mon Gonzalez, Of Chile, also a Partisan
| resident, was listed, but withdrew to show
| his work in the Chile building
There is what is called the Franco
American section, holding exhibits from
| the artists Of American birth now living
in Paris, but the buIk-perhaps 90 per
cent Of all the exhibits including paint
| tnSs, sculpture, etChings, engTayingS, IL
| Illustrations and architectural work-are
made by those now in the United States
and number about $50 The painters in
clude Chase, " histIer. Taft, Stewart,
! Beauz, and Stevenson. The scuIDtors in
ciude St Gaudens, who quite overtops the
rest in the number and Importance Of his
works; French. Macmonnies. Bartlett.
| Bitter. konti, Neihaus, and Adams. There
IS special section for Illustrators and
there Gibson, CIiRedfnst, Zogbau1a, Chris
y, WenzeiI, and Remington are shown
through their best work
The best view Of the gallery and the
contents of its ten rooms and the most
pleasurable impressions of its vernaI, ar
! tistic surroundings are obtained by
trip to it south from the EspIanade and
then eaS< along a winding park road,
formerly a most beautiful city aversIe.
French-s equestrian Washington ma rks
the beginning Of this trip. seemingly quite
removed from the artificial grandeur Of
the exposition, and St Ciaudens' Sherman.
easily the chief CT all the sculpture here,
is At the close, facing the entrance.
Before entering on. passes an heroic
Fan by Barnard, and to the left there is
a symbolic group. 'TEI Caney.r by Lama
tais- There is also a brorze puma and
lion by Eli Harvey half way up the walk.
and next to the door Is Kari Bitter's DR.
Pepper on one side, with DIR Hahne-
mann, by Charles NeihaUs. on the other.
The first entrance leads to a vestfbuIe in
which St Gaudens is again in evidence
with mis- memoria! bas-reIief of Steven
son in bronze to 90 TO Edinburg Be-
yond in the next room, his Shaw memo
rial. together with the angel purchased
by the French Government, are shown.
and he also has fourteen bas-reIef me
daHious.
Paul W. Bartlett Is well represented in
sculpture. His Michael Angelo his La
fayette." and his Dancing Indian as
well as case Of pitina bTonzes 50 known
for the peculiar texture Of their color
are exhibited MaCmonnies has his Cen
trail Park Shakespeare, Richard
Brooks, his General Cass,' and Barnard
! his Two Natures" all well known.
Roudebush's ''Wrestlers'' and ElweITs
bronze. The Dancing Girl" are also
shown. Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Of Chica-
go. has several small statuettes of girls
in modern costumes. She also has. in the
Transportation Building, q statue in
gold of Maude Adams. which was first
exhibited in Paris last year.
The Hall for Sculpture is the first en-
tered, and from it leads 4 room IN which
are hung principally the paintings Of John
s Sargent The most taking is a ''Por-
trait Of q Boy the boy being St. eau
dens' son. There are also portraits Of
Mrs G f Inches and Mr.. and Mrs
Phelps-Stokes. Two Venetian sketches
complete the list with the exception OF a
portrait OF Mrs Manson Frank MfIlett
the war correspondent. who was in
charge Of the decoration a the World s
Fair. is represented. and Edwin Abbey
''Penance OF Eleanor" hung in the Royal
Academy last year. occupies a conspicu-
Gus place The decentralization por-
trait of Gladstone that is shown was
loaned by the Pennsylvania Academy Of
the Fine Arts.
IN the second room there are four big
Names. a. MCNEIL Whistler, EIihu
Vedder. :. W. Alexander. and Alexander
Harrison Whistler has five OF and Two
water colors. the latter of no especial
note, but one Of the oils, a Head Of a
Blacksmith a IOw-tOned painting is fas-
chatting
Elihu Vedder has six The Keeper of
the Threshold is the best known. 1t was
purchased by the Carnegie Institute The
rest are decorative figure compositions
Harrison has four and Alexander three.
In the third room, devoted to the Fran
co-American artists, there is a noticeable
contrast to The painting just passed. The
influence Of the French is felt by the pre-
dominance II the nude. and the general
tone color becomes lighter. Louis Loeb
| Temple of the Winds recently exhibit
ed at the Chicago. Art Institute. is the
conspicuous piece on one wall, and oppo-
site is a BIIdgman group of five paintings
of Orie ! figure subjects There is q
dark CCutraSJ in Walter AIacEwen's The
Sorcerers."
The brilliant Canvases by Julian Story
plainly indicate their inspiration. Only
one is marked as the portrait Of his wife
Emma E-a mes, but all three are plainly
studies Of her. E L Weeks has a ten
derby painted early morning canvas
Loading the Caravan there are two
powerful genre examples by Carl Wei
cheers, four quite startling nudes by Jules
L. Stewart, a small canvas by Danuat
the President of the Society of American
Artists in Paris: a moonlight impression
of Daniel in the Lions Den by H O
| TaunCTand, the largest in the exhibition
for size. and the ''ShepheTCeSS. by
Charles Sprague PeaTCe-
The fourth room is all American. 1t con-
tains three canvases by William 4 Coffin.
the director of fine arts. four by Charles
Z. CuTran, his assistant, and three by