Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
COSMOS CLUB EXHIBIT
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MODE WINE
MAN ON VIEW.
Scenes in the Great National Parks
Portrayed-Prescntati to the
President

The Cosmos Club has sent out cards for
hve-day exhibition of some OF the remark
able photographs taken by Mode wneman
of Chicago. The expression some of the
pictures" is used advisedly as Mr. Wine
man packed up In such hurry to come
TO Washington to keep an appointment
with President Roosevelt that large num-
Der or his pictures-which are now being
exhibited in Chicago and elsewhere-were
unavoidably left behind But the half
hundred or more photographs which have
been hung at the Cosmos Club are sum
Gent to show the breadth and purpose OF
Mr. Winemans work and the results which
1t is possible TO achieve when the land
scape photographer is impelled by motives
OF truth and sincerity and has at his COM
mand a deep insight into the physical
phenomena of nature in its relation to the
art OF Photographic reproduction.
MI. Wineman's Work.
IL is difhcult to speak of Mr.. wineman's
work without fulsomeness Financially
Independent, he has altogether lost sight
In carrying out his artistic purpose In the
most inaccessible portions of Americas
scenic panorama-of the commercial as
pect of the case. His pictures represent
truth, natural truth, naked uudiseuised
primitiyely beautiful The only art thar
he has employed to serve his own ends Is
that which has grown out of his knowI-
edge of the inevitable effect of certain
given physical conditions of earth and at
mosphere upon the chemical Photographic
sensitization. OF such high character IL
MT Wineman's Photographic work ac-
knoWledged to be by the foremost critics
of the day that in the course of the NEXT
year or so some OF his more choice views
Will be seen-serving as mural decoration
In every school house in the United States
in fhn oil hi IN.
have a comprehensive school system Their
educational value is recognized to be OF
the greatest. AS Mr.. Wineman said yes
terday. photography, in the salient and es-
sential feature of accuracy. is supplanting
to vast degree the work OF the brush
Educationally, as he puts it. there u no
comparison between the brush and the
lens In producing something which Is to
be not only of present benefit, but which
will constitute imperishabe and ex-
tremely valuable record for future genera
tons. The physical Features of the great
scenic panoramass of America are con-
stantly changing. But for the lens yes
terday would be forgotten and today but
passing imprint on the page of time.
So highly Is Mr.. Winemans work thought
of by the best minds in the employ of the
government in connection with this sub
ject, that an official exchange of Mr.. Wine
mans photographs has been arranged for
with Great Britain. France and Germany
photographs of the great scenic features Of
those countries to be sent here in return
for the courtesy of Mr.. Wineman's photo
graphs of wonderful spots on the American
continent.
Cosmos Club Exhibition.
The exhibition at the Cosmos Club Is OF
photographs of scenes in the great Amer
lean national parks. This collection was
on view in Chicago. where 1t was seen by
a great personal friend of President Roose-
welt, who was so impressed with the re-
markable character of the photographs
shown and their value as photogra PHO
landscape portraiture that he wrote a
letter to Mr. Roosevelt telling him about
Mr. Wineman's work. An invitation to
Mr. Wneman to come to Washington fol-
lowed as matter of course. and at some
inconvenience to himself Mr. Wineman
was glad to pack up and make a flying
visit to the national capital. He came
Friday and will return today. but the Co.'S
mos Club has prevailed upon him to leave
such photographs as he has brought with
him for five days exhibition.
This exhibition will be followed by an
other next winter of much more preten-
tious character. Mr.. Wlneman Will also
exhibit in Boston. New York. Philadel-
phia and other cities
The pictures on View at the Cosmos Club
are all ENGAGEMENTS. many of them OF
considerable size. and all notable for
breadth, atmosphere and the artistic quail
tiles which mark Mr.. Wineman's work.
Some of them, indeed, are so delicate as to
seem more like brush work than the or
dnarily fiat stimulation of the lens
Presentation to the President.
While in Washington Mr. Wineman pre-
scented to President Roosevelt fourteen
perb enlarged photographs-six of scenes
in national parks of the United States, two
Of the Bad Lands. two Of Jackson Hole.
two of Alaska and two of portions of the
western country in which the President Is
particularly interested-all triple mounted
on walnut. The President warmly
pressed his appreciation of Mr.. Winemans
courtesy and his admiration of the re-
markedly artistic work as revealed by the
collection seen by him.
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