Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-10

American artists which is now being he'd in
the Albright Gallery, Buffalo. will be trans
ferred in September to the St. Louis Art
Museum. This is of special interest on ac-
count of the fact that this exhibition in
cludes the work of quite a number of the
Washington artists, and because 1t indi-
Gates a widening of the fed of art. But
falo. like Worcester. Mass, is a SUNNI II
city. and has found IT desirable to st forth
important exhibitions during the alton
season. The present exhibition is espe ialy
notable. we'll composed and genuine Y COM
prehenSive. Though Il consists of on lG2
exhibits. and does not include the names of
all our foremost painters. II Is still, r1prJ-
sentative, and makes more than a rational
plea for the encouragement and support OF
American art. Among the Washington
painters represented are Mr. Richard y.
Brooke Mr.. E. c. Messer. Mr.. James Henry
Moser and Mr.. Ii. Hobart Nichols.
The Essex county courthouse, at Newark.
n. j., is one of the newer state buildings
which has followed the lead of the Library
or Congress and become in itself an eN-
ample Though scarcely completed, it is
open to inspection, and We worth seeing as
one travels north Mr.. Cass Gilbert OF New
YORK is the architect, ami its mural de cora
TONS include works by Edwin H. Biashield.
Kenyon Cox. Howard Pyle. +. d. Millet,
howard Oliver Walker and others.
1t was the Albright Gallery OF Buffalo
which brought to this country the exhi-
bltionS of paintings of the Glasgow and
German schools, which were circulated
among the principal museums and galleries
last winter and the winter before with CEN
siderable success, and il is now planning to
assemble and set forth in the coming No
vember an equally important exhibition of
the work of the French impression SITS
than which none is more revolutionary or
has caused more discussion Such an cxhi-
bition might be both enligh.enng and slim
ulating, as well interesting in the ex-
trcme, but, unless the utmost care is taken.
II could also be so ultra as to be unintell!-
gible and detrimental. There is a wide diff
terence between the temperate and extreme
mpreSSionism-between the work of the
great experimenters and that of their weak
followers. The name 'impreSsionism'' has
indeed been made to cover a multitude of
sing and thereby wrought in the public
mind much confusion.
Mr.. Everett l.. Warner of this city,
member of the Washington Water Color
Club and well-known contributor to the
leading exhibitions, has been spending some
weeks in Germany and writes Interestingly
~ s.'N
dressed to the Boston Transcript he SAYS:
The two large annual art exhibitions are
now in full swing and will remain open I'M
til the end of October. During August and
the early part Of September come the Mo
Fart and Wagner festivals. and everywhere
one is reminded that art plays a more i'm
portant role in Munich than in Paris, where
amid the multitude of various interests 1t is
kept in a more subordinate position. Even
the billboards here furnish an artistic treat
for you will see any number of most ad-
mirably designed posters, of which more
than half advertise various exhibitions of
paintings, sculpture and handicraft set
forth by clubs, societies and dealers" The
two great exhibitions are the much famed
Secession and the old-establis he'd Munich
ener kunstlergenossenscha which IS held
in the Crystal Palace under government
control. THE Secession" Mr. Warner says
lis a bit disappointing, considering the
noise that has been made about It, and ex-
cepting the canvases of Franz Stuck. there
is quite as much that is original and ad-
vanced In the exhibition of the older So
ciety." The Secession sets forth 300 ex-
hibits, all of which are given ample space
and good hanging, whereas the interna-
tional show includes no less than {, 265 and
exhibits not only paintings, but etchings