Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09
NOTABLE COLLECTION
Gift by William T. Evans of I'M
portant Paintings
70 THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Temporarily Placed in the Atrium of
Corcoran Gallery.
SOME OF THE ARTISTS WORKS
An Excellent Representation of the
Entire Field Of American Art
Washington an Art Center.
70 THE NATIONAL GALLERY
SOME OF THE ARTISTS WORKS

A notable gift has been made to the Ma
tional Gallery Mr.. VIM. T. Evans of
Montclair. NJ J., has presented to this in
stitution forty important paintings by lead
ing American artists. These are to be
known as the william T. Evans collec-
tion." and are to be Immediately trans
ferred. Owing to the lack Of available wall
space in the hall now occupied by the Ma
tional Gallery these paintings will be tenn
porarily placed in the atrium Of the Cor
coran gallery as loan collection. In value
the works aggregate about 100000, but
their actual worth as nucleus for ma
tional collection surpasses commercial es-
timation.
Some of the Artists.
There are in the collection, for example,
works by George Inness Homer Martin,
Alexander H. Wyant and John H. Twacht-
man, men who will always stand high
among the great painters of the world and
whose canvases, now that their careers are
closed, are becoming constantly more rare
and valuable. Then, too, there are works
by great living painters, such as Winslow
Homer. Ralph Albert Blakelock, Louis Paul
:Dessar Henry w. Ranger, Francis Murphy
and John La Fargo.
A
day to a forthcoming exhibition, said:
eff you are going to include 1nness and
WANT and Homer Martin, as well as the
living men, then you will have great
show" And SO it should be understood
that without these painters being ade-
uuately represented no national collection
would be deserving of the name. 1t is in
this regard that. Mr.. Evans gift Is espe-
cially momentous. ~ s.
Coming at almost the inception of the
National Gallery project, it gives 1t i'm
petus and direction. Not only much money
but many years would have had to be ex-
pended had the government undertaken
to assemble an equal number Of such can
vases, If indeed it would have been possible
at all.
Washington as an Art Center.
With the Freer collection, which in time
will find permanent home in this city,
it will give to Washington standing as an
art center and attract to the national capt.
tai those most interested in the advance
ment of culture and refinement. It is nota-
BILE also from the fact that 1t is Immediately
operative, that the present as we'll as later
generations will be able to enter into the
privileges offered Of both pleasure and
profit
Fortunately it supplements rather than
duplicates the Freer collection, and is given
with less restriction and wider margin
The American painters represented in Mr.
Freer's collection are Whistler, Tryon, Abb
bolt Thayer and r. w. Dewing, a group
especially homogeneous, and peculiarly re-
lated to the art masters Of the orient, but
Mr.. Evans collection embraces the works
of twenty or thirty men representing six or
ten different schools and several character
istics. AS the value of the one lay in its
unique nature and splendid specialization,
SO the virtue of the other is to be found in
its broad catholicity and remarkable COM
prehension.
Few institutions have come more sudden
.ly into active being or been Immediately
more generously assisted than our new
found National Gallery. The Harriet Lane
Johnston bequest lied to- its unearthing,