The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-10
FRED CHURCH'S FATHER
SCOURGES OLD MAS TIERS

New York Herald When Mr.. Fred
erick S Church, an American painter
whose personality has made him popu-
lar with many of his brother artists
and who is widely known here for his
paintings of imaginative subjects, re-
Gently, at the age Of sixty -four, re-
turned from his first trip to Europe and
gave to the Herald his impressions of
what he had seen there, he created an
international episode. Neither Mr..
Church nor his critics, both here and
abroad, have minced matters; but while
his views have generally beer condemn
ed as extreme, he has found some de-
tenders in part, as both the European
edition of the Herald and the special
cable dispatches to the Herald have re-
ported.
Here are some of the things said
by Mr.. Church: II subscribe to Fred !
Remington g gospel, To hell with
Europei' I thought the Louvre
a terror. You have TO wade through
an immense gallery of stuff to see
few fine things. What impressed
me most about the old masters was
that they did too much work. In. the
National Gallery I saw lot of people
standing with a rapt expression before
big Raphael, which is dark and hard,
and which ] wouldn't have for gift.
In all of Europe ] didn t see
landscape painting, whether by Turner
or any one else, that touched Homer
Martin g Sand Dunes Of Lake On
taria, which hangs in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art The artist added,
however, that pictures played see
ondary part on his tour, or, as he
phrased it, Figuratiyely speaking, |
roller skates.
Putting it mildly, Mr.. Church's re
marks created amazement. in some in
stances, however, as it is only fair to
him to state, mingled with admiration
for a man who has shown the courage
of his convictions. Mr. Roland Knoed
Ter, of Messrs Knoedler 6 Co., who
more sarcastically ON the
interview than any one else, asked if
Mr.. Church might not by mistake
have gone to the Magazin de Louvre
instead of to the Museum - Mr.. Louis
r. Enrich, of the Enrich Galleries,
agreed with the artist in his estimate
Of American landscape painting. "Onl
the other ha adj added Mr.. Enrich,
the great galleries of Europe contain
examples of the old masters which far
gurpass anything that is created today
,r likely to be produced in many~a long
lay to come. Mr.. Blakeslee, of the
Blakeslee Galleries, characterized the
attack as silly"
"After the consensus of many minds, |
ay and professional, expressed in hum |
lreds of years, = said Mr.. Elliott Dain-
yerfeld, nobody will suffer except Mr. |
Church. / take it that neither the |
Louvre nor the galleries of Holland
viii close their doors. -
It must be remembered, - said Mr. |
irving r. Wiles, "that this was Mr. |
rhurch's first visit to Europe The sort |
IF thing you see over there does not |
lawn on you at once Mr.. William NJ /
chase frequently goes abroad and has
studied the great galleries of Europe
''Had Mr. Church been a |
7oung man, was this artist s comment, /
and with art schooling, which he
never had, he would have different
story to tell. He is typical Amer
can, loved by every one who knows
lin, yet his intense Americanism has
him against that which he
;ound on the other side -