The sun., 1908-04-23
FROM BALTIMORE 10 WASHING
TON GALLERIES.

Doubtless the environment Of Baltimor'
does something to stimulate ones receptive
| faculties, for this same old romantic Baltl'
more has preserved more than q moiety
Of its serenity and oharm-quAlities, VI
are sorry 10 Say, that are fast disappearinl
In the hurry burly Of Philadelphia, which
to-day IL quite as noisy In certain sections
as the business part Of New York. But
in Baltimore there Still fingers q Savor Of
tho Old World city land oh, the saver Of Ia
terrapinD. II has quiet streets. and though
Henry James envisaged 1t oblehy as Q
huge country club, II was novortheless
more worthy Of extended study than several
other portraits Of places IN his TAmsHcah
Scene
From Baltimore TO Washington the
modulation 10 ~ simple a. that Of the
chGnd Of the dominant seventh. The
nasoent spring burns more deeply In your
CONSEQUENCES Ns you speed south. Blos-
soma whiten whole orchards, while the
native complexion Of the field workers,
yellowed about Philadelphia or Baltimore.
merEes near Warrington into an unmis-
taxable ebony. In the new Union Station
the vanity Of the New Yorker gets HE first
Jolt. which is not lessened by the appari-
tlons Of other nobler public buildings
Washington has been called great village;
II 10 Q monumental one, and its soul does
not live up an alley but on lie magnificent
boulevards.
THE SUN recently announced the news
that the newly established Gallery Of Ma
tonAl Art would be, at least for q time
in the present Smithsonian building, fur
thermore passing the just comment that a.
a gallery the Smithsonian will hardly prove
satisfactory The Freer Collection luckily
is 10 60 into q new gallery to be built espe-
oially TO house its treasures. In the Cor
ooran Gallery the art loving pilgrim will
find many new pictures by American ar
lists; also superb loan collection Of ex-
Senator Clark, one on larger scale than
that shown at the Union League Club last
year. Mr., Clarks English portraits are
Of his best-Hoppner. Reynolds, Romney,
Lawrence, Raeburn and Gainsborough.
His Rembrandt holds the place Of honor. A
rich feast for washlngtonian eyes and the
passing tourist.
Among the American artists represented
are Paul Dougherty, E. W. Redheld. Blake
look, Willard Metcali, the late Theodore
Robinson. Horatio Walker, the late George
Fuller, Alexander Harrison, George de For
est Brush, W, NJ. Chase, H. W. Ranger, c. H.
Davis, A. II. Wyant (deceased), W. L.
Ploknell-hls brilliant Road 10 Concarneau'
j. Francis Murphy, D. W. Tryon, Robert
c. Minor (deceased). Mary Cassatt; George
lnness, William Keith. WinsloW Homer,
Albert Groll, Ben Foster, Max weyl, Childe
HaSsam, William Sartain and an unusually
fine toned W. L. Lsthrop. The striking
Bismarck head by Franz Lenbach still fas-
olnates by its intensity Of gaze, Hunting
tons Mercy still dreams las in lot Of
national galleries) and the Stuarts still
Gilbert las all over America, as we'll as
and his wig). Note for the
thirsty wayfarer-there Ia no water in the
Hinton Perry fountain before the Congres-
tonal Library, and 10 our horror We
found upon the walls Of one Of its cham
bers the names Of Poe and Walt Whitman.
Here is something for our pious Hall OF
Fame 10 investigate.
As you hy northward toward Philadelphia
you have the joyous sense that New York
d nearer. Yet you stop over, for the Penn
Iylvania Academy Of Fine Arts is holding
one Of tho most brilliant exhibitions Of
this rapidly vanishing season, not alone
n Philadelphia but anywhere else In the |
and. The names Of the exhibitors count |
up to ten; in fact, they are the Ten American |
Painters, who but few weeks ago were
% be seen in the Montross Gallery, but
he Ten transformed nearly into a hundred
Manager J. E. D. Trask Of the Pennsylvania
has given this group OF artists
III the wall space IL needed, and the
yeneral result Is something out Of the or
hnary. Frank ". Benson is represented
" ten pictures. William NJ. Chase by nine
oseph De Camp by ten, Thomas W. DewinR
y eight, Chlde Hassam by ten, Willard
ietcalf by nine, Robert Reid by ten.
,dward Simmons by eight Edmund c.
,arbell by ten, j. Alden Weir by ten, while
ne picture by the late ], NJ TwaohtmAnn,
former member Of this gifted group. his
Sailing In the Mist, shows him at his best.
hose who did not visit the Montfoss Gal
sry when the Ten we're showing We now
dvise to 60 over to Philadelphia for a
ew hours and see these canvases. Then
miHngly lei them ask themselves whether
merican art is decHnlng Brilliant vir-
losity, poetry. realism. faithful notation
I American aspects portraiture Of q hiRh
rder, still life, impressionism, fantasy and
enre art are here presented under the
lost favorable conditions. Those " no have
ot seen Childe Hassam's sThe Opal may
OF have hitherto liked his nudes. But this
gure Of nubile maid with It's nacreous
esh tones, the opalesoent glow Of the
pom In which abe braids her hair before
mirror and the auburn Of her hair must
onvince thS most stubborn. And Chase.
,e daddy Of all these young fellows Of
ity, shows not only his famous ish and
D almost TRAGIC head Of Mrs Chase but
so his 'Dieudonnes, which, az custodian
smarked near by, has Whistler skinned 10
shadow The Bensons are bully the
haaes characteristic; the De Camps stun
ing. the Dewings miraculous In finish
The Mirror, lent by c. H. Freer, ls one OF
" most attractive Of Dewings), the Childe
assams a symphony for the eye, the
etcalfs poetic, the Reids breezy, and the
mmonses the best gathering Of needless
dward that We have seen In years. His
other and Child, lent by the city OF st.
ouiS, IL picture that sets vibrating the
lord Of pity, The Tarbells and Welrs are
lSrming and characteristic. The Black
at. the Gray Bodice" by Weir, are two
portraits. Tarbell IL unique.