Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-05
Twelfth Annual Exhibition Of
Carnegie Institute.
|olL PAINTINGS ON VIEW
One Third Of Canvases Work Of
Foreign Artists.
SEEN IN FOUR GALLERIES
"Light Of the Sea" There From the
Corcoran Gallery Of Washington.
Private Collectors Generous.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PITTSBURG, Pa, May 4. 1908.
| Special interest Is attached to the twelfth
annual exhibition Of oil paintings held by
the Carnegie Institute in this city. not
only on account Of the fact that the high
est awards are given therein. but because
| the works of foreign as we'll as native ar
| lists are included. Some years ago in New
| York a great comparative exhibition"
| was held, in which paintings by the mod
ern masters of Europe were hung side by
| side with those produced by Ame--can
painters. The object was to prove the
parity Of American painting. and in a
| measure it was attained. The Carnegie
Institutes exhibition differs from this in
| asmuch as they are confined chiefly to
current productions and the works exhtb-
tied are submitted by the artists, but the
result Is fundamentally the same.
Three hundred and forty-four canvases
are included in the exhibition, which OPEN
ed on the 3Oth of April and will continue
until the 30th of June. OF these about
one-third have been painted by foreign ar
| fists England and France have the larg-
est representation, but Scotland. Germany,
Belgium. Holland, Austria Hungary, Italy
Spain and Sweden are all represented.
How the Pictures Are Hung.
In hanging the pictures no distinction
has been made on account of nationality,
and while certain characteristics may be
said to differentiate the works of the
several schools, the fact that art is in
truth universal language Is plainly
demonstrated.
Four galleries on the upper floor Of the
Institute building are occupied by the
exhibition-two small and two very large
ones. In the first. as an introduction to
the exhibition. a group of Winslow Ho-
mer's paintings is displayed. This is
made a special feature of the exhibition,
and an entire room is given to this single
| artists work. Twenty-Five canvases are
included in the collection, all of which
private collectors.
From the Corcoran Gallery has come
the Light on the Sea- acquired at the
| time of its great exhibition in 1907, and
| ton. the High Cliff; Coast of Maine
presented recently by Mr.. William P.
Evans. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
has lent its "All's Well and Fog Sig
York, "The Gulf Stream cannon
Rock" and THE Searchlight; Santiago de
Cuba and the Pennsylvania Academy
| the Fox Hunt" while from the Provi-
rowed marine "on a Lee Shore and
| from the Carnegie Institutes own per-
manent collection 1.-THE Wreck"
The private collectors have also been
generous, Mr.. Louis Ettlinger lending
Hound. and Hunter an Adirondack
picture; Mr.. Edward D. Adams ''Under-
| tow" struggle for life in the surf, and
Mr.. Charles L. Freer's EARLY Evening"
a painting of fisher folk on the rocky
coast of Maine. The last has a special
| interest for Washingtonians. as 1t may be
included In the collection which Mr..
Freer bequeaths to the nation. It was
begun In 1882. but only finished last year,
so that it stands as Mr.. Homer's latest
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