The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-18
SEEN In THE WORLD OF ART
GEORGE .Rti BtRN tRD TO
NtkE Mn sORk ms HOWE.
william Giacke ns shows ui- Versatility
Current Eshibitions At the Galleries
the later Academy Art PossiStti-
ties in Our ssy >rraprrS Russian ART.

Current ENhibiti0ns At the Galleries
the MInfrr \raarn, Art PossiStti-
ties in Uar s,NS >rraprrS Russian Art.
George Grav Barnard who has Just
paid a brief visit To America, SAILED to
France last week there to complst" his
groups for IN" Harrisburg Capitol The
sculptor viii return nest April and bring
with him all his household goods, as he
purposes making New York his perms-
nent home To Use the happy phrase
OF the erudte Temple Scott in the cur
rent Forum, Remember her. IL your
Paris, and New York henceforth will be
Barnard's Paris His long residence in
Franco srs not abat ed his American hrerZi-
ness. lie ia still most eloquent and
copious causeur. he still >chrdEmS over
art and his not abat~ I'd one iot in his
passion for French Gothic: il Is not only
n passion but an ohse-elon He will talk
French Gothic to YOU until the clocks
stop and the lights 20 out His pockets
are crammcd with photographs of beau
tiful sculptures and doors and odd frag-
ments. he loves the period more than he
loves either Hellenic or modern art, ;he
latter. OF course. incarnate an the person
that the great man has grown old and
weary. He works bur little. allowing his
pupils TO tinker at early stur of his or at
his studies Like Monet. Robins eyes
are not what they were
Barnard i, CHEEKY over the deficit Of
81. 900, a personal loss. in his Harrisburg
work. He hopes that II will be- made up
TO him. II not directly, then indirectly
He had lots OF fun and experience with
his big dolls and. artistlike. he seems salts.
fed Before sailing. MIR Barnard informs
us. he signed contract for the Lin
coin monument 10 toe placed in Cincinnati
within two years
He tells "A capital story about his
-Hewers, which two wears ago stood
in front OF Trinity Church Boston One
morning a burly powerful driver of a
brewery wagon stopped got over HE
perch and numbered over TO tn. statue
After clos | scanning the muscular
development OF Barnard's primorCiial
man the German cautiously touched his
own biceps. and turning TO the sculptor
remarked - he poiatCd 10 the marble.
That's the way | feel under my shirt
Az sound "a criticism a- any We have ever
heard or read
why IA William Clack ems il a question
that propolnded IN the presence OF
painters who know him for what he il
will invariably he answered Because
he is too versatile Now versatility is
the very quality that GlaclSens believes
he does not possess He calls himself
an eSperlment-r for Re Is still IN search
OF the one par;lC Illr mot we that expresses
him to the full. taa' elusive formula which
C4zanne ceasrie--ly -Nugnt. Rodin ono.
defined sculpture as the art ~ the hole
and lump. CS2annc declared that com
position meant for HIM the sphere. the
cone and the cylinder s Il nature mus,
he so modelled. ne said. n for color. the
more the colors harrnorrr. tire more ,h,.
design becomes precise NJ Glack ems
has never seen i"lannes work uhcre i,
little OF II IN America. ana tina; mostly OF
Indifferent quality hui he reminds ia
OF the Frenchman IN an. particular.
in his obstinate return to the single motive
C@zanne. It may he recalled paint ID our
OF doors every afternoon of his life. rain
or shine a certain rnoun,lin and valley
not far from his home at Nix IN Provence
Glack ems has IN has studio South Wash
ington square "A larg. CANVAS a study nf
on which he daily prtct se- Ms colorad
scales. trills and nrpeggtos He rad~-s.ss
one Of the ladies in gorgeous array each
day and you watch. with curio~.I" z.ow
ing apace. the Kaleidoscope Rucs hat
come and go on this canvas Somehow
the picture synbolizss the present state
OF Glache : artistic hsaltN
That ne Is versatile. no need To- ainr ma
size: that he mas mastery Of draughts-
manship - also recognized his colo,
grows more harmonious. though n often
shocks by Its brilliant di-sonanCe- He
in pulling up the KEY wear after wear and
his studies at Cape Cod summer before
last and at Nova Scotia lat sumner arr.
of exceeding interest because. apart from
their Technical accomplishment. they be
gin to show. however dimiy the goal tu
which this ambitious and gIf,ed young
man L. steering Beaches ~ inland seas
the waters OF which ar" vivid blue: skic-
as hard blue ltily'-. whit" cloud boul-
ders that roll llziiy across the field Il
vision and shine on their edge with
reflected light; grass so green that YOU
ask yourself IL Nova SCotIl raises the
crop from Caiuc seed: nothing tom
percd would a lcss sincere artist. vt
set forth unm1dIl1ted and III sIfa cious
these waters. -kies beaches B
bath houses Of unCompromisIng lines I
these drifting or rnoored boats with
-troiling. sitting, bathing. are
80 real. or rather evoke the.
Illusion Of reality. that you experience in
their pres. nee what Henry James calls
sthe emotion OF recognition
There il oCCa -'tDglIy -g,r.tEtpy y,,la,, .