The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25

lures are painted in that way
The first picture We see as we arrive
at the head of the stairway is ''The
Spanish Main" Those old-time ships
riding the pillows are serene as so many
ducks on a pond. and so beautiful in color
with the setting sunlight upon them
This is one OF the few fine. old-fashioned
STORY pictures in the whole display
II is fun of romantic poetry. How Rob
ert Louis Stevenson would have enjoyed
this picture!
soon Become Cultivated.
Forty years ago people all enjoyed pic
lures and strove to learn about art, be-
cause they enjoyed good pictures from
the very beginning. and soon became cul-
tivated Now pictures are hard for the
layman to understand. because artists
paint only TO please themselves and for
a critical few who have made a study
Of painting.
There is nothing here so appealing as
the famous picture. Breaking Home
Ties. by one Of Americas greatest
painters, Thomas Hovenden. who lost
his life trying TO save a child from being
run over by a locomotive. Greatly as We
revere his memory for that noble deed,
his death will always be regretted by
lovers of good art He was not an old
man. and We may be sure he would have
grown in skin and equaled the best paint
ers Of to-day.
Let us now turn TO the left 10 the gal
lery. where Mr. William A. ClarEs fine
collection of pictures formerly hung
Yes; that japanese umbrella with those
two young ladies in white, sitting In It's
shadow. is fiery and discordant. but that
is only a stunt" Mr. Freisike is show
ing of" just trying to make us see
how deceptive he can make his canvas.
It is a refined kind OF scene painting.
How 20 Look at Picture.
No; before you go closer, first stand
here and look through the doorway at
the picture Fold your right hand as
though you were grasping a broom
handle. and in this ''crimped up shape,
place your hand to your right eye, as If
your hand were a short, hollow tube,
closing your left eye, look through the
hole in your little fist with the other,
while you count ten. A fine thing 10 do
with any painting you wish 10 see right
What happens? Why. you are startled
to md that it seems TO be a real outdoor
scene in dazzling sunlight, and not
painted picture al all.
Mr.. Freisike two years ago had a small
canvas here. not more than two feet
square, which was one of the choicest
and most admired pictures in the whole
show. He is indeed one Of our most skill
ful painters, bat this year his painting
screams his skill and betrays his lack of
taste
Just to Look Beyond.
This Garden Parasor' of Mr.. Freisike
is so very noisy one can hardly hear
the melody and sweetness Of many an
other song, sung Just as well in this
same room by singers just as skillful as
Mr. Freisike.
For proof of this we have only TO look
beyond M. Freisike's picture to John W.
Alexander's painting called Sunlight"
loaned TO this exhibition by the Art Iust-
tute of Chicago. Here is a picture quite
as big a The Garden ParasOl." A bit
OF sunlight falls upon the floor at the feet
Of a woman so simply clad and so very
beautiful, Form, face, and costume are
altogether lovely, and the color IS so re-
fined and harmoniOusl Note the simple
ity of the composition; there are no dis
tracing details. This is the most nearly
in she whole collection.
See how little it really takes to make
a great picture one does not miss the
things left out, and I am very sure I
never should have found the woman her
self. as she posed for the painter, so
lovely as she appears in this masteTful
Interpretation by Americas greatest
painter of women. Mr. Alexander is pres
ident Of the National Academy of Design,
the one great organization of artists in
America.
Star Picture.
Not far from this painting Of sunlight
hangs a small picture of a dear little
Girl in a Leghorn hat. called Apple
Blossoms. % by Louis Belts, also owned by
the Chicago Art Institute The paint on
this picture is put on almost roughly, but
ten feet away it is so real, so unaffected
1t is innocence itself, and as charmingly
done as anything here. It is a "star pic
ture" I did want so much to talk to YOU
about all the pictures / like IN this won
derful show
You would ike me TO leave my cata-
logue with you, that you may go about
and look at the things / have marked?
Certainly; that is a capital idea Here it
be sure / ike these already marked: Nos.
g. z, 10 II, a. 81, 49, 81, a, 81, 50, 20. Il,
=, g. S. 81, 100 l64 49, 1S5, 2lS. %. 226. 229
232 243 265, PSI, 2S2, 32S 90 go, l26 "a
and 2l8.
Before you seek out the pictures mark
ed in my catalogue, first find the prize
pictures-Nos. Il, 80 100 and To- for
they are faultessly painted, even the
Childe Hassam, No. II. which won the
third prize Of $1,000 and bronze medal
Although an example Of extreme impress
sionism il is still one OF the most beau
uful pieces of outdoor painting imagin-
able. This picture is all patches and dots
Of color, no one thing in il looking very
real. but stand ten feet from the canvas,
study il through your hand, and you will
discover how perfect a unit il is: how
like real out of doors. The woman and
the two tiny children are envel0ped in the
warm spring sunshine of the city park
and seem to be moving about as one looks
at them
The first prize of 5000 and a gold
medal was awarded to Edmund c. Tar
belPs picture of home life called IAN
Interior" No 80 The second prize of
ST. 500 and silver medal TO Carl Melchers
for his picture Penelope" No. 100. also
an indoor scene. The fourth prize, $500
and an honorable mention, was awarded
an outdoor picture pnotographlcally real,
called IAN April Landscape" No. 10, by
Daniel CARRIER.
Duke and Hymn Compiler.
From the London Chronicle.
The Duke of Norfolk, upon whom Pope
Plus = has lust conferred the Order NJ