Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-12

as nucleus for a local gallery, and will
turn them over to the town within a
fortnight. Fifty thousand dollars has
been given for the erection of a building
TO rouse this and other exhibits. and the
land upon which the museum will stand
will also in all proba bility be donated.
Meanwhile. however. the paintings are to
be hung in the auditorium of the new
grammar school, which is skylighted and
affords ample wall space Thus the citl-
zens of Montclair will be enabled to inn
mediately benefit by the gift and realize
their possession.
Another collector who has done much
to advance the cause of art is George a.
Hearn. whose gift of American paintings
to the Metropolitan Museum parallels in
spirit that of Mr.. Evans to the nation.
At the Lotos Club this week Il group OF
paintings and worries from Mr.. Hearn' $
private collection has been shown This
club, which has recently erected a hand
some new home on West 57th street, has
fine exhibition gallery on its top floor
room we'll proportional lighted and
furnished. Herein We're shown twenty
one paintings. numerous worries all Eu-
ropean, dating from the eleventh to the
nineteenth centuries. and several Barge
bronzes. The paintings were mostly of
the old English school, though not solely,
n beautiful 1nneSs Wyant, a George
Fuller, as well figure painting by
ID. Y. Cameron and genre by J. Austen
Brown being included.
Among the most notable of the paint
ngs set forth were Gainsborough's Blue
Boy" Lawrence's Miss Barring" Rey-
nold's Mrs. Barnard and Lady Stan
hope" Romneys Miss Hollingsworth"
and Turner's 'Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel
The worries were of special interest. They
and some of the paintings Mr.. Hearn has
kept for number of years on exhibition
in his large department store on 18th
street. partly for the pleasure and bene-
fit of his employees. and partly because of
lack of room in his house.
There is probably no similar establish
ment in the world where bargain trays
close proximity. This is something not
generally known, as in no instance have
the paintings or art objects been adver-
tised or used to attract the public.
But to return to the 9Th avenue gal
leries and the transient exhibitions. At
krauShauerS there is an interesting
painting by Whistler exhiDitiOn-a
moderately large canvas pictuIing a scene
off the Brittany coast. To the left, in
the foreground, a young woman in sum-
mer dress is reclining on the sand: to the
right a mass of rocks is seen. and be-
yond the sea and sky, deep blue and rest
less, the toss of the wave complemented
by the scud of clouds. Painted in 1861. 1t
is more ella borate in detail than Whistler S
later productions, more labored in eXecu-
tion more realistic; yet it may be declar-
ed a powerful presentation fully indicative
of the genius of the master artist. 1t is
like an open window. as are, oft times,
Winslow Homer's works. From the
hands of the artist this picture passed
to Ross Whistler and from him to Ross
Wynans, from whose collection 1t has re-
Gently been secured!sGI sCr III TfGT : arsc
At Ehrich's there ds an exhibition of
Early English Masters,"' included in
which are, most notable, a full-length in