Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22
The GREAT COCK lover BoMNeroN

pictures are declared by connoisseurs to
be works of extraordinary merit. and
Gavarne's satires are much admired.
From the technical standpoint lsabey 5
prints are of special interest. and as ex-
perments in color Haghe's views in the
Holy Land and other countries may be
commended to notice.
American work. to begin with. was
clumsy and rather Observation-Disclosures
tive but scarcely pictorial
Take. for example. Hoffy's Autograph
Of the great fire In New York In 1850.
Lanes Lanes NasionaI ~ Lanfers on Boston on
Mount Vernon in 1852" And from these
to James 4. Mcneil Whistler there is
sudden transition, none bridging the
Probably the genius of Whistler was
never more frankly pronounced and his
lack of kinship with his fellow-coun-
trymen better explained. Among all the
eminent. He was the master of the art,
realizing its possibilities and it's pre-
negatives. He employed lithography not
charcoal drawing. but as medium
possessing peculiar characteristics. His
Autographs are keenly artistic, but seem
to reflect a gentier aspect p; OF the paint paint,
as they are. Most charming of all the
twenty-one included i'm this exhibition
are perhaps The Red House. Palm,
pei" and the yellow House. Lannion.
in both of which a touch Of color has
been added to enhance and verify effect
Portraits and Cartoons.
With Whistlers works are shown fig
ures, portraits and cartoons by Reps
one Of the c1everest OF the late litho'
graphers; group by Fantin-Lateur
mystical, even, weird. and yet very bril-
liant: and yet another by Charles II
Shannon-the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. one
paintings, strong and significant though
not altogether pleasing: Fantfn-La
tours work suggests charcoal drawing
exquisitely NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
There are also included in this exhibit
ton fourteen Autographs by Joseph Pen
nell, twelve Of which constitute a series
of scenes in New York. Mr.. Pencil has
declared New York to be artistically I'M
discovered, but he himself has done much
to make it's beauty manifest In the can
yon-like streets of the lower city. in the
skyscrapers-a purely American product
and In the curious skyline, declared by
Sir Aston Webb to be somewhat jagged,
he has found a little loneliness" which
is not Incompatible with the picturesque
ness of the old cities Of Europe. Inter-
esting, too, are c. f. w. Mielatz's lith-
ographs of 1.-The Battery and Castle Gar
dem and OF ''Morningside Park and st.
Iuke's Hospital" Ways London scenes
and Oliver Halls Landscapes.
Autographs in Color.
BY a number Of Autographs in color
the exhibition is concluded. Eight of
RIVERS landscapes and harbor scenes
are shown, posterlike and yet harmoni-
GUS in effect and suggestive. Bamberger's
House on the Bridge" and Kruis' PRO
cession in Volendam" may also we'll be
mentioned, but of the entire group none
is as rich and toneful as "Laufenburg on
the Rhine a German landscape, inter-
preted in warm browns by a Russian,
NikutowSki
TYPOGRAPHY is one of the Youngest of
the reproductive arts but when it lie
found capable of SO much ii seems a pity
that it should fall into disuse through
lack OF proper appreciation.
LEILA MECHLIN.