The evening world., 1911-01-14
UP AND DOWN
PICTURE LANE
BY

lively supplied a new sensation TO blase
Picture lane. Twenty American artists.
men and women, are represented by
sixty-seven paintings or drawings In
the graceful medium of colored chaiha
The range Of styles n subjects 10
large. including portraits landscapes,
genre and character bits, nude studies,
aspects OF city streets and decorative
skotches-and yet the ensemble effect In
the ~crimson-walled parlor of Folsom 10
harmonious. m and delightful
Some would call 1t precious" There
~ no suggestion OF n new experiment
in this unique pastel salon, although we
understand that some Of the contr.bu-
tors whom the energetic organizer. Mr..
Elmer Livingston McRae. has roped
into the exhibition actually had never
worked tn this medium before.
On the other hand. such things as
L. W. Dewing's delicate girl in the
Green shawl j. Alden Weir's Sou
venirs OF Summertime Mary Csssatt's
Mere ct Enfsnt' and Marion Beck
e;t's appealingly lovely Mother and
child" woul In themselves sufice to
give a professional distinction to any
show.
>s'- ~
two henubi heads of children. a
Daughter OF the Vikings who might
De their mother and two or three Bos-
ton Impressions hat are better than
being there. Henry Reuterdahl has a
Midnight Sun Effect. Hammerfest Har-
bor." that Is filled with a strange glamour
OF imagination and soft color. The
best OF Leon Dabo is In his "Catskill,
Evening" His Kingston, Hudson
River" co.. has a subtle warmth. but
seems to have been painted from a
swift motorboat that was speeding away
from the ~shore-another minute. and
the high horizon line would have slipped
clean outside the top Of tine frame!
Henry c. White IS a somewhat less
familiar name. but he has a pretty pas
tel touch. especially in "A Country
Road and Hillside Spring" Edward
a. Kramer. with his Adirondack
sketches. belongs in the same COM
mendable category.
Ernest Lawson don't seem happy with
out his oil paints, until you strike the
Harlem ship C~anal'-and that Is sure
some pastel. Colin Campbell Cooper
can't get away from the downtown sky
scrDpers. but he cuntrives to eaten
them III q different 400 each time.
Glackens IL a bit garlsh in Washing
ton Square. Paul Cornoyer porNays
the Arch here, as a piece
10 his Paris Street Scene'-both are
romantic in twilight shadows. and would
be nocturnes IL he a painted them
half an hour later. Jerome Myers Is
right at home in his city recreation
piers and bath houses. and George Bel
-...,- ssD,lz lsarnais Ia n In Ehin2. alaAn-
ing melee that makes his treatment OF
the same subject in oils at the recent
academy took like a st. PatTick's Day
parade. Jonas Lie weaves a now spell
in his exquisite gray monotint. Even
, Ing"
There Is nothing exotic about Everett
Shinn's Fifth Avenue Bus In a snow
Z Storm" as contrasted VIII his req ehalk
5 drawings Of Vatican figures. PERIOD
/, Louis X~Iv.'-though we may venture
{ the suggestion that he be not toe
. "~sansuine" as to these latter provins
: popular. Albert Sterner dulge IN
- similar contrasts. n his portrait OF
! Mrs. Sterner is seriously charming.
Juliet Thompson's portrait OK Phylis
DeKay has brilliant quality. Mary
, Helen Carllsle's Pain Beach Is as
bright as her Bryant Park' is bi'z-
zardy. Gladys Thaer. with an ,eerie
Winter Sunrise" completes the cata'
logue of the Pastelists. whose exhipl-
ton lasts unit the 25th, and may re-
suit In come sales shocking to the
organizations non-commercial senti-
ment, II they don't watch out.
eS A LII Indians declares a civn'
IA ICED writer in the Atlantic
n Monthly. "seem to have
learned a wonderful way OF walking
. --ttn, ,l1D1 Ca1vp4 iny1SlDle
like certain spiders. Many ha'o "''
: appeared permanently. =,
They are in plain sight. though. IT
the magnificent and altogether un'pu
; nbotorraphic studies made by Edward
s, Curtis, to illustrate the monumental
,wsptv-yolume work of native eth
. nology, conducted under the patronas'
, of ]. Pierpont Morgan. and collectiVel.
. entitled THE North American lnd'ah'
In his studio at No. 431 Firth avenue
Mr.. Curtis shows n selection OF n''
wonderful and fascinating pictures-io
p~ictures indeed they are In the nooies'
, sense of the word, and not merely
a photographs. They are the originals o.
y what Couss and Deming paint ant
A ..sculp." only in far vaster scope ahS
I closer intimacy. For Mr.. Curtis. witt
d his camera, has WVeu as pr"'her WIN
a many different tribes OF the red men
t all the way from Canada to Mexico
. re knows their medicine men and sor
l cerers. their chiefs and warriors, theil
Young men and maidens-their materia
. and weirdly spiritual hfe-how the,
r live, hunt, fight, travel. play and per
form strange dances and incantationi
20 conciliate the unseen deities Of TN
q wilds.
Deep In the spectral gloom OF tn
Grand Canon. or in the heart OF prime
val forests Of Apacheland, or amids
the cliffs and giant cacti of Arizona
d deserts, the aboriginal man in his habl
IS as he has lived for countless ages. an
is as he still survives-though inevitatd
J. passing to extinction-is glhmpsed II
ID these vivid Photographic Views.
Such pictures are more than the re