The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06

Washington. May 5.-(SpeciaL )-Re- cent additions to the National Gallery of Art in the United States National Museum are described by Miss Leila Meohlin, the art critic of the Washing ton Star, as follows:
 "A new painting recently added to the national gallery collection by William T. Evans is a winter picture of New York by Guy c. Wiggins, the son of Carleton Wiggins, the well known painter of cattle, who is represented by two paintings in the national gal lery. This picture gives a view of Co., lumbus Circle in a severe snowstorm The Columbus monument looms large in the foreground centering the cir cle, across which, gay with billposters is the sharp -nosed corner formed by the intersection of Eighth avenue and Broadway. These dlverging streets, re- treating from the observer, present difficult problem in perspective, and one which required careful solution. The eff feet of snow swept by the wind is admirably rendered, and the life of the street is well depicted. MT. Wiggins was represented in the Corcoran gal lery's winter exhibition by picture of the waterfront at 4,oank, Conn, which at the time was specially commended for it's strength and colorful quality and to the exhibitions of the National Academy fof' Design in New York he has during the past season made several notable contributions.
 MT Evans has also lately presented to the national gallery an interesting and valuable collection of wood engrav- ings. over so prints-'artists proofs, finely printed and neatly framed-are included in the collection. Of these DO or more are by Henry Wolf, who is one of the few who today practices this branch of art. Before the photographic processes came into use engraving was the chief means of reproduction. All the book and magazine illustrations published before and a good many after the sixties were engraved either on metal-steel or copper-or on wood. In the seventies and early eighties there was great demand for wood engravers. for illustrations were becoming more sprofuse, then came the invention or in = troduction of the half-tone process and the majority of the wood engravers " to it, however, and so mastered the art that they gave it, in time, new dig nity and significance.
 Among these were Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf. The former has devoted himself almost exclusively to the re. production of paintings by foreign painters, the old masters of Europe. The latter has, with few exceptions, spent his time interpreting the works of American artists. In a double line in the south center gallery at the National Museum are now hung 51 en- cravings by Henry Wolf of works by American masters, which individually and collectively manifest the original works on view. For example, among the paintings which MT. Wolf has sym pathetically interpreted Ore Whistler s portraits of his Mother and of Carlyle, the originals of which are in the Lux embourg and the Glasgow galleries Winslow Homer's Eight Bells and The Fox Hunt the former in a private col lection, the latter in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; William M Chase's Lady With a White Shawl, also in the Pennsylvania academy Ab- bolt H. Thayer's Virgin Enthroned in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Lit tie Miss Sherwood privately owned . There are. landscapes by Homer Martin, George Melville Dewey, George Inness, and others, figure paintings by John W. Alexander, Edwin H. Blashfield. Irving R. Wiles, John s. Sergeant J. J. shan non, Louis Leob, Robert Blum and Frank Benson. Two and only two of