Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-21

senSuouS use of color, deliberately ere IT.
| ing discord in order to emphasize har-
mony, making color of prime Importance
and OF dominant interest, is perhaps best
| illustrated in d painting by Richard MIL
| ler.- an American residing in Paris. who
| has absorbed much of the Partisan spirit.
| 1t is also seen, and more pleasantly. in a
| picture of three sisters by Frank Clifford
Ashford. who has also had French train
, ing. Sometimes this tendency is mingled
with impressionism. as. for example, in
the works of Frederick c. Trieseke,
! "F'leur- de-Lys" and The Open Window
which are found in gallery F. and, though
somewhat less markedly, in a painting oy
Karl A. Buehr TN Dejeuner sur
L'Herbe.'' to be found in gallery H. There
are also pictures wherein the first tend
neutrality-suspicious. of form-is united
with impressioniSm in color-for example
Max Kuehne's picture entitled ACROSS
the Harbor Gloucester and Ernest Law
sons, entitled CLOUD Shadow, Spuyten
| Duyvil HILL There are other wor.s
which come within these categories, but
probably none which is SO readily placed
To those persons who have their vision
adjusted to the standard of the past these
pictures will probably not only fail to APP
peal. but he Objectionable and yet all who
are fair minded must confess that they do
enliven the exhibition, and signify beyond
the present.
InN the opening night Of the exhibition
~ it was observed that six little gold
cards bearing the magic word Sold
We're placed on six pictures. Five of
these were purchased by the Corcoran
Gallery for its permanent collection-one
was bought for the Art Institute Of Chi
cago. Since then the Corcoran Gallery
has made yet another purchase The pic
a
Frank w. Benson Of Boston. entitled
My Daughter" a portrait study of a
young girl SO feeiingly rendered thatit will
typify for all time the spirit of youth and
girlhood; a marine by Richard N. Brooke
of this city entitled Incoming Tide -
showing the rocks and sea on the north
shore Of Massachusetts,. with both real
ism and sentiment; a landscape, Woods
III Winter by John F. Carlson, beauti-
full in color and decorative in effect. big
and individual; landscape by Ben Fos-
ter entitled Late Autumn Moonrise,"
wherein force and sentiment are delight
fully comm:neled; coast scene, Cape
Porpoise." by Chauncey +. Ryder, subtle
and yet direct. lovely in color but also
excellent in tone-a work more than skill
full, and. finally. a landscape by j. Alden
Weir, 'Autumn"-a small picture. ex-
quistely refined and temperamental.
showing nature in one of her loveiiest
and gentlest moods. There are. of course.
to see included in the Corcoran Gallery's
permanent collection, but by these six
it will be much enriched. In the last
three exhibitions the sales averaged
! fifteen 1t is to be hoped that In this ex-
hibiton they will far exceed that num-
Der, for sales are after all the most tangi-
bic mark of real appreciation.
This exhibition will be open until the
Goth of January on week days from
am. to 4:3O pm, Sundays from $50 to
4:3O pm. and Friday evenings from to
I'D O'Clock. On Tuesdays Thursdays, FRI
day evenings. Saturdays and Sundays ad-
mission will be free. on other days 25
cents will be charged.
THE Public Library has compiled and
I printed for free distribution a refer
ence list of the published literature on
the artists represented in the Corcoran
Gallery's fourth exhibition of cotemI O.