Evening star., 1913-12-06

There were other themes no less well
treated-street scenes and landscapes
with houses. There is no single right way
In art. but many ways, and an artist who
has, like Miss Critcher, definite individ
uality and fixed purpose can safely exper-
iment, learning from all and using that
which is most natural and appropriate.
Miss Critchers work, In whatever mood
it may be. is invariably interesting.
MONDAY an exhibition Of paintings by
AvA Mrs. Charles G.. Sawtelle will be
opened in the Moore galleries, on 18th
street. About twelve paintings, chiefly
ngure studies and portraits, Will COM
prise the collection. Mrs. Sawtelle stud
led some years ago at the Corcoran School
of Art. After her marriage and during
her residence in the west at army posts
where her husband was stationed she al
most abandoned all effort in this direc-
ton, and it is really only within the last
three years that she has taken up paint
ing seriously and as a profession. Her
work has strength and virility and the
exhibition should prove worth while.
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THE second lecture in the popular
course ON Modern Masters in Art"
which is being given under the auspices
of the Washington Society of the Fne
Arts. will be on Josef Israels. the great
modern Dutch painter. 1t will be given
on Tuesday evening in the aud tor ium OF
the National Museum by Prof. A. 8.
Isaacs of the New York University.
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THE death in New York this week of
Mr.. Hearn removes another well
known collector of art in America, anu
the sequence will undoubtedly be an
other valuable collection ADDED to the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, which is
already reckoned one OF the richest mu-
seums, not only in this. but all other lands
Mr.. Hearn was a patron OF American art,
and what Mr.. Evans has done for the Ma
tional Gallery through his gift OF Ameri-
can paintings Mr.. Hearn has done in
part for the Metropolitan Museum through
the establishment of the Hearn collec-
ton, composed entirely of works by paint
erS of America
But Mr.. Hearn was not merely col
lector of American art; he owned many
rare and fine examples of works by the
old masters and by modern foreign paint
ers. He was probably one of the hrst in
this country to appreciate and ACQUIRE q
painting by ID. Y. Cameron. the Scotch
painter and etcher. He filled his house
with pictures, and when it would hold
no more put them on the walls or his
store on 14th street, New York. Odd.
indeed, if seemed to glance up from
table of trivial bar gains reduced for a
single day from 45 to % cents to a paint
ing by Gainsborough or some other great
master, and yet this was precisely what
one might do at a dozen or more coun-
ters. The setting was incongruous, but
the intention was fine. for Mr.. Hearn
realized truly that to the saleswomen and
men, as we'll as occasionally to the chance
shoppers these treasuI es of art gave more
than passing pleasure. The employees
took a genuine interest in them.
In addition TO the PAINTINGS, Mr.. Hearn
collected rare examples of carved ivory.
These at one time he kept In cases in
the public restaurant or lunchroom con-
nected with his dry goods establishment.
Few indeed of those who viewed them
thus displayed realized their extraordi-
nary value or interest
Within the past few months the Metro
politan Museum has fallen heir to the
Hearn and the Altman collections: has
secured the Riggs collection of armoi
and the loan indefinitely of the valuable
Morgan collection 1t is we'll that these
treasures of art should go to museum
cessible as the metropolitan Museum,
but 1t has been suggested that IL Con-
gress had seen fit to have provided the
building and the maintenance for a ma
ton gallery of art some of these treas
ures might have become the property
of the nation: However. the richness Of
the Metropolitan Museum can but en-
phasize opportunity and strengthen the
disposition to recognize the value to the
nation of art. LEILA MECHLIN.