Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-18

TWO more pictures have been aooeo
to the National Gallery collection by
William r. Evans. They are both pastels
by Otto Walter Beck. and were pur-
chased from an exhibition recently held
in the National Arts Club. New YORK.
One is decorative panel, probably intend
ed as an altar piece, representing CHRIST
blessing little children. The other Is
picture of Christ as He stood before II,
late Both have religious fervor ana
strong harmonious coloring. but the SUD-
jects are in themselves so sacred and pro.
found that some discrepancy may be 1elt
between the themes and their transcrlp
ton To attain to the measure OF such
subjects something more than talent Is
required.
Accidentally the work is good, ana
without .uuestion it is serious in its IN
tention and at the same time sincere
The painter. Otto Walter ter, Beck eek We" as
born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1854. When ne
was twenty he began his art studies I'M
der Isaac Broome, a sculptor and pot
ter. In 1887 Mr.. Beck went to Munich
and entered the Royal Academy. STUDYING
first sculpture and then painting. AFTER
six wears abroad during which time he
supported himself by making ILLUSTRATIONS
for American and English periodicals. ne
returned to Dayton and took up teach-
| ing. In 1900 he accepted the POSITION
which no now holds. of teacher in illus
| tration and normal art in the Pratt In
| stitute, Brooklyn.
I'm Wednesday evening Edwin How
~ land Blashfield delivered lecture
on Significance in Decoration before
| the Washington Society of the FINE
| Arts in the auditorium of the Natiohai
Museum. Noting first the necessity that
every mural painting should have, pri-
| marily decorative quality, Mr. Blashfeio
proceeded to show the value of subjective
interest in all paintings. but especially
those placed permanently upon walls.
Literary art, he said, has become a bogie
| despite the fact that almost all the great
masters from the earliest Italians down
! to the present day have been storytellers.
He suggested that there was a wac olI-
| ference however, between the picture
| that was painted and superhclaiiy name9'
and the one in which subject was prl-
| marily considered and given adequate IN
| depreciation. Walls. he urged, are the
| proper places for paintings, the only rea-
SON that we have for putting pictures In
! little boxes and hanging them up in our
! houses being the fact that even our walls
| TODAY are transitory rather than perma-
nent.
! In the future he ventured to believe.
places would be purposeiy mace on wai.s
| ed for them. Mr.. Blashfield laid speciai
stress upon the Importance OF our paint
ers being both modern and American,
pointing out the vast wealth of material
in our history and in our every day Ire
which would lend itself to pictorial and
decorative Interpretation. He spoke not
! only as a painter. but as a scholar, one
having practical experience. broad Wis
| ion and close touch with lie: AT the
| conclusion of his address Mr.. Blanchfield
showed numerous lantern slides Of the
works of the great foreign masters and.
by request, some of his own recent mural
paintings, the latter with special refer
| ence to methods of production.
= Or another week the collection OF
| water colors by the late Henry Ba-
con will remain on exhibition in the
Moore galleries These, the majority OF
which are of Egypt are interesting ex-
amples of work in pure wash-a method
| employed still to some extent by English