Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-09

Interesting painting Of little lad. Mas
Ter Roland. who is seen stepping brisk
! IL toward the observer With hat in one
hand and cane in the othe:. a Sravely
animated little figure. Not for some
years has Mr.-ehase produced SO no
table a work-a figure painting so direct,
spontaneous and toneful.
Cecilia BeauX's contribution is painting
in quite a new vein-a picture of a young
woman seated in cnintZ-coNered arm
chair discussing occurrences or AFFAIRS
with an unseen companion The title of
the picture is After the Meeting and
il may well be understood 10 refer in
directly at least TO TIE feminist move
ment of the day. There are both gravity
and excitement in the expression OF the
chief figure in this picture. her gesture
speech. her gown. her hat. the pattern
of the chintZ covering The spacious chair
which holds her i'll its embrace. all give
brightness and spirit to the composition
AS foil to this single figure. is seen in
The distance in an adjoining room an
other small group of people in converse
ton. Technically the treatment of this
painting is most interesting, the color
being held in broad nat masses and con-
trasted rather than mcde.ed. II is an
enormously clever achievement.
Louis Belts of Chicago shows an
ceedingly fine full-lenstn portrait of Mr..
Goodman of that same city. and Robert
Nonnoh an interesting likeness OF Daniel
c. French. the distinguished sculptor. in
! his studio at Stockordge. Everett
! Warmers picture of Brooklyn bridge
which was shown in the Corcoran gal
! lery's latest contemporary exhibition of
American paintings. is given conspicuous
place in one of the main galleries at
Pittsburgh. Arthur ". Sparks. another
erstwhle Wasninsjoniau. makes excel
lent showing in his great international
exhibition. Mr.. Sparks now resides in
Pittsburgh and is to he numbered with
| the group of Pittsburgh painters who are
rapidly coming to prominence through the
excellence Of their works.
Among the notable French artists rep
! resented are Aman-Jean. who sends a
large canvas depicting his own family
group: jacques Emile Blanche. who sends
"A portrait of an old aristocratic couple
who have celebrated their golden ami
versary and are still lovers. Henri Mar
tin. who shows not only Il little picture
of tn" village of Bastide but his splendid
canvas. entitled THE persola, owned
and lent by the Luxembourg. which de-
picts two women seated sewing and a
third holding a baby. seated beneath a
| vine-grown pergola i'll dazzling midsum-
mer sunshine. is indeed one of the great
pictures of the exhihition-a superb and
unusual canvas.
Only four of the painters represented
, are no longer living and all of these have
passed away very ACCOMPLISHMENTS, for
example. and Neuhuys and Sir Alfred
| East The last is represented by large
| canvas THE Rainbow. which was
| given conspicuous place in the Royal
Academy's exhibition last season in Lon
tIon-a beautiful picture, fine in tone,
| spacious and impressive. painting well
) worthy of its distinguished and much
i honored painter. There is a portrait by
Orpen. recently shown in New York. dar-
ing and original likeness of the painter
seen against brilliant orange back
ground on which are projected strange
nude figures. Laura Knight, a group of
whose paintings has recently been shown
in Pittsburgh and is now in Chicago
sends a large. colorful canvas showing
"A group Of people out-of-doors. when the
rnours have been painted by the fall
frosts and the air has the tang of au-
tumm
The German painters. one and all. are