Evening star., 1914-11-21

The galleries themselves have been re-
dressed, screens introduced and so ar
ranged as to form alcoves, sculpture
added. greenery set In here and there.
A fountain tinkles continually in the
farther gallery and as background
there is a beautiful tryptich by Albert
Herter seen against tapestry woven on
the Herter looms 1t would be hard
to imagine a pleasanter or more at
tractive setting for pictures and those
who go to see them.
The works are worthy of the set
ting. There are fffty-five small bronzes
or other works in sculpture and nearly
500 paintings. Some of the latter.
is plenty of wall space and no evi-
dence of crowding. Water colors are
regarded as the less serious medium,
but they require very sure and skill
themselves to swift transcription. to
the recording of Impressions, and many
and varied are the ways in which they
may be employed. Charles Warren
Eaton shows some beautiful and very
serious pictures, painted in water col
G. c. Curran sends some breezy. color
full bits Of figure studies made on the
hillsides near Cragsmoor, N. Y.
They come from every quarter. these
new scenes freshly seen or old ones
which have become new through the
artists vision. In the far gallery on a
far wall Is group OF works by the
so-called NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
effect or to prevent contagion. night
mares were they less absurd; works
without reason and without beauty.
The contrast is striking. Only two
Washington painters are contributing
nor taE year pns in ths few HGk
Bertha e. Perrie and Miss Felicie
Waldo Howell. both of whom. however
are admirably represented, Miss Perrie
by two works and Miss Howell by six.
THE Philadelphia Water Color Club
= opened it's annual exhibition No
vember 8, and will continue 1t until
December 13. It is large exhibition
and contains some notable features.
such, for example. as a group OF water
colOrs by its former president, the late
Charles E. Dana, who. while perhaps
of the old school, was without doubt
one Of the finest water colorists this
country has produced-one who real
ised most perfectly the limitations as
well as the possibilities OF his medium.
This group of twenty-four or twenty
tive of his most successful works, lent
now by their owners, is we'll worth
the trip to Philadelphia to see.
There is also in this exhibition a
group of interesting drawings in COL
ored chalks by ]. Mcclure Hamilton. the
well known American artist, who re-
sides In England. These are sketches
Of maidens in flowing dresses, and of
horses. evidently made as studies. yet
full of fine lines and pleasing color.
Joseph Pennell is represented by
large new series of Autographs: Thorn
ton Oakley shows a group OF illustra-
tive paintings In color Of Indian SUBJ
jects made a couple of years ago in
India.
There are other conservative and in
teresting works. but the majority of
the exhibits this year in this exhihi-
tion seem to verge on the more ex-
treme so-called modernistic order. 1t
Is quite bewildering and depressing.
Why should those who call themselves
artists spend their time making puz-
Gle. pictures, why should they try to
paint like children. and those whose
intellect is either imperfect or imma-
ture? 1t is hard to understand. and
yet this Is what many seem now to
be doing, and in conservative Phila-
delphia. II color and pattern are all