The Detroit times., 1915-04-10
Splendid Display Made
In Museum
of Art
WILL REMAIN
THROUGHOUT MAY
Pictures Show Ameri-
can Artists In the
Front Rank

II Jno exnlDiCioh " tno R@lnIAse
4 over 100 American artists. which
wilI open IN the Detroit Museum OF
At Friday evening. Is not the finest
byer brought together In Detroit. IL
Domss 90 1ear to being 20 that II
pught TO satisfy even the most ex-
hoting person. Assistant Director
burroughs has done q Jess Willard
~ eaxhsring together the finest pic
ros of the big annual exhibitions
H(ho National Academy Of Design.
- Pennsyivsnia Academy Of Fi1e
axiD, the Ten American Painters.
- Chicago AT institute. the Cor
Dugnn gallery-and has supplement.
u them with other pictures from
- artists studios. and from pri-
Dnts collections.
Ukamination Of these 80 pictures.
N 100 artists. win bring q glow Of
gl6e 70 the patriotic connoisseur.
thsy prove that America Is In the
kunt rank Of art. not only IN land
Dcnps. but In marine, genre and por-
saiturs @ well. France may boast
= her msn OF Barbiron Historically
~ may Do more important than
~ In. but they never did finer
pork spain has hsr Soropa, but
y "a not know more about bril-
hnt sunlight than does Chflde Has
N xnrops has had scores OF great
Dortrait painters -Tarbell. Chase
"A Reid are their equals. Waugh
)pnfinues 20 prove his power as a
)a1nter Of the sea: Redheld must
y acknowledged one OF the worlds
roaxsst snow painters: Gardner
}ymons has . wonderful sympathy
gith hills and streams and lonE
nn6scapes: and no one. European
u American. has quite the feeling
~ the early and the late woods
hat Tryon has. o
Only one criticism can be brought
sgainst the almost faultlessly-hune
ambition In the art museum-it h
90 good. Pictures that would dom
nate an ordinary exhibition are. lost
b the midst OF rival excelIences.
6r. Burroughs has saved the pres
1se Of The Ten by hanging their
gorks together In the main gallery.
md has brevetted Tryon and
rwachtman to membership In the
me group. The Ten-Frank w.
Donson. William NJ Chase. Joseph
boCa1np. Thomas w. Dewing. childe
EoDsan. willard l.. Metcalf. Robert
e66. Edward simmons. Edmund G..
coSbeil and J. Alden weir-have a
~ satisfying showing. Chase's
F0rtrait Of Mrs. c." deserves spe-
~ mention: there are three char.
Doferlstic Dewings. from the Smith
)rnian Institute; DeCamp's "Blue
in1y- and SILVER Waist" are great
)orfraif studies; the portraits by
nebert Reid. 90 simple. so sparing
3 pigments. are extraordinary; Ben
Doa's ~0n Lookout Hili" gives .
peat Impression Of height and
Doce, sunshine and wind and
iea1fh. and his RED and Gold" Is
kl1fully painted: Twachtman's
Drying sails- is fun OF light and
DDod color. and n you can make
)tf1s out Of his Hidden Poor II
} partly because he has hidden II
eG1L and partly. his friends win tell
IN, your own fault. Benson has
noehsr clever study Of light in The
min ROOM willard l. Metcaif
- postry In -Pont Royal. Paris =
m its shining sweep Of river:
ko1zss ~Two Sisters. seem too
t11ts. but his Flower Girl" Is har.
bonious ana charming; Tryon has
No small landscapes. "A Clearing.
)etobsr' and -Autumn.s which only
y could have painted.
But Il n the east van Inst takes
- breath away. and brings the
uss back IN wonder and sdmira-