Arizona republican., 1915-04-25

| National and International divisions. or the foreign sections there is little i I can say as at the time I saw the exhibition. France, Austria, Italy, l Spain. England, Belgium Norway and | Russia were not represented. Exhibits ] from the first four have since arrived | the Norgewian collection is on the way ! There is q room of German pictures, 1 rowed among which q large canvas ] painted very freely in pure color, q l don't remember the artists name) and l a life size out door portrait in Grays | by Leo Putz are to be particularly mo- ticed There is also one of Franz Von | Sucks fantasies which is typical of l a certain phase of recent German | work. though not-of the very modern ! school The canvas of PutZ, one of i the finest coiorists of the young Ger
 mans is by all odds superior to any 1 thing of it's kind in the exhibition. Its technical skill and simplicity are as l founding, it's color and drawing subtle i and sure, a combination of strength and deicacy that are dazzling. Look at this canvas from a distance, that is. look into it;-thcn go up close and see 1 how it is painted. You will not forget ! it.
 Of ultra -modcrns. cubists. post-im- | pressionists. futurists, orphists, etc. there ii no use to speak, as there were no adequate examples in the eXhibi- tion when l saw it. There should be some with the French and Italian cN- l hiblts. If so, remember !n looking at 1 them that these painters arc entirely forsakcn external visible nature, and seek to paint only the inner meaning or emotion of thngs-a purely psy-
 choloGIcal proposition which leaves the
 artist free to paint and the bchOldcr l to think exactly what he pleases, The most modern. and to me the | most satisfactory part of the whole
 exhibition k the swedish section. Note first how Iris exhibit is arranged and hung, with walls and furniture prop crlv and consistently covered to make
 q fit background for the pictures. On entering you will see what appears to
 he decorative landscapes painted in the l diVisionist method, and SC they are,
 but not pictures. They arc designs
 for tapestry. examples of which are
 hung with them. Beautiful irridescent ! Colors in these
 In the man gallery of this section three Large canvasses of sea birds by 1 l-ijcnfors will hold your attention.
 These were meant for a lartger room
 than this in which they are shown, the | treatment beng too broad for this space. Though there may be many
 things in these pictures that you do
 not like there is also much that is
 worth vour time and study Note the
 effect of passing light and spray. air
 and movement. produced by tho large 1 separated brush strokes, and the line
 ot prismatic color about the birds wings, giving the impression of flight
 "a dazzling object passing quickly | across Nour vision If Nou arc fond
 Of children you will particularly like the room devoted to the water color draw l ngs and ctChingS of carl Larsen. The | beautiful clear outline and delicate col
 or scheme seem exactly to interpret ! chiidS way of seeing things. appro- | priatc Cand so unuSuaD in ilIustra- tions for cLldrcu's books. This pure
 quality of line is most noticeable in
 some of the ctchings particularly in
 a drawing of 9 child's head and an il-
 iustration of fairy tale, little prin-
 cess in a COW barn interviewing calf.
 See the expression of that caIf-how
 wonderfully rendered in a few lines.
 The end wall of another gallery is
 devoted to drawings by John Bauer, ! also illustrating fairy tales These too tIf tNtilllSllN III tillbillN. bolO CT treat
 mcnt aad imagination. Although full of detail they suggest rather than show
 their subject You get a strange sense
 Of the quaint humorous, mysterious
 quality of those dim legends of the
 Morse people. In another room are two
 long panels of decorative landscapes
 that though dull in color are suffused
 with s wonderful glow of evening
 splendor. These are truly poetic. Un- l fortunaelN cannot recall the artists
 name: but You can't miss them.
 Best of all are the truly Morse land
 scapes O. Anna Boberg. I remember portrait of her, s1etching, by finders Zorn; a giant of q woman. hooded. | mufflcd in a huge white ulster, wear ing great Woolen mits, with her easel
 set up in the bank snow of north land winter. A rather convincing re-
 cord The first thing you will think when you look at her picture is that
 you never saw anything like them; but on the second look they will not
 seem strange and if you are open to
 conviction, they will convince you that
 here is q great free hearted interpre-
 tation of nature seen in all the
 strength of sincerity. Unfortunately
 the room in which they are shown is
 t'p TOT iIeHl. ne TduldIlOn. I1C
 illusion of light, that comes from these 1 canvasses is little short of miraculous.
 Here again. although no fundamentals
 are neglected everything is suggested
 rather than stated. leaving a free mar
 gin on which the beholder's imagina-
 ton can work. They should make a strong appeal to anyone who is even vaguely capable of appreciating that
 light and color are beautiful.
 But after all is said and done, it
 seems almost foolish to state this to
 anyone from Arizona. the land of won deriul light and gorgeous color. have wandered in most of the intermountain in
 states and parts of Mexico, and have
 not seen the equal of Arizona. And | 't you never get to any exposition, and never see any international confusion
 of art, why -repine when you can
 from your own doors the opal tnts of