Evening star., 1915-11-28

industrial products and better citizens,
IT would be of widest spread and
lncalculable benefit to have sch a COL
lection as that assembled by Mr..
Wldener permanently placed in Wash
ington. where 1t would be seen by a
large and constantly increasing num-
Der of persons from all over the United
States For this collection contains
pictures which are world masterpieces,
works by the great masters which
could not be purchased and of which
but comparatively few exist. Paint
lngs by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Titan
to name only few-are in them
selves of the utmost educational value
The interest in these works lies not
in the fact that they cost and COM
mand fabulous prices but rather that
they are of such superior quality
superb examples of art.
In an address made before the Amer
lean Federation of Arts last May in
this city Miss Cecilia Beaux pointed
out the difficulty which confronts art
students in this country on account of
our lack of traditions-the detachment
of the student from the art of the past
Here she aptly put it. the student is
"a leaf upon the wind instead of, as in
Europe. leaf upon the tree"
1t is such paintings as are to be
found in the Widener collection which
maintain the traditions and give to
both student and public measure of
merit and standard of judgment.
1T X. BUSH BROWN, the well known
10 sculptor, has recently modelled a
small figure of woman typifying
Liberty Bringing Peace to the World"
which is an interesting conception and
may be put to a unique and significant
use. The figure. which is about eigh-
teen inches high, represents a woman
in the fullness of youthful maturity
moving onward. She holds in one hand
a scroll on which is inscribed: with
malice toward none and charity to all.
Ihat every one may have the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" On the base of the statuette
will be found the words. Love thy
neighbor as thyself," and beneath this.
Peace on earth-goodwill toward
men,"
The idea is to have these figures cast
as small bronzes and placed in the pub
lie schools throughout the country as
typtfying and embodying the true
American ideal of liberty and peace
with the hope, later of having the fig-
ure cast in heroic size and presented by
the school children to the foreign ma
tions to be erected in the great capi-
tails of the world.
The plan has the support of those
concerted movement toward world
peace and will be described in detail
In forthcoming issue Of the organ
of the party. THE Peace Advocate"
The idea is certainly an attractive one
and II by upholding such ideals they
can be created it would be well. From
the artistic side the little figure is
attractively sketched and modelled with
a certain freedom indicative of on
ward motion and yet at the same time
StatueSuue dignity
Mr.. Bush-Brown has also been mod
cling statue of David Rittenhouse
the distinguished Philadelphia of
century ago, which will probably be
erected in the Quaker city.
TT HE Smithsonian Institution has re-
Gently announced the installation
in the National Gallery of Art of
bust in bronze of the Rt. Hon. Wis.,
count Bryce. ambassador of Great
Britain to the United States from 1907
TO 1913. executed and presented to the
gallery by Henry Hudson Kitson
Mr.. Kitson was born in England in
1865 and studied at the Eccle des. Beaux
Rrts. in Paris. but for years has resided
In the United States. living in or near
Boston. He has received several med
ais from the great expositions and
was decorated by the king of Ru-
mania Among his best known public
ington. Mass; the Hayes Memorial
Fountain" at Providence, r. l.. and
the w. H. Hunt Memorial in Boston.
The bust Of Lord Bryce is strongly
modelled and impressive, but it seems
not to give in full measure the subtle
personality of the genial great man
with whom in his years of residence
here many became familiar and all
learned to revere. But Lord Bryce $
individuality. SO vital. SO subtle, so
entirely his own, would indeed be diff
ficult to translate in terms of bronze
Ambassador Bryce was always keen
ly interested in the artistic develop
ment of Washington and in the prog
ress here of the arts generally, and
in a letter addressed to the represent
ative of one of our art societies he
gave assurance but a few months ago
of a continuance of this interest, not
as an alien but as one in closest SYM
pathy with our aims.
1t seems very fitting that this por-