Evening star., 1916-03-05

, form 1t is Mr.. Akeley. it will be re-
| membered. who has almost created a
| new art in his work of mounting and
| grouping animals with suitable setting
| in the Museum of Natural History. New
! York. 1t does not make very much diff
| ference with what materials an artist
| works, it is the result that signifies
| and the results Mr.. Ake1ey has secured
| are highly artistic. 1t is easier, more
! over, to do a thing well that has been
! done before than to be the first to make
! an advance.
! Albert Henry Atkins is Milwau-
| city by the Lapham Memorial. To
| this exhibition he contributes four
bronzes. among which is a very lovely
, little head of Victory.
! Chester Beach has talent of eXcep-
! tionally colorful and imaginative quail
| ity, but his expression is distinctly reti-
cent. He shows here a lovely little
| spirit of the Woods ana two remark
able little torsos, one of man. the
! strongly modelled.
There ares two Bartimoreans repre-
| sented-Edward Berge, who sends a
| fountain. and ]. Maxwell Miller. who
contributes figure, starlight" Both
mark among the sculptors of this coun-
| try
| Perhaps no sculptor is better known
| than Solon Berglum, whose little
DTOnZeS OIL western lie wen deserve
| the distinction they have received.
This sculptor was brought up in the
| far west and knows western life as it
| really is. His viewpoint is that of the
| westerner, not that of the newcomer
| or traveller, and he has got this spirit
and feeling in his little bronzes-wit-
ness. the "Bucking Broncho' the
| Tanned Horse the "Charging Bull"
! shown in this exhibition.
| Among medalists Victor D. Brenner's
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| represented in this exhibition, how
! ever. by his beautiful medals modelled
| so exquisitely in low relief but by two
| little groups, Departure" and Re
turn" neither of which stands more
| than six or seven inches In height, but
| are big in spite of this fact and pos
sess almost classical beauty. Note the
profiles of the faces, how clear cut and
classic they are.
| There are two excellent examples of
work of Edith Woodman Burroughs,
who was pupil of Saint-Gaudens and
the wife of Bryson Burroughs, curator
of paintings at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum, New York. Few have shown
death but few weeks ago came as a
real calamity not merely to her friends,
but to lovers of her art.
| Abastenia st. Leger Eberle has talent
| Of a distinctly robust sort; further
more, her art if founded on tradition is
essentially of our own time. Into her
! small bronzes, which represent distinct
| types. she gets the suggestion of mo-
| tion and of transition. The group of
| two children which is entitled Avenue
A. shown in' this exhibition. is an ex-
| cellent and characteristic example.
| The work of Anna v. Hyatt is we'll
! known in Washington, Miss Hyatt hav-
| ing spent the greater part of a season
| here some winters ago. Her reputa-
! tion was first made by her small
| bronzes of animals, of which the Reach
| ing Panther" and Spider Monkeys in
| this exhibition are good examples. Miss
Hyatt is also the sculptor, it will be
i renpembered, of the statue of Joan of
Arc. recently erected in Riverside
i II. K. Bush-Brown of this city con-
| tributes to the exhibition a horse and
/ COW in bronze; from Eli Harvey. one
| of our leading animal sculptors, has