Evening star., 1916-11-12
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

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Of the Library of Congress. Others are
to be found in the Minnesota state
capitol. Oherlin College and other pub.
lie buildings. Mr.. Cox is the author OF
THE Classic Point Of View" Tho Artist
and the Public" and other books. He ie
a member OF the National Academy OF
Design and the American Academy OK
Arts and Letters.
In the Peabody Institute. Baltimore.
a special group exhibition OF paintings
by five Baltimore artists is now being
held. The artists represented are Mar
garet Law, Louise West. Mary Crum-
mer. Eleanor Hurd and Joseph LAUDER.
Mr.. LAUDER is especially well known
in this city. having lived here for sew
decorations with the late Frank d.
Millet and later c. Y. Turner. Mr..
LAUDER is pupil OF the late Walter
Shirlaw and William NJ Chase. and his
first mural painting was done under
the direction OF John La Fargo. He 10
not only known as a mural painter, but
as a maker Of mosaics and stained
glass. His works are to be seen in the
appellate court and the Church OF the
Ascension. New York. To tho Balti-
more group exhibit he has contributed
eleven paintings. one a picture Of the
cascade Of Great Falls on the Potomac:
during the past summer at East
Gloucester.
Miss Louise West has been from time
to time a contributor to the Washing
ton exhibitions. She makes speciality
of interiors. very charming pictures
painted with excellent feeling. as we'll
as delightful in tone.
Chicago has just opened an Arts Club
similar in character and purpose to the
lately formed Arts Club in this city.
1t has. however. its own specially de-
signed home. clubrooms and galleries.
1t Is inaugurating its opening by spe-
cial exhibitions of paintings by John
Singer Sargent and Henry Golden
Dearth. 1t is rumored that the Sar-
gent exhibition. shown IN the Boston
Art Museum last summer. and now in
Chicago. is to come to Washington In
December a special feature of the
Corcoran Gallerys forthcoming bien-
NAL exhibition.
William Gedney Bunce. one OF the
best known of cotemporary American
painters. died as the result of an auto
mobile accident at his home in Hart
ford, Conn, last week. Mr.. Bunce was
seventy-six years of age and was .
veteran of the civil war He was also
veteran in art, a member of tho
old Tile Club in New York, associate
of Abbey and SaintGAudens and
two of his paintings and Queen Vic
toria was also among the purchasers
of mis- works
Mr.. Bunce made a speciality Of Vene-
tian pictures. which he painted with
peculiar subtlety and skill. He was a
thorough artist and his works enrich
many private and public collections.
A notable exhibition of prints is now
in progress in the Museum of Fine
Arts. Boston. The exhibition COM
prises Rembrandt etchings from the j.
Pierpont Morgan collection. litho-
graphs by Fantin-Latour from the
Charles L. Freer collection. the COM
plete etched work of Van Dyck and
Corot's Autographs from the museums
own collection.
The display fills seven rooms. and to
lovers of prints it is we'll worth the
journey to Boston to see The Freer
Autographs. it is said, have never here
tofore been shown publicly in the
United States. The exhibition contin-
,, ues into January.
The american Academy of Arts and
Letters. of which William Dean How
ellis is president and Robert Underwood
Johnson permanent secretary. will hold
it's annual meeting in New York on
November 16 and Il.
The academy was granted a charter
by Congress last winter and its pur-
pose is to uphold and emphasize tho
value and Significance of the arts. Its
membership is limited to fifty and re-
stricted to men.
The academy has recently acquired .
valuab BILE site in New York in the vicin-
ity of the property occupied by the
Hispanic Society Museum, and il is
purposinE to erect thereon perma-
nent home. While it will he conceded
that New York is our greatest metrop-
oils and to a great extent the center OF
production in the arts. it is to be re-
GREETED that a national organization of
this character should not make its
headquarters in the National Capital
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Henry w. Ranger. the well known
landscape painter. died suddenly in his
studio in New York last week While
younger than William NJ. Chase. Mr..
Ranger belonged to his coterie and
was to be grouped with the tonalists.
of whom there now remain but few.
He is represented in the Evans Ma
tional Gallery collection by several
characteristic canvasses. One. a wood
interior. is peculiarly charming and has
been frequently reproduced. Mr. Ran
ger showed in his work the influence
of the Barbizon school. but his work
was very individual 1t was on Mr..
Hangers advice that many of tho
paintings in the Evans National CAL
lery collection were purchased, he be-
ing for years close friend of william
E. Evans. LEILA MECHLIN.
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