Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-30

| 81 INCLUDED in the fine arts exhibit
/ ii at the Panama Pac ific exposition
! at San Francisco was collection
| of paintings by contemporary swedish
! artists. This collection at the close OF
the great fair was brought east and is
now being exhibited successfully in
| leading American art museums. The
circuit exhibition opened in March at
| the Brooklyn Museum. where it was
visited by more than 10000 persons,
| despite the discoura cement OF very
bad weather. From Brooklyn it went
! to Boston. where it was shown in
| Copley Society.
1t is now at the PENNSYLVANIA Acad
| envy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
where it will remain on view until the
9TH of May. after which II VIII ne
shown in turn at the Carnegie lnstl-
tute. Pittsburgh: the Detroit Art Mu-
scum. the Chicago Art Institute, the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. the City
Museum. st. Louis: the John Heron
Art Institute. Indianapolis. and the
Toledo Art Museum. 1t is greatly to he
regretted that il will not come to
Washington. but Philadelphia is only
a three-hour journey. and the interest
of the exhibition is sufficient to make
such a trip eninently worth while
There is something wonderfullT
fresh. vigorous and fine in the art OF
these northern people. who are con
tinually confronted b. the rigor oil ma :
turc. IN the face of which they nave
mainta ned q courage which is truly
superb Temperamentally they are not
supposed TO be artistic. but the poetry
of the outdoor world and of lie has
sunk deep in their souls. and hence
finds natural expression. More thah
anv other thing. the quality or SINGER
itv in these works of art impresses the
observer They ring true. There is
no pretense here. no make-believe. no
ma suuerade. Facts are FRANKLY pre-
scented. and they are big facts. not
petty details One sees in this swedish
art evidence of large mindedness as
well as clear seeing. As technicians
these painters are rot unframed
many. in fact, have been schooled IN
the great schools OF continental Eu-
rope-but they have turned to their
own land for inspiration, and they
have assimilated what they have
learned.
DR.. Brinron. in his introduction to the
catalogue of this exhibition says that
the art of the Scandinavian countries
is the youngest in all Europe That it
is in fact, a scant- century since
Sweden Denmark and Norway could
boast what might be called native
school II was the Swedes VINO. IN TINS
as IN Othef HeihS' MS maui INV "es'
and il is their art today which claims
both from priority and importance
the first consideration.
Probably the most vivid impression
will be made by the winter pictures IN
This exhibition, which is but reason
able We have in this country several
PAINTERS who have made specially OF
Daiuting winter landscapes. but win
ter in the United States is a very dif-
ferent matter from winter in Sweden
Gustav Fjaestad is the leader in this
field in Sweden. and he is admirably
rcpresented in this exhibition by nc
less than eleven paintings. No other
has ever, it would seem, pictured the
exquisite wilderness Of winter as has
he. His snow pictures, big and bold
as they are. are full OF poetry, and
they have what is more inSistent, deco