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

, rative feeling. While in manner of
rendering very different, they recall
some of the finest of the Japanese
prints. He has. Furthermore. in COM
mon with many of his colleagues, re-
| markable appreciation of the value of
light and the ability to render its eff
| fccts with extreme subtlety. 1t is
the light on the snow or the water
| or on whatever he paints which gives
it enhancing beauty.
| This is also true of the landscape of
! Anshelm Schultzberg. the commission
! er from Sweden to the exposition I'M
! der whose charge the exhibition was
assembled and arranged. He shows
elght paintings. among which two are
sure to prove very memorial BILE. win
ter woods deep in virgin snow with
| the sun shining through the trees with
| golden brilliancy, the other a Swedish
! midsummer night, which is not night
, at all but a mixture of sunset and
sunrise in an orchard with blossoming
fru1t treeS-a revelation to one who
| has not witnessed the marriage of
night and morning in the far north
land
| Gottfrid <allstenius is another dis
| tlnctlVe' painter, and two nocturneS
| which he has contributed to this exhi-
| bition are mastery productions. One is
| entitled Moonlight Along the Coast"
| ard shows the wake of the moon flash
ing upon the dark waves, the moon it
! self being unseen, while over the head
! land. Silhouetted against the sky, "A sin
| gle star is noted suspended in space
! The other picture bv this gifted artist
Is entitled Windy Evening" and also
| pictures the sea. The adjacent land is
I, fiat and tree grown. the sky is covered
! by fast scudding clouds, the trees bend
| before the gale. there is rapid move
ment In the water 1t is a powerful
| transcription and very true.
| Bruno Liljefors has had distinction
| Tor some years an animal painter
! II is the animals in their own haunts
however. that he has painted-not those
| IN captivity. To this exhibition his
i contribution is a large canvas picturins
| sea eagles-a strange composition
! tlnged, as 1t We're. with the mystery of
| northern myth which has it's founda-
! ton In natural phenomena. In striking
contrast is the work of Carl LARSON
| which is purely illustrative and essen
tally of the home. but also essentially
| original.
| In the long run the figures are less
/ interesting in this exhibition than the
| landscape, but they, too. are very virile
! and boldly rendered. Elsa Backlund
| Celsing shows two very interesting fig
! ure studies. one of boy skiing and
! the other of a girl toboganning. Hell
/ mer Mas-OIle exhibits several portraits
| of Dalecariian peasants. Zorn is rep
resented by a girl of the same region.
| Gabriel Strandberg exhibits types of
rather sad humanity. and Anna Wran
! gel contributes an interesting and ex-
! cellent picture of Swedish fisherfolk.
| Besides these and other paintings
! there are in this exhibition quite
! collection of prints by Swedish artists
and very engaging group of sculp-
/ ture. With the latter are shown some
! unique works carved in wood. homely
| groups. rudely cut. yet full of vitality
! and expression. They are by self
taught peasant lad OF Smaland. Axel
| Peterson. who has carved them for his
/ own qualification, and from such mod
| els al he found ready at hand Yet these
! statuettes il is said. worthy to be
! ranked with the drawings of Daumier
| or Forain.
| From first to last il is a delightful
! exhibition, and one which should arouse
/ interest and give impetus to the de-
! Velopinent of art wherever it may be
| shown.