Evening star., 1917-03-18

also much sympathetic insight. The
face is rendered with exquisite delicacy
and is very expressive. The accessories
one may find little overpretty, lack
which one has a right to expect in a
work by SO good a painter, but this, on
the whole. is not in the present in
stance serious shortcoming.
Brenetta Herman Crawford, wife of
Earl Stetson Crawford. is represented
in this exhibition by Il portrait of very
unusual type, portrait of man in
outing costume seen out-of-doors
against a background of sea and sky.
AS compared with many of the paintings
in the exhibition, this painting is ex-
ceedingly delicate In color-in fact,
rendered almost entirely in what might
be termed as tintS, and yet il has an
interest and a robustness which few
bolder works possess. The man por-
trayed is definite personality, and he
is seen surrounded by an atmosphere
in the world OF nature unvexed by
human problems. There is a kind of
psychological relationship between his
hands and his face: the pose is well
taken-in fact. the whole is an ad-
mirable piece of work.
Mr.. Crawford is represented by
painting OF a young girl in sporting
costume with a gun across her knee.
painted with somewhat the same reti-
cence. but with rather more decorative
element of design.
has been given to a portrait of the
late Thomas E.kins of Philadelphia, by
himself; serious piece of painting,
thoroughly sound and built upon tradi-
dition. but not, perhaps. emotional nor
inspired Mr.. Eakins was most ex-
cellent teacher and withal a painter Of
scholarly attainments.
On the opposite wall is a small por-
trait head by the late William NJ Chase,
fine in surface. skillful in rendering but
far less notable than other examples
quite recently displaced of Mr.. Chase's
work.
A third painter. Howard Gardiner
Gushing, who has lately passed away,
is represented in this exhibition by a
very characteristic portrait of Mrs.
Gushing, demonstrating Mr.. Cushing's
fine sense of of color and extraordinary
ability in handling and harmonizing
nicely adjusted color values and planes.
Adolphe Borie Of Philadelphia. who
has painted some excellent portraits,
shows a portrait of Prof. Paul Cret,
who, in association with Albert Kelsey,
was the architect of the Pan-American
Union in this city, and before the great
war a professor of architecture in the
University of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Cret,
being a Frenchman by birth. went to
France at the beginning of the war and
enlisted, serving as common soldier.
1t chanced, however, by accident, that
those in authority discovered who he
was and what his attainment, and
straightway with the wisdom winch the
French government has always dis
played he was taken out of the
trenches and set to planning construc-
ton work. which he better than others
could do
Another portrait In this exhibition
which will be found of special interest
because of the personality of the sitter
is that Of Daniel Chester French by
Robert Nonnoh. Mr.. Vonnoh has painted
Mr. French sitting on the steps of a
rolling platform in his studio. The
background is a large plaster cast Of a
work in relief: nearby are seen the
sculptors modelling tools and other par
aphernalia. This portrait was painted