The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-13
. | Know Nothing of Art
You Hear This Said Every Time You
>, Art Gallery.

An art gallery according one Of the guides at TIL
National Museum here is place where people 60 and say
'IsdOnt know anything about art But sure do know
what like and what don't like. And nearly Away
pick something that they tell me is real art"
Showing perhaps that it is not necessary to under
stand the technique Of painting to enjoy and apprecist
paintings.
Much of the pleasure of studying works Of art wou
ebs enhanced by knowledge Of the painter You
interested in your neghbors activities because you know
Jour neighbor The would be true if you knew some
thing about the painters whose works the walls q
3hsart gallery Here is letter received the other day
ithiS subject:
have been waiting watchfully patiently, if you
please for to call attention through the col
Of your paper to the rich and unrivaed art treas
sures Of the city of Washington.
stss Raphael Titan Luini Rubens, Rembrandt, Turner,
si6eynoldS Romney, Gainsborough, Watts, Hogarth,
~ Rakelock-these names of the mghtiest and sin
eeregt in the enchanted realm of art and the Of
each may be found somewhere on canvases in the Ma
hs tional Gallery Of Art at the National Museum.
~ q Turner'S "View Of Edinburgh is all imagination,
81 poetry and to me- at least it is the masterpiece
among masterpieces Swnburne once paid the supreme
tribute to Emily BrOnte's ''Wuthering Heights in
saying that few would for the book but to those
- few nothing again would ever matter.
sef The might be said of Turner'S Edinburgh"
80 Romney is another favorite Of mine Turning to
his biography and learning that for several years he
was apprenticed to painter who suffered him to do
nothing more than mix paints and grind pigments the
wtchery Of Romney's really marvellous coloring may
be begun to be understood and accounted for.
Also there is magnificent Corot at the Corcoran
Art Gallery. And anything by Corot is well worth
kings ransom, what though the king may be Wilhelm
himself A. E. STEVENS.
In telling Of the life Of Romney the writer awakenl
interest in ROmneys work We like to know about people
who have done things you want to increase enjoyment
Of trip through the galleries learn first about the artists
Visitors looking at Corot would perhaps be more inter
ested they knew that Corot always wore blue blouse
inveterate pipe smoker and bachelor all his life. Fol
seven years he diapers apprentice His father was
hairdresser who married milliner.
Have you ever heard of van Rim? You might recall
to your friends at the gallery that Rim is Rembrandt
Haenz van Rim chief master of Dutch painting Rem
brandts housekeepe you might add formed partnership
with his stepson to sell Rembrandts pictures Rembrandt
worked for them on yearly salary for about ten years.
Few admirers may know that Sir Joshua Reynolds in
addition to being the celebrated British landscape
artist writer, his principal works being fifteen Dis
courses Before the Royal Academy
And he painted nearly 5000 portraits Think of that
when you look at his work
When you see the painting by Peter Paul Rubens
REMAINDER that he spoke Latin and six other languages was
dplomatst and had govt Also there was scandal IN
msfany, his father having been mixed up in an affair
involving Anna Of Saxony, wife of William Of Orange
Watts the English painter refused to sell most
o. his work. because he wanted the government to have it.
Il actually formed the beginning of the National Gallery
81 British Art At one time he the husband of Ellen
Terry, the actress
= You could mention to your friends that Hogarh ran
away with his schoomasters daughter, who biographies
say made him excellent wife. Modern newspaper and
magazine artists copy the idea in his series of paintings
Harlots Progress which show in six pictures the
story Of country girl in the city he painted other series
entitled 1.-The Rakes Progress and Marriage La Mode
Blakelock who died recently lived in an insane asylum
happy IN the belief that he multi millionaire until
his friends had him cured and assured him that he was
penuiless.
The bold work ofitian may be better appreciated when
recalls that in 1913 he summoned to Rome bv the
powerful Pope Leo K, and refused to CO. Titan was
member OF the smart set Of his day and great seeker for
wealth he lived to be hundred years old
might be interesting to know that Raphael was born
and died Good Friday MANY other nterestinr thnos