The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-07-29
Ca(D Of PARIS
HIDs REAL NOVELTY


neaDe6 Werk II France.
9S@s ~ mail,.-The art world OF
51H which 10 always in seareh OF
afhfne new, has found = real "
m 4 series OF eight large decora-
~&SrnAtntinEs Of American reiief ~orS
X xSgDfnnre. The pictures are the work
~ NcnAxrcn burnside. = lieutenant IN
american Red Cross. who MAS a
1t1&i>ntnaMt member OF the American ar
u &Snr II Paris before the war, HIS
n Crce2 activities inspired IN MT.
" 49, 81 re~rpetaating the work 81
American Red Cross on canvas. His
ss3xeaatav completed paintings have set
n 49,. swor and The foremost French
sSSS4 critic. NJ. Leouce Eenetste, curator
\ M the Luxembourg Museum says IN -
NAxaasne article today
81 il AZ eloquent series OF T~a&ntfnsN'
seaecsicn OF veraeicas Pages OF moo
=. Ai.,orv This o~&cer-artist, in
M war-tsrre work. did not forget his
Srofesstoraf standpoint All the time
~ professional habit and in
AlR3net. he was looking, looking
Artists. true-horn artists. see pictures
Tosarywhere; they look upon 'ne
s6rSrid'e speetacles with ar eye sinsIe
tAe transncsitior Of these sHectactes
nEAo pa.nttngx Thus Cameron Burn
80 ~ his wartime Red Cross work
- ohsNrvfng; he saw interest in
- ala and what was done around MN
NJ rrpsr%d the picturesque side OF All
xEraYss events, OF sill Its maneuvers, OF
It's populations BY ana ~
$0aewfy. ready-made pictures began %
S1eTm IN his imagination and ne found
Aefnfnw in his mind a whole series OF
waRes ertteyntxsnE the scenes WIN
81 thsrA he had been associated"
$2.sC Burnside. rejected for army
Msrxfce when America entered the wAr'
eaa assigned to work at the American
#nnA Cross central warehouse in ,FFris
a@&ehere he unloaded csfnion=, shlfteo
nnen cpered boxes. unpacked suppiieS
ssanffi the difficult manual labor mao
III. He was asked what else ne
nr1A 40 beside warehouse work.
E6pAfnt pictures." he said. and outlined
IT. maan for a series of paintings whicn
s&&hnu1d illustrate all the Rhases u
3Knerican Red Cross activities the
|&Rrthorfties of the organization saw the
zinc Of the Idea and supplied MN
canvasses, brushes and OILS
Al the summer and fall Of the Ger
&as..r hombardment Of Paris. Burnside
II his painting Once his models
m.ara pauic-stricken by the explosion
gMn&f : bomb in the street outside his stu
sStn He completed first the study OF
warehouse with which he was
3khoroughIy familiar. a hu m d r u m
S%enouRh grouping OF men and carnions
&6nd packing cases. but vibrant WIN
NHe,erry and the clear vivid color thar
HSNcarne the dominant quality OF the
SSkmtire series.
a4 ~ haunted the Care de rEst for the
Aaerond picture. a view OF the refugee
eaateen In the corner OF that gloomy
Canteen workers with oo"is
soup, desolate groups OF mothefiess
khfldren and homeless women, hands
ssssclutching 1umpy bundles, ne repro
ya6ucAd them all. Then he went to the
great surgical dressing warehouse al
THE Rue st. Didier. and painted the
ARMY OF women in white, workinP
feverishly at bandages under the mgr
sShlue arch of the roof. He painted
american Red Cross workers at a une
81 communication canteen, ~donghboys
aaelustering about stearning cans or CO.
COS and sunshine streakinE the white
kerchiefs of the girls. An outpost
ranfeeu behind the front lines FUR
1.6sshed him material for one OF hi'
most striking studies. a Red Cross
man filing cups for American soldiers
sSWhos rifles and helmets glearn from
tAa somher shadows in the light OF TN
b candle.
Military hospital No, s. with
rroup OF wounded d~oughboys TELLING
tories against a background OF whit
sents and green trees. vivid IN tn
%1unshtne: the interior Of an American
He'd Cross children's clinic, Wit
American women doctors examining
the under-nourished bodies OF Frenc'
ID Dies, and, finally. a simple but com
sneilfng study of a Red Cross nurse b!
bedside OF a wounded soldier, com
Alefe the list of subjects.
The series Of paintings are to b.
Sung on the walls OF the American Re-
.srosS headquarters in Washington.