Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-08

The 1l4th annual exhibition of the Penn
sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will open
formally tomorrow in the Academy, at Broad
and Cherry streets, with a display of paint
ings and sculpture demonstrating that the
war has not killed art--as some have always
feared. but has inspired it, just as wars be-
fore have done.
Men and women have had time to paint
They have had time to see and feel and to
put the things they saw and the emotions
they felt on canvas.
Here and there among the 300-odd pic
lures are stirring war themes, one of which
the academy believes will prove a sensation
in the world of art. That is Arthur B.
Carless "Marseillaise." 1t is a picture that
will produce wide discussion II nothing else.
1t is figure stripped, white and torn. with
head thrown back and arm upstretched TO
heaven before the rude cross over a soldiers
grave
1t is apparently the artists conception
of the spirit of France, the Marseillaise,
ravished and torn by the invader, rising un-
conquered and unconquerabe and praying
and swearing vengeance.
Pastorals and still Life Also
Yet the war did not exclude all else from
the artists minds there pastoral and
rural scenes visions of forest, plain and. field
and lake and mountain pictures Of spots
that remind one that somewhere in the world
there is freedom from turmoil and strife.
There are figures of simple. homely peo-
pie. living simple, homely lives.
portrait of a little girl with her book.
her eyes filled with dreams of what she only
partly understands, is an effective piece OF
work by Lillian Westcott Hale.
Wayman Adams has study called The
Critc''--a dandy who is no longer young and
| has drunk deep of all life and remains what
| the artist calls him still--the critic
Among the portraits Is one by John Mcclure
| Hamilton that is much more than a portrait.
| 1t might be called Home Scene" 1t is-yl
| picture of Justice Alexander Simpson and
| Mrs. Simpson seated in the library, sur
! rounded by books The judge reads while
| his wife at his side prepares coffee for him.
| Another interesting portrait is of Dr. Hor-
| ace Howard Furness. Jr by Adolph Borie--
| also a library scene. Other portraits are: !:
| Major r. TAFT Mackenzie" by Albert
| Rosenthal: Frank Duveneck." by Dixie
Seden; Lady With Fan" by F. G.. Car
! penter; THE Two Sisters" by Eben #.
| Comins; Major General f. d. Swinton,' by
| Christian Abrahamsen Lady With Fam,
| by Leslie P. Thompson John f. Wick" by
| Iazar Raditz; Alberta C. f. Riess," by
Baruch NJ Feldman MY Mother" by
Elizabeth Tinker Emore Mrs. Thomas Hol-
! lis, Jr." by Alfred f. Smith; Miss Marion
| Reilly" by Cecilia Beaux: Edward T.
| Stotesbury" T. J.. Partington; Rodney
| Shoys," by Leopold Seyffert
One of the in ,yesting character pictures is
| AT the Ghetto" by Oscar Gross-an old
man and woman trading.
There are two portraits of Chlde Hassam,
one in oils being a self portrait and one being
a marble bust by Charles Crafty.
victory is a unique work in marble-an
American eagle-by Albert Laessle.
| Jimmie" swinnerton Represented
| pcture that is worthy of great interest
entirely aside from what II earns simply az
a painting is called painted Desert--Ari-
zona." 1t is beautiful and effective work,
and is by James or Jimmie" Swinner1on,
Mr. Swinnerton is known to millions as the
creator of laugh-provokng characters in
comic strips in the newspapers. There are
boys old and young who could not start noI
finish a day without a laugh with Mr. Swim.
merton Few of them know that he Is an ac-
complished artist in oils. though art lovers
know 1t very WELL and his Arizona desert
proves it.
| The Academy officers and the artists have
| issued invitations for a private showing al
| the Academy tonight. Among the hostessss
| will be Mrs, Jasper Yeates Brnton MRS
| John w Brock. Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark
Mrs Oliver Eaton Cromwell, Mrs. John H
| Gibbon, Mrs, Arthur II. Lea, Mrs. Trenchard
| Emen Newbold, Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson
| and Miss Anna Katherine Stimson.