Evening star., 1919-04-27

CAPE COD, WHERE HE PEDDLES
OIL AND GASOLINE FROM HIS
OWN BOAT TO THE MOTOR FISH
ING BOATS. FROM A PAINTING
BY GERRIT DENEKER.
is depicted at half length in a gray
jacket open at the throat, showing
soft white jabot. and she is wearing
gauntleted glove on one of her
hands. both of which she rests upon
a stand at the right. whereon is seen
tall glass vase. Her head. with its
masses of dark-brown hair, comes
against a rich background of old tap
estry, and just to the left Is small
ish old ivory cast of the Venus OF
Milo"
The tone of the picture" continues
Mr.. Downes. lis both darker and deep
er than the majority of Mr.. TarbelIs
pictures. the light being that Of an in
terror. which is not very brightly illu-
minated. The color scheme is quiet
and rich and harmonious. AS in the
best of his interiors with figures, the
taste with which he treats the motive,
his avoidance of anything that inter-
feres with the unity and simplicity of
the general effect, is strongly marked.
The head. with it's natural poise, its
refinement and absence of self-con-
sciousness, its slight expression of
dreamy abstraction. is charming. The
drawing of the hands. too. is remark
ably personal and expressive.
The various accessories take their
due places with perfect relative pro-
priety and rightness. The tapestry in
the background, the cast Of the We
nus. and the glass vase on the stand,
even the glove with it's gauntlet care
lessly turned back. are put in as they
should be. with just enough of rela-
tive importanve, and no more, so
that the eye instinctively turns to the
head as the central interest, and is, as
1t were, only vaguely conscious of the
surroundings"
Mr.. Tarbell, who since last Septem-
Der has been director of the Corcoran
School of Art and makes Washington
his winter residence, is In Boston at
the present time. sbut is expected back
in Washington by the 1st of May.
During the war the American Acad-
envy In Rome practically laid aside all
art work and gave its buildings. its
stafr and It's students to relief. work,
chiefly under the auspices of tho
American Red Cross.
Now that the war is over, the ac-
tivities of the academy are being re-
sumed, and announcement IL made, as
one of the postwar developments.
that a musical department. is to be
added with an endowment Of 1915, 900.
Such a department has long been de-
sired. The requisite funds are being
raised by American musical organi-
cations under the direction and lead
ership of Otto II. Kahn. Upon the
Morgan has offered to cancel a mort
gage of an equal amount on the
academy buildings held by his father,
which. when accomplished. will mean
that the, academy is out of debt.
To France the great Prix de Rome
has proved an enormous boon: There
Is every reason to believe that our
American academy in the Eternal
city. which gives to advanced stu
dents Of art. architecture, landscape
architecture, and soon music, the
privilege of three years residence and
study abroad, will prove no less val
| liable a factor in the development of
art in the United States
According to its charter, the Ameri-
, can Academy In Rome has head
quarters in this city at the Octagon.
The once Of the secretary. c. Grant
La Fargo. however, Is at present To-
Gated in New York.
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The Metropolitan Museum, New
York. has lately acquired through
purchase and gift Of Henry walters
of Baltimore, a member of its board
of trustees. a remarkable piece of
recent sculpture by Daniel Chester
! French, figure of nude woman
/ seated looking in q mirror, entitled
! Memory" and declared by most
! astute critics to be one Of the best
examples of cotemporary sculpture
! 1t is mastery statue of the nude
| true to the nob1er forms Of nature
yet with a skillful avoidance Of what
! is known as realism. work showing
the sculptor's idealism at the best.
| Royal Cortissoz. who is reckoned
among the foremost critics Of Amer
ica. has said that Mr.. French has done
more than one fne thing in his time
but never anything quite so fine or
! quite SO mastery az this. After en-
phasizing the sincerity and correct
| ness of the modelling Mr.. Cortissoz
| adds: Upon this Arm founda ton the
sculptor establishes the imponderable
J ia brio which we must attribute to a
purely imaginative impulse, the spir-
ftual embodiment OF Memory tho i'm
age Of grace and revery which is the
elimination of his aim"
The exhibition of this statue in New
| York has caused a veritable sensation
| and Its acquisition by the Metropoli-
tan Museum is regarded in art circles
] as great event.
| Mr.. French is. it will be remembe red
| the sculptor chosen to execute the
statue of Lincoln for the Lincoln Me
mortal in this city and is also the
sculptor Of the Gallaudet monument
at Kendall Green.
| An exhibition of water colors and
charcoal drawings by the late F. Hop.
kinson Smith. lent by his estate. is tc
open in the Washington Arts Club or
the afternoon of the I'd Of May, with
a private view and reception.
| Announcement has Just been made
that on account of the new dayliRh,
saving law the CYrcoran Gallery OF
Art will remain open afternoons until
S o'clock LEILA MECHLIN.
Substitute Needed.
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