The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
PICTORIAL RECORD OF WORLD WAR ON
 VIEW IN CAPITAL
Collection Includes Portraits Of Wilson, Lloyd George, Cle- menceau, Orlando and
 Great Military Leaders
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age-Herald
 800 Davidson Building

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 Washington. May 5.-(special)- Paintings of the sollicrs and diplomats who led the armies of the allied na- lions to victory against Germany and nrenared the treaty of Versailles, done bv inc most eminent American artists for public-spirited citizens who guar anteed in a sum of s2oO,OOO, the cost involved are on display in Washing ton.
 This pictorial record of the World war will eventually be permanently located in Washington. It was brought to the United States in January, and displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Later it was displayed in Providence and Philadelphia. It will he in Washington through May 29, and will then be taken en tour.
 The artists left the United States in 1919. and secured sittings of the prin- cipa1 characters through the request of the government of the united states rnc,uded in the collection are the four men who prepared the Versailles treaty-President Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando, rep resenting the United states, England France and Italy. It also includes DOT traits of the great naval and military leaders-General Pershing, Admiral Sims, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Beatty Marshals Joffre and toch' Gei'- eral Dfaz. General Currie, Those tow
 nf EpIqiun King A;bert and Cardinal Mercier are DOT traved in striking canvasses, the one hv Douglas Volk and the other by Ce- cilia Beaux. Then there are portraits of those "engaging and perpleXinS per .sonalities" Bratiano, prime minister or Rumania: Pashich, prime minister of Serbia. and Prince Saionji, delegate iron. Japan.
 TREATY SIGNING SkETCHY
 The portrayal of the signing of the peace treaty is by John c. Johansen. As the conferees had no time for special pose, the painting Is sketchy, for the artist was forced to do his work as opportunities offered. But it vsualizes the remarkable gathering in a very remarkable way.
 The artists were given liberty as to the selection of style and size, and thus there is considerable variety. Johan- sen introduces in his portraits of or lando and Diaz pictorial backgrounds one presumably of tapestry, and the other a bas-relief indicative of his torical events. Edmund Tarbell has painted Marshal Foch on horseback. Marshal Joffre, in the painting by Jo- hansen, is seen in military uniform, without his hat, standing beside ta- ble in an attitude of arrested atten- tien.
 Premier Clemenceau. on the other hand is interpreted by Cecilia Beaux as delivering a speech, his gloved hands on the table before him, his head thrown back, his eyes upon an imani- nary audience. She has painted the "Tiger of France" in all his force and moving personality.
 Those Americans who contributed the money for this contribution to American art follow: Henry White and Herbert L. Pratt of New York; Mrs. William H. Crocker of San Fran cisco; Arthur w. Meeker of Chicago; Charles P Taft of Cincinnati; Abram Garfield of Cleveland;. Mrs E. II. H. Hartman, Robert w. deForest, and J. P Morgan of New York, and Charles ID. Walcott of Washington.