The Washington times., 1921-10-23

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. There can be no pause, just now.
to examine too many Of these,
though Washington, of course. In
first in number, with Lincoln second,
and General Jackson a close third.
Roosevelt will no doubt be in the I'm
mortal group some day, also, a. pic
lures of him multiply with the pass
ing years. New portraits Of Lincoln.
of Roosevelt, and even Of George
Washington. are still being produced
every year by ambitious painters.
sculptors. and illustrators.
The character of the Emancipator
Of the Slave towers SO gisantically
above other men that an artist may
be deeply inspired when he contcm-
plates essaying a Lincoln portrait.
But let the mediocre beware! Sorne
of the copies in the print division
show us sorry caricatures.
To hasten through the dozen cases
Of Lincoln portraits. which MISS
Helen Wright, of the print division
will kindly place at the visitors dis
posal. every phase Of the murdered
Presidents career may be studied In
these interesting pictures. In Some
of them fancy has woven romance
about the facts, but even 50 the ef-
fort IL always to interpret Lincolns
character.
Plain. simple man though he
seemed. his was temperament 30
deep, so high, so strong. SO sym
pathetic that 1t will continue to in
spire the artist, the poet, the histo-
rian, the reader. the thinker. through
coming generations, with every s'!c-
cessful new Interpretation.
MANY PHOTOS
TO BE FOUND.
In Lincoln's day photography had
hut recently come into general use
though discovered by Dasuerre IN
1889. This advance In portraiture
yavea a great advantage for the max
ing of Lincoln pictures, which are SO
numerous and interesting In the col
,.ctions here. Some of them are
mere cartoons, Young Lincoln at
His Mothers Grave" a solitary boy
lacking disconsolately at q white
stone by a bending tree.
"The President Reading the Bible
70 His Young Son TAD" was IA
vorite later picture, reproduced IN
many styles, even by the Prang
COMPANY. Lincoln at Home,,' Is
another of the same period, repre-
.enting the President and his entire
fsmily, each member provided with
a Bible. Morbid cartoons show the
ASA ssination at Ford's Theater and
later. still more grewsome, the death
he'd scene, which as everyone knows
occurred opposite the theater in the
old Royal House, now a museum In
washington.
This picture, produced by some
feat OF photography (surely the cam
ara. men were not admitted to the
chamber of the dying Presideno,
shows the mourning cabinet and
r,eubers OF the family. Mrs. Lincoln
kneeling by the bedside, while the
martyr painfully breathes his last.
Even this did not fully satisfy the
taste for the morbid, as there 10
another, yet more sombre, The
Tomb and Shade Of Lincoln" dsted
1897. sketchins the spreading
branches Of a tree so as actually TO
form, not far from the Presidents
tomb, a fairly recognizable spectre!
But now turning to legitimate art,
and especially to those Lincoln por-
trsits which are in our Capital City,
let us pass from the Library OF Con-
gress into the National Capitol close
at hand and study Lincoln as de-
lineated there.
THREE ART WORKS
NJ SPECIAL NOTE.
Three Lincoln works - sDr'sl
note-two of them scGi5.,gsd N