The Washington times., 1921-12-18

ture he inscribed. ITO my kind
hostess. Corinne Roosevelt"
Downstairs in the corridor Of the
White House. open. to the public,
hangs an earlier portrait Of Mrs.
Roosevelt. who IL always beautiful.
This 10 by Theobald Chartran. q
full length Of the Lady Of the
White House, seated out Of doors.
She Is wearing a street costume of
the peculiar style Of tho period.
Another Wilson portrait. quite
grand and ideaiistic In composition.
shown at tho Corcoran gallery DUR
ing the summer, was John David
sons bronze bust. one Of twenty
seven eminent war heroes por-
trayed by this American sculptor,
who after years of struggle IN now
coming into well deserved fame.
And Henry X. Bush Brown,
Washington. sculptor and also IA
nous. successfully caught the vii.
son smile In a bust begun earlier
but only recently completed.
A later picture Of Wilson, painted
for the collection of the National
Portrait Gallery of War Heroes, to
be hung in Washington when It re-
turns from a tour of American art
galleries, IL by Edmund Tarbell, a
well-known American painter and
principal of the Corcoran School of
Art. ...t
A NOTABLE WILSON HEAD.
In the White House entrance cor
ridor there hangs-along with Roose-
welt and Taft-an excellent portrait
head Of Woodrow Wilson, picturing
him in the glow of health, painted
about 1915, by Seymour Thomas. an
American artist well known in New
York and abroad. Besides receiving
many medals. Mr.. Thomas was
decorated by France with the Legion
Of Honor in 1904 and made a cheva-
lier In 1905. He is represented in a
number of American galleries, in
GLIDING the Metropolitan, in New
York.
Probably the most striking. how
ever, of the newer White House
Presidential portraits is the seated
three-quarter-length of william How
ard Taft, by the great Swedish art
list, the late Anders Zorn. painted in
1911. The judicial attributes Of tho
future chief Justice are clearly pre-
sented in this prophetic picture. Of
which Zorn made also an etching, q
signed example of which may be
seen In the print division of the Ii
brary Of Congress. Two other splen-
did portraits by Zorn are of David
Jayne Hill, one standing, the other
seated, both of which have been
hung at the Coseoran Gallery.
In the White House one may find
many earlier portraits of Presidents,
some of them pictures of great in
terest; for example. the full-length
Stuart of George Washington, now
in the Red Room. Tradition has
always affirmed this to be the can
vas which Dolly Madison preserved
when the British stormed the White
House. She cut It from the frame,
! they said, and bore it away on
horseback to Fairfax county, Va,
on August "a, 1914.
A different version was that she
sent the picture. frame and all, to
n tavern-keeper in Georgetown for
safekeeping, but that he after a few
days became fearful of the British
and put IT out on the sidewalk,
where it was for time exposed to
Indictment weather.
SEEN BY w. W., CORCORAN.
The late w. w. Corcoran, founder
of the Corcoran Art Gallery In
Washington. was at that time q
youth of sixteen, and he remember
Cd having seen this picture outside.
near the old Crawford Hotel. In
later years, he and tho famous Dolly
Madison used to laugh together over
the legends that had grown up
about the matter. A member OF the
Stuart family. who examined the pio-