The Washington herald., 1922-08-13


tional Museum, in the main lobby
10 a very Interesting group OF
| twenty-five pictures OF civil war
veterans by Walter Beck These
are vivid In color. AZ any paintings
OF civil war officers. with a back
ground of battlefield and combat
must be.
The largest picture is the three
panel one OF survivors Of the Civil
| War. Colonel Mosby and Others
Forty Years After" The story ID
told that Colonel Mosby met dur
ing his second visit to Mr.. Beck's
studio in New kork City. Capt.
Frand Huntoop, Of the Vermont
Cavalry. whom Colonel Mosby had
taken prisoner. fifty years before
that time. on one of his expeditions.
Capt. Frank Huntoon is to be seen
In the old guard group of New
York State.
There are two character studies
| of old soldiers TO either side of
the big entrance doors of the Nu-
scum.
Adelaide Smith. First Nurse.
With Grant" Is a study that at
tracts much attention. II shows q
fine old scout. with a background of
war suggestions. including burst
ing shells. bloodshed. and many
hands with weapons in them. Stand
ing before this picture. we have
only to half-shut our eyes to the
real world, and we are back again
with 80 March" or Louisa NJ. Al
colt. of the Hospital Sketches"
Another very large panel picture,
IN five sections. shows Survivors of
the Civil War. The Old Guard of
New York. This is a very mill
tary-looking picture. with the gold
buttons and gay badges on white
coats. and the strange big head
pieces or shakos.
'Zouaves of the Civil War is a
great display of scarlet and purple,
swords and military trappinga
Another picture OF striking in
terest is the Drummer Boy of the
Fighting Fifth After Gaines Mills"
This boy is Robert Daily. and he
was in the war at the early age Of
10, being adopted as a member of
the First Duryee Zouaves. and had
by this time seen seventeen battles.
He is shown in the picture with
his canteen Of water which he car
ried to the front lines at Game.
Mills from a spring more than a
mile behind the lines. For this
service he became famous. The men
carried him on their shoulders for
seven days during their retreat
to the ships.
The Signal" shows John Tre-
gaskis Of the Fifth New York Vol
unteer Infantry, with his white tur-
ban bound around his arm as a
signal to his comrades
Just above the model of the pro-
posed Commodore John Barry
Memorial is a picture of nve very
old survivors.
In the corner just behind that are
two more pictures. one showing two
veteran officers. and the other eight.
There are gold panels with the
names OF the officers on them be-
meath two of the works. the Dur
wee Zouaves." showing six suryiy-
ors. in 1912. and the Fifth New
York Volunteers on the Fiftieth An
niversary of the Battle Of Caine'.
Mill" with FIVE figures.
Mr.. Beck took all his time for
two years to paint these life-size
portraits of the survivors Of the
civil war, beginning in 1918, on the
| nftieth anniversary OF Appomattox
Court House, and finishing in 1917.
HIS interest in this subject dates
back years before he became a grea,
painter. to his young boyhood in
Dayton. Ohio. where be saw the
veterans who were living in the
Soldiers Home there. and no doubt
played with them, and teased out of
them many and many a story of
their old battles.
THESE historical paintings Of Wal
ter Beck's have already been ex-
hibited in the Pratt Gallery ana IN
the Anderson Galleries in New York.
In these pictures a tactfuI re-
serve Is noticeable. Though all the
pictures are against a background
OF war. it is not ugly and repulsive.
put suggestive. as the dreams of
these old men fifty years after the
war might have been.
| The Van Eycks and Their Fol-
lowers" by Sir Martin Conway, M.
r, just issued by z. p Dutton and
Company. is a very fine piece of
book work in every way. One
picks II up with a keen sense of
anticipation which is even Increased
on turning to the beautiful fac-simile
frontispece. and thence on to the
clear and very readable type. and
lastly, TO the twenty-four plates
each consisting Of four reproduc-
tons. The choosing of these mic
lures is a matter for coneratula-
tion. for here we have. not the usual
set OF pictures of the period of
which one could predict with GER
tainty that nine of each ten will
appear In every volume on this par
ticular time division. Instead we
have mostly works which are not
accessible to the general art public,
but nave been hunted up and chosen
with the idea OF making available
10 art lovers many old Flemish.
Dutch and German works NOT cen
orally known and appreciated.
The John H. McFadden collection
or nearly half a hundred of the
nnest paintings by British artists
mas been received at the National
Saiiery of Art. In the New National
museum Building. and placed there
gallery.
At a recent dinner at the Arts
Club. Mrs. Bush-Brown, wife OF
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