Evening star., 1922-10-15
4 GROUP exhibition. the work Of
three we'll known painters.
Robert Henri, Daniel CARRIER

~ three we'll known painters
~ Robert Henri, Daniel CARRIER
and Frederick ]. Waugh, was
installed last Wednesday in the spe-
cial exhibition gallery at the Corcoran
Gallery OF Art.
These men are equally strong paint
e-s. yet their works are so individual
and SO unlike that they combine to
excellent effect.
Mr. Henri is best known as figure
painter. One Of his first successes
was a portrait Of a graceful young
woman in a black velvet gown-a full
length, painted very simply. but with
dignity and real distinction. He Is
not, however, the conventional por-
trait painter. He has chosen to por-
tray the so-cailed common people
and those racially typical.
His group in this exhibition is made
up Of studies of those of several ma
tions-Spanish, Irish, Hawaiian. In
dian, negro. In the matter OF inter
pretation they are by no means suotle.
and direct Mr.. Henri is not psychol-
ogist: he is a painter: and he pants
what he sees. with bold simplicity
He belongs to the modern schooi:
which builds on the tradition OF
Valesauez. handed down by Manet,
but which interprets its message In
the vernacular Of today: Ihere is
neither suavity nor grace IN MS WorH'
his surfaces are not delicately moo
eled, he passes abruptly from one
textures Is rarely fine-in short, the
finish which is found in the. works OF
the master painters Of other DAYS Is hos
to be discovered in his pictures-aho
yet they are mastery.
Art, 1t is said. reflects me: NE.
Henri's art does more than this. IL
reflects cotemporary habit OF thoueht;
1t Is vital and sincere. outspoken ana
honest admirable. but in no sense
tntrcSpective, revereN- or OF the spirit.
Mr.. Henri has studied in Paris and
he has had school of his own IN
New York. He has, in fact. exerted
q potent influence upon the art OF the
younger painters with whom he mas
ways helpful and good. for he mas
always set an example of strength
and sincerity. He has been made a
national academician and member
of the National Institute OF Arts ana
Letters, besides which he belongs 10
any number of professional painters
organizations OF high standing. and at
the hands of his confreres he has re-
ceived many notable and much-coV-
eted awards. These have been won
delphia. where he first studied for
he is pupil of the Pennsylvania
Academy. but also in New York: ST
Louis. Chicago and San Francisco.
His studio is in New York. but ne
has travelled extensively and is count
ed member of the colony Of artists
at Taos, y. NJ. which. because OF pc
culiar distinction. has come to be
known as the Taos school -"
Fifteen figures and one landscape
the Corcoran Gallery. The figures are
largely of children and those OF
little Irish lad, Willie Gee; negro
boy (owned by the Corcoran Gallery,
and the Blue Tam" an American in
the making. are perhaps Of all the
most attractive. although to study
of a nude the place of honor has
been given.
The single landscape is of a heavy
shower seen approaching across a
broad sweep of green midsummer er
Landscape and is in a style quite un-
like that employed for the portraits,
style much more subtle and re-
hned-a striking Indication Of the
painters versatility.
DASIEL CARRIER is both land
scape and a figure painter. To
his picture, the South Room, Green
Street, room in his own house in
Philadelphia. by the way-the highest
award in the Corcoran Gallery's most
recent biennial exhibition was given.
But Mr.. CARRIER is chiefly interested in
transcribing the illusions of light and
air. and whether he paints trees and
flowers. or people and furniture, it Is
Invariably with the same object. The
window in the South Room" Is wide
open and through 1t streams in full
food the caressing winter sunlight. OF
Homer Martins paintings Richard
one but God and himself had ever seen
the place" Daniel CARRIERS land
scapes, to the contrary, always sug
gest the contact of man. The coun-
try he paints Is a country i'll which
man has lived. One sees his ha bita-
tion. or the work of his hands. And
what Is more. it Is rather lovely
country with foliage curtaining its
mists. its gentle sunshine. its distant
screen of hills. its silver river. To the
average person this loveliness would
pass unseen, but for the artists
promptings. but once seen it is not to
be forgotten.
To a large canvas. delaware Gar
den the chief place halfway around
the semi-circular wall has been given
But if smaller, Stockton" "Sprea6ing
Oak" "Old Williows-Springtim and
Little Tillage-Winter" are no less in
teresting.
Daniel CARRIER was born In Indiana
in 1880. He studied first in the Gin
cinnati and then at the Pennsylvania
Academy in Philadelphia. He. too. has
had many prizes, among which Is a
gold medal from the Panama-Pacff1c
exposition. And quite recently one
Of his pictures was purchased by the
trustees of the Ranger Fund and
given to the National Gallery of Art.
1t is now to be seen at the National
Museum. The Corcoran Gallery owns
not only THE South Room" but a
typical and very representative land
scape.
Frederick ]. Waugh, the third OF
tho trio now exhibiting at the Cor
coran Gallery. is one of the foremost
of cotemporary marine painters In
the Evans National Gallery collection
are two superb pictures OF the sea by
Mr. Waugh, and in almost all the mu-
scum collections he is represented.
He is not. however, painter who
Is satisfied to stand still or one who
Is content to repeat himself. He be-
gan his career doing illustrative
work. His father was distinguished d
portrait painter-S. B. Waugh-and
the son had special ADVANTAGES. study
ing first at the Pennsylvania Acad-
emy and then in Paris. He is well
trained and an excellent craftsman.
Furthermore. he has a fine sense OF
color. In the National Gallery of Art
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