Evening star., 1923-10-12

paintings by cotemporary European
| artists is now on view in the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art. This exhibition.
! which opened on October and con-
tinues through October 81. comprises
sixty works by the leading artists of
| France. Great Britain. Italy, Spain.
Sweden. Belgium. Holland and Denmark
selected from the twenty-second inter-
national exhibition of the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh, held last April,
May and June.
These works were selected abroad
! by juries of artists of foremost rank.
In France, for example, the jury was
composed of Maurice Denis. George
Desvallieres, Ernest Laurent, Henry
Lerolle. Henri LIE Sidaner, Henri Mar
tin and Lucien Simon; so there is no
doubt that the groups in each instance
- be considered representative.
Furthermore these sixty pictures were
selected from the larger number
shown in Pittsburgh by the directors
| of the various American museums
! wherein they will be shown. Thus
they may be supposed to be the best
| of the best
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the
first OF the museums outside of Pitts
burgh to show them, and the exhibit
| is the first genuinely, international in
character that has ever been shown
here. For the display of the collec-
ton the semi-circular special exhibit
tion gallery and the first American
gallery have been given over, and no
sooner does the visitor step into either
of these rooms than he or she is
aware of a foreign atmosphere; OBJ
viously these paintings are not by
American painters. There is subtle
difference readily felt, but difficult to
explain. That they are better than
American works cannot be said; In
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and yet they possess quality which
the works of our American painters
do not have. For one thing, they are
less casual.
American observer to be very serious
minded and rather intense. Probably
| this reflects the present mood OF Eu-
rope and the terrific tension under
I which life for the past ten years or
| more has there been lived. To an
extent, however. it brings to mind
the different attitude that Europeans
have about art from that Of the ma
jority of Americans-an attitude
! which reckons art part OF life
rather than a non-essential.
These are not pretty pictures. In
some instances there is little beauty
to be found in them save that of
strength and character, but the artists
who have painted them have appar-
! emily had something to say.
| separate gallery, but in this smaller
| collection such classification was i'm
possible, and here the works of
French and Swedish and Spanish
artists hang side by side. But in most
| cases they are distinctive and the
British works are very British; the
Swedish SAVIOR strongly of the Scan
dinavian Spirit; those from France
are essentially French. and the Ital-
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as coming from northern countries.
OF all, the Spanish are perhaps the
| most colorful, virile, individual. 1t
was SO in the international exhibition
at Venice in 1922. but Spain, with
the exception of Sweden, perhaps, has
been less merged with other nations
| than any country in Europe In re-
cent years Spain has produced two
| great artists-Zuloaga and Sorolla.
Iuioaga is not represented in this
example, painting lent by the Car
negie Institute. which is not to be
counted among his best, lacking the
| qualities Of brilliancy in color and
spontaneity of technique that disting-
uish Sorolla's works. In the Sorolla
style is a painting entitled Drawing
the Boat" by Enrique Martinez-Cu-
bells Y Ruiz. "The Lace Makers" by
Zubiaurre. is typical Spanish work,
colorful and fine. A powerful and
1 uAioi sctldDle WORK is u painting OF
a convict sitting on the cot in his
| celia bit of remarkable realism, by
a Spanish painter whose name is
quite unknown In this country-Ed-
uardo Chfcarro. A portrait of AM
bassador Cyrus Woods, by Sotomayer.
lent by the commonwealth of Penn
| sylvania is another notable contri-
| button from Spain.
| France has the largest representa-
| ton numerically. there being eighteen
French artists represented, provided
| olga de BoznansKa, a Russian long
resident In Paris, be rightly so listed.
| Among the French exhibiting are
no less distinguished painters than
Resnard. Menard. Le Sidaner, Forain,
Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Maui
rice Denis. De Monvel sends an in
grattattng portrait of his mother in
the Whistler tradition, an old lady
standing beside a homely chair and
| seen against gray, ptcture-hung
wall. Maurice Denis contribution is
a curious composition entitled Moth
| erhood," an outdoor scene with fg-
ures and landscape and q little boat,
all bathed In q ruddy pink light.
; Denis, 1t will be remembered. is one
of the leading mural painters of
| table contribution through the me-
| dium Of theater decorations.
| Half way around the semf-circular
wall In the special exhibition gallery
hangs Pierre Laurens' painting, entf-
tied 'The Widow" awarded honor
able mention In the Carnegie Insti-
tute's exhibition; an enormous can
vas, showing mother pushing a lit
tie chap In curious French peram-
buiator. both sharply silhouetted
| against broad. low-lying landscape.
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