Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

sheet of milky-white water; Clifford
Beal by a narrow. horizontal panel
llcturing festive scene entitled 1.-The
Garden Party" In fact, Edward Hop
per is the only one doubly repre-
scented, and of his works are shown
IN oil painting and a water color. the
former entitled Sunday on Main
Street" the latter a group of Spanish
towers, presumably painted in Cali
fornia.
Some of the pictures included in this
exhibition have been shown before in
his same little gallery, as Entering
Port by Moonlight" by William
Iorach; Offices" a vivid picture of
The rear of skyscrapers with their
multitudinous window eyes, leering at
The observer, the work of Charles
Sheeler. and possibly also a picture
of a "Shanty," by Charles Burchfield.
Preston Dickinson is represented by
a picture entitled Harlem River,
Winter" in which one sees little OF
the river and a good deal of the
bridge, the roofs and chimney pots
of the encroaching city. John Sioan's
single exhibit is a vivid picturing OF
a o'clock crowd swarming through
q street beneath the tracks of an ele-
waited railroad--a virile picture painted
from lofty viewpoint, looking down.
The new acquaintance. therefore,
are Edward Hopper and James
Chaplin, and their works constitute
what may be called the sensational
features of this group showing
Chaplin was born in East Orange and
studied under masters abroad, chiefly
the Royal Academy at Antwerp. His
painting in this exhibition is a por-
trait or a character study of one
Emmett Matson, farmer, a man with
clear-seeing, blue eyes and, If one may
Judge from physiognomy and express
sion, of small intelligence and no Gull
ture. The blue eyes look out unblink-
ingly upon the world, but not under
standingIy; the face and the figure
have known toll, but not exaltation.
The figure personifies the dreariness
of life startlingly. hauntingly, patheti-
cally. If to convey impression is the
end and aim of art, Mr.. Chaplin has
produced a masterpiece.
On the opposite wall. smaller in
scale, hangs Edward Hopper's pres
entation of Sunday on Main Street
very vivid and very revolving. A
bald-headed, repulsive looking man,
big fists, loose jowls, in waistcoat, but
without coat. sits dejectedly on the
walk before a closed shop with empty
show windows. Main Street. indeed,
in its most hideous aspect. OF this
painter. Mr.. Phillips says: Hopper
wishes to make American realism in
painting as rank with the odor of our
own back streets and as unafraid of
the homelier facts about our national
life as the novels OF Theodore Dresser
Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Ander-
SON.
II this be Mr.. Hopper's ambition, he
IS undoubtedly succeeding. Is this
really America or only a little, un
pleasant part of America? Is this
truly native, national expression or
Just one phase of such expression
Let us hope the latter in both in
stances.
THE National Gallery of Art has
lately received a most valuable
loan of paintings by great English
masters owned by Sir Charles Ross OF
Scotland, who is now making his
home i'm this city. This loan com
prises family portraits. and includes
works by Raeburn, Reynolds, Law
renee, Romney, Lely and Hogartt
and possibly a Gainsborough. Th'
subjects represented are the lender
ancestors, ana included IN the coilec
ton is a quaint and interesting por
trait of no less romantic parsonage
than william Wallace and Johi
Graham of Claverhouse c'Bonni'
Dundee'). Both of these are natural
" early works, presumably painte'
from life. and the names of the
artists are not known. To lovers o
Scotch history and readers of Scot
fish Chiefs" and of Sir Walter Scott
poetry. these portraits will be o
keenest interest. This is not onl
an interesting but an exceedingly valu
able loan, and it is unfortunate tina
the gallery's quarters are so Unite
that the paintings cannot be. NOR
handsomely shown at the present timt
X y X
ON January 10 at the National Ga
~ lery of Art will open q specia
exhibition of paintings by the lat
John Ross Key. nephew of the authc
of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" an
for many years a resident of Wash
ington. Mr.. Key began his artist