Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

by little. Also I must be sparing in demands
him."
To amuse her sitter Miss Beaux once told
him how, when she was girl at home, she
drew and autographed fossils for scientific
books at which he threw up his hands, laugh
ing like schoolboy, and exclaimed, "Eet vOus
continued encore!" (''You are continuing to
do Sol")
II ever a portrait was painted with genuine
fervor it was this one One of the greatest
difficulties, Miss Beaux says, to reconcile
what she daily saw In the cardinal with what
she knew Mrs Vernon Kellogg had called him
the fighting cardinal" but by this time he
had taken of his armor and busy in f21e
establishment of peace. 1t is this combination
of warrior and peacemaker that Miss Beaux
endeavored to interpret.
CLEMENCEAU, Tiger of France" was
painted in his own house, No Rue Frank.
lin. Having been approached in the matter by
our diplomatic representatives, he consented to
an interview. II will give you a half hour
tomorrow and the same on the two following
days." he said to the painter. THAT would
be no use to me-" she replied desperately clings
ing to the exact truth adding that she had
already decided on the exact composition when
watching him for two hours through a glass
reading the treaty in the chamber. OF course,
she won, her point Though the pose and the
composition were decided, the right lighting had
to be secured. "One must remember the destiny
Of the portrait. 1t was to be an attempt to
give the public of another country some idea
of the Frenchman, the patriot, the leader the
denouncer, the supporter. The design was Just.
must do what could, lacking the zest Of
momentary revelation. Clemenceau must be
seen in the tribune, lighted from far above.
Color was of little consequence the great head
and the action alone important BY seeing him
as often as he would permit might continue
ally refresh my knowledge of FORMS correct
mistakes OF measurement and proportion and,
above all, get repeated first-hand view of his
positive yet so intricate personality"
Her contacts with Clemenceau while this NOT.
trait was in process taught her how simple are
the accoutrements of greatness especially in
France. In Clemenceau's presence she made
only studies. The canvas was painted IN q
studio in the Cherche Midi. "Begone all per-
sonal conceits! There was no room here for
any one but Clemenceau." And so it is A
portrait of q man who, according to his own
statement "combated ideas, not persons"
HE story of the painting Diana of the
Tides" by John Elliott, is a story Of peace
times decade before the great war The
Elhotts spent the Winter of 1904 in New York
Mr.. Elliott having lately completed a mural
painting, The Triumph Of Time" for the
Boston Public Library. It was then that the
OAoho "a Tie 41ucS was OfQefeQ Dy M. ana
MRS. Lars Anderson. Having vainly tried To
please me by painting his Diana in New York -
says Mrs. Elliott, land to please Villegas bv
painting 1t in Madrid, Jack pleased himself and
returned TO Rome, where he was more at home
tnan anywhere else" Here In q spacious
studio IN the new Corrodi Building surrounded
py friends IN the city which to him was the
heart OF the world Of art Mr. Elliott made tlnia
painting Before getting to work on the han
canvas ne spent some time in Greece absorbing
as 1t were, the beauty Of the Hellenic land ana
the glory Of its art '"The hours spent on The
AcTopolis at Athens studying the frieze of thu
Parthenon were just like postgraduate courae
70 those months Of study in his youth amOnR
the Greek marbles Of the British Museum The
Fn1d1an steedS haunted his ilnigination szaA
gahoped ever through his dreams. In his Dians;
OF the Tides they appear as he saw them IN
the surf breaking on sandy shore The paiuta
ing represents what he called the poets hons.
the supreme moment in the pageant Of the yeaE
Wnen the nun moon has risen in the east before
the sun has gone down in the west"
Charles Eliot Norton said in regard 10 IA.
= painting, in letter TO Mrs Elliott: For &ha
nrst time IN art. Diana Is here portrayed q
the ruler OF the tides. Most artists 20 to the
poets for their inspiration, but Elliott, like ia
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