Evening star., 1938-05-22

Member Faculty Impressive Collection Which Gives
Evidence of PermanencePoor Exhibition of Student Art.
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sons IN peace? A thought to keep well
before our vision as present war clouds
again surround U.s."
On one side Of the little disc he
shows, In low relief. the sons burying
their father, carrying him on their
shoulders to his grave; on the other
he pictures the father in the midst of
wars wreckage burying his son. A
terrible warning given without exag-
gcration.
Outstanding Examples OF
American Art on Display
In Howard University
Art Gallery. +
TWENTY paintings from the Ma
tional Collection of Fine Arts are
on view this month in the Art Gallery
at Howard University. 1t Is q fine
thing to climax the season with 50
notable a showing as this. Among
the works included in this exhibition
are some outstanding examples OF our
American school at its best. Here one
finds. for instance, the portrait sketch
in oil of Walter ShirlaW by Frank
Duveneck and the Ideal Head" of q
young woman, by George Fuller, which,
in merit. would hold their own in any
collection, even the most distin-
guished; paintings which are pri-
marily interpretive Of character but
unquestionably rendered with con-
summate art. Likewise Of great i'm
portance are landscape by George
Inness. Georgia Pines" and an early
genre by Winslow Homer. The Visit
Of the Mistress" both of which any
museum would consider covetable pos
sessions. There is, in addition,
group Of landscapes which evidence
to what heights our American painters
Of so years ago attained in this field.
Numbered among these are Autumn
at Arkville," reproduced on this page
recently when shown in a special ex-
hibition in the foyer OF the National
Museum; THE Path to the Village" "
by J. Francis Murphy, an early work,
but still superior; Evening on the
Seine" by Homer D. Martin. which
must have been painted about the
same time as his Harp OF the Seine" "
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York; AT Natures Mirror" by
Ralph Blakelock. very characteristic
of his genius, and a nocturne. Great
Silas at Night" by Robert c. Minor.
less famous but also greatly gifted.
Then, too, one here renews ac-
quaintance with Albert Ryder's tiny
little picture of small boat skimming
like bird over moonlit sea; and al
most in the same breath with Thomas
Moran's huge canvas of Cliffs on the
Upper Colorado River" painted SO
large, it would seem, to match the
stupendous impression of the natural
phenomena.
Harking back to earlier days-in fact,
the beginning of our art history as a
nation-is a portrait by Gilbert Stuart
of Joseph Head. and, carrying on the
tradition, one of Mrs. Albert j. Myer
by G. P. A. Healy. Mary Cassatt,
among our American artists one OF the
leading exponents Of 'impressionism,'
is represented by her very character
istic and charming "Caresse Enfan-
tile" which. incidentally, once be-
longed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
by which institution it was exchanged
for Lady and Dog" There is one
nude-"A Pool in the Forest"-the
work of Benjamin R. Fitz-a nymph
representing youth standing hesitantly,
wonderinely. in woodland dell on the
brink of a pool of water. painting ex-
quisitely wrought, most chaste and
lovely.
1t is pleasant to find included in this
exhibition a portrait by the late Henry
Ulke. who for so many years main
tanned a studio in this city. 1t is OF
Edwin McMasters Stanton and repre-
sents the painter at his best. Also to
discover here one of Wells SaWyer's
paintings of Spain, The Alcazar. Sc
govia," done not so many years ago,
despite the gap produced and still
widening by the present and seemingly
unending war. Mr. Sawyer has, by the