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call "wild-eyed," whereas her rep.
resentatives of other breeds, in
Guiding a mare and foal, and .
beautiful chestnut, "Dixie's Child"
are spirited but benign. She also
shows water colors of a Scotty and
a Cocker and crayon drawings Of
several horses.
Picturesque Scenes.
Judging from her brothers con-
tributions to the exhibition (twice
as many as her own, he is most
interested in landscape, including
picturesque wharf scenes. The ma
jority of Mr.. Sanford's oils were
painted in Albemarle County, Va,
in the vicinity of Charlottesville,
where the family now resides and
where the artist received his edu-
cation at the University of Vir.
ginia. The marines and wharf
scenes were painted in Gloucester.
Mass. Such peaceful views as Sum-
mer in Albemarle' Zone Of the
besD, Gloucester Fishing Boats"
and Wharf at Gloucester" done
in fresh, juicy color, are far from
novel; but in some opinions, at
least, they are eminently livable.
Some critics are disdainful of aca.
demic artists repetitions of these
picturesque themes; yet there seems
to be no more reason why young
painters of the traditional persua-
sion should not try their hand at
Gloucester and ProvincetoWn than
that those of abstract tendencies
should forego the lop-sided guitar
and battered fruit dear to the hearts
Of cubists.
The prevalence of russell foliage
and colorful skies in his paintings
hints OF Mr.. Sanford's preference
for autumn. In fact, the majority
of his smaller paintings celebrate
this season, and some of them are
very attractive.
AS these young artists gain con-
fidence through practice, one hopes
their technique will acquire breadth
and freedom.
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floor of the South Interior Depart
ment Building, recently, to continue
through January, is by all means
the best display sponsored to the
present time by the United States
Office of Education, and as it is
made up chiefly of recent work, 1t
is especially encouraging.
With about 5000 artists today
on Government relief rolls, produc-
ing on the basis of moderate but
monthly salary, and without the
stimulus of private patronage
sprung from appreciation, it is re-
markable that, even with the cour-
age of youth, any one would venture
to embark upon art as profess
sion, but the fact is that instead of
the number of enrollments in art
schools lessening they have in
creased. Evidently the urge is SO
strong that it will not be downed,
and as a result some day may come
the artist, endowed with talent, in
spired by visions, capable of ex-
pressing in beautiful form the ideals
which lead peoples of all nations
to glorious heights. Who knows?
Certainly there Is evidence both
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and few works in sculpture) to
our National Gallery of Art, with
the promise of possession as soon
as the building is completed and
ready to receive it. This is said
to be one of the finest, if not the
finest collection of the works OF
Italian artists from the 18th to
the 18th centuries in existence.
It's gift gave tokens of the realization
of Andrew w. Melons hope that
other collectors would, from time to
time, participate in the upbuilding of
a national collection which the works
of art of supreme quality that he
had brought together were to
initiate.
A model of the National Gallery
Building was made and placed on
exhibition in the National Museum
In April, and now, at the end of
1899, the exterior of the great build
ing is practically completed.
Frederick P. Keppel, president
Of the Carnegie Corp. of New
York, reviewing notable events dur
ing the last year, in his current
report just published, cites as of
very special Importance the library
on early Christian art and the col
lection of distinguished examples
of art, gotten together by Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss at their
residence, Dumbarton Oaks, on
Georgetown Heights, and now made
available to scholars for study and
research. While not open to the
public, this "Dumbarton Oaks col
lection" is already attracting stu
dents from abroad, and the lee
lures given to small audiences in
connection Herewith are doing
much to advance learning.
The final installment of $400, 900
left as bequeSt by the Well-known
architect, Charles Follen McKim,
to the American Academy in Rome
was paid this year. AS the Ameri-
can Academy in Rome is chartered
by the Congress of the United
States, it maintains an Office in
this city, at the Octagon, head
quarters of the American Institute
of Architects.
Competition Held.
Under authority of Congress and
the direction of specially ap-
pointed commission, competition
Gin two stages for the Smithsonian
Gallery of Art, to be erected on a
site set apart by the President on
the south side of the Mall, opposite
the National Gallery of Art, was
held in 1889, with the result that
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the firm of Eliel Saarenln, Zero
Saarenin and J. Robert Swanson
of Bloomfield Hills, Mich, was de-
clared winner; Paul Cret of Phila-
delphia being given second place.
This award was, it is said, given
on plan; the exterior to be re-
studied. The cost of erection is
to be privately supplied, but ad-
ministrative costs will be met by
the Federal Government This gal
lery will chiefly house contemporary
works, and will stand in practically
the same relation to the National
Gallery of Art as the Luxembourg
to the Louvre.
Under the egis of the Jefferson
Memorial Commission, COMPETE
ton was held for statue of Thomas
Jefferson to be placed in the me-
mortal, when completed. This was
also in two stages, the first of which
closed on June 80 and resulted in
the selection of six sculptors who
were invited to submit scale models
from which the winner would be
chosen. Each of these sculptors will
be given $1,000. The second stage
closed yesterday. Meanwhile, de-
spite controversy over the site and
design, the cornerstone of the
Jefferson Memorial, south of the
Tidal Basin, designed by the late
John Russell Pope, was cere-
moniously laid, at which time an
address in laudation was made by
the President of the United States.
A very distinguished mural paint
ing representing the Canterbury
Pilgrims, as described in the Pro-
logue to Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales" was completed by Ezra
Winter early in the summer of 1899
on the walls of one of the reading
rooms in the new Annex to the
Library of Congress. The total
length of the painting, which ex-
tends from end to end of the long
walls, is 120 feet. There are also
decorative panels on the end walls.
The 80 figures in the Pilgrim band
are life size and, in most instances,
mounted,
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The Hispanic Room in the
Library of Congress, the gift of
Archer M. Huntington, also donor
of the Hispanic Foundation to the
Library of Congress trustees, was
completed in 1889 and opened to
the public on October IL with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
On October II and IL by call
of the Secretary of State, an epoch
marking conference on cultural re-
lations through art with other ma
tions,, especially those of Latin
America, was held in the Depart
ment of State, attended by approx
mately 100 artists, art museum
directors, heads of art departments
of universities and colleges, writers
on art and other especially con-
cerned who were invited. A con-
tinuation committee was agreed
upon, with Robert Woods Bliss, for
merly Ambassador to Argentina, as
chairman.
Through the gift of Mrs. Mat
thew John Whittall, the Library of
Congress acquired for the Whittall
Pavilion, a tapestry, approximately
8 by 10 feet in dimensions, repre-
senting apollo and the Muses." :"
which was woven by Flemish weav-
ers at Beauvais about 1700, and at
one time was included in the
Charles M. Ffoulke collection.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was
enriched by the gift of seven works
in sculpture by Anna Hyatt Hunt
ington, as we'll as purchases from
its 18th biennial exhibition and
other sources.
Numerous purchases of contem-
porary prints were made by the Di-
vision of Fine Arts of the Library
of Congress from the Pepnell Fund.
During 1899 the Division Of Fine
Arts of the Treasury Department,
a permanent setup headed by Ed
ward Bruce, conducted two compe-
titions for sculpture and 10 for
mural paintings for Federal build
ings, in which 2,077 models and
sketches were submitted by LIS ar
fists in various parts of the country.
Two hundred and f1fty-five commits
sions for mural paintings were COM
pleted, 226 were, at the close Of the
year, under way and 200 others in
process of designing for special To-
cations, by those whose work was
commended by juries of selection
in the various competitions.
Among the memorable happenings
! abroad in 1899, before war became
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created by architects, painters,
sculptors and landscape designers
working in collaboration. But also,
these expositions harbored and fea-
tured great exhibitions of the arts
called fine.
In the Golden Gate Exposition,
works by the great masters, mostly
lent with incredible generosity by
foreign nations, paintings and sculp-
ture by contemporary artists, the
decorative arts of our time and OF
the great past in countries on the
Pacific Ocean were set forth under
one roof, but in the fair on the
Flushing meadows, 10 minutes ride
by train from the metropolis of New
York, there was one building for the
works of the masterpieces of Art"
likewise from great collections
abroad and at home, and another
for the works of the art of Today"
in America. The attendance at the
art building on Treasure Island, in
San Francisco Bay, exceeded that of
even the Masterpieces of Art" at
the New York Fair, but as the latter
registered over 100000 paid admis-
sions, there was abundant evidence
of interest and appreciation.
The outbreak of the war in Europe
made the return of the masterpieces
of art lent by nations abroad very
hazardous; therefore, request was
made for temporary sanctuary in
this country. The Italian paintings
from both fairs were sent to the
Chicago Art Institute, where they
were placed on exhibition in De-
cember, and the paintings from the
North countries to the Art Institute
=. Detroit, where they are likewise
on view, but whence they are to
60, in succession, to 10 other of our
leading art museums, thus pooling
responsibility and greatly multiply
ing privilege to the people.
Greater Gifts.
Among the greatest gifts of the
year in this particular field was
that of the Samuel H. Kress col
lection of Italian art Chiefly
paintings, of which there are 375,
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both paintings-"Sita and Sarita"
and Dressing Dolls there is spirit
back of the figure, living PERSONAL
ity; but detached, mysterious, not
quickly to be probed-a character
istic to be found also in many of
this artists portraits. Like other
great painters Miss Beaux sets down
on canvas what she sees, and with
great discernment, confident that
that will tell its own revealing story
which it does.
Dressing Dolls" has been admir-
ably hung in the southeast corner
gallery on the second floor of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, next to a
painting of "Peonies,' by Wilton
Lockwood, congenial in color, and
but one removed from Garl Melch-
ers, mother and child, Maternity" +"
also a master work
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exhibition room on which are to be
seen work in process of execution
and the tools employed by the artist.
Next Saturday an exhibition of
paintings by the late Eugene Vail,
whose large canvas Ready About"
was acquired by the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art a good many years ago
and greatly admired for force and
reality, will open in the gallery of
special exhibitions to the right of
the staircase on the second floor of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, to con-
tinue for several weeks.
Famous Etcher Succumbs
One of our own most gifted and
distinguished etchers-George Ebert
Burr-died recently at his home in
Phoenix, Ariz. Born in Ohio 50
years ago, Burr, after five years
trial, turned to art from q business
career, and first found employment
in New York as an illustrator. One
Of his early commissions took him
from coast to coast and into Mex
leo. Then came an exacting task
the making of thousand pen draw
ings of objects in the Heber Bishop
collection to illustrate a catalogue
de luxe. This completed and with
seven years savings in his pocket, he
set out with his wife for Europe,
where five long, happy years were
spent. Then came what might have
seemed terrible disaster. Mr.. Burr
contracted tuberculosis and had to
go West, first to Colorado and then
to Arizona. He was never completely
cured, although he died of another
ailment, and all along the years he
had recurrent bouts with the disease,
from which each time he emerged
triumphant.
Having mastered his line in draw
ing, he turned to etching, and in his
interpretations Of the desert and
desert growth attained such distinc-
ton that the British Museum some
years ago gave him a standing order
for a print from every plate he pro-
duced. Priestley in his book Mid
night in the Desert" refers to Mr..
Burr's work with the utmost appre-
citation, and collectors sought him out
when opportunity offered. Not only
did he depict the desert and the
great Southwest better, perhaps,
than any one else in etching, but he
possessed an inexhaustible source of
happiness In his art. To q friend tn
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III CIlC dCducIIllC OIL CcCIllllQuC OulLlS
their study of art at the Grand Gen.
tral Galleries and the Art Students
League in New York City. Since
the present exhibition contains
much of their first work, it would
be unjust to expect the practiced
skill of maturity. Some of the
paintings are inclined to be trif1e
tight and hard in handling, and in
elusive of too much detail in certain
instances lie, two or three marines
by Mr.. Sanford, but even so, they
are ingratiating in subject, fresh in
color and comprehensive to the
average person to a greater degree
than much work exhibited today by
artists of established reputation.
Animal Specialties.
Horses and dogs are the specialties
of Mrs. Bryant, who knows and loves
her subjects from years of associa-
tion. She shows a number of por-
traits which appear to be lifelike
transcriptions, particularly of the
horses. The realistic depletion of
african Gold" beautiful animal
with satin flanks and gentle eyes, in
Mrs. Bryant's most elaborate oil, will
doubtless appeal to lovers of horses
who want their bone construction
accurately portrayed as well as their
spirit. Such people are often panied
beyond words over the horses paint
ed or sculptured without regard for
anatomical precision. Visitors to
the New York Fair last summer will
recall a number of such horses
Speed" for instance, prominent in
the Court Of Communications. One
Of the most humorous cartoons about
the fair which appeared in the daily
and weekly press represented a
cowboy gazing upon Speed" with
hilarious disbelief, as the guide said
to him, "Sure, it's hoss."
Mrs. Bryant differentiates, with
apparent authority, between the
personalities of her horse and dog
portraits. Her head of d white
Arabian has the characteristic ex-
preston that the layman would
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SCULPTURE in Wood

An exhibition of sculpture, chiefly
in wood, by Carroll Barnes, opened
yesterday in the Corcoran Gallery
Of Art and will undoubtedly prove of
unusual interest. Mr.. Barnes was a
student at the Corcoran School of
Art some years ago, but gave up his
studies to go into business. AS the
result of an injury by accident he
was for number of years incapaci-
tated, and for the recovery of his
health he moved to the town of
Whittier, in Western North Caro-
lima, where his wife obtained a
teaching position. Here he began
doing sculpture in wood and as his
health came back the urge to make
this a profession took shape. One
day last winter he came to Wash
ington with some of his works,
among them a figure in wood,
uniquely carved, of Paul Bunyan,
which he offered to the Musuem of
Modern Art Gallery of Washington
for a current, and memorable, ex-
ll1UltlOl1 VI COAAtCAAAkOA al oCuApVuAC,
held under these auspices at that
time. It not only was accepted, but
purchasers were found for almost all
Of the little works that he fetched
with him. OF his originality and
skill there is no doubt, but he is still
said to be modest-and learning.
Forty-seven pieces-six of which
are in stone, the rest in wood-are
included in the current exhibition at
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art. They
are In many kinds Of wood found in
the mountains of North Carolina
and elsewhere and Of many differ
ent subjects. Some are life-size, 9TH
ers can be held In ones hand, but
each is carved, with tools, with in
finite care and a real sense of deco
rative values, and in a way quite the
sculptor's own. Over the week end
q work bench has been set up in the
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of talent and good teaching in this
exhibition in the Interior Depart
ment Art Gallery. Exceptionally
good are the paintings of still life,
not merely from one but many of
the schools. The public is said, as a
rule, not to care for still life paint
ing, but nothing better measures an
artists capacity to see beauty and
transcribe it-and, incidentally,
nothing is better calculated to open
the eyes of the layman to that
beauty which is nearest at hand.
The Japanese make an art of flower
arrangement; the Della Robias used
fruits to serve as decorative borders
to their Madonnas in colored
faience; our own interior decora-
tors have taught us the artistic use
of things, especially in moderation.
| Why, therefore, should still life
painting be disdained, if well done?
The fact that there is great diver
sity, and, in many instances, style
in these still life paintings now on
view, may, furthermore, be taken
as evidence of personal comprehen-
sion on the part of the young paint
ers, to whose credit they stand.
Also in this exhibition one finds
rather surprisingly good subject
pictures-such, for instance as The
Printer" and Logging" by Calvin
j. Diehl of the Grand Central
School of Art, New York. There is
an excellent night sky in paint
ing. Clear and Colder" by Rock
we'll S. Brank of the School of the
National Academy, which more
than redeems very mundane town
scene, and there is something to be
said in praise of painting of
steel Mills" by Charles Haworth
of the State University of Iowa.
From the Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, has come an
excellent and sensitively painted
picture Of low wharf, projecting
into rough bay, or sea, listed as
Landscape" by Donald Mcclure,
and without attribution a merito-
rious "Seascape" from a student in
the Grand Central School Of Art.
AS it may be supposed that the
majority of the paintings included
in this exhibition are done in the
studio, it is not surprising that COM
paratively few landscapes are
shown, but there are some excellent
studies from the nude and also a
number of very well constructed
and noteworthy portraits. Among
the last, mention may be made of q
girl in hat by Evelyn Bolton of the
Maryland Institute. Baltimore, and
two, without title, by Helen Oman
sky of the Moore Institute of Art,
Philadelphia.
The work from the West Coast is
more modernistic in flavor than
that from the East or even the Mid
die West-which would seem to in
dicate that the wave is passing on
but the modernism here displayed
is of modern sort, adapted chiefly
in the interest of decoration. In
short, if this exhibition may be
taken as a gauge, there would seem
to be a definite trend back toward
tradition and the immutable prin-
ciples upon which the art of the
ages has been built. And yet there
is no lack of individuality both in
technical treatment and manner
of
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Promising Young Artists
Give Joint Exhibition
In Well Grounded Work
John w. Sanford, Jr., and Sister,
Mrs. Bryant, Present Their
Specialties in Subjects
Bv Florence s. Berryman.

promising young William Sanford jr, and his
exhibition Of their
paintings the Chalet Nonpae Bethesda Md, until mdJanuary
In
surprised to that they % and 20 old respectively the
experiment with the latest "isn
painters well grounded
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of Art Year Was Contributed Partly by Great National Fairs
War Outbreak Affected
Return of Famed Works
To Foreign Collections
Kress Gift Carries One of
Finest Groups of Italian
Works of Certain Centuries
Rp Leila MechLin

The 1889 which to close today will be remembered
marking the reopenng warfare
continuation China but of certain happenings of
ceptiona field of
great expositons
countryone
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Paintings by Art Students

The exhibition of "Oil Paintings
by Art Students in Colleges, Univer-
sites and Art Schools" throughout
the country, which opened in the
Fine Arts Gallery on the seventh
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the cumulative effect is most i'm
pressive. Squadron after squadron
arrives and apparently goes to the
ground as If the earth had swallowed
1t. All that you notice is q group
Of men in dark blue uniforms In tho
streets Of some village that was al
most empty. Or you hear one flyer
say to another In the town restau-
rant, Hello. when did your lot get
heye?"
Ammunition Supply Is Difficulty.
There is another point-ammuni-
ton. Some Of these new multi-ma-
chine-gunned planes can fire all the
ammunition they can carry in the
time you can hold your breath, or
a little more.
Well may Winston Churchill write
in a recent article, THE difficulty
is no longer the rapidity of fire, but
the supply of ammunition to the
actual point Of firing" If that is
the case with the land forces, how
much truer when fighting in an air.
plane-the man-made swallow, the
man-made tortoise.
In armies in fortress positions
that have been prepared for years,
like the Maginot and Siegfried Lines,
1t is naturally a different matter.
But the point is that they are thus
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Higgens Gets Two Years
For Tax Evasion

By the Associated Press. "
KANSAS CITY, Nov. Soto p.
Higgins, 40, former director of police
when Boss Tom Pendergast ruled
Kansas City, pleaded guilty today to
Federal income tax evasion.
He was sentenced to two years
imprisonment and given five years
probation on q second count.
A grand jury last week indicted
Higgins for evading taxes on SOS ,122
from 1895 to 1898, inclusive. He
quit under fire last spring.
In another reform move, the State
attorney general today asked that
Charles w. Fields, Criminal Court
bailiff, be cited for contempt Of
court for alleged tampering with q
jury which recently tried Presiding
County Judge David E. Long. Long,
head Of the county's administrative
body, was charged with illegally. al
lowing funds to be spent In improv-
ing building owned by his sons.
The jury was unable to agree on .
verdict.
Another Pendergast man-Mat-
thew S. Murray, who once held the
double Job of State w. P. A. admin
istrator and city public works di-
rector-pleaded innocent today to .
Federal charge Of income tax eva
sion. He duce has quit both posts.