Evening star., 1939-09-03

SdI DdCk III Ills ueep-CuSIllolleu
in London. the men he knew, par
ticularly during the Boer War,
when he illustrated for the London
Graphic and other London papers.
How he went abroad on his honey
moon and remained 16 years. De-
hghtful days in Paris where he
studied at the Julian Academy; later
on exhibiting at the Salon-prior to
1892; those glorious days spent on
the Island of Sark where he lived
in a thatched cottage and where
some of his children were born. He
thinks he did some of his best early
work there, and it was there he re-
ceived generous acknowledgement of
his popularity as painter. 1t was
on the island that he knew the late
William T. Evans, who did more
perhaps than any other collector to
promote interest in American art.
It is to Mr.. Evans that several of the
Washington galleries owe some of
Mr.. Waugh's best work.
One could not find in America an
other studio just like Mr.. Waugh's.
It is built back of his house in the
old fishing village and looks out
over Provincetown Bay where the
Indian summer sunsets roll up in
great pillars of fire and the sea gulls
take on a tawny look It's a lofty
studio built of timbers from the
wreckage of ships of the past CEN
tury that had lain and seasoned for
scores of years on the races of the
cape. The giant timbered walls and
semi-Gothic roof the cavernous
fireplace that would hold the Yule
logs of Alfred's time; the gadgets of
the ships parts which had wealth.
cred the winds and waters of the
seven seas; the massive tackle, spars
and iron bolts that had withstood
the raging storms, and nets which
have served for many a catch, break
the rude outlines of the walls. Mr.
Waugh said he preferred an eastern
light when at work, because it gives
q certain warmth often needed in
marine vieWs-the sea is not always
cold, neither relentless, so there to
the east is the great window.
House With Green Shutters
Lovely to Behold.
Mr.. Waugh, who lives in the up
per part of the village, is what is
known in Provincetown as an up
alonger. Now, John Dos Passos,
Donald McMillan-the explorer
and jeremiah Digges-who won the
Guggenheim prize for his book on
Cape Cod-are down. -alongers-liv-
ing in the lower part of the town
The artists big white house with
its green shutters, interesting rooms
and old-fashioned flower gardens
inclosed in tall green hedge, is
lovely.
AS we sat talking, We looked at
several large canvasses across the
room, painted far north in British
Columbia and showing the chill of
the northern lights warming into
almost roseate glow on the icy
waters of "Toba Inlet" Another
picture, Mount Alfred, Queens
Reach" intrigued us with its faint
aura of changing light on the
rugged rocks. The artist has way
of playing with lights and shadows.
One sees this in that lovely picture
of the Knight of the Holy Grail"
which hangs in the National Gal
lery OF Fine Arts. In this picture
1t is the play of light and shade
that brings a realization of the
spiritual values of the picture. The
same is true in sense of the Christ
Child's face in his mural of the
Madonna and Child over the bap-
tismal font in the quaint Episcopal
Church of st. Mary's of the Har-
bour in Provincetown.
In discussing the present trend
IN art, Mr.. Waugh said, he feared
that he was too academic to yield
wholly to present-day modernism.
He plays with it more as a relaxa-
ton and is inclined to the belief,
shared by artists of his school, that
modernism is contrary to sanity in
art and transgresses certain tradi-
tions in art which stem from the
masters of the early centuries as
exemplified IN the renaissance of the
18th and 18th centuries.
The son of Samuel Bell Waugh,
the portrait painter, and Mary
Young Waugh. the miniaturist Mr..
Waugh grew up with palette, paint
and brush. He studied first at the
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
where he was pupil of Thomas
Eakins, from whom he learned the
anatomy of figure painting. He
says Eakins painted from the struc-
tural to the figure as whole, and
he considers him the greatest fig
lire nainter America has had