Evening star., 1941-06-29
Paintings Are
Rehung at
COrcOran
American Works
On Display Again
After Biennial
Bv Leila Mechlin.

paintings in the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art. which was taken down 10 MAKE
room for the display OF the l1tn
biennial a few months ago, has been
rehung and is now to be seen against
freshly covered walls and to the W.
most advantage.
It is pleasant to welcome back
these old friends, and interesting
TO see them in new arrangement
whereby. conserving their former
charm, they seem to have acquired
fresh interest.
IF the visitor turns to the right
ascending the main staircase from
the first to the second floor, the
first painting seen, across the
atrium. is the superb canvas by
George Inness, Sunset in the
Woods" painted in 1891 near Hast
ings, N. Y. Mr.. 1nneSs, it will be re-
membered, broke away from tne
Hudson River School Of Landscape
Painting because he wanted more
freedom of expression and desired
to get into his works, not merely
imitation of Nature. but its spirit.
Writing of this painting, which the
Corcoran Gallery fortunately owns,
Mr.. Inness said: THE material Tor
my picture was taken from sketcn
made 20 years ago This picture
was commenced seven years ago, but
until last winter I had not obtained
anv idea commensurate with the
impression received on the spot. The
idea is to represent an effect OF light
in the woods toward sundown, but
to allow the imagination to domi-
nate"
Impression of Beauty.
Thus it was that Inness, IN COM
mon with the masters of the past,
strove to pass on to others, through
his art, an impression Of beauty IN
Nature, which he had received at
first hand and had never forgotten.
If this is not art in the fullest sense,
1t would be hard to say what Is
That the painting has brought ike
emotion to many, there is no doubt.
And it will continue to do so.
If the visitor turns left upon
reaching the second floor, 1t Will
be F. E. Church's familiar painting,
niagara" which confrontS him.
This was originally in the COLLECTION
of John Taylor Johnston OF New
York, one of the first presidents OF
the Metropolitan Museum OF Art. II
was painted in 1857 when Mr..
Church and his colleagues were
striving to find nationalistic express
sion by painting that which was
peculiar to America. 1t is a bit Pho
tographic, perhaps. but 1t is very
true, and many persons have derived
great pleasure from it. Engravings
made from this picture were, IN
some instances, colored by the
painter and signed by him. They,
too, have neither faded nor other
wise lost their allure.
Between the Inness and the
Church hang two paintings by
Timothy Cole, who was born in Eng
land in 1901, but came to this coun-
trv with his father in 1919. The
r1ldiments of his art he is said to
have learned from a painter in OHIO
named Stein, but it is not improb-
able that, before he left England, ne
saw landscape of the classical school,
If not painted, at least engraved
The two large canvases by which
he is represented here are OF this
type, very comprehensive in COM
position-mountains, hills, WOODS,
roadways, valleys, castles and people
but throughout, in each instance,
Is maintained unity OF viewpoint
and harmony in tone. They are sup
posedly allegories-"The Departure"
and The Return"-or scenes taken
from historical romance setting
forth the life of other days. In any
event, they are dream-pictures,
beautiful in conception, fine in rem
dition and quickening to the imag-
nation. At one time they seemed
utterly out of date, but today, again,
they have many admirers.
Charming Landscapes.
There are other works by our
early American landscape painters
now hung in the upper atrlum-tWo
bv Kensett, two by Bierstadt Zone
of which, incidentally, is of Mr..
Corcoran. named after the donor
Of the Corcoran Gallery, one by
Ashur B. Durnad, who was land
scapist, portrait painter and en-
eraver, and good at all. Here, too,
are charming landscapes by Bolton
Jones. Charles E. Davis, Sonntag,
Doughty, Hart, Smile, Picknell and
Rfx. Also, there are three outstand-
ing Observation-Disclosures familiar and
excellent picture of the sea on the
sandy coast of New Jersey, Alexan-
der Harrison's painting OF mldocean
Under q twilight sky and I'm the
Glittering Moonlight" surf scene
bv Frank K. M. Rehn of New York.
Mr.. Harrison was the brother OF
Birge Harrison, painter, teacher and
author of what is, perhaps, the best
book on landscape painting ever
published. He went abroad to
study and spent the rest of his life
there. He exhibited regularly in
the Salon, won honors, became a
member of the Societe des Beaux
Arts, the Royal Institute of Painters
In Oils in London and also of the
Society of Secessionists.
There also are some figure paint
ing and genres hung with these
landscapes and marines. At the enc