International studio (35.1908)

Carnegie Institute

THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE EXHI-
BITION
BY WILLIAM HOWE DOWNES
The important special feature of the
twelfth annual international exhibition of oil paint-
ings held by the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh is a
loan collection of twenty-two paintings by Winslow
Homer. This is the most complete group of the
works of this eminent American artist ever brought
together, and it affords a singularly valuable oppor-
tunity to form a just estimate of his art. The honor
of being thus singled out belongs by right to this
great painter of the sea and wilderness, whose power
as the interpreter of the great outdoor world of wind
and wave and forest and hill is matched by his
imaginative intensity in pictorial narrative. The
public art museums which
have contributed to this ex-
hibit are the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York;
the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadel-
phia; the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; the Rhode
Island School of Design,
Providence; the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washing-
ton; the Layton Gallery,
Milwaukee; the National
Gallery of Art (Evans gift),
Washington, and the Car-
negie Institute itself, a list
which proves that Homer’s
works have been bought by
no less than eight American
public galleries during the
lifetime of the artist.
The complete catalogue
of the Winslow Homer
group includes the follow-
ing titles: Hark! the Lark,
Hound and Hunter, The
Fisher Girl, The Wreck,
On a Lee Shore, A Light on
the Sea, Early Evening, Fox
Hunt, The Gulf Stream;
Searchlight, Harbor En-
trance, Santiago de Cuba;
Cannon Rock; Sunset, Saco
Bay, the Coming Storm;
The Gale, Banks Fisher-
men, Undertow, Huntsman
and Dog, Flight of Wild

Geese, The Lookout, All’s Well, The Fog Warning,
Maine Coast, The Two Guides and High Cliff,
Coast of Maine.
This group is well calculated to familiarize the
visitor with every phase of Homer’s activities. His
marine painting pure and simple, for example, could
hardly be better exemplified than by the extraordi-
nary On a Lee Shore, belonging to the Rhode Island
School of Design, in which the majestic sense of
elemental power and the splendor of untamable
natural forces are conveyed with overwhelming
grandeur, or the High Cliff, Coast of Maine, belong-
ing to the National Gallery of Art (Evans gift), in
which the master’s feeling for the rhythmic ebb and
flow of tide and wave—with that subtle commin-
gling of actuality and of mystery, of naturalism and
imagination, which marks the work of the great


Medal, First Class, Carnegie, 1908
THE NECKLACE BY T. W. DEWING

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