DOI Heft:
No. 192 (February, 1913)
DOI Artikel:De Kay, Charles: The Evans collection of American paintings at Washington
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43451#0464
The Evans Collection of American Paintings
pies of the figure pieces, religious, symbolical or
genre, which seem best adapted to reproduction
in black and white. They are but a handful of the
imposing list in the collection at Washington. It
need scarcely be said that the landscapes and
marines, the snow scenes and the pictures whose
atmosphere cannot be translated very well into
black and white form an equally distinguished
part of the collection.
The New Jersey landscape by George Inness,
as here reproduced, may suggest its pearly sky
after a fashion, and the glow of the setting sun,
the skillful use of rising smoke, the stillness and
dull radiance of Indian summer. Here is a bit of
the Shinnecock Hills, with clouds poised high
overhead, as William M. Chase paints that spot,
once his favorite. And here is a rugged headland on
the Maine Coast, painted by Winslow Homer in
1894, which has a rough savor, as elusive of defini-
tion as are certain harsh chords of music. If the
illustrations of figure pictures give a very inade-
quate idea of that side of the collection, these few
landscapes and marines are still more obviously a
hint rather than a report.
There are collectors of pictures in many parts
of the Union who may take a leaf from Mr.
Evans’s book and devote their leisure to a more
methodical and public-spirited purpose than has
ruled them heretofore. Museums of art and gal-
leries for paintings are becoming part of the usual
make-up of a civic center in the United States.
The example offered by Mr. Evans cannot fail
to interest those who would like to help native art
and at the same time provide their own city with
a permanent gallery of pictures to which all shall
have access. Such already exist in cities by no
means of the first or even the second order as to
population; their number is constantly growing.
Public-spirited collectors will do well to visit
Washington, not merely to admire this impressive
gift to the nation, but to take counsel with them-
selves how to obtain on their own part such a
striking success as that which Mr. Evans has
won.
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SHINNECOCK HILLS
BY WILLIAM M. CHASE, N.A.
pies of the figure pieces, religious, symbolical or
genre, which seem best adapted to reproduction
in black and white. They are but a handful of the
imposing list in the collection at Washington. It
need scarcely be said that the landscapes and
marines, the snow scenes and the pictures whose
atmosphere cannot be translated very well into
black and white form an equally distinguished
part of the collection.
The New Jersey landscape by George Inness,
as here reproduced, may suggest its pearly sky
after a fashion, and the glow of the setting sun,
the skillful use of rising smoke, the stillness and
dull radiance of Indian summer. Here is a bit of
the Shinnecock Hills, with clouds poised high
overhead, as William M. Chase paints that spot,
once his favorite. And here is a rugged headland on
the Maine Coast, painted by Winslow Homer in
1894, which has a rough savor, as elusive of defini-
tion as are certain harsh chords of music. If the
illustrations of figure pictures give a very inade-
quate idea of that side of the collection, these few
landscapes and marines are still more obviously a
hint rather than a report.
There are collectors of pictures in many parts
of the Union who may take a leaf from Mr.
Evans’s book and devote their leisure to a more
methodical and public-spirited purpose than has
ruled them heretofore. Museums of art and gal-
leries for paintings are becoming part of the usual
make-up of a civic center in the United States.
The example offered by Mr. Evans cannot fail
to interest those who would like to help native art
and at the same time provide their own city with
a permanent gallery of pictures to which all shall
have access. Such already exist in cities by no
means of the first or even the second order as to
population; their number is constantly growing.
Public-spirited collectors will do well to visit
Washington, not merely to admire this impressive
gift to the nation, but to take counsel with them-
selves how to obtain on their own part such a
striking success as that which Mr. Evans has
won.
~ .. ■ ■ •
SHINNECOCK HILLS
BY WILLIAM M. CHASE, N.A.