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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

March, 1913



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The Art Treasures of Washington.
By Helen W. Henderson. (L. C. Page
& Co. Boston.) $3.00 net.
A worthy successor has been added to
the “Art Galleries of America” series,
the previous volumes being the “Art of
the Metropolitan Museum,” the “Boston
Museum of Fine Arts” and the “Penn-
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts.”
Miss Henderson, who also wrote the
last named work, has compiled a very
readable volume on the pictures and
statuary which have been growing in
number and interest ever since “Boss
Shepherd” forced public improvements
against all opposition, in his determina-
tion that Washington should no longer
be the laughing stock of Europe. The
chapter on Washington in its incipiency
is particularly interesting and just ap-
preciation is bestowed on Major L’Enfant
who planned the city and passed away
in poverty. We see the Corcoran Gallery
of Art passing through different periods
of development until it is now a worthy
receptacle of the nation’s art treasures.
Miss Henderson has traced the Hudson

From The Art Treasures of Washington
CLOCK WITH FIGURE OF HISTORY
BY GIUSEPPE FRANZONI


River School from its infancy and has
shown the influence of Dusseldorf and
later the Barbizon school upon con-
temporary art in America, giving in-
teresting sketches of artists, past and
present, with measured criticism of their
works, though in some cases, as, for
instance, the Harriet Lane Johnston
collection, the praise is somewhat lavish.
A chapter each is devoted to Barye and
his bronzes, and to St. Memin and his
mezzotint photos, while three chapters
are appropriated to discussing the Chiri-
qui, Pueblo and Sikyatki collections of
pottery. After due appreciation of the
Evans and Freer collections, the Capitol
is exhaustively treated. The cut we
reproduce represents the clock with figure
of History by Giuseppe Franzoni, in the
old Hall of Representations (now Statuary
Hall), designed by Latrobe; it represents
History with a recording tablet, borne in
the winged car of Time, its wheel passing'
over a globe circled by the signs of the
zodiac. The exposed wheel of the car
forms the face of the clock.
In discussing a painting of Childe
Hassam, we read that “through the
beach the color is of a most amusing
variety.” Doubtless amazing was the
word intended, and a little further on
we read Reatlingen for Reutlingen. The
book is splendidly illustrated and indexed.