. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. esponding thrill of enthusiasm. The Torrent. all things considered, may becounted the most inter of the canvases in the Evans Collection. It has to a degree the qualityof air and motion, and yields the essential sensa-tion of this most difficult of themes. The subjecthe h 1 with even g
. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. esponding thrill of enthusiasm. The Torrent. all things considered, may becounted the most inter of the canvases in the Evans Collection. It has to a degree the qualityof air and motion, and yields the essential sensa-tion of this most difficult of themes. The subjecthe h 1 with even greater interest in his visi lete and extraordinary of hi ases. His End of Win- ter has qualities like Mr, Glovers [nness, but is more p changeful in colour, more tem- per;! In Round Hill Road are found those sensitive gradations of value, imperceptible to tli eve. which Twachtman manipulated so skilfully, especially, as in this in-nce, in an effed of si I © >untry. The tv mples 1>f Thedore R<-bin-»n. a - ond disciple of the impressionist school, are charm-ing, though fragmentary. *La Vachere has bigqualities of both ch and colour. Old Church: Giverny is a beautiful sketch in which the subject is treated as it appears above the tl in the little French town in the province of Eure,. Zbc lUtlliam Z. Swilfl Collection 231 w here I! n spent so rd the c of his li The collection boasts a masterpiece by JulienAlden Weir, a contemporary and associate ofTwachtman and Robinson, and one of the most sonal and individual of the group of men thathas survived them. Weir was born at West Point. Xcw York, in August, 1852, two months after Robinson and a year later than Twachtman. Hisfather, Robert \V. Weir, succeeded Leslie as pro-)i drawing at the Military Academy of WestPoint, in [832, and continued instructor of thatirtment for forty-two years. Julien commencedat the Academy, under his father, enter-in- later the atelier of Gerome, in Paris. Weirs personality stands apart and disti
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