. 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. Y AMERICANS Having dealt with the evolution and birth of theCorcoran Gallery, and considered its historic col-lections, we proceed to the gallery of contemporaryAmerican painting, which Constitutes its presentgrowth, and where we find mosl vigorously ex-pressed the progressive spirit o
. 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. Y AMERICANS Having dealt with the evolution and birth of theCorcoran Gallery, and considered its historic col-lections, we proceed to the gallery of contemporaryAmerican painting, which Constitutes its presentgrowth, and where we find mosl vigorously ex-pressed the progressive spirit of the managementThe collection numbers, at present, between fortyand fifty works. Its development received direc-tion and stimulus frm the three biennial exhibi-tions of Contemporary American art. from which twenty-eight works were purchased and added t<»the permanent collection. Window Homers (1836-1910) Light on the Sea, painted in [897, IS of hi- late middle period,and belongs to the type of picture of which the Luxembourg Museum owns a masterpiece The sky rmy and the light on the sea lifts the horizon sharply against the threatening dark. Asea-gull flies low, and againsl the light a womans re, posed on the rocks, at the waters edge,forms a substantial silhouette. She is of the robust, 140. Contemporary Hmcrtcana 141 niliar I>\ w ind and weathi the rial about her, The face anwith tin nts, and in her is that pment, that makes hei I natui i >r the rest, the water fa and depth ol reat (pal, as it is playedn by the changing light and mood of the o rhe rocks are heavy with moisturemuch motion in the sea, only thatrhythmic slosh of the water when the great full, as it lifts and puNates in reSpOtlS* action n\ the moon. Tlomer Studied and knew t: profoundly. William M. I ed by the earliest il-life paintings, with fish. An -1 was painted in I .ond- m about SK and first shown at the centenary exhihi- the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine A in 1905. The picture was painted in
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