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Title: 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
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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monotonously white with freshly fallen snow. The eye followsthe canal to the sunlit house, where the reflectionin the water is brightest The painting is crisp andvirile* March Snow, in the collection of Mr. Glover,is characteristic of the more personal type of Scho-fields work, with its decorative design, its arbitrarygreys and broad handling, Schofield i> a vigorous,strong and charming personality, and much of hira- Belf is I in his work. u May Night, by Willard L. Metcalf, was anepoch-making picture in the career of this artist.It received the Corcoran Gold Medal, with accom-paniment of $i>ooo, in the first exhibition of con-temporary American pictures, in (907, and was pur-chased by the institution. The canvas is an attract-ive «>ne by reason of its poetic subject, which is patterned OUt prettily and with a great deal of in-terest and charm of rendering in the drawing of the trees, and the placing of the translucent shad-ows:, which enrich the smooth texture of the green
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Contemporary Rmerfctiti i \~ .. Colonial type o bhern :i. The h :ht. winch lifts i! ding bi the >f the port It the all. it is in the little ale w ith anient, of ! illumination; while, on her hand, it is h at thin • hulk whole Mil The Colonial house represented in the piclthe me in Lyme, Connecticut, where m of the ided and painl I which is tied by them the u 1 (oly I The Childe Hassam owned by the Gallery — • I (eadlands quired at the same time, reveals a inal «. The composition include- highbluffs to the left, a tbbled beach, inter- mingled with d. and. in the distance, a a. cerulean blue, done with D i The harm* colour in this pic- thcthe ban trast tinslr, in the relation of q and depth ic in the vibral 148 Xlbe art treasures of XlQlasbinflton founded upon yellows, and through the beach thecolour is of a most amusing variety. The canvas is like the performance of a greatvirtuoso — or, better yet. the leader of an orchestra,who lifts at will the volume oi sound, separates

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