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Title: The Galleries of the Exposition
Author: Eugen Neuhaus
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The Galleries of the Exposition

A Critical Review of the Paintings, Statuary and the Graphic Arts in The Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

By Eugen Neuhaus Assistant Professor of Decorative Design, University of California and Member of the International Jury of Awards in the Department of Fine Arts of the Exposition
To John E. D. Trask Director of the Department of Fine Arts of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, untiring worker and able executive

Contents

Introduction - An Historical Review. The Function of Art. Retrospective Art The Foreign Nations - France - Italy - Portugal - Argentina - Uruguay - Cuba - Philippine Islands - The Orient - Japan - China - Sweden - Holland - Germany The United States - One-Man Rooms - Whistler - Twachtman - Tarbell - Redfield - Duveneck - Chase - Hassam - Gari Melchers - Sargent - Keith - Mathews and McComas - General Collection The Graphic Arts - Conclusion Appendix Bibliography - A list of helpful reference books and periodicals for the student and lover of art. Index to Galleries

List of Illustrations

Phyllis --------------------- John W. Alexander Woman and Child: Rose Scarf - Mary Cassatt Morning in the Provence ----- Henri Georget The Promenade --------------- Gustave Pierre The Procession -------------- Ettore Tito The Fortune Teller ---------- F. Luis Mora Water Fall ------------------ Elmer Schofield The Peacemaker -------------- Ernest L. Blumenschein The White Vase -------------- Hugh H. Breckenridge Winter in the Forest -------- Anshelm Schultzberg Winter at Amsterdam --------- Willem Witsen In the Rhine Meadows -------- Heinrich Von Zugel The Mirror ------------------ Dennis Miller Bunker Coming of the Line Storm ---- Frederick J. Waugh Lavender and Old Ivory ------ Lilian Westcott Hale Green and Violet: Portrait of Mrs. E. Milicent Cobden - James McNeill Whistler The Dreamer ----------------- Edmund C. Tarbell Whistling Boy --------------- Frank Duveneck Self Portrait --------------- William Merritt Chase Spanish Courtyard ----------- John Singer Sargent Oaks of the Monte ----------- Francis McComas Blue Depths ----------------- William Ritschel Floating Ice: Early Morning - Charles Rosen The Land of Heart's Desire -- William Wendt The Housemaid --------------- William McGregor Paxton My House in Winter ---------- Charles Morris Young Quarry: Evening ------------- Daniel Garber Beyond ---------------------- Chester Beach In the Studio --------------- Ellen Emmet Rand Eucalypti, Berkeley Hills --- Eugen Neuhaus Floor Plan, Palace of Fine Arts

Introduction

The artistic appeals of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through architecture and the allied decorative arts are so engrossing that one yields to the call of the independent Fine Arts only with considerable reluctance. The visitor, however, finds himself cleverly tempted by numerous stray bits of detached sculpture, effectively placed amidst shrubbery near the Laguna, and almost without knowing he is drawn into that enchanting colonnade which leads