Culler; Vales is showing his recent
work, mostly marines, in the Arlington
naileries. He likes the sea as it appears
<M the rugged coast of Maine,
but he does not fancy the rocks when
! they are black nnd the water when it is
gray. His marines arc smiling and
his rocks inib?r colored and th? aun
shines, the water is clear and ultrama- '
rlne and there s no trouble brewlr.g
upon the horizon. One Winslow Homer
was enough for Maine. '*1111011 Yates,
it appears. ;s content to be Culiei.
Ya tea.
His best works arc not ins iarg.-s
The "Incoming Tide" and the "Afternoon
at Gloucester" represent his hap
pm?t acnirveniertr. alien tne ' otnpositions
got bigger >tr. Yates's stole does
not grow broad in proportion and lience
I there appear to be too many rocks in
| such pictures.
FATHERLESS CHILDREN
OF FRANCE ART SALE
A reception with its receiving party
comprising some of the most notable
women of New York and its guest of
honor the French Ambassador to the
United States, Jean Jules Jusserand,
| an exhibition beginning then i f "war
memorabilia," a collection of many autograph
messages, autographed statements,
orders of battles, poems, sketches
; drawings highly interesting, of much
artistic value, all relating to the great
war, contributed by the leading men and
women concerned in it; a sale a few
days later of all these rarities, the, passing
out of existence of one of the most
famous and longest to continue of the
American war relief organizations, the
j Fatherless Children of France, this reception.
exhibition and sale being Its
final chapter. Is the story in brief of a
chain of events near at hand in New
i York.
