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Mrs. Woodbury’s Paintings of Dutch Children Shownv.vmmmmmmmm•THE SMOKER,” ONE OF THE WA TER COLORS BY MARCIA OAKES WOODBURY, NOW ON EXHIBITION IN THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS.The memorial exhibition of the works | thetic portraits, but in a measureof the late Marcia Oakes Woodbury, comprising some 40 water colors, oil paintings, pastels and drawings in black and white, was open to the public yesterday in the Third Modern PictureGallery, Museum of Fne Arts, and wfillremain open till April 16.Mrs. Woodbury’s specialty was the representation of Dutch children. During several prolonged sojourns in Holland she had the opportunity of seeing the peasantry in their homes amidethnological documents.Mrs. Woodbury never tried to “prettify or flatter, but went right at the fundamental truths of character, using expression as her means to that end. and thus bringing to the surface those inner traits that so often elude the superficial observer.Typical pictures, perhaps the best in the collection, are The Smoker. * “Mother and Daughter,” the “Girl and Baby,” the “Si^rs.“ the “Laughingtheir everyday surroundings, and she Bov,” and the beautiful drawing oftec-ame especially interested in theyoung folk,This interest in the Dutch children v as aroused partly by an interest in children in general, and because of their cuMntness of aspect, stolidity of character and unsophisticated naturalness. Her appreciation of their inherited i r a its, a sort of homespun texture of character, has been woven into her pictures of them, so that they are not“Janetje and Trijntje” darning stockings.Interpreter Killed by Train at WebsterWEBSTER, March 28.—Edward Duke, a court interpreter, was struck and killed by a New York, New Havenj Hartford passenger train near the Jv vivacious, inteligent and sympa- local station today.
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Boston Sunday Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Mar 29, 1914
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