Mountain Paintings. Visitors to Washington may be interested in the following. At the National Museum, grouped inside the entrance, are two large paintings of the “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” one by Thomas Moran (1837-1926), the other by Lucien W. Powell (1846-1930); also “Top of the Continent” (Mt. McKinley), painted by Sydney Lawrence in 1914; also a smaller painting by Moran, “Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah.” At the Corcoran Gallery are two paintings of “Monadnock,” one by Abbott H. Thayer (1849-1921), the other by Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940); “Simplon Pass,” by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925); and two large paintings by Albert Bierstadt (1830- 1902), “Mount Corcoran” and “Last of the Buffalo.” The same gallery also contains a delightful interior of the German school, “The Forester at Home,” by Ludwig Knaus (1829-1920).

At the Art Institute, Chicago, there are four paintings of interest to mountaineers: “An Alpine Scene” (Wetterhorn), by Gustave Courbet (1819-77); “Le Grand Muveran,” by Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918); “The Catskill Mountains,” by George Inness (1825-94); and “Mount Washington,” by Winslow Homer (1836- 1900).

J. M. T.