The San Diego and San Francisco Expositions 
Robert Henri, 'Mr. Joseph H. Sharp, and others in 
the Fine Arts Building, one is forced to conclude 
that the capacity for pictorial representation has 
diminished rather than increased with the advent 
of our latter-day art schools and academies. 
You can hardly expect perfection, even in such 
an exposition as that at San Diego, and it is in the 
choice of paintings for this same Fine Arts Build- 
ing that one may point to a certain lapse from an 
otherwise consistently maintained standard. It 
is not that Mr. Henri and his coterie are not 
admirable artists. It is simply that they do not 
gleaming little city perched upon its green-crestec 
mesa teaches anything, it teaches that the most 
precious things in life and in art are those that lit 
nearest the great eloquent heart of nature. Tht 
subtle process of interaction which forever goes 
silently on between man and his surroundings, the 
identity between that which one sees and feed-' 
upon and that which one produces, are facts wind 
you find c onvincingly presented at the San Diegs 
Exposition. It is more than a mere show-win dost 
of the Southwest. Alike in its architecture andt 
its specific offerings it typifies the richness andi 
Panama-Calif ornia Exposition, San Diego 
ENTRANCE TO THE VARIED ARCHITECT, FRANK P. ALLEN, JR. 
INDUSTRIES BUILDING 
fit into what appears to be and in other respects 
manifestly is a carefully worked-out programme. 
San Diego is so rich in the fundamental sources of 
beauty and feeling that had there been no paint- 
ings on view one would have had scant cause for 
complaint. The welcome absence of the custom- 
ary flatulent and dropsical statuary, which is such 
a happy feature of the exterior arrangements, 
might well have been supplemented by the exclu- 
sion of the pretentious and sophisticated canvas. 
Intensive rather than extensive in appeal, bas 
ing itself frankly upon local interest and tradition, 
conscious of its inheritance and looking with con- 
fidence toward the future, the Panama-California 
Exposition stands as a model of its kind. If this 
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romance not alone of New Spain but of immemo- 
rial America. 
A 
RTHUR HOEBER 
Following closely upon the death of 
F. Hopkinson Smith, so famous in the triple role ' 
of author, artist and engineer, it is our sad task to 
record the loss of that genial writer and artist. 
Arthur Hoeber, who for many years has been a 
contributor to our columns and an ever welcome 
friend inside and outside of the office. He 
was a landscapist of merit and the kindliest 
critic that ever sat in judgment upon the wort 
of others. 
