Show 1 OP or f I Los Angeles J Express In the tho tragic death of ot Vero I the eminent Russian painter who went down with the III Vice Vlee Ice Admiral flagship ott off Port lort Arthur the lie artistic world has hM suffered great reAt loss Verc Vere was wall well In this coun coon country countr try tr having exhibited isle his realistic war 11 pictures In ht New Ness York anti and Chicago many times time He was all In Ip tho the latter city less lees le than a n year ngo ago with his hie paintings paint 1 i Ings InRe which attracted much Attention 1 owing to their tearful fearful t depiction depletion of or tho the i brutal horrors of ot war The Tho artist has had an eventful career several times risking his life lito In the search for copy for his brush In la tho the Cuban war he was with tho the American Am army of ot occur potion pillion and ono one of or his bu works In this country Is the charge up i inn Fan Juan hill hili showing Colonel Roose Hoose Roosevelt I volt velt elt leading 1 isle his Rough Riders There was w aH a n grim unity In the manner hemet he hemet met his fate fateN N Y livening Sun Bun The artist was wall In Japan for tor some somo time before the tho war and tried feted to prevail upon the government nt to ti avoid n struggle hams I Igle gle jle with nu He lie threw up Isis his hands hand finally and sold said with regret that the tho were war crazy cruZ and could not i ibe Ibe be reasoned with and that Hint there Was wan I no nn limit to their confidence In them theirs selves reives They Thc think sold said the r l I that they could march on St Peters Petersburg I burg or Moscow brushing opposition wide IF III e us nA chilly ns liS they could reduce J i Port Arthur or capture c Harbin I Boston Doston Transcript has been beon pleased to call callI I himself a 1 realist He lie was that no doubt douht but ho was Willi something more We WeI I would not be bo going beyond the line of ot I III Justifiable criticism It If we coiled called him n II II great reat tragic poet pout His Ills pictures s of or tm the war filled the tho world with frith I emotions of at horror and pity Who that raw paw three thorn th 1 cnn can forget orgel his ghastly heart heartrending h heartrending lItt rending paintings of or the field hospital hO before or the frozen sentinel in III inthe the Puss Pass Ho He took tire the Isolated Incident and erected ejected It Into the Ihl typical anti representative fact of or history He lie felt tell and lint made the tho th world WOIN of or modem men and nud women feel with him the profound pathetic significance of the tho Individuals peril and pain In IU ltd i elation relation to the Interests of ot government To ro do this was WI to bring home n a great ethical lesson which can cnn be ho summed sUlom 11 up In the simple demonstration lon lion that the loss and sufferings of or the nameless thousands of at victims heroes ns nil well as nil martyrs of or the tho military Islip Ideal have no logical bearing upon the time ambitions of ot rulers or the national sel which Is III embodied In ht and the mad egotism of or conquest Cleveland Plain Denier Dealer Wherever war was there w ns Verc Vere He Ice In lu a Sense fence n II great grent reporter who recorded his experiences experience anti and with hrush Instead of or orpen pen and who grave gave the world more vivid pictures picture of or war and amid Its horrors than any correspondent of them nil all Thera was wads something almost morbid In his pursuit and treatment of or materials It ll ItIs llis Is IA perhaps fortunate that no man cnn can see more tuna than n a small part of or any nil battle field yet It In looking nt any one ot or ofa n a 1 score coro of or tho the late artists pictures one sees concentrated on the canvas all nil the horrors of or a 1 battle ba which raged over miles tulles of ot ground The bent of or his mind was teens early made manifest While yet In III his hili teens tee eerie II ho palmed painted the th picture of ot a n slaughter that thal of or suitors anti from tram that time limo on all lost no occa occasion sloe sion to witness and reproduce the scenes of ot war by hy land anti and sea lIell Ho lie twice visited this country and used as nil themes the tiro exploits nf or American soldiers In III Cuba and the Philippines Philippine though It cannot be said ald that theta them added to his hig fume fame |