The Exposition Art Gallery at the Pan-American was opened this morning for Buffalo and visiting newspaper people. The opening will not take place until Monday. The art-loving public has been waiting with much curiosity to see what sort of an exhibition upon an extensive scale could be made of American art exclusively. The exhibition is made and it is surprisingly good. American painters, sculptors, architects and engravers are all shown at their best. It will be hard to find a noted artist who is not represented by his best work.

Approaching the Art Gallery one is struck by the noble contour of the equestrian statue of Gen. Sherman by Augustus Saint Gaudens, shown now for the first time in America and destined for Central Park in New York City. Directly in Front of the Art building is the massive bronze statue of the God Pan by George Grey Barnard and two seated figures, one of Hahnemann, by Charles H. Niehaus, and the other Dr. Pepper, by Karl Bitter.

Standing on each side of the door are two life sized lions by Eli Harvey. Entering the gallery the visitor finds himself in a vestibule with but a few large pictures on the walls, "The Angel With the Flaming Sword," by Edwin H. Blashfled; "Moonrise," by Robert Reid, and "Summer Clouds," by Charles H. Davis, being among the number. Standing at the entrance of the great sculpture court are copies in plaster of the bronze allegorical figures entitled "Painting and Sculpture" and "Architecture," design by Daniel C. French for the Hunt Memorial in New York City. Turning, however to the picture galleries at the right the visitor is surrounded by many works of American artists residing in England, though among them are hung a number of works by Americans living in the United States, the hanging having been done with an eye to the general harmony of the galleries and the graceful symmetry of the grouping and pictures on the walls.

Among the artists represented in this room are Frank D. Millet witha group of five. Edwin A. Abbey with his splendid work entitled "The Penance of Elener, Duchess of Gloucester," opposite which hang six masterly works by John S. Sargent, the distinguished portrait painter.