The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-17

Is still green in the landscape though the
trees are mostly bare; winter Scene"
by Biester, The Tow" New York Har-
Dor scene, wonderfully beautiful in its
reflections and sky; "a Coast
Scene', by Richards, "a Summer Gale in
the Bay of Fundy", "A Cornish Fishing
Village and "At Eventide," by Annie
Shaw, said to be one Of the finest colorists
among American artists; were all notable
for effects in sky and water and general
tone. Rows of screened gas jets burning
all day assisted in lighting up the pictures
hanging highest; and if the Art rooms
were attractive by day they were doubly
so at night when the strong electric light
made every picture give thanks in increas-
ed delicacy and strength and meaning.
The very large painting by Robert Hinck-
ley, alexander at Persepolis," that was
somewhat dull by day, was like a real
scene with living persons, under the gas
light. "Thaisn the Athenian Courtesan
with her seductive beauty, the bare feet
showing beneath her robe, her arm uplift-
ed reaching to the king lighted torch
and urging him, when excited with wine
after banquet to revenge the cruelty of
the Persians in Greece by firing the city.
Below him strong men, beautiful women,
the delicacy and timidity of the child con-
trasted with the swarthiness aud courage
of maturity and manhood were worth hav-
ing lived to paint or going there to see.
The perspective of the city beyond was as
good as the figures were lifelike and vivid
in their individuality. "Falls of the Cum
berland" by Carl G. Brenner was one of
the best landscapes. THE Madonna" by
Rubens, was loaned by Bishop Elder. W.
Hamilton Gibson, whose magazine articles
reveal his artistic tastes, and whose word
pictures are as warm and bright and indie
ative of his intimacy with nature and re-
cognition of her most subtle moods, as
these creations of brush and pencil, had
four exquisite landscapes in water color
and three sketches in black and white.
There was life size portrait of Gen. E. F.
Noyes iu which he appeared as in his best
estate. A number of rare pictures were
from the collection of Jno. w. Bookwalter,
OF Springfield, and several belonged to
Judge Hoadly. In the black and white
room Hubert Herkomer had no less than
seven drawings and one portrait of Tepny-
son. He is Cleveland boy, son of a wood
engraver and nephew of the foreign art
ist Herkomer, who on his late visit to
America received orders for work to the
amount of $4,000. The young man after
studying at the School of Design in New
York was at Munich two years and is
now at home. "In the Orchard" by Jas.
NJ. Hart was excellent for its cattle figures.
Rosina Emmett painted the Cavalry Drill
at Fl. Leavenworth." Dora Wheeler had
a number of pictures there. "Evangeline"
in new guise, was water color by Mark
Stiles, a tall figure wrapped in long cloak
and crossing lonely stretch, the foot
prints of the path broken in the crusted
snow, showing in the clear moonlight.
Another, by Fl. F. Farney, was a coasting
ground 1.-The Hill Behind the School
House" with boys slxidding down, others
drawing their sleds up the hill. The glow
ing windows at comfortable looking farm
houses, the perfect quality of the moon
light, the crisp glistening snow, and the
of the rail fences bordering
the roadsides made il one of the most at
tractive, pictures and very popular with
people who were not artists.
In flower painting there was beautiful
study of chrysanthemums by j. G. Arter,
painted in oil; double hollyhocks, by Kate
IL. Greatorex, also in oil, that were superb.
At night and a few feet distant, nothing
more brilliant could be conceived as being
done with that flower, yet during the day
plenty of people marched right up before
il and pronounced harsh judgment at once.
1t was very rough, and it was impossible
to see its beauty standing as near it as one
would TO photograph. Another Of holly
hooks, in water-color, was painted by Mrs.
w. T. West; and this, while scarcely so
good in effect, was not subject to so many
criticisms because it was smoother. Pan
sizes, in water-color, by Claude r. Hirst, and
one in oil by the same artist, were very
brilliant and soft and well drawn. Wild
roses and ferns, growing rank and half con-
cealing birch log, was called an the Cor
ner of the Wood Lott Considering the
number of water-colors there were very few
flower pieces; but in all the flower paint
ing-framed, under-glass, or painted on
silk satin or plush-there was q conspicu-
Gus absence of some methods that have
been taught and prevail hereabouts as re-
CARDS shadows.
Landscapes into which deer were intro
duced, two, THE Fatal Shot," showing a
herd of deer in the foothills of the Sierras
surprised by hunter who has shot their
leader, and THE Prairie Fire." describing
a race for life in which other frightened
things besides deer are fleeing before a
cloud Of smoke below which the red fame
shows fiery line defining the horizon,
were by the same artist.
II is consolation to know that the con-
tinual bawling of those lads ip the Art
Rooms for four weeks, who cried "A-a-r-r-t
Catalogue Illustrated" !" repeating the same
as loudly and as often as they could take
breath, did amount TO something for some
body. One visitor, thoughtlessly wishing
aloud that somebody would kill those boys,
was so heartily endorsed that it was ex-
planned for him that that was only "form
of speech" and less murderous in intention
than il sounded. The boys had sold 81 ,321
worth before the middle of the last week.
They looked gaunt and over-worked, like
the boy who illustrated the gymnasium and
lost flesh though he may have strengthened
muscle. Except the voices of those boys
the Art Rooms were restful place. There
was almost always an empty seat, and with
an opera glass the most distant numbers
could be made out, and without rising and
going near them most of the pictures could
be studied.
The total receipts before the close of the
last week had been over $71, 900, with a
balance over expenditures of over SOS 900,
including the $4,000 remaining m the
treasury after last year. M.H.H
Peruna.
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