Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-05

deservedly very popular. Mr.. CHARLES
Nordhof, Mr.. W. E. Curtis, Mr.. Fred
Perry Powers, Mr.. Perry Heath, Mr.. W. A.
Crotfut, and others whose names do not
now call to mind, have all stepped aside at
times from the monotony of daily newspa-
per work to take a turn in the more preten-
tious walks of literature, and always with
distinction to themselves.
And among the women journalists of the
capital there are several who have taken a
similar departure with credit to their names.
Aside from these resident writers of reputa-
tlon, many of them not yet in full blossom,
1t is notable fact that most of the promi.
nent writers of the country do not now feel
as though they had given themselves the
proper schooling of the year if they do not
drop down upon the capital for few weeks
during "the season." and mingle with the
domestic article, or submit to be lionized
by the fashionable set who are particularly
happy when. they are able to s'bring out''
and show off the lionine literary animal at
their entertainments.
PROGRESS OF ART.
Art, too, is making for itself a place at
the capital as rapidly as can be expected.
dare say there are more amateur artists
! In this city than in any other CITY of its
dimensions in the world It is the fashion,
able thing to know how to s'paint'' more
than ever before, and young women and
young men dabble in art to an alarming de-
gree.
The Art League is in very hourishing
condition. Heaton, its chief instructor,
has all he can do in portraits. Prof.
Andrews, of the Coreoran Gallery, has a
tinguished public men and women, and
is just finishing those of the late
Chief Justice Waite and of Commissioner
Webb. Holmes, Gill and Moser, were all
highly praised by the critics of the recent
exhibition of water colors in New York,
and all made good sale of pictures, as did
also Miss Tiers, young lady who is rapidly
pushing her way into prominence. Fishers
studio is always oVerhowing with pupils.
Cprrea, charming and talented young
Spaniard from Ecuador, is very successful
as teacher and portrait painter, and is
growing rich in his profession. Ulke,
dear old fellow, one of the ''men of '48" in
Germany, makes all the money he wants at
portraits.
PAINTING CLEvELAND's PORTRAIT.
Uhl has just finished full length por-
trait of Judge Shellabarger, and is about to
begin one of President Cleveland. Max
Weyl is fairly outdoing all his former brill
lduI eHOrLSp huu StdnuS WITHOUT superior
as landscape painter in America, and his
equals are exceedingly. few. Miss Daisy
Brown, who is pronounced a veritable
prodigy by Cox and Chase, of New York,
under whose tuition she was for q time, has
just gone to Paris, and a letter received
from no less person than the great CHA
livi declares that the writer will do all in
his power to smooth the pathway of the
young lady to fame. Truesdell, brother to
the well-known correspondent of that name,
is on the eve of his departure for Paris,
taking with him truly admirable picture
in a group of his brothers family, intended
for the salon of this wear.
I do not mention these artists for the pur-
pose of putting" them, but to show the
skeptics of New York and Boston that if
Washington has "no art" as they assert,
there are at least some very successful art
lists here, and some whose promise is, by
their own admission, as great as that of any
aspirant in those less benighted cities.
There is also enough of an "art atmosphere
to create quite sentiment in favor of the
founding by the Government of National
Academy of Fine Arts, simultaneous with
a great National University, and that is
grand step in the line of progress.