The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-04
BY WASHINGTON ARTISTS.
AN INTERESTING DISPLAY OF PIC
TUREs AT THE COSMOS CLUB.
The Number of Exhibits Not as Large as
atLast Years Exhibition, But the Aver
age Quality Better-Few Sales - The
Sculptures.

The exhibition by Washington artists, held
through the kindness of the Cosmos Club, has
been very successful so far as interest and at
tendance are concerned, though few sales were
made. The exhibition, compared with that
of last year. had less of quantity and more of
quality, considering the fact that four or five of
our best men did not send anything. Still,
there was much that was very satisfactory.
The general effect of the arrangement of the
pictures and sculptures was good. On entering
the first thing that caught the eye among the
maze of pictures was a group of sculpture,
which the majority only glanced at, their eyes
being Immediately drawn to what is commonly
more interesting to the general admirer of the
fine arts-the warm-toned paintings which COW
cred the walls In going the rounds the first
striking picture was a head by e. l.. Major,
an unusual scheme of color, but very effective
and strong bit of work. Immediately above it
was head by Mrs. Doubleday that attracted
much notice and deserved commendaton. Mr.
E. F. Andrews contributed largely to the visi-
tors pleasure in the careful handling and
weet soft tones of his ''Portrat of Child"
This was very much admired. Next was a we'll
drawn head Of Hon. Hugh McCulloch, by Mrs. A.
Lea Merritt. The head that attracted the
most attention was strongly painted portrait
of S. Jerome Uhl, by Mr., II. l.. Macdonald. 1t
is full of life and vigor, and reveals the jovial
disposition of a strong and hearty enthusiast,
such as Mr.. Uhl is known to be. Ed. Siebert, a
Washington artist, now in New York, has
very charming bit of landscape, a portrait OF
Max Weyl, and head, "Flora," all illustrating
the versatile talent and strength he is steadily
by three portraits. A very pretty piece of col
oring is his ''Portrait of a Young Lady," while
"NeIson Page'' is very good. Max Weyl has
five landscapes, two of which are gems, while
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differing tastes of many admirers. He had also
very pretty PORTRAIT Of Child, - which shows
that he does not confine his brush exclusively
to landscapes. Clara Wilson had very good
E. L. Major had also three interesting studies,
entitled tRepose" ''Girl Reading" and
''Leoni," carefully drawn and good in color.
H. Ulke had very striking yv,r portrait t,sd Of oe e5
retired curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
had an interesting bit of historical landscape.
Parker Mann had four, the best OF which is
Nantucket Cliff" Two very delicate and and
effective bits of nature were those by Miss
Helen Nicolay, "The Turn of the Tide" and
"a Quiet Home'' g. B. Matthewss ''rhe Po-
tomac at Alexandria, is a very strong reminder
of trip down the. river on misty day
Others worthy of mention are @. A. Hardness,
Eleanor Richards, j. Mooney, Annie E. Hoyle,
and j. II. Moser's "Head of an Old-tme
Negro"
The water-color gallery was well filed, the
principal exhibitors being w. H. Holmes, H.
Hobert Nichols, Miss Tiers, Miss Perrie, j. 81.
Moser, Miss May Chapman, Mrs. Harrison, w.
G. Newton, P. loft, Mrs. j. Mindeleff Victor
Mindeleff Paul Putzbi, and others; Mr.;
Holmess 'Long Island Coast" "Bass Rock, "
"Light and Shade" "Castlemare," "Wet Day.
"Jersey Coast" ''Sunset on Meridian Hill, -
'New England Lane" and "Apple Orchard''
were generally admired. Mr.. Nichols's land
scapes received good share of attention. De
lancey Gill had only one on exhibition, but that
was very pleasing. Miss Tierss ''still lfe''
was, as usual, much praised, as also were the
'sheads." Miss E. Richards had head on
pastel that was full of character and displayed
talent that ought to be developed and encour-
aged. p. loft had some interesting historical
subjects, such as ''Bamborough Castle" "Tau-
talbu CASTLE" and ''Stoke Pogis Church,
Gray" "Elegy," ") all ofwhich are very good. Mr..
Mindeleff's apple blossoms were artistically
handled, and Mrs Mndeleff's portraits are very
finely and beautifully finished Miss Chap
mans character sketches of negro life are very
spirited and clever, especially "The Sonata. u
There were many others that space will not ad-
nit of mention, but that are of unusual merit.
There was dearth of sculpture there being
but two contributors Mica Heideman's group
called ''Rescued," )" in plaster, and some portrait
busts by U. S. j. Dunbar. In an exalted posi-
tion over the mantel near the entrance was q
bust of Thomas A. Hendricks, which is the
model by which Mr.. Dunbar is going to cut in
marble bust for the Senate Then group OF
busts show some variety, the Chief Justice
Waite in plaster study head in terra Gotta
and small ideal head in clay, unfinished
which was especially admired, as was all the
work of this young artist.
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