The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
IN WASHINGTON STUDIOS.

Spring and summer, the months of the artists
inspiration, have come and gone. With the
opening days of autumn our Washington artists
return laden with the sweets Of their outings,
and ere long we may expect to see emanating
from their pencils, chisels, or brushes the flow
ers of their fancies engendered under the pleas
ant surroundings of mountain, vale, brook, or
sea-shore. visit among them shows them to
be in excellent spirits and overtlowing with en-
thusiasm for their work.
Max Weyl has gone to the mountains of Penn
sylvania with the Brazilian Minister. He wishes
to have a month or so of uninterrupted study of
mountain and sky effects
s. Jerome Uhl has not been away much this
summer. He has been very busy finishing up
some portraits and didn't have time for vaca-
tion. He took, however, short runs to Ohio
and New York.
Richard NJ. Brooke has spent the summer
amidst the quiet surroundings of his old home
in Warrenton, Va. He has some important or
ders to fill, however, and will probably return
to the city soon.
Clarence E. Messer divides his time between
painting portraits and communing with Nature
on the hills and in the dales just outside the
city. He always has his brush in hand, and is
engaged on some pretty bits of suburban
scenery.
Several of James r.. Moser's clever sketches il
lustrates the Corcoran Art Gallery's catalogue
Just issued. Mr. Moser's work with the brush
is fully as artistic as that with the pen. He is
at present rambling around the mountains in
Massachusetts seeking what he may devour in
the way OF landscape and water scenes. lie
has already collected large variety of both
Delaney Gill has been making the best of
his time this summer in securing some excellent
water-color sketches from nature. He has
quite number OF unusual merit.
Eugene A. Poole has returned from visit to
his old quarters in Pennsylvania, and is re-
ported to have done very we'll with his summer
vacation.
u. s. j. Dunbar, the popular sculptor, has
been working along right through the summer.
He has just completed fine terra-cotta bust of
the well-known German professor A. r.
Haupt. He is now working on half life-size
bust of Miss Letitia Aldrich, the niece of Sena-
| tor Stewart This work promises to be eXcep-
tionally successful, and is faithful in likeness.
He has several pleasing little figures nearly half
done.
e. L. Major is in Geneva, N. Y, engaged in
! painting some portraits of the family of Pro-
fessor Peter Collier, formerly of the Agricultu-
raj Department. These completed, he will re-
turn to Washington for short visit before
suming his class i'll the Cowle Art School, of
Boston.
Mr.. Z. H. l.. Macdonald is very busy paint
ing some small figure and landscape pictures.
He is also making up some classes for work
this fall, but he hasn't the same spirit for or
| ganizng he had earlier in the year. Before the
| beginning of the summer he had made up Sc
lect class of twelve students for work in the
mountains of Virginia around Luray. All of
them had promised faithfully to be on hand
when the class was ready to start on its pilgrim
age. Mr. Macdonald was in high spirits. The
| day of departure came, but only three pupils
put in appearance. He had intended remaining
! away two months, but he asked his trio of art
| if they were willing to so for month, and upon