The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15
SOME GOOD PICTURES.
CREDITABLE EXHIBITION OF THE
SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ARTISTS.
The Leading Artists and the Works Which
They Exhibit in Oil and Water Colors-
Some of the Best Pictures Already
Sold.

Sold.
| 1t requires but hasty glance at the more
notable pictures in the-exhibiton of the Society
Of Washington Artists at Woodward & Lo-
throp's Art Gallery to convince any one
with even a small knowledge of such matters
that this city is rapidly developing as an art
| centre. Not alone is the number of artists who
! find it possible to make living here increasing
steadily, but those who have grown up in
Washington, as it were show an increased ear
| nestness and skill in their work, and the new
| arrivals belong to an excellent class of men,
! with good schooling and high ideals. The exhi-
| bition consists Of oil paintings, water colors,
pen and ink, charcoal etc., with pastels, and
| Mr.. U. s. j. Dunbar's sketch busts in terra
Gotta. There were eleven specimens of these
last. Mr. Dunbar has the faculty of putting
great deal of life-like expression into his
work, as in his s'Lewis Morrison as Mephisto."
The interest the artists took in this exhibit is
shown by the numbers of pictures they have
entered. Max Weyl has nine, mostly studies of
scenery about Washington. His best, "Sea
Meadows" was not catalogued. There is in
this fine picture pool Of shallow water in the
mid-foreground, but the soft, floating, tumbling
| effects, as if cloud moist with unshed summer
rain, are specially telling. This picture sold on
the first night for $500. Others of his that are
almost equally attractive are "Potomac
Marshes" "Analostan Shore" and GA Glimpse
of the Capitol" The last named also found
| buyer at 500.
One of the most striking pictures is ga Flight
of Fancy" by Harold l.. Macdonald. 1t is of
young girl with half-sad, wistful face,
which is clevery brought out by hand ani-V
mated by the cunning of genius. 1t was picked
up on the initial night for 5000. The ''Will O.
| the Wisp," loaned by Mr.. De Costa, is another
painting of Mr.. Macdonad's 1t represents an
old idea with much original treatment.
| Mr.. E. G. Messer's finest picture "a New
England Road" occupies the place of honor on
the line, midway down. 1t is alandscape full
of dignity and solemnity. Above this picture
! hangs Mr.. S. Jerome UhIs life-size portrait Of
Mr.. Messer, which challenges admiration for
its life-like and easy pose. 1t represents the
subject as in the act OF making an exposition to
an art class from a model in his right hand. 1t
is regarded one Of Mr. Uhl's happiest hits in
portrature.
Mr.. Ed. l.. Siebert contributes several clever
portraits, one study of a head and bust in
Dutch costume that is very strong and fine.
Mr.. LeGrand Johnson's Powder Play
Tanjiers," is of an oriental subject painted to
order from memory of scenes he witnessed
while himself a resident in the East 1t
represents the pious Mohammedans keeping their
solemn yearly fast outside the triple-walled city
gates. But Mr.. Johnsons greatest talent lies
in his pictures of animals.
MT. IN. IN. DrOOK gives several clever CanVaSeS
of landscape, such as ga Sandy Road" "Even-
ing" "Crepuscule; Or "July Day." where the
mowers stand knee-deep in the yellow fields
harvesting the grain.
Parker Mann, to whom the exhibitors owe SO
much for his personal aid in arranging the
gallery, has numerous specimens of his work to
speak for him. His love of art and industry
are equally proportoned, and his work finds
ready purchasers One, "The Dying Day.
which catches the evanescent ruddy glow of
twilight in the distance while the shadows of
night creep over and darken the foreground, is
one of his happiest efforts. San Indian Sum-
mer on Rock Creek'' is sharp contrast in
style of coloring, giving the light golden.russet
effect of our autumn. ''Woodley Lane" ap-
pealed to popular taste at once and found an
early purchaser. OF pastels Mr. Mann has a
half dozen or so in the exhibit, all of which
were picked up by buyers before the close of
the first night A "Twilight Sketch" by De
Lancy Gill, was much admired for it's fine treat
ment, while e. A. Pool, is well represented by
''Haryest Time," ard "Chartier's Creek"
Mr.. e. H. Miller, the popular president of the
society, furnishes the only specimen of the
nude in the collection, and it is SO dainty that
it would be terribly crusty old sinner who
could object for moral or any other reason to
"Cupid in Ambush" Cupid peers roguishly
from behind tree watching for an opportunity
| to send his tiny arrow into the heart of an un-
suspectng victim. Mr.. Miller next appears to
great advantage among the water-colorists ga
Morning Haze" and 'Children Gathering Shells
on the Sea-shore" are specimens of his work
that found ready appreciators. Among the
water colors Miss Perries sat the Wharf'' is a
delicate bit Of work very like genius. She
draws with strength and freedom.
j. III. Moser's finest piece is "The Milkmadn
while many other specimens, such as ga Show
cry Day in the Berkshire Hills" and "Moonrise
at Cape May Point" display this versatile art
lists talent.
w. H. Hoimes's "Edge of the Woodn has the
most poetic feeling in it of any of the several of
his excellent water colors. 1t was speedily sold
for 500.
Miss Nicolay has one of her characteristic
bits of sea views in oil, ''Sunset Beach," and
her sympathetic handling OF the moods of the
ever-changing sea are very felicitous. Her
talent is undoubted.
The young women show up quite we'll in this
exhibit. Daisy Brown has ''Study of Young
Grip that is delicately drawn aud very refined
In finish, and another head of girl (not cata-
logued) that is pronounced by competent
judges as perfect in technique, while Mrs
Anne e. Hoyle contributes a good speci-
men of grandi-hora magnolia in oil, SIN
Confidence" by Alice Archer Sewell, and
''Water Lilies," by Miss s. E. Bradley, with
'Rose and Book,n by Miss A. Terry, are all
good, and "Flower Studies" in pen and ink, by
that clever young woman, Mary F. Wright
with ga Study for Little St. John'' by this last
same deft hand, with several pastels of hers all
speak we'll and with promise of the coming art
istic woman.
Hobart Nichols contributes a very cleVeIly-
done "sundown on the Potomac to the water
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