Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-19
IN LOCAL STUDIOS

Artistic interest is centered just at pres
ent upon the competition for the Corcoran
gold medal. which is awarded each year in
| the Corcoran Art School to the student ex-
! hibiting the best series of drawings The
| contest is always interesting but this year
| has been unusually so. owing to the general
high standard of work which has prevailed
| in the school during the past twelve months.
! The class OF competitors numbers fifteen
| students. each of whom is obliged to sub
init three studies from the nude and three
from the antique.
Although the drawings have not been ar
ranged. a cursory view of them shows a
marked improvement over any previous
collection exhibited Many Of the studies.
particularly those from the life class would
reflect creditably upon the ability OF ex-
| perienced professional artists. SO free are
they from the defects and looseness of de-
| tail and drawing which SO frequently char
acterize the work Of students and amateurs.
| The committee Of award is composed Of
three OF New York's best critics and artists.
| They are: Mr.. VIM. NJ. Chase and Mr.. ].
Carol Beckwith of the Art Students
| League and Mr.. E. NJ. Ward of the Acad-
| envy of Design. On Tuesday afternoon the
medal will be publicly conferred upon the
fortunate winner, at which time the entire
school building will be thrown open for the
accommodation of the students and their
| friends.
street and New York avenue are deeply in
terested in the proceedings Of a large paint
ing class, which, under the direction OF Mr.
Harold Macdonald. takes possession of the
grounds belonging to the old "Octagon
House two days of each week, and, with
| ca sells, paint boxes. camp stools and ca
pacious lunch baskets to promote and assist
their artistic labors, work industriously
from picturesque models posed TO catch and
present to ''searchers for truth" all the most
difficult problems Of outdoor light and
shade atmospheric effects" aerial per-
spectives" and other technical pitfalls which
obstruct the royal road to artistic honors
and laurels.
The antique class OF the Art Students
July, under the tutelage of its regular in
structress. Miss Florence A. Pond
Mr.. Richard n. Brooks will leave for
Europe on the 18th of June. While his
plans are still somewhat undecided he will
remain on the other side during the sum-
mer and expects to secure much valuable
material for next winters work.
A well-attended meeting of the Society
of Washington Artists was held last Tues
day evening, at which time Mr. Robert
Hinckley, Mr.. Spencer Nichols and Mr..
Reickart were elected to membership. After
a pleasant evening. spent in the most APP
proved Bohemian fashion, the society for
mally closed its meetings for the summer.
Mr.. Weller. Mr.. Wells, Mr.. Sawyer and
Mr.. Nichols will shortly leave the city and
take up a temporary abode in Anacostia,
where they will remain for about a month,
sketching and studying from nature, after
which Mr.. Sawyer will spend some time In
Maryland, preparing for an exhibition which
he will hold early next fall
Mr.. Howard Hemick is busy with a num-
Der Of commissions from the Century Com
pany, in addition to which he is rapidly
completing a fine portrait OF Prof. Smith
of the Central High School AS soon as
this work is finished Mr.. Helmick will leave
the city. and remain absent until the
heated season is over.
Mr.. Dunbar is working a clay bust OF
Mr.. Horatio King. and has just completed
a most successful one Of Mr.. VIM. Ordway
Partridge The two form a striking and
most interesting contrast. the first con-
tanning all the characteristics of a beautiful
old age, and the latter all those qualities
which best dignity and ennoble our younger
generation. Mr.. Dunbar has succeeded cd