Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20
IN LOCAL STUDIOS

darkies hare been literally turning them
selves into beasts of burden, and the halls
have resounded with EXPLANATIONS. reproofs.
commands and other varieties of loud talk
Ing" The cause of the commotion was the
arrival of two or three car loads Of old
carved furniture, and. incidentally. OF the
furnitures owner, Mr.. Herman X. Niele,
another of our artists who has spent the
vacation abroad. Barbizon, Rome. Florence,
the Rhine and Fontainbleau forest are few
of the places visited by him, and many and
interesting are the souvenirs, sketches. &C.
he has brought home. This winter his studio
will be a perfect museum of furniture
hundreds of years old and richly and eIabor-
ately carved. There is an old Breton clock
from Nuremburg. measuring eight feet in
height, and covered with quaint carvings;
a sidebO1rd from the interior of Brittany,
which is several hundred years old. and still
has the marks all along it's lower edge where
It has stood on the earthen floor. An inter-
esting piece is a dover chest, which the
Breton girls spend the early years of their
lives in filling with linen. spun and woven
by themselves, and which accompanies them
as dot when they are married. In about
week the artist WILL have ms things ar
ranged, SO that he can commence wOrts from
the innumerabie sketches ana color notes
with which ne has supplied himself Is data
for large canvases.
The pupils of Mr.. Emil II. Meyer will
open an exhibition of their summer and
early autumn work next Monday. The
Paintings and studies will remain On view
for three days in the Neerhoff gallery, and
q reception will be given there on Monday
evening, from to 10 o'clock. This Will
formally open the season of local exhibits,
which this year gives every indication of
beng unusually interesting and successful
from an artistic standpoint
During the first week of Mr.. Heimick's
Installation as director Of art i'll the George
town College he delivered a lecture 10 the
students on the subject OF Art Education,"
which would doubtless have peen 81 great
Interest To the little army of nard-wOrKIns
students not included in The membership
of the university. In view of this tact me
following extracts have been secured for
their perUsal and probable edncaIiJu:
You do not study art in oruer TO become
artists IN all cases. any more than You
study poetry in oTder to become poets AS
you grow better acquainted with art You
will see that 1t - a study full of pleasure
well of enlightenment: ;nat II na.kes
life less tedious and renders the GIlild more
alert 10 the Alsner sentiments. Instead OF
feeling Indifferent, you will be inspired with
enthusiasm.
before taking pencil in hand most in
tellIgent people assume that they see the
modei head with svne degree OF conpre-
hensiOn. Let this intelligent person put
down the full results OF nus most Careful
a
ImpOtent and even farclcaI Caricature.
When the teacher points out some of the
greatest errors the student perceIves them,
and after another days work ne succeeds
In making what he considers an almost
perfect drawing-but the teacher again
shows him such serious omissions ana dis
creI'ancieS that his woIk Will seem scarcely
begun, and so on, at the close OF each day
he fancies his work completed, ana at the
beginning of another discovers as much to
do again.
Some suppose that the Impractical hand
has all TO do with the imperI ectons OF the
beginners work. Not so; the hand learns
quickly TO obey the eye, and the faults OF
most pictures are due more to the unframed
eye than TO the unskilled hand. 1ha
student pursuing his work Is like man
exploring new country, which at every
step reveals some new fact. l mention this
10 show how little the unframed eye sees
how many of the aspects of nature around
US are to most people unseen and undc-
krOwle1ged. To see aCCurat ely and in
diligently is one OF the most important
lessons to be learned In the use of our
faculties In every walk of life man is
more efficient when he has been taught to
look at things inteil1Eently. Training the
eye to see is as important as training the
mind 10 think.
Art begins with the contact of the in
telligence with nature. Where life passes
before without observation or thought
there are no impressions and there is no
need of art But as our intelligence is
sire 10 record and define our Impressions
and the work of art is created. The legend
tells that the first picture ever made was
by the lover who traced the shadow of his
sweetheart On the wall.
Here In America W. are trying TO build
up a civilization free from the baser tram
Inels and following only the noble tradi-
tons OF the ole world. Future ages will
look to our poets, our philosophers our
histor1ans-to our architects and our ar
fists our thinkers and creators-whether
they have written histories. built bridges.
erected churches, painted pictures or cary
ed statues. they will look TO these works
for the record of what We shall have ac-
comPlished- But If our histories be writ
ten only in the newspapers, our monu-
ments built only ON the sand, and our art
made only for the IDLE moment-where
shall our records be founi?'
Mr.. Wells NJ. Sawyer has a good deal
to show for his summers work While at
the ocean he was hard at work each morn
ing by sunrise. Catching early effects"
The result is an unusually Interesting col
lection of marines, Of which this young
artist has recently been making very
successful specially. one of these which
Is particularly pleasing is now On exhibi-
tiOn at NeerhOffs; il is called a Misty
Sunrise" and. true 10 its name, has all
the tender atmospheric qualities which
should characterize such subscriptions of
nature. Mr.. Sawyer expects TO hold an
exhibition Of his work during the win
ter and with that purpose in view is do
Ing a good deal of harI work
Another sketChing club has been organ
lied. which meets once each week in Mr..
Nichols studio, on lTJh street. The ,aerp-
hers are Miss Won St1sch, Miss Hill, Miss
Clara Hill, MIR. Chiffon Mr.. Sawyer, Mr..
Weller. Mr.. Hobart Nichols and Mr. Spen-
Ger Nichols. The meetings are quite in
formal. as BELTS BOhemia-at the same
time an immense amount OF good, earnes;
work IS done.
Especially noticeable was composition
repres cnting Longf-llgW's Potter" exhib-
.tci during the last meeting by Miss Clara
Hill The design was ingenious and origi-
nal, and its execution most sEillful.
The sketch Club" met last Tuesday
evening at the residence of Miss Helen
Smith. on Connecticut ave; .ue, and had
its usual gay session. Miss Hart. in a
dainty evening gown, discharged the some
what onerous duties of model in the
most praiseworthy manner. and quite a
number Of interesting and artistic sketches
we're made.
Miss Juliet Thompson has finished the
larger part OF her commission for the pOr-
traits OF the twenty-foUr governors of the
Metropolitan Club. Although the heads are
rather small, they are executed and fin