Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-09
IN LOCAL TUDfOS

Under the active leadership Of Robert
Hinckley, the Society of the Friends of Art
is rapidly growing into a thoroughly or.
ganfzed association-and already bids fair
to become one of the leading philanthropic
societies of the country. An interesting fea-
ture of the constitution is a rule which re.
stricts competition to students and anna
teurs. Another, that the portraits submit
ted must be Of the artst-painted by him or
herself.
AS comparatively short time will elapss
before the exhibition, which will be held in
Corcoran gallery On Wednesday, April 10,
1885. preparations for it have already been
commenced, and requests for space received
from number of western art institutions.
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An exhibition that is to be opened next
Monday, and which will interest Washing
toniars, is by Walter Paris, who has Just re-
turned from an extended tour through the
Adirondacks and Katskill mountains and
who, after a residence In the city of twenty
years, has decided to remove his studio to
New York. where he will remain INDEFINITELY
The exhibition, which is the first the artist
has ever given in America, contains some
eighty carefully rendered water color paint
ings, some of the most interesting being of
historical residences in and about Washing
ton. OF these the most striking are the
Presidents country home, the Kennen man
sion In Georgetown, Gardiner Hubbard's
Others are bits of scenery taken from al
most every place of historic or artistic in
terest along the Atlantic coast.
After much discussion among the various
members of the committee in charge it has
been decided to limit the collection of works
of art TO be exhibited ct the Teachers
bazaar entirely to paintings loaned from
the private collections of local connoisseurs
at frSf int IN Ind
by resident artists, but many desired to
hold in reserve the larger portion of their
work for individual exhibitions, and for the
annual Cosmos, II was decided to form the
gallery entirely of paintings loaned for the
purpose. Some of the finest canvases in the
United States belong to local collections,
the owners of which have already proffered
valuable contributions. The committee Of
artists in charge of arrangements feel con-
fident that the exhibition will exceed in
both artistic and intrinsic value any other
previously held in the city.
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A picture that is receiving its finishing
touches and which is creating interest
among the artists is canvas of modest
dimensions, called THE WaySide Confess
sional," by Howard Helmick.
The scene represented Is a familiar one to
those who have Travelled through Europe,
and the quaint blending Of pathos and
humor which is frequently associated
with the everyday life of the peasantry has
been handled with skill and delcacy by the
artist-who has made life study and most
successful speciality Of similar picturesque
motifs.
Miss Katharine Chapman is in Providence,
r. l.. where she is holding series of sue.
cessful exhibitions.
A portrait of unusual strength and merit
which is being painted by Harold Macdon-
aid is of Mr.. Thomas T. Keane of this city.
The subject is represented in an easy, char
acteristic attitude, and is handled with all
the force and brilliancy of color and exc
cution which distinguishes this artists
most successful work.
After nearly three months spent in trav-
cling through the north and west U. S. ].
Dunbar has returned to the city and is
busily engaged in preparing for his WIN
terS work.
Among the commissions executed by him
while away we're a death mask of ex-Justice
Strong, to accomplish which the sculptor
made a special trip to Reading, Pa, and a
portrait bust and full length figure of Gov.
Blair of Michigan.
Among the interesting canvases which
this year are unusually numerous in the
various StuOiOS, pOTtTdil u eN-SeCTcldTy
Endicott which Mr.. Hinckley is just get
ting under way bids fair to be one of the
most successful. When completed the por-
trait, which is life size, will be placed in
the court house at Salem, Mass, for which
it has been especially ordered.
The high class of illustration which has
been produced by some Of Washington's
younger artists has Of late attracted con-
siderable local attention to that branch Of
artistic work.