The evening times., 1896-01-12
ART NOTES.

The studios are beginning to recover from
the holidays and holiday gayeties, and
hard work seems to be the order.
Easels are holding numberless ord rs
canvas Is in demand. and what with con ag
exhibitions activity is everywhere
One or the most delightful art affairs
OF the season was the reception last Thurs.
day afternoon by Prof. and Mrs. E. F.
Andrews 10 The students OF the Corcorap
Art School.
Mr.. Robert Hinckley and Miss Lillian
COOK assisted in receiving, while Miss
Helen Smith served chocolate and Miss
Mechiin Presided at the punch bowl. rtSi"1
Miss Minnigerode also assisted in making
the guests comfortable. if-f'fo'1~ 'e'- --
Some or Mrs. Andrews water colors which
she made during her visit in Paris last
summer, We're displayed in the studio. A
thTeeGuarter length portrait OF Mrs. Klotz
which is still in the brown stage, and
treated In the Rcnbrant style, was shown
for the instruction Of the pupils in DOR.
raiture. by Prof Andrews.
DR.. Barbarin, curator OF the Corcorap
Gallery, and about 100 students called
Miss Lillian Cook has organized a still
life class in oil at the Corcoran which is
proving quite success.
she mas Just returned from New York
where she spent some time in study at the
League and with Rhoda Holmes Nichols
Miss Mathilde Mueden, formerly one of the
prize members or the local league and
afterward student at the New York Art
League, is now pupil a the Julien studios
i'll Paris. AT a recent exhibition there she
was awarded the first honorabI mention
on drawing in black and white.
The honor was considered All unusual one,
as first distinction has never before been
given to any other than a painting in oil.
Many whoare IA milia with the eX hibitions
given by the Corcoran Art School at the
close of the spring term, Will remember the
occasion two years ago, when Princess
Mary Cantacuzene, daughter OF the Prussian
minister, was awarded the bronze medal
i'll the life class.
Princess Mary has notnforgotten her
pleasant associations in art circles here,
and recently wrote a letter 10 attire eiir4s
of the Life Glass; telling them OF her
betrothal and approa ching MARIA ge To Ter
cousin, an officer in the Pri.ssian army.
All Of them We're delighted to hear from
her, and wrote Round Robin, = tender
ing their congratulations and incloSing a
sprig of ivy, which climbs the wall of the
school.
Parker Mann has Just closed fairly
successful exhibition at Fischer's, having
sold six pictures. Among his best pieces
Were marine entitled Purity, The Pond,
Dutch Highway, and Dutch Farmya rd.
Some very good sketches made at GIou-
cester We're also shown.
Harry Macdonald has a very busy and
informal studio where several pupils are
at work from the model He is now en-
gagged on i portrait of gentleman.
Hobart Nichols is very busy on number
of landsca pes and marines for the coming
Cosmos exhibition. As the exhibition oc-
ours much earlier this year than usual. many
of the artists are plunged in turmoil of
canvases and brushes, in the rush of orders
and ideals.
Mr.. r. LIE Grand Johnston is busy with
his pictures for his exhibition which begins
February l, at Fischer's. He has number
Of very fine landscapes and animals. which
will prove quite treat to art lovers and
collectors. All of Mr.. Johnston's pictures
have the hetruespirit of nature in them and one
wants to buy all instead of fone, if the purse
would only hold out.
MIS-. virginia De IastlIlo johnston mas
in progress a very prettily posed portrait
of a girl in a pink frock and jaunty
garden hat.
Three other orders, besides a study of
her little boy, will keep her quite busy
for awhile. Mrs. Johnston Is a Cuban,
and very patriotic, and her nimble fingers
have found time to make and embroider
a silk regimental flag which she aias
forwarded to the army of insurgents as a
token of her sympathy and support.
Miss Bertha E. .Perrie recently gave
very successful exhibition OF water colors
at her home, l615 Seventeenth street.
She sold fourteen pictures, Besides securing
several orders. .~'ss.~,x
Her canvases at the Philadelphia Academy
exhibit were very generously mentioned
and conspicuously hung.