Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
ART A Nd ARTISTS

After q short stay at Cape May Mr..
Hinckley is again in the city and has re-
turned to his work in portraiture. He Is at
present engaged upon four portraits, which
he Is painting for the Metropolitan Club.
They are the Licensees of Admiral Porter.
General Sherman and General Schofield.
former presidents Of the club. and OF Judge
Davis. who now occupies that position in
the organization.
Mr.. Rudolph Evans will go shortly to
Front Royal, Va, where he will remain for
some time. devoting himself chiefly to rest
and recreation but working enough In clay
to keep his hand in. His portrait OF DR..
Patch Of the Gunton Temple Memorial
Church Is progressing rapidly, and Is now
practically finished. 1t is considered by all
who have seen 1t to be an excellent like
ness. One of the most Interesting things
that the sculptor has yet done is medal
Hon head Of Frederic Bond, which he has
just completed. and which is destined to
occupy a place in the reception room of the
National Theater. Mr.. Evans has caught
very successfully the character and express
SION of the actors face and beside its merit
as a likeness the medallion Is an extremely
we'll handled piece of modelling.
Mr.. Edwin Lamasure has been working
on the Greenbrier river. up in the Alleghe-
MES, this summer. and has been collecting
a large amount of Interesting material for
his exhibition of water colors In the fall
The grandeur Of mountain scenery has q
peculiar fascination for most people, and
his sketches made up there will give a
more varied and cosmopolitan character 10
the work which he will exhibit.
With the closing Of the summer school
Mr.. Emil H. Meyers work as an instructor
at the Columbian University ended for the
season, and he Is devoting his entire time
to painting. A subject upon which he Is
now at work is a picture containing sin
gle figure. that of a girl seated on a stone
bench just inside high garden wall. The
foliage Of the tree which overhangs the
wall casts a network Of light and shade on
the ground, but the sunlight throughout
the picture Is subordinated in order that
the strong light that strikes upon the girl 8
dress shall bring the figure into promi-
hence. Mr.. Meyer has paid especial atten-
ton to the harmony of the values In this
picture. and in this respect 1t Is superior to
a smaller painting that he has just finished.
In the latter, German interior view. the
details are brought out so strongly as to
break the general effect, and it has not the
unity of the other picture.
In portraits Mr.. William H. Coffin seems
to have found his forte. and he spends most
of his time in following up this line of work.
The DC rtrait of Prof. Wiley, which he fin
ished short time ago. is a very good like
ness. and considered technically. Is one of
the best things Mr.. Coffin has done. 1t will
probably be exhibited for short time at
the Cosmos Club.
Miss Grace M. Patten has been doing very
little work in oil lately, but has been con-
filming her attention to water color. In this
medium she has done a number Of land
scapes and several still-life studies. Among
the latter is a sketch Of some peaches. and
also spray of red clover, which is extreme
ly decorative. Miss Patten expects to take
up work in oil before long. and has a num-
Der Of study heads in view.
Miss Annie w. Ingle is spending the sum-
mer at East Gloucester. Mass. The scenery
there is quaint and picturesque. and if the
workers tire of the many marine scenes
they have only to turn to the moors to find
material of an entirely different character,
equally interesting for sketching purposes.
The many different kinds of pictorial sub
jects to be found there have made the place
prime favorite with artists Parker Mann
Is sketchfnS there this season. as in former
years, and among the other Washington
artists who have been working there this
summer are Miss Sara Barte and Miss G.
E. Atwater. who in the spring conducted a
class from the Corcoran Art School in out
door Sketchng.
Mr.. Clary Ray is just back from Paris
where he has been studying during the
winter. Mr.. Ray won last year the schol-
arskip to the New York League. which
was offered to the workers in the Art
Students League Of this city, but he had
already set his heart upon Paris and so
did not avail himself of this opportunity
for study. He plans to remain here about
a year and he will then go abroad to make
a second stay of longer duration. While
in Europe he visited most of the famous
galleries in Holland. France and England
and took in the salons of the Champs de
Mars and of the Champs Elysees and the
House. He considers that the work
shown at the London exhibition was su-
perior this year to the Partisan Salons
and is of the opinion that the painting ex-
American by birth, was the picture Of the
year. Mr.. Ray expects to begin work
on some portraits before long.
After East Gloucester. Paxson. Va,
seems to have the first place in the hearts
Of the Washir gton artists. II one may
judge by the number who have sketched
there during the summer. Mr.. E. C. Mes
ser is usually the first in the field and the
last to leave the place. and he has been
working steadily with his class since early
in the season. accomplishing a great deal
Mr.. Lucien Powell Is another worker who
has been there for some time, while Max
Weyl has just commenced sketching there.
Mr.. Hobart Nichols has been doing some
very good work in the field. though he
only goes out for a short stay every little
while. Spencer Nichols and Mr.. Carl We'll
Ter were working at Paxson a short time
ago, and when they were there an interest
ing exhibition of sketches by all the work
ers was shown in Mr.. Messer's studio.
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