Evening star., 1896-11-07
ART AND ART lST S

One of the best of number of maga-
zine illustrations which Spencer Nichols
has been making is an interview between
father and son. The youth fresh from
college wearing a nonchalant air and
seemingly unconscious of the mauvais
quart d'heure in store for him, sits at one
end of table, while opposite him is the
governor glancing with ill-concealed dis
approval over a bill for things which his
son has assured him were educational ne
cessities. In another of the illustrations
the scene is shifted to a carpenters shop,
and young man seated idly by his work
bench is gazing dreamiy at a piece of
wood carving, which has been growing in
beauty under his hands A little distance
from him the foreman, hard headed, prac-
tical man, is complaining TO the propri-
etor that the boy is lazy. and that he is
unwilling to work upon the commonplace
thin gs with which the other hands are
content Mr.. Nichols has shown his abil-
ity in handling a number of figures in the
gouache drawing Dortraying a war time
scene. A woman standing before a group
of officers is Pleading for her sons life.
and the disposition and arrangement of
the figures is very we'll managed. Mr..
Nichols is busy with several oils, and when
he gees to New York on the 18th of the
month he will have a strong display of
black and white work to take with him.
George Gibbs left for the metropolis on
Monday and will probably remain there a
short time. He took with him a number
of drawings in black and white, which he
has been making for magazine and book
illustration.
Miss Sara Bartle made a number of
charming landscapes and marine views in
water color, while she was in East Giouccs-
ter, Mass, but she has not brought back
m any with her, she was fortunate
enough to sell large number at her ex-
hibition there during the summer. One of
the sketches made in that picturesque re-
gion is a moorland scene, done on a gray
paper, and the effect is exceedingly ar
tistic ami pleasing A picturesque little hut
is seen just over theIbrow of gentle slopa.
Another East Gloucester sketch, a flower
g.rl, with her punches of sweet peas to
SELL shows Miss Bartle's skill in another
vein. She spent the greater part of her
time during the summer in miniature
painting. One of the likenesses which she
PAINTED was portrait of Mrs. Slough
ton, the mother of John Fiske. with the
historians grandchild upon her knee.
The canvases which Carl Gutherz has
been painting in his Paris studio, and which
he brought with him when he arrived in
the city week or two ago, are now being
put in place in the new Congressional Ii
braly. The decorations are seven in num-
ber and were painted for the ceiling of the
special reading room Of the House of Rep
re sentatives The panels are based upon
the colors of the spectrum, and in each
there is a central composition supplemented
by figures in the corners, which bear upon
the central idea.
The panel at the south end of the room is
the Light of State" and in it's meaning it
is more simple and direct than any of the
others. A female figure representing Amer
lea enveoped in the stars and stripes is
seen against background in which the
predominating color is violet. In the panel
next to this, the Light of Poetry and Ira
dition, the principal color Is red. Belle
rophon mounted upon Pegasus holds in one
hand torch representing the real while
with the other hand he is reaching out to
grasp an elusive light which signifies the
ideal.
Orange is the ruling color in the panel
representing the Light of Excellence" and
a figure floating in air is against a
background Of steps stretching upward
without end. The Creation of Light
" hich is placed in the center of the cell
ing, is one of the most difficult of all the
panels to understand, and the average Wis
itor who does lot nave a key to ii will be
very much puzzled
Mr.. Gutherz says that his aim was TO
produce the effect Of a nebula, and he has
represented the Creator, dimy outlined be-
hind a mass of shadow in which stars in
all the colors of the spectrum appear. The
background is of light yellow and the
whole effect is f2r less decorative than that
of the adjoining panel, in which the pre-
vaiEng color is green Here the Light of
Research is represented by a figure deep
down in the sea, catching with a lens
ray of light fro m above.
In the Light of TRUTH" where Truth is
killing the dragon of Ignorance with ray
of light, the color note is blue; and in the
Light of astronomy and Mathematics" at
the north end of the room, the predomi-
mating color is indigo. Mr.. Gutherz plans to
be in Washington this winter.
Mr.. w. W. Christmas painted several