Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-29
ART AND ARTS rs

The statue or the late Senator henna
which the state of West Virginia will place
in statuary Hall in the Capitol before long
is the work of Mr.. Alexander Doyle, a
New York sculptor. Mr.. Doyle has COM
pleted the clay model, and it has been
placed in the hands Of the stonecutters
The figure is about seven feet six inches
in height, and will be carved from the
highest grade of Italian marble. On ac-
count of the size of the figure a perfect
block of stone the required size Is rather
difficult to obtain and three blocks have
already been rejected. The statue is to
cost 10000, and will be handsome piece
of sculpture, being an important addition
to the ranks of soldiers and citizens in
Statuary Hall.
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Mrs. F. G. Doubleday is summering in
Binghamton, N. Y, and has been following
up much the same line of work as she does
in the winter. Instead of devoting herself
entirely to outdoor sketching, as many
artists do while they are away, she has
been doing considerable studio painting.
She has been busying herself with a num-
Der OF study heads and some Of the still
life pieces and flower subjects with which
she is so successful.
Miss Anna NJ. Hunt has been working
under William NJ. Chase in his school
among the Shinnecock Hills. Miss Hunts
portrait of herself, it will be remembered,
won for her the prize of 5000 offered in
the spring by the Society Of the Friends Of
Arts.
Among the many good studies that Miss
Perrie has made this summer is the inter-
Tor of wheelwright's shop out on the
Silver Spring rod. The study Is in
Gouache. and executed on a grayish paper
which tones down all the brighter colors
and helps to give the dingy, smoky appear
aEce Of the shop. A young fellow dressed
Ii ms working Clothes is seated at bat
tered OLD desk In one corner looking over
the books. Lying upon the work bench
one sees planes and other tools, and the
discolcred walls of the shop are hung with
all sorts OF implements in picturesque con-
fusion. Miss Perrie is now hard at work
IN East Gloucester, Mass, and expects to
sketch there for several weeks longer.
AT the new Corcoran Gallery the parquet
flooring is being laid, and great piles Of
pasteboard boxes containing the little oak
blocks of which the floor is made are to
be seen throughout the entire building
The blocks are Set in a glue preparation
is smoothed off and polished. BY far the
largest part of the fiooringsof the gallery
is to be of this durable as well as highly
ornamental sort. The heavy plate glass
through which the basement is to receive
its light. has been laid on the first floor,
and the inner roof of ground glass over the
picture galleries Is also in position This
double roofing of glass is necessary, in
order that the glare of the midday sun
in orIa hot
the hght for the pictures may he plentiful,
though tempered and softened The work
men have also been busy with the ratings
around the picture galleries, and the heavy
oaken rods are now in place in their
brackets. What still remains to be done is
mostly finishing work of this character,
and all signs point TO a speedy completion
of the structure
Miss Jane Brigham Curtis has been
spending the summer in auckland, Va, and
has been dividing her time between health
full recreation and sketching.
Mrs. S. NJ. Fassett has recently made a
portrait of Alexander Graham Bell and one
of Alexander Melville Bell both Of which
Gkenesses are now at the Volta Bureau In
Georgetown, an institution which was
founded by the bounty of the two men for
the purpose of teaching the deaf. The por-
traits were painted for and will eventually
adorn the library which was donated by
the Bells to the town Of Bradford, Ontario,
where they at one time had their home
1t is probable that Mrs Fassett will make
duplicates Of these portraits for Kendall
Green.
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Miss D. B. King has just completed a
second bust Of Mrs. Graham, which is
larger and more deliberately worked up than
the first one. Besides several small heads
Miss King has been working on the partly
nude figure Of little boy. She Is always
very successful with children, as is wit
messed by small quick sketch in CLAW
which she calls Morning. 1t shows a little
tot Juggling at its fathers beard in order
to arouse him, and is a Very suggestive lit
tie study.
Religion, by Baur, one Of the large fig
ures that surmount the piers in the rotunda
of the new Congressional Library, was put
in place recently. The figure Of the woman
is entirely draped, and both arms are out
stretched, her right hand grasping lightly
branch of fruit. Paul Bartletts statue of
Law was placed in the library a short
time before this one and there is now but
one statue lacking to complete the circle of
figures the one of Poetry, by Herbert
Adams. Some time ago the scaffolding in
the upper part of the dome was removed
revealing Blashfield's decoration of the
collar and also of the crown of the lam
tern, and now the scaffoldinS has been re-
moved from the west main entrance of the