Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-03
ART AND ARTIST S

Monday the students of the corcoran Art
School will epter upon another year Of
study. and take up their work where they
left it in June. The night class will not
be opened until a month later, but all the
other classes will begin Monday. or as soon
after that as they can be organized.
large attendance is expected this season,
and the school will probably be rather
crowded during the winter. II all goes
WELL however. Prof. Andrews hopes to see
his pupils installed in their commodious
quarters In the new gallery before the year
is very far advanced. The students will
find few If any changes in the workings of
the school. Miss Cook will have this year
the same classes as heretofore, and Mr..
Robert Hinckley will have charge Of the
portrait class.
The Art Students League also opens
Monday next. Most of the regular workers
are now back in the city. refreshed by their
vacations and ready to resume study with
renewed vigor. With the addition of an
other department, the class in decorative
and Industrial design, the league expects
to attract a number of new pupils, and
busy winter is looked forward to. This
new department, which is under the d.
rection of Miss Sallie I. Humphreys, will
not be organized until November. All the
that Mr.. Edmund Clarence MeSser Is again
! among the instructors. He is to teach the
womens life class and the afternoon ad-
yanced antique, and is to have joint charge
with Mr.. Richard n. Brooke of the compost
ton class, which is held once in two weeks.
Mr. Edward Siebert Will have the men 9
life, the painting class and two of the ad-
Vanced antique classes. The scholars in
the preparatory antique Will be under Miss
Jennie Wooding, and Miss Bertha +. Per
RE viii be the instructor in water color.
Mr.. Lucen Powell has just returned from
| his summers stay at Paxson. Va, and
brings back number of sketches with him.
On his way down to the city he made a
short stop at Warrenton Springs. and was
delighted with the abundance of landscape
material to be found in The neighborhoood.
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Another devotee Of Warrenton scenery is
Mr.. A. B. Griffith. who was there a short
| time ago. He went there with no inten-
ton of sketching and totally unprepared.
but was SO charmed with what he saw that
| he could not resist the temptation to bring
| away number Of pencil sketches. He
| plans to go again next summer, and this
| time he will take his painting kit with him.
| Mr.. Griffith does a good deal of work in
pen and INK, but he is at his best in water
| color. He has a weli-handled landscape. en-
| titled MONDAY" which he intends to
| send to the exhibit of the Water Color
| Club in December.
| A number OF pictures are now hung a:
Veerhoff's and appear to very good ad
| vantage in his recently remodeled gallery
The gallery has been enlarged and the en-
trance to it is now through a handsome
arch of carved oak. The wood finishing
| around the room are all of oak, and IN.
| walls have been covered with the deep ricf
red upon which gold frames show up 5
| well. The most important painting Their
| now is a carefully studied subject by j. A
| Ocr;el, who for some years was residen
| of Washington. but now lives in Bel Air
| Md. The subject Of the composition Il
| Chailemaene asleep. waiting for the hou
| 10 come when he shall awake and BATH,
| with the anti-Christ. There are in addition
| 10 this canvas couple of landscapes b,
| Max Weyl: four very good canvases by X
| LeGrand Johnston and several painting
| by otner artists. One Of the pictures b,
Mr.. Johnston Is snow scene, with
flock Of sheep coming along tract
through the leafiess woods
Miss Lillian Cook has just returned fror
her trip abroad. where she spent mos
of her time in visiting the European ga
| leries and art schools When she Wen
] to Laren, Holland. the country was S
| picturesque that the impulse to work wa
irresistible, and securing materials sh
| spent two weeks in sketching. Durin
| that time she painted several outdoor sui
| jects with their ever present windmill
but devoted most of her time to interio
| views. Several of her studies she painte
in water color. as the one showing a gil
knitting by the window, but her most ser
Gus ork was done in oil. She painted o
canvas a larger figure of this same gi
| with her red kerchief and lowlan
| cap. and arrived at an excellent result
| Another interior of hers shows a woma
| peeiing potatoes beside open doc
| through which ore sees sunny glimps
| of outdoor coloring. The view throug
| the doorway contrasts strongly with tf
| cool coloring of the window corner. Be:
of all her work at Laren is the interic
| Miss Cook made of group of peasant
| drinking ccffee according to their DutC
custom. They are seated around tabl
the man entirely dark against the sQual
. deep-set viii dow, which gives a meag
| light to the ROOM and the two quaii
costumed women looking still more pictu
, oughly Dutch study and is admirable
| light and shade and coloring.
Mr.. W H. Chandlee's pen drawing
Ii Hung Chang, bearing the viceroy's ow
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| at Neerhofr's. Not only is the drawing
good likeness Of the great statesman. b,
| it is very artistic piece OF work. and
| | the handling of the lines resembles a fly
| etching. Mr.. Chandlee has recently mac
very decor alive panel a magazii
! illustration for one of his poems. "A Ga
, | den of Ed The panel is a quaint bit
, | an old-fashioned garden. and is treated
| broad, fiat masses. He is row making Il
| illustrations for a book of his verses whic
| he is going to issue under the title
| with the Winds" The illustrations a
I | all in a decorative style, vertical panel
: | head pieces and little marginal sketche
| Mr.. Chandlee has been doing recently
| good many black and white studies
Japar csc paper, which gives a very MI
e quality to the work.
Mr.. E. F. Andrew returned on Tuesds
- from his stay in Europe. He did no VOL
y while he was abroad, as he went solely
- | account of his health. A large part Of h
j. time was spent at Carlsbad, but he visit,
[; | his artist friends in other places and e
u joyed some of the many opportuniti
- for seeing good pictures. Mrs. Andrews HI
;, done some work this summer. and while
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