Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-25
ARTISTIC WORK
The Handsome Photographic Exhibit
at the Cosmos Club.
GOLD AND SILVER CROSSES AWARDED
Those That Have Been Decorated
With the Blue Ribbon.
SOME SPECIAL MENTIONS

For the first time in the history of the
organization the exhibition hall Of the
Cosmos Club has been thrown open into
Its full length without partition for the
exhibition of works of art. The Washing
ton Photographic salon of 1896 is now an
accomplished fact, and the great room of
| the club will tomorrow be opened to the
public for the inspection of the beautiful
productions of the camera that now cover
the walls. In ordinary exhibitions of
local character, either of paintings or of
photographs, the hall has been divided by
the closing of the central doors, but In this
| II stance the club has granted the special
| favor of enarging the room, until 1t be-
comes almost ideal gallery for exhibit
| ton purposes. Three hundred and forty
five prints are there, of every grade Of SUBJ
ject and treatment, and representing prac-
tically every section Of the United States.
1t is truly Il national salon. and, in the
opinion of the experts who have viewed the
work as jurors, 1t is the forerunner of an
international exhibition to be held annually
in Washington. at which the best work
Of both sides of the Atlantic will be shown.
Work of the Judges.
The work Of installing this great coIlec-
ton of photographs was accomplished by
the committee in charge within ten hours,
but only after the most unremitting labor.
The work was finished Friday night, and
Saturday morning the judges began their
inspection to award the honors. The pho
tcgrapES explained some days ago in
The Star, exhibited on this occasion are
divided into two clasSes-those capable of
Judgment from q purely artistic stand
point. and known in the aggregate as the
Washington salon of 1896, and those OF
mere technical excellence, not quite quail
fled for the first class. known as the art
Photographic exhibition The former are
called class A, and include 1T prints The
latter, or class b. comprise all the remain
ing photographs on the walls Glass A was
judged first by a jury consisting OF E. {.
Messer, Max Weyl and r. NJ. Brooke, well
known in local artistic circles. Their duty
lay in selecting two photographs OF the
highest order of artistic excellence TO re-
ceive the gold and silver crosses, respec-
lively. These judges. as did those IN fhe
other class. worked with catalogue. from
which the names and residences of the OK
kIbitorS had been carefully erased, leaving
only the prints themselves and their cor
responding numbers from which to judge.
The jury worked in the exhibition hail en-
iIely alone. and their awards are regarded
as absolutely without prejudice.
The Two Crosses Awarded.
The gold cross was awarded to No. 1885,
which proved to be the work Of Clarence
d. Moore of Philadelphia. The subject is
the head of a woman, entitled La Hene.'
1t is a melancholy, stern, forbidding face
of striking character, and the treatment is
really marvellous. So excellent is this work.
from both an artistic and technical
standpoint. that the jury in class b veri-
ned the selection of the judges in class
A of this print the most meritOrious
found in the exhibition.
The silver cross was given to No. 81 by
Alfred Clements of Philadelphia. IT. is a
study called Evening Light" and repre-
sents desolate, moving sand beach of the
south, such as those that diStgure the
coasts of North Carolina and produce great
treeless tracks. The treatment is soft and
suggestive of the character of the scene.
Special Mention.
Notwithst landing the fact that this was
all that was required of the art jury, its
members found so many works of excep-
tionally high merit in their examination
that they asked the exhibition committee
for a number Of special mention cards
with which to designate some of the meri-
torous prints in class A. Nine of these
were awarded follows: No. 4, ''Sibyl,'
by Misses F.. s. and NJ. E. Allen of Deer
field. Mass; No 56, study, by Mr.. f. H.
Day of Boston, No. 81, "One Summer Day."
by MIR. Charles Richards Dodge of Wash
ington; No. 10. Saint Francis" by Miss
Sarah ]. Eddy of Providence: No. ILL.,
Carnations" by Mr.. Henry Peter Renouf
Holt of Takoma Park, d. c.; No. 1872
There's Moonlight on the Lake, by H.
A. Latimer Of Boston; No. 152, Sonata
Pathetique," by Mr.. Burgess Smith of
Washington; No. 100. landscape by Mr..
Einsdale Smith of Springfield, Mass; No.
49, ''Twixt Dusk and Dark" by Mr.
George S. Wins Of Jersey City.
The Blue Ribbon Award.
This work accomplished, the photographs
were next viewed by the members of the
jury in class B, consisting Of Messrs. F.
of bn kno
| writer on Photographic subjects; Mr.. c. NJ
Gilbert, the professional photographer of
Philadelphia. New York and Washington
and Mr.. Messer of the art jury, who went
to work on the remaining prints, Nos. ITS
TO 3l3 inclusive, to award the blue ribbons
to the deserving photographs in that class
They judged purely from a technical point
or view. Artistic considerations were given
due weight, but the deciding elements were
such matters as the treatment of the lights
and shades, the development of the mega
tive, the method of printing and such other
factors as appealed strictly to the photog-
rapher and to him alone. Last evening
the jury made the following report to the
exhibition committee in charge of the salon:
Your jury OF awards in class B Of the
Washington salon and art Photographic
exhibit of - begs leave to report that
it has made the following awards of GER
t:ficate of equal excellence, decorated with
the blue ribbon Of the Washington art
Photographic exhibition Of 1896, fol-
lows: Isl, "A Steep Path 201, Boston
T'3 pes, Miss c. 20I Fagot Gatherer;' 225.
The Maiden All Forlorn;' 231 "A Shady
DELI 262, Sheep PASTURE: 277, The Com
ing Storm DOG, In the Garden; 800, In
dian Summer Referring to the general
character of the exhibition. the jury is
pleased to note that the work las been
well selected by the exhibition committee
end possesses Il general average excellence
of merit. The jury further desires to ex-
press its commentator of the artistic
| merit of $50. The Holbein Woman which
| but for certain technical dement's would
| have been decorated; also the qualities of
! lighting and shading in No. 22S, Sitting in
! the Sum- especially striking but the
| technique is below the average"
This jury also worked with an anony-
| nous catalogue. the names being carefully
erased,so that the awards were made with
| out reference to persons. and its report
! needs explanation by the statement that
| the numbers relate to the following named
| exhibitors: 1871, the Misses Allen Of Deer
] field. Mass; POI, Walter G. Chase of Bos-
ton; 2Oi. w. H. Cheney, East Orange, N j.;
225, John M. Dunn of st. Louis; 231, A. l..
Ridemiller of ST. Paul; 262, A. W. Hoyt
| of Chicago; 227, H. A. Latimer of Boston;
| 2a6. H. K. Noyes Of Kenwood, N. Y; and
| 800, L. L. Peddinghaus of Marietta, Ohio,
| Local Exhibitors.
| The local sxhihi,ors ara Wallace n D.h