Evening star., 1896-10-24
ART AND ARTISTS

AZ progress at Flttsburg, q number Of the
local artists are represented. Mr. Richard
N. Brooke shows two pictures, 1.-THE Halt
at the Poop' and also his Return of the
FLOCK" Mr.. r. LeGrand Johnston has two
paintings. Spring Pastures" in which
grazing sheep are the dominant element,
and Going to Water" Mr. J. H. Moser
has sent characteristic landscape, en-
titled September Haze" the Rev. Jo-
names A. Oertel. who may fairly be called
washington artist, is represented by one
painting, Across the Sands of Dee" The
exhibits are Solitude" and "An Old Es-
tate, the latter having been painted out
at the Calvert mansion at Riverdale, where
the artist spent the summer. Mr.. Emil H.
meyer is represented by figure study of
girl seated In the shady corner of a pleas
ant garden.
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Miss Anna Sands. who has been spend
ing the summer abroad, returned about
week ago, and has again opened her
studio. She brings many new IDEAS and
an added enthusiasm to her work, having
employed her time while abroad in visiting
the studios and galleries in Paris. Brus-
sells. Antwerp, Munich and other cities
Miss Sands brings news Of Miss Mathilde
Mueden, who has been working in Paris
ioA thS past year MISS MueQ6n mas D6en
studying in Juliens atelier, and now
stands very high in the school. Her draw
ing called forth very favorable comment
from Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul
Laurens, and she has the entree of the
iatter's studio whenever she wishes special
criticism. She has now a studio Of her
own, and her plan this winter is to work
there for half of the day and to spend the
rest of her time at Julien's.
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Mr. Keeling is now installed in a room in
the Corcoran building, and here in this
pleasant studio he is always at home to
his friends after 4 o'clock. His studio is
very artistically fitted up, and here and
there the walls are decorated with photo
graphs bearing the autographs of some of
the most celebrated of those who have
stood before the footlights. Mr.. Keeling is
now busy with miniature of Miss Hich-
born, whose engagement to Mr.. Baker has
recently been announced. In his exhibit
ton. to be held at Earle's galleries in
Philadelphia some time in November Mr.
Keeling will show this portrait. and among
the other miniatures will be his likenesses
Of Lady Randolph Churchill. Lady London
derry and Emma Eames Story. He will
have also an exhibition in Baltimore this
winter, and one at Fischer's gallery here
In addition to these, he expects to have a
number of little portraits at the Women's
portrait show in New York, where his
miniature of Mrs James Brown Potter re-
ceived honorable mention last year.
Much to his regret Mr.. E. c. Messer re-
turned from Paxson. Va, just at the time
when the woods were beginning to take on
the glory Of autumn colorng, but there
is great deal Of equally good material
around Anacostia within easy reach Of his
home. He has been out a number of times
to catch some of the quickly changing ef-
fects of color. and has made several very
good studies. Besides these sketches he
has one or two important pictures which
he INTENDS to carry forward at his earliest
opportunity. One of these is sober col
ored scene in France, the motive for which
was obtained many years ago, and has
lain fallow since that time.
In short time Mr.. Emil H. Meyer will
commence three-quarter lergth portrait
Of President B. L. Whitman of Columbian
University. 1t is in this kind of work and
in genre painting that he excells, the thor
ough grounding in figure drawing which
he received in Munich having determine ed
his bent in this direction. He has painted
very few landscapes in oil recently but is
an 1ndefatigable worker with the pencil
is always a sense of color, as well as of
light and shade. He made a short time ago
series Of gouache illustrations of views
in and about Clean Drinking Manor, a his
toric place near Chevy Chase.
Miss d. B. King has been working on a
Madonna in low relief, and has made a
very artistic little medallion Another
piece of work almost completed is the pro-
hle OF young girl, and is very winning
and attractive. Miss King is at her best
In her portraits and studies of children, as
she brings to her work a certain sympa-
thy and insight into the nature of her
models A child's head inclined slightly
10 one side in an attitude Of natural SIM
pl1city and grace Is now occupying her at
tention, and she will soon commence the
enlargement of an odd little sketch in clay
which she calls Morning." Miss King has
when finished will reach entirely around
the walls of her roomy studio, ON 18th
street.
Miss Jane Brigham Curtis spent a short
time in Buckland, Va. this summer, and
following that went to East Gloucester to
work for while. She is now back in the
city, having returned about two weeks
ago from her stay in the north.
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Another Washingtonian, who has been
working In East Gloucester is Miss Annie
W. Ingle. She was there for quite a while
in the earlier part of the summer, and
found many motives for water colors She
expects to be represented by number of
sketches in the coming exhibition of the
Water Color Club.
Brief as his stay in East Gloucester was,
Mr.. Carl Weller managed to do quite Ii
tie work, both in water color and in oil.
He has started large oil from an aquar-
ellie, which he made there of a narrow foot
way, curving out into the water. In this
picturesque old wharf. supported by wood
en- piers, pyramidal in shape and filled with
broken stone, there is the material for q
very interesting study. Mr.. Weller is now
celebrating an early morning effect, which
Is pleasing in composition, as we'll as in
color. A tiny rivulet, boiling impetuously
over the rocks that bar its passage, winds
down the grass-covered slope in the fore
ground, and the whole scene has the spark
ling freshness of morning.
Mr.. William H. Machen spent good deal
of his time this summer in sketching in
the neighborhood of Great Falls. Some
of his studies are of the river with the