Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
ART AND ARTISTS

classes and the preparatory antique
classes. The afternoon advanced antique
class will be in Mr.: Edmund Clarence Mes
| ser's hands, and he will also be the in
structor for the women's life and the com
position class. The pupils of the morning
| advanced antique will work under Mr.. Ed
| ward S!ebert, who also has charge of the
portrait class and the mems life. Miss b.
| f. Perrie will continue as water color
| teacher in which position she has made
| herself SO valuable to the league
The school of decorative and Industrial
design. which is to be started this year
| under the auspices of the Art League. is
an entirely new departure, and will fill a
| long-felt want, there being no school Of
| that character in this section Of the coun-
try. Miss Humphreys, who is to be the in
structor, Is person of thorough practical
experience and needs no other recommend
| alton than her work. The league will open
| this year on the 9th Of October.
One Of the best things that Max Weyl
| has done up at Paxson. Va, is a canvas
painted down amorg the trees by the side
| of the brook which flows near Rosemoore
The motive is very pleasing one and is
| of the kind that is pictorially complete
with scarcely an alteration. The enarled
! oak tree, which spreads it's sturdy limbs
i over the brook one side and over the
| roadway on the other, is singuarly pictur-
| esque, and affords excellent opportunities
| for carefully studied drawing. An oil
| stone wall bordering the road stretches
| away into the distant open. which, at the
| time Mr.. Weyl chose for his effect was
bathed in the golden light of late after
noon. Save for a few touches of sunlight
here and there the rest Of the picture is in
| shadow, and the sunny bit of open coun-
try is contraSted strongly with the cool
green of the trees I'm the foreground. In
this picture Max Weyl has followed ma
! ture more closely than usual. though. like
| all his work, 1t bears the unmistakabe
mark OF his own individuality, and he has
Interpreted rather than Initiated nature.
| He has made large number of charcoal
studies for future canvases and many oil
| paintings. including a wide range of sub
jects One of the best of the latter is a
study of the country stretching away to-
ward the mountains with Round Hill ris-
ing In the middle distance Mr.. Weyl plans
| to return to the city inside of a week
Mr.. Hobart Nichols, since his return
| from Paxson, has been celebrating a mo-
tive which he found at a different part OF
the same brook that Max Weyl has been
exploring for paintable subjects. Where
Hobart Nichols CHANGED upon his theme.
however. the character Of the stream is
entirely different. The water flows over
shallow bed Of pebbles, and willow trees
with their light, airy foliage line the banks.
cow is standing in the cool water chew
ing her cud contentedly. The effect of the
sunlight sitting through the foliage Of the
trees and the light on the grass beyond is
managed extremely well, and the picture is
one of the best that Mr.. Nichols has done.
He has been making quite study Of cattle
lately and q number of pictures testify to
his progress in that line Of work. He has
nearly finished a sunset effect in which a
white COW, touched with the light of the
setting sun, IL brought out strongly
Q inc dor NEG nf inh nl-
goes up to Paxson today and plans to stay
about a week sketchirg in the neighbor-
hood.
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Mrs. Nichols has been up at Paxson for
the greater part of the summer and has
made quite a number of excellent sketches.
A study of a wheat field after the grain
has been gathered in shocks is particularly
true to nature. and is executed in the Pre-
Raphaelite style, great attention having
been paid to the details, even down to the
drawing Of individual stalks of wheat in
the nearest shocks. The coloring gives
very well the impression of the hot day
upon which the sketch was painted, and
the minute way in which 1T Is worked up
does not as is SO often the case, detract
from the effect of the whole. Among other
things she has done are sketches OF
straw-covered shed and of group of
dilapidated buildings, both treated much
more broadly than the wheat field but with
the same careful study of nature.
Mr.. Messer, who has been up at Paxson
all summer, has recently been devoting
most of his time to a large picture which
he has undertaken. He has chosen for his
subject piece of partly-wooded pasture
land, and plans to give 1t the effect that
is seen about sunset, when the topmost
branches Of the trees are Redeemed by the
last rays OF sunlight. AS yet the colors
have only been laid in and the larger
masses indicated. but Mr.. Messer plans to
spend great deal Of work on it, and to
make 1t an important picture. He has been
doing considerable portrait work up at Pax
son, and has painted several excellent por-
trait sketches. Besides his large picture
he has been doing good many small land
scape studies, which he will be able to
elaborate in his studio. Mr.. Messer will
not return to the city before the LIST of
October.
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Mr.. Glenn Brown. who has also been
working at Paxson during the summer, has
been taking a walking tour from the Blue
Ridge down to Alexandria, and making
sketches Of all the interesting points on the
way down.
Mr.. Lucien w. Powell has built studio
this year on his place near Round Hill
and has around him greater facilities for
work. Most Of his outdoor work he does
in the autumn, time Of year for which
he has a great fondneSs, and, as a result
he is doing little Just now except studio
work. He has been busy with a series of
Venetian scenes, which he is going to send
to New York, and has started q large
mountain view. Among the things that he
has done In the country about his summer
home is very Interesting wood interior.
in which the color is especially good
Miss Aline Solomons and Miss Grace LIE
Due are both painting study heads of Miss
Josephine Gloetzner. who is posing for
them. Her head is a particularly interest,"
Ing one. either for color study, such as
MISS Solomons is making, or when trea ted