Evening star., 1896-12-05

No one who looks at his Offering to MistIe-
toe or his Oriental Poppies can deny that
he has great talent in decorative lines In
both of these there is a leaning toward the
grotesque which shows the influence of
Japanese art, but in his Carnations he has
given US simple and direct study, though
still with the mark of his own originality
upon 1t. The framing of all of his water
colors Is as artistic as they are, and Mr..
Mindelen has in many cases decorated the
mats in such a way as to carry out the
idea of the painting
One of the best pastels in the gallery is a
study of a girl reading, by Miss Hattie T.
Burdette. The face is modelled with great
delicacy, and the serious absorbed ex-
preston mas been well rendered. Even the
dress Is treated with a crispness that de-
notes a skillful hand
Who's Missing is the title of the best of
Mr.: Parker Mann's pastels, and it shows
a dock crowded with anxious ones while
fishing schooner comes slowly IN. The
OF watching men and women standing out
darkly against the sunset sky add a SOM
Der ceior note to the picture that is thor
oughly in keeping with the subject.
Mr.. George F. Gibbs is represented by
goodly array of pictures, his work In color
Jeing scenes from around Ocean City.
There is a fine movement to the waves in
the moonlight subject The Rising Tide
ana After the Rain are extremely true to
Nature. He shows two examples Of his
gouache work. Victory and The Wreck of
the Royal George
Holland Life.
Miss Lillian Cook exhibits three genre
subjects giving slimpses of Holland life
and all executed in the Dutch style
A Cup of Coffee showing group OF Laren
peasants gathered around table in a
dark, smoky room, is excellent interior
view, and is treated in a broad and sim
pie way.
A maple forest in the Catskills has fur
nished Mr.. E H. Miller with a very pleas
iTIg motive. The foreground, a tangle of
ferns and Eupatorium, is exceptionally well
treated. Mr.. Miller has also contributed a
striking water color portrait of himself,
and a fine charcoal drawing entitled The
Waning Moon.
Mr.. Wells NJ. Sawyer is represented bv
but one picture, a pastel, entitled Becalmed
off the Florida Keys. Blue is the predomI-
mating hue in the color scheme which is
extremely pleasing.
Mr.. j. H. Moser sends from West Corn
wall, Conn.,, two excellent water colors
full OF artistic feeling. One called October
sunshine, gives a glimpse of a sunny spot
within a dense wood, and the other is q
moOnrise In the open.
Miss Alice Archer SewalTs forte seems to
be in drawing cherub faces for decorative
panels, and she sends n subject Of this ma
ture. 1t is in pastel, and was loaned by
Mrs. Fadely for the exhibition.
Mr.. Luclen W. Powell exhibits two large
water colors, handled with his customary
freedom. The Haunt of Sea Fowl an ef-
tective marine study, is one of the hest
thlrgs that have come from his brush The
Cliff on the Rappahannock IS also good.
though Id Will not appeal as strongly to the
average visitor.
Marine Views.
The series of marines which Mr.. VIII S.
Robinson, New York artist has contribu-
ted to the exhibition is extremely inter
/, esting. as he has we'll nigh perfect mas
terry over the technique of the pure auuar-
ellie In his Evening Arrival, Coast OF
Holland. he has handed a Difficult, prob
lem i'll a very satisfactory manner The
fishermen who have just landed are com
ing up the beach bearing their lanterns
luminous spots of light that the artist has
rendered with great truth. Much the same
color scheme is found in the Departure Of
the Fishing Boats and also in Surf al Even
ing. Grays and blues pred ominate in ali
these water Coiorssand Mr.. Robinson seems
to have a great fondness for these tones
further proof of this being found in A
Gray Day, which Is painted largely in deli
cate grays.
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Messer exhibits a
charming little pastel called Spring but
as he Is at his best in oil painting 1t il
not really representative of his work.
1t is much the same with Mr.. HoDar I
Nichols, though he has a number of pleas
ing sketches. The Shepherd which he eX-
hibits. is study in gouache, and mis- No
vember and also a scene painted along the
Potomac are good examples of transparent
wash. In addition to these he shows sew
eral specimens of his work in pen. Mrs.
Nichols exhibits a drawing entitled Mother
and Child, and also water color sketch
drawn for Illustration.
In Black and White.
In the work in black and white quite a
large proportion Is pen work drawn for
Illustration and a good part of this Is the
work of New York artists. Mrs. Schayer
has loaned two drawings which Charles
Dana Gibson made for her story, The
Majors appointment. They were executed
when Gibson was doing his finest work.
before he had made technique his idol A
group Of pen sketches by Gray Parker, il
lustrating humorous coaching incidents, is
also exhibited. In comic drawing shown
by George Kerr THE New Woman" Is seen
hurrying along past the shades Of her
Puritan ancestors, who look on In holy
horror. A newspaper drawing Of q New