Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-04-24
ART AND ARTISTS

On Tuesday the annual meeting OF the
Art Students League was held, Mr.. v.
@. Fischer presiding. and much business
OF Importance was transacted. The Off
GERS who were elected to serve throughout
the ensuing year are as follows: Mr.. f.
FraEcis Riggs. president: Mr.. Parker
Mann, frst vice president: Mr.. v. G.
Fischer, second vice president. MT. w. b.
Chiffon. treasurer: Miss Anna Lee, as
sistant treasurer: Miss Sadie Meetze. cor
responding secretary; Miss Aline Solomols.
recording secretary. The board Of control
Is composed OF the officers just mentioned
and Mr.. Wells NJ. Sawyer. Mrs. Marble.
MISS Sands and Miss Juliet Thompson.
The leagae has never been entirely self
sustaining, and but for the stanch support
or Its friends its work would have been
seriously hampered on many occasions. The
announcement made at the meeting of the
generous gifts from Mrs. Hurst and Mrs
Mackay-Smith was q welcome one, and
the lfberafity OF these two ladies is thor
oughly appreciated by ALL as the sum will
enable the league to close the school year
practically out Of debt. A committee was
appointed to rearrange the schedule of
prices for the classes next year. and to
COZ slider some other matters relating TO
the leagues finances. with q view to piac-
ing the school upon an independent foot
ins Nothing definite has been decided in
regard to the instructors for next year but
the league Is promised some distinguish
ed artists Beginning with this year,
scholarship will be offered annually to
tne student graduating from the high
SCHOOLS OF the city who shall submit the
Another sol is l,a
gwen, which Is to be confined TO the stu
gents In the class I'm decorative and In
oustrfal design. and which will allow one
OF their number to work in the class next
year free Of charge. In competing for a
the students will submit a book cover
uesign. and their work throughout the
year VIII also count in making the award
by Wednesday next the drawings which
are to be sent to New York, and sub
mitted in the connection for the scholar
ship which the Art League there offers TO
sne studeats In the school here. are to be
na nded in Miss Bertha T. Ferries class In
water color commenced outdoor work on
tne 1oth OF this month, and the pupils
make their stretching excursions on Tues
1ay ana saturday mornings, leaving Thurs
Iherc Is a decided display of originality
In the work In black and white which
william Fuller Curtis has exhibited at
Fischer's during the week His two burnt
wood decorations. THE Singers" and "The
Feet. attracted especial attention on ae-
count OF their beauty Of design and their
quaint style Of handling. Rich In its darks
and yet susceptible Of a good deal of deli
cacy In the half tones. Typography is a
wonderfully effective medium IN skiIIful
hands. and bold line work may be employed
without a trace of harshness. Mr.. Cur
value Of line. as one sees in his poster de-
sfgns-a class Of work for which he seems
very well fitted on account of the fertility
OF MS imagination and his strong sense of
iery is a group of seven heads, some in
charcoal and some in ordinary pencil ard
OF these the horizontal panel, entitled The
Death Of the Hour" is notably impressive
Of variety in his ideal heads. as he has
rarely departed from the single type that
ne has chosen to portray. and save for
some such striking and unique heads as
Medusa and Naia Hale his faces seem to
be of one mold. In pen work Mr.. Curtis
is thoroughly in his element. as his East
Gloucester sketches testify, and there is q
sense Of color as well as of value of tone
In many Of them
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The many friends Of Mr.. John c. Clay
have marked with pleasure his successful
beginnings in illustrative work, and feel
confident that there is a promising future
In store for him in that branch Of art.
He was a student In the Art League here.
and winning the New York scholarship has
been studying in the metropolis for the
past year. He has had little time for cut
side work, but has done some excellent
things nevertheless. Among these Ii his
design for the poster announcing TINS
months issue Of Frank Leslies Magazine.
A number Of other pictures have been
added to those already selected for the
womens exposition Of the Carolinas- MT.
R. LIE Grand Johnston has contributed two
pictures. THE Coming Storm" and very
strong cattle piece, entitled The Last
Rays" Miss Aline Solomons will send her
"Peonies," a bold, effective, palette knife
study. which received hardly the notice 1t
deserved at the Cosmos Club. on account
of its rather poor hanging. Mr.. r. j..
Fisher will be represented by a canvas
called Spring" and view Of Balsam
Gap, Waynesville. N. c., and Mrs. Fisher
sends three excellent still life pieces There
Is careful work in all Of her studies, and
the melon and the punches Of grapes look
very tempting.
The most recent thing that Signor G.
Jas.G. Blaine. now on exhibition at Fischers.
The sculptor never saw Blaine, and has
made the portrait entirely from photo
graphs, yet the face that he has created
is a wonderful likeness. He has fixed in
marble many Of the little traits of express
sion which gave life and character to the
face. subtleties OF expression which one
would hardly look for In work executed
as this has been. 1t is a strongly modelled
bust and Is entirely worthy Of the sculp-
tor of the Marquette statue.
The picture which Gaylord Sangston
Truesdell sends to the Salon of the Champs
Elysees this spring Is called Changing
Pastures" showing woman driving
flock of sheep through the edge of the
woods out into the sunlit open beyond. The
absolute sincerity and fidelity to nature
with which the picture Is painted finds an
illustration In the type the artist has chos-
en- for the woman driving the sheep. He
has refused to add to the pleasing quail
ties Of the picture by making her beauti-
full or to heighten the effect by making