The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-21
CAMERAS ARTISTIC WORK
Ribbons Blue and Yellow Ad0rn
Gems of Photography.
Medals of Silver and Bronze for
the Most Artistic Prints in
the Exhibition.

me capital Camera Club opened Its
sixth annual exhibition of amateur pho.
tographs at the parlors of the Columbia
Athletic Club yesterday afternoon. The
exhibition will last until Friday night
During the evening ON Friday lantern
exhibition will be given, admission to
which is by card, as are also adIIh ssions
to the photograph exhibit.
| The pictures of the exhibit are num-
bered up to 472, but many are grouped
under one number sometimes, and several
pictures are not numbered, so that the
full exhibit includes over Z 90 photographs
There are seventy exhibitors, all anna
teur photographers of the Washington
fraternity, aud many of them members
| OF the Capital Camera Club. The exhibit
ton committee consi sts OF Albert J. LIE
| Breton, chairman; Joseph w. Anderson,
NJ. d., E. NJ. ToIman. Miss Cora E. Gerish,
aud Joseph l.. Shaw, secretary The
judges of the exhibition, MIR Edmund
| Clarence Messer and Mr.. r. LeGrand
Johnston, the artists, and Mr. Charles
Parker, photographer, made their awards
| yesterday afternoon, and now dozen or
| more Of the pictures are ornamented with
blue and yellow ribbons.
Five silver medals were awarded by
| the Judges for the live most artistic prints
| in the exhibition, and five bronze medals
| for the i've second best. In addition to
| these there were two special prizes of
| cameras.
| If one is in doubt as to the possibility
OF securing artistic results with a camera,
| and wishes TO be convinced that one may
| be an artist in his camera work, this ex-
hibition IS good one TO view. The 700
| pictures are all Of them good. There is not
| one in the lot that has not its good points,
and yet there is as much difference, or al
most as much, in them as there is between
chronos and the softest and most delicate
Of pastels. There are marvellous land
scapes, full of sunlight and freshness and
spirit, strong figures, expressive and full
Of character, and sometimes very beaut-
full, and still-life pictures and flowers.
Only color Is lacking in them, and some
times the color seems not to be missed and
not needed.
The camera Club has a right to feel very
proud Of Its exhibit, and the people who viii
see it, and they are many, in the next three
days will certainly see an exhibition that
they will not care to have missed.
The silver medal blue ribbon pictures
Were awarded to No. eli, byMr lie Breton,
president Of the club, for his landscape en-
titled ION the Canal small but very
delicate picture OF a scene onthe Chesapeake
ana Ohio Canal. q few miles from tina city;
TO 355, by T. A Mullett, a harvest scene,
two girls gathering up the wheat, fine
piece; to 50, by Charles E. Fairman, a
prominent member OF the cl Ub, THE Fagot-
GatheTers, two women in a wood, bare
foot, gathering fagots; TO 207, Mater
Dolorosa, by Miss Cora V GeTish, mem
Der OF the exhibition committee, a head, the
face shining strikingly out OF the dark
background In which are the shadowy drap-
cries, and TO 1853, Softly Falls the Evening
Light by Howard Grey Douglas, an ex-
quisite twilight, full OF sen timent and
finely executed.
The bronze medals were awarded to Nos.
235, I'm Season." by William p Herbst,
a still life picture without flaw, OF bowl
OF berries and a cream pitcher and sugar
bowl; to 423, Moonlight at Sea, by W D.
Searle, the moon shining over the waterfront |
OF the dark, most effective picture: TO !
324, by Jane Farnham Miller, an excellent |
portrait Of Prof. Miller one of the most |
effective portraits OF the collection; to /
1852, a group OF excellent interiors. By |
Kate S. Curry, and to 96. "A Maryland |
Farm" by Gus A Brandt
Miss Kate s. Curry's Woods in April
won the prize for the hest landscape.
It must have been a most difficult task
for the gentlemen who awarded the prizes
even. than a regular art eX-
hibt-for, as fully shown by these pic
lures, excellence can be attained by many |
in photography. Some OF the visitors
would have made some changes in the |
prize list, though all nf them went to ex-
cellent pictures, two or three of which |
were so perfect as to allow OF no question.
Among the others OF the best were two
woodland scenes by Mr.. Fairnan. GER
tsnly equally as good as The Faggot
the prize winner; 2T2, a
very pretty girls face and shoulders, by
Allan j. Houghton the delightful work OF
Francis Benjamin Johnston, which was
not in competition; No. 292, AN Ameri- |
can Beauty by Andrew johnson; and
356, another of Mr.. Mullett's woodland
scenes. The work OF II. w Morrow, W.
C. Babcock, Frank Roe BatcheIder and
j. A. Branagan is also noteworthy.