The times., 1897-04-06
THEIR PICTURES ON VIEW
Washington Artists Annual Ex-
hibitiOn at the Cosmos Club.
SOME DELIGHTFUL WORK
No Water Colors Shown This Year.
Mr.. Parker Mann Explains Their
Absence-Need for More Than
One Exhibit in Growing Art
Center Like Washington.


The seventh annual exhibition of the
Society of Washington Artists opened yes
terday in the hall OF the Cosmos Club, to
continue until next Saturday. Every inch
OF wall space is covered with what are
presumably The best efforts of the clever
men and women who form the art world
of Washington; though the collection is
smaller, numerically, than that OF last
year, owing to the fact that for the first
time in the society's existence water-colors
and drawings have been barred
Mr.. Parker Mann, chairman OF the exc
cutive committee, explainedto a Times rep
resentativethecauseo change. Hesaid,
in effect
Through an erroneous statement, made
in one OF the daily papers-not The Times
"a false impression has teen created to
the effect that the organization of the
Water Color Club was the result OF dis
sension in the society, and that the ex-
clusion of their work from this years
exhibit is causing unkind feelings. There
is not a word of truth in the charge The
facts in the case are simple and easily
cx planned. The artists, realizing the ex-
panson OF art in the city, have felt the
need of more than one annual exhibition,
and the separation OF the water color and
black-and- from the oil and pastels
collection was considered hest for the
artists and their work-and that is all
there is about itl''
Mr.. Mann said a good many gracious
things about the pictures and the clever
people who evolved them, but he had to
do it in snatches while experimenting the
arranging Of number OF casts that were
arriving at the eleventh hour-not to men
tiOn the ceaselesS flow OF information he
was called on to impart To visitors mostly
women who could have found out what
they wanted from the catalogue in their
hands.
No. / in the collection was an oil painting
"Envrons of Venice by Lucien Powell
and No. l2. the last On the catalogue, WAS
a natural bit of wood and meadow scene
by Edgar Nye, entitled. After The Storm"
The cheapest exhibit on view was "a
pastel OF a cherutin head by Alice Archer
Seawatl, marked 81 ;, and there were three
canvasses, for which the price fixed was
5000 each They were Funeral of a Ham
adryad," by Frank Moss: Wat Tyler" by
r
Brigham Curtis
AT IL O'Clock there was but one pict ure
marked sold" and that was @ small can
vas framed in dark wood. 1t was entitled
I'm Lobster Cove" the artist was Robert
Coleman Child and the price was $50.
Among the pictures that elicited more
than a RAISING commendaton were Max
Weyl's two landscapes, one "A Glimpse OF
A rlington" and the other a stretch of
Potomac marsh. Miss Anna Komlosy's
small painting of Miss Helen Goulds green
house at Iyington was warmly praised 10y
everybody, as were her groups of flowers
and pines.
Lillian Cook has sent homely but
cheerful and characteristic sketch of a
Dutch peasant at work in her kitchen,
and there is something more than sugges-
tive about the autumn scene pictured by
Sheridan Ferree Mr. E. w. Lightner
who combines art with his journalistic
work found a number Of admirers for his
' Dispensing Fog.pi as did Mr. Parker
Mann for his october Marshes and
broadly laid-in study, which he calls The
Moor,
one of the shdwiest pictures in the col |
lection was a poster-like maiden in scar
let, standing bolt upright against q back |
ground of gilt and green leaves. 1t was |
named Power; DecoratiOn,' and was |
the work OF Mr. William Fuller Curtis. |
Mr. George Gibbs is represented by land |
scape, Thick Weather and figure |
piece of especial attracdveness, showing
a cavalier reading at table from light !
hat comes in from his garret window
Among other pictures OF note are Moon
light on the Channel by jerome s Uhl; |
September Sunset H Hobart Nichols;
''Sardine Market Frank b. Clark; Sun
set,'' Richard n. Brooke: Rainy Night.
Madison Square, New York" Win II.
Chandler; Lafayette Square, Autumn
L. s. Brumidi portrait OF A. s. solomons.
by his daughter, Miss Aline Solomons; "A
sail Fence Anna Hunt. and The Ap-
preaching Spring, ~ by James Henry MoSer.
There were thirteen specimens of sculpt-
Ire work, six of them busts by U. S. j.
Dunbar; three busts and a bas-relef by
Rudolph H Evans. jr.; bas-relief by
lara Hill, bust by Mile. Jane Hoyaok,
md a group, THE Chiidren's Hour" by
Hiss Daisy B. King.