Evening star., 1897-05-13
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE
Annual Exhibition Of the Work Of the
Organization.
Private View Tonight, but the Public
Will De Admitted Tomorrow
aad Saturday.


be thrown open this evening to the stu
dents and their friends for private view
Of the arnual exhibition. Admission will
be by card tonight. but on Friday and
Saturday the exhibition will be open to
the public between the hours of and
pm.
Perhaps the most interesting and novel
feature of the exhibit is the work done
by the students in the class In designing,
conducted by Miss Sallie T. Humphreys.
Designs for tiles, for silks and other tex
tile fabrics, and book covers, are included
in this section Of the exhibit, and the dis
play gives a pleasing appearance of bright
ness end color to the walls. An especially
strong showing Is made Of book covers and
among these the examples by Miss Louisa
Wainwright whose work won her the
scholarship in designing, and that Of Miss
Marguerite Barnes, who received the honor
able MENTION at once attract attention. A
cover for ''Evsngeline," suggestive Of the
first lines Of the poem, is one Of the best
of number Of artistic designs by Miss
Beulah Reeves; and Miss Janney's decora-
ton for Wake Robin is especially good.
Miss L. NJ. Montrop's lotus decoration for
Cleopatra" and several flower designs by
Miss Sampson will call forth favorable
comment, and Miss Jennie Dodge. Miss
Davis, Miss Greene and Miss Mabel Lat
timer also show good work In this depart
ment.
Life CI0S6 EXh1b1t.
Mr.. E. c. Messer, the Instructor of the
afternoon life class, is very much gratified
with the work which the students have
done during the year, and the showing from
this class is quite large, and the standard
of excellence high. Visitors will naturally
manifest a good deal of interest I'm the
drawings by Miss Margaret Tones. who
won the scholarship in the New York
League, and In the work Of Mrs. Whitney,
who received the honorable mention in the
same competition. Strong drawing and
modelling are also shown in the work ex-
hibited by Miss LIE Due, Miss Sigsbee, Miss
Critcher and Miss Juliet Thompson, and
among the students of the night life class
w. IS. Chiffon and jerome p. Uhl deserve
especial mention.
From the Antique.
The exhibit of the antique classes this
year shows faithful study on the part of
the students, both in the preparatory class
under Miss Wooding and in the advanced
antique under Mr.. Siebert and Mr.. Messer.
The careful blocking in of shadows which
Mr.. Siebert advocates so strongly, has been
productive of excellent results in the work
of many students. Arthur Spear shows
some strongly modelled work, and a couple
of heads by Miss NJ. E. Lewis are remark
ably good. Among the others who exhibit
geod drawings in this department are Miss
Beulah Barnes, Miss Bessie Barnes Miss
Florence Behrend, Miss Ida Baum and Miss
Alice Parker.
Water COlOrs
Miss Perrie, the instructor of the water
color class. has enriched the exhibition bv
several contributions from her brush, but
the showing of class work, while including
quite a number of studies that are excellent
In their technical handling is only moder-
ately large this year. Miss Elsie Edwards
has series of well-executed heads and
MISS NJ K. Porter displays her bent for
flower painting in a number of crisp studies.
work In this class during the year are Miss
Fanny Thompson, Miss Gibson Miss Haw-
ley and Miss Wright
Portraits.
. The heads done In the portrait class prop
er are not very numerous. and the showing
would be rather meager in this department.
also. were 1t not for the fact that several
excellent portraits that were executed out
side have been contributed. Miss Solo
mons has sent two portraits, her head of
MISS Cara Hill being an admirable likeness,
ana Miss Juliet Thompson has two pasteIs
handled with the usual success which she
has In that medium. Miss Anna Lee ex-
hibfts several well-studied heads in oil. and
John X. Souther shows striking effective
pastel Miss Critcher and Miss Meetze are
also well represented.
Sketches and Competitions.
The exhibit Of sketches and compositions
Is unusually small but the individual work
shown is in many cases SO good as to make
up for the rather limited number of draw
tngs displayed. A collection of drawings in
black and white by Miss Wooding is ex-
hibited, and Jerome Uhl shows come very
bold sketches, which are good specimens Of
pen and ink technique. Among the most
interesting of the sketches shown are those
by w. Balfour Ker, as he has the knack
OF giving the expression of a face or the
action Of a figure by a few telling lines. A
large sheet covered with thumb-nail
sketches bears witness to this, and several
large drawings prove that his work is as
strong in light and shade as in line H. B.
Bradford Is well represented in the realm of
black and white, as Is also A. c. Randall.
who has made special study Of pencil
work, and sends night scene in this
medium. Glenn M. Brown exhibits several
pleasing outdoor motives. executed in oil,
and number of other students have con-
tributed 10 the attractive ensemble upon
the walls Of the league rooms.
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