Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-09
sent In for exhibition, Il is safe to promise
an unusually interesting display.

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forts that are made - relieve the league
Of the financial embaRsassMents by which
it's work is hampered. ITO lift 1t out of debt
and to place 1t on al Independent, self
supporting basis. win be gratified to learn
that the entertainment to be given for the
benefit of the school gives every Indication
Of entire success. A large proportion of
those who are to takeI part are artists, in
the limited sense of othe woru, meaning
painters, sculptors, etc, and from Begin
ming to end the program has distinctly
artistic flavor.
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meeting of the Water Color Club was
held last Saturday at Miss aPerrie's studio
but no business of Importance was trans-
acted. except the election of one new mem
ber Mr.. Felix Mahoney. Some time was
copies Of which have been printed and dis
tributed among the members.
Next week collection of pictures by the
well-known marine painter, Carlton T.
Chapman, will supplant the drawings and
paintings by. Frederick Remington that
have been on view at Veerhofr's for a fort
night. Mrs. Mica Heideman is now exhibit
ing at Veerhoffs gallery an interesting
bust that she has modelled of Col. Hinton
There is quite COLONY of Washington
students working at the New York Art
Students League. most of them having
very naturally come from the Art League
in this city. Miss Margaret Tones, who
holds the annual scholarship, Is one of the
workers. and Mr.. John C. Clay, who won
the scholarship two years ago, is another.
Mr.. Clay has been there long enough to be-
come thoroughly affiliated with the league
and is one of the most popular fellows in
the entire school, Mr.. Clay has taken a
studio where he may work by himself, and
he and Mr.. Jerome P. Uhl, who is finishing
his first years study, have illustrations in
one Of the minor magazines this month.
Mr.. Gienn NJ Brown has been working
there q year, and Mr.. Ralph Willis who is
studying with mural decoration in view, is
another Washingtonian there. Mr.. Mills
Thompson, who is here in the city at pres
ent. also counts himself among the stu
dents OF the New York Art League.
The attendance during the first week of
Society Of Washington Artists exhibition
has bean very good, as there were many
who were loath to postpone their first visit
to the exhibit to any later date. One of
the cenvases which has excited much at
tention and aroused no little discussion
among the visitors Ia Mr.. J. Edward Bar
caay's study of a girl reading. It Is not
a pictIrs which by its similarity to its
neighbors passes unchallensed. but one
which at once arrests the eye by the dis
tinctly different note which is sounded in
It. To those who are only pleased by strik-
ing oppositions Of color thu hues may seem
lacking in fore, but the majority will find
very genuine charm in the subtle, low
toned scheme of coloring. Mr.. Robert Cole
man Child has designed very effective
fn lnrn "a tn tha
pedestrians on Connecticut avenue, and he
has executed this striking poster on such
a large scale that even the most short
sighted cannot remain in ignorance of the
exhibit. The design is withal very artistic
and is pleasing in its color effect.
Mr.. Gaylord s. Truesdell is still uncertain
in regard to his return to America to live.
and is at @preser. working in London II
he decides 20 come home to the United
States he will in all probability go at once
to Denver, Col, and make no stay of con-
sequence in Washington or any eastern
city. He Is going to send two important
canvases to this years exhibition OF the
Royal Academy in London.
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A Washingtonian who spent some time in
New York this week took occasion to visit
the spring exhibition Of the National Acad-
envy Of Design, and also that, at the Du-
rand-Ruel galleries. of ten American art
ists' who lately withdrew from the old or
ganization, and he afterward summarized
the situation in a way that probably ex
presses the opinion Of good many visitors.
II first went to the Academy he said,
"and after spending q little time there 1
could easily see. from the character of the
exhibition, why the ten American artists
should want to leave that institution. Then
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their display, and when 1 saw their work
l understood very quickly why the Academy
should be glad to have the seceders go.
The first Is commonplace; the second SIM
ply ridiculous"
At the big loan exhibition, which VIII
open next week In the old Corcoran Art
Gallery, there are quite number Of works
by Washington painters, and these pictures
hold their own very creditably, though it
is but natural that modern work should
suffer somewhat when placed beside the
mellow masterpieces Of which the collec-
ton Is to a great extent composed. Edward
Lind Morse Is among the local portrait
painters who are represented, his contribu-
ton being strong nfelike head of Justice
Shiras. Robert Hinckley is seen to good
advantage in large striking portrait. and
Henry Floyd displays his skill in a small,
carefully painted head. ]. Edward Barclay
and Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, who may,
in a sense. be considered as local painters,
are both represented by good works on por-
traiturs. Alice Barney's likeness of herself
is striking piece Of work, but it is not by
any means the best thing that she has
painted, and visitors will doubtless take
more pleasure in her attractive pastel E.
F. Andrews again exhibits his notable pic
ture called wat Tyler" and Carl Gutherz
sends large decorative composition. which
shows him at his best. Among the land
scapes exhibited. that by Edmund Clar-
cree Messer easily takes a leading place.
and 1t is indeed one OF the best things
that has come from his brush. 1t is sell
dem that he has attained suoh glowing
fullness Of color, and the picture is full of
the artistic feeling which Is always present
in his work Max Weyl shows another
strong landscape, and Parker Mann and
Hobart Nichols also show work in Oil that
viii repay attention. The dramatic marine
subject which George Gibbs exhibited at
the Water Color Club last fall will doubt
less be looked upon with almost as much
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