Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-08
ART AND ARTISTS

IL.
Warner who designed the doors on the left
side Of the main entrance. was TO have
executed this pair for the right-hand side
also. hut death stayed his hand and the
contract was subsequently, given to Mr.
Adams. The three ways of communicative
knowledge have furnished the subjects for
the entrance doorways, Tradition and Print
iLg being represented in the doorways al
ready hl!ed by the works Of Warner and
MacMonnies. Writing is the subject of the
doors now expected, and in the center of
the tympanum. thanked by winged genii. is
a seated female figure typifying Writing
Surrounding this group are figures repre-
sentlrg the four peoples whose writings
have most influenced the wcrd-the Egyp-
tans Hebrews. Greeks and Christians Re
low The tympanum are the doors them
serves. the panel in the right-hand one
containing figure representing Research
and that in the left-hand door adorned with
a figure typifying Truth Below the large
pdM ; are children supporting cartouches.
winch pear appropriate symbols. The
keiEht of the doorway from the floor 10
the top of the arch is IA feet 3 inches and
Inc extreme width is feet. The decora-
ton IN the rails and stiles is convention
a,lleu treatment of orchids roses apple
Blossoms, orange blossoms, Crane clusters
etc.
The figure which is to complete the group
Roland Hinton Perry has executed for the
1cuntain is now at the foundry, and il is
expected that 1t will reach the Library
some time this month.
"A postponed meeting of the Water Color
Club Will be held at 80 today in Miss
Ferries studio, as the regular meeting was
scheduled for New Year day and conse-
quenty the members could not be as
sembled. There are very large number
OF names proposed for membership and
these will be passed on this afternoon. AT
q O'Clock today the second annual exhibit
ton of the club will close at the gallery OF
the Society Of Washington Artists and con-
triputors must remove unsold pictures on
MONDAY. The exhibition was unnuestion-
ably a success artisticaily. and was mod
erately successful financially the receipts
rather more than covering the expenditures
II cident to the exhibition.
FROM the 18th 10 the 10Th of January an
exhibition of sketches will hold sway at
the new gallery on Connecticut avenue
Notlces have been sent to the artists in
Ntihg them to SEND sketches in any me-
dunn, framed or mounted in a manner
suitable for hanging on the wall. The ex-
hibition is for the benefit of the Society of
Washington Artists, and 30 rer cent of the
sales Is TO be turned into its fund There
VIII be no auction OF the unSold sketches
as was at first contemplated. but il is ex-
pected that the sketches will be placel AT
prices low enough TO give them ready
sale.
- Mr. Parker Mann is preparing for his ex-
hibition, which will open at Fischer's on
February q, and is busy placing the finish
ing touches on the works to be included i'm
that collection. However, a large number
of the studies which he made last summer
will be shown without the addition of a
single touch, there is a fresh crispness
about work direct from Nature which Is
OFTEN destroyed by studio work. The pic
lures that he will show are almost all exc
cuted in pastel, a medium which he handles
every year with increasing skill The
Sketchlng outfit for outdoor pastel which
he himself designed. gives him exceptional
1aciiltleS IN working from nature and Mr.
Mann takes almost more genuine pride in
inns creation Of his hand than in the best
studies that it enables him to make. He
taxes an especial pleasure in effects seen
ABOUT shutdown and handles with equal abil
ity the glowing colors of a superb sunset
or the faint echo of this glory in the east
ern sky. Another of his favorite motives
Is where twilight still fingers over the land
IN the summer sky. His pictures are with
out exception studies or memories of the
country around his summer home i'm East
gloucester. and in their number one finds
views OF rock-bound seashore and glimpses
of the wide moorland seen under different
conditions of light and atmosphere Mr.
Mann Is well represented at the exhibition
OF the pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
whlch opens with the private view this
evening.
The miniature of Mrs Reuben Clark
which Miss Sara Bartle is now vyt1r-xins, on
is quite different from her usual style in
that it is executed in low kew. and has u
somber richness of color Mrs. Clark is
dressed in black, and her large hat with
dark plumes acts as a foil to set off the
warm fesh tints of the face. To hear that
the background is purple is a LITTLE startlinu
and might lead some to sunnose tbs;t
MISS Bartle was introducing imnressiop-
ism INTO miniature painting but the color
IN reaiity tones in very well with the rest
or the portrait. In expression tho faca is
notably good and the features are mode1a5
with the artists customary delicacv. ,,ss
Bartle will probably go to New York abont
the last of the month.
Mr. j. F. Early is now occupying Mr. Fiji
colt large studio, which gives him suf-
ncleht room to carry on the modelling that
he is doing for the government building IN
be erected at Omaha for the Trans Missis-
slppi and International Exposition The
contract for all the relief work for tbis
building has been placed in his hands. and
ne is designing special models for the COL
umn capitals, the ornamental holdings etc
In addition t. this strictly architectural
work number of pieces Of SCULPTURE fan
distinctly into the artistic class. The most
important of these is the small model that
ne mas made for the large statue of Liner
W that Is to surmount the dome of tho
structure This subject has been treated
in so many ways, and has been done hnt
indiHerently we'll so many times. thar ono
is ready to cry with Madame Roland 80
Liberty! what crimes are committed in tbI,
name With such a hackneyed suhiact
MI Early could hardly have made anyl
thing very original without making son,s-
thing that was also very ridiculous and he
was perhaps wise in choosing a rather CON
Ventonal type and giving to it all the mai
esty and dignity in his power In one hand
she holds aloft a torch which will hear a
cluster of electric lights and in the other
she graspS spear or staff surmounted h1,
the cap of Liberty. The same goddess will
appear over the main doorway in the shane
of head placed against an ornate SETTING