Evening star., 1898-02-19

OILS. w. NJ. Sawyer, L. W. Powell and w.
B. Chiffon. Robert Coleman Child shows.
nature. an odd decoration on wood. called
The Wicked Brew, and William Fuller
Curtis also shows decorative subject as
well as some attractive specimens of pen
work
The announcements for the spring ex-
hibition of the Society of Washington Art
lists are low printed. and there may be had.
together with the new style of entry card,
by applying to the secretary. 1910 Connecti-
cut avenue. The society has adopted this
year the coupon entry blanks generally in
use elsewhere, and one of these slips has to
be attached to the back of each picture.
Some slight changes were made in the
dates of the exhibition by the executive
committee at the meeting Saturday last.
Works will be received at the gallery
March 21, and the exhibition will open
April 4. closing April 30. This year the
number of pictures that one artist may
exhibit has been changed from four to six.
Next week attention will be drawn to the
Charcoal Club, which was recently
ganized among the students of the city. by
the exhibition of sketches. to be held in
the clubs studio, at so 18th street. While
the exhibition is held in order to give the
friends of the members a chance to
some of their work. any others who ara
interested invited to inspect the
sketches on view. The exhibit will be open
to visitors from to p.rl.. on Monday,
and on the I'D it will be open from 10 liz
the morning to I in the evening" After Z
O'Clock there will be entertainment for
the members. The exhibit promises to be
well worth visit, as the club has on its
rolls a large number of the strongest work
ers among the local student fraternity.
At the Corcoran Art Gallery there is one
new addition-a picture called The Dream"
which was presented recently by the artist,
George H. Hall.
An attractive collection of water colors by
Mr.. Edwin Lamasure was placed on view at
Veerhofr's on Thursday, and it is gratifying
to notice the growth of the new tendencies
that have been increasingly evident in his
work for year or so back. He has always
shown an exceptionally fine command of
the technique of water color painting, es-
pecla1ly in the pure aquarelle, and his work
in past years has always sounded a spright-
ly cheerful note, but he has never displayed
any work that might be properly styled
profound. In his present exhibition. how
ever. the serious qualities that his work is
assuming are mora strongly marked. and
sentiment and feeling play more impor
tant role than of old. There are fewer
landscapes i'll which brilliant passages of
technical handling constitute the principal
Taison d'etre, and one sees both in the con-
ception and execution of his subjects a
more thoughtful attitude and greater
iginality. 1t IS among some of the smaller
water colors that one finds number of the
most thoroughly satisfying subjects, such,
for example, as the poetic little moonlight
scene giving a glimpse of snow-mantied
fields and mysterious woodland depths.
sunrise seen near Chevy Chase is equally full
of tender, delicate color and artistic feeling,
and a number of his sunset motives will
also find favor. There is a carefully studied
contrast of cold moonlight, and the ruddy
glow of a lamp-illumined window in an
other conscientiously painted sketch. The
exhibition will continue until the end of
next week.
In Parker Mann's pictures, which were
displayed this week at Fisoher's. color is
the dominant quality, though he treats
atmospheric effects with no little skill
The subjects which he has chosen have
han lion i.t-y
combination of rich colors or some more
subtle harmony of hue. He reveIs in the
cciOring OF the East Gloucester rioors, and
depicts them again and again under vary
ing conditions. Afternoon seems to be a
favorite sketching time with him. and in
his Autumn Afternoon and THE Edge
OF the Pond, as we'll as III his large view
of the Annisquan marshes. he has rendered
In an unusually satisfactory manner the
mellow light of waning afternoon. In addi-
ton to his Cape Ann motives he shows one
or two foreign subjects such as his Dutch
pictures in oil and pastel, and the Venetian
subject which in its simple scale of values
slightly suggests +. Hopkinson Smith.
Mr. s. jerome Uhl was to have bean
again at work in his studio at the first of
this past week, but something interfered
with his plans and he did not reach Wash
ington when he had intended. Mr.. Uhl
went to New York about the middle of
December-"Gone for ten days" was the
way the card on his studio door read-but
days prolonged themselves into tan weeks
Quite good deal of interest has been
aroused in the exhibition of drawings which
will be on view at the Cosmos Club from
February % to 26. inclusive, between the
hours of 10 a. m. and p. m. The drawings
and paintings were made for Scribner's
Magazine as illustrations for the history of
the revolution by Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, now appearing in that periodical.
1t Is the first time that a corps of artists
have been set to work on that Held ana
the illustrators have spared no pains IN
their search for historical accuracy, Wis
lting all the places where important events
took place. That the artistic side has re-
ceived equal attertion the drawings them
selves will prove. Among the artists rep
sented are the following men,. Howard
Pyle, B. West Clinedinst. Carlton T. Chap
man. e. C. Pexotto, Harry Fem, F. c.
Yohn. w. Appleton Clark, H. A Ogden
II. w. Ditzler and F. Luis Mora.
Senator Lodge. when he saw the draw
ings for the first time, paid the artists a
high tribute in remarkng They have
caught the very atmosphere of the thing"