Evening star., 1898-11-05
ART AND( ARTS S

At 80 this afternoon the members of the
Water Color Club will hold meeting in
Miss Bertha Perrie's studio to elect the
officers of the club for the coming year.
This Is the first meeting OF the season. and
many details concerning the approaching
exhibition will also come up for considera-
ton. Yesterday and today were set aside
for the reception of pictures for this ex-
hibt, but 1t will be two weeks before the
display is thrown open to the public. AM
pie time will thus be allowed for hanging
the pictures with most careful Judgment
and for the preparation of a catalogue en-
belHshed with numerous illustrations.
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The annual meeting of the Society OF
Washington Artists will be held next Tues
day evening at the new gallery on Connec-
ticut avenue. and the yearly election of
officers for this organization will take
place. When the business Of the evening
has been transacted the members look for
ward to a pleasant social time.
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1t is reported that the collection of pic
lures and art objects owned by Senor Men
donca, who has now retired to private life
will be sold in New York this winter, and
the dispersal of a collection made with such
care and discriminating taste will be looked
upon with regret by many. Picture buyers
win however, hail 1t with delight, and the
event will be watched with great interest
Miss Mathilde Mueden who returned
from her three years sojourn abroad a
few weeks ago. has not as yet formulated
any plan for opening studio here, and 1t
is quite likely that she may eventually
locate in New York She left Washington
a student-she returns an artist thorough
ly equipped to strike out for herself in an
Independent way. She has not been out of
the influence of the schools long enough
to have formed distinctly individual style.
but she has acquired through her course of
study the sound knowledge that is the first
essential to success. She brought back lit
tie work aside from the regular studies
made in the schools, as the only important
things that she painted in her own studio
were portraits, and necessarily passed OUT
of her possession. She has, however the
portrait that she exhibited in the Sa,on of
'Gj--a mans head. strongly modelled and
lfelike in color. In the following wear she
sent to the Salon a portrait which showed
a marked advance over her first coutribu-
ton. and during the past summer she com
pleted a full-length portrait which NAV
fairly be considered Ter chef d'oe,Ivre
Even from the rather imperfect testfm ,ny
Of small photographs one gets an idea of
the quiet dignity of TIE pose and the sim
picity and breadth with which If is ham
d'ed. During they execution of this work
she had the benefit of private criticism
from Benjamin constant and Jean paul
Laurens, who had heeome so much inter
ested in her worln in the Julien Atelier that
they extended this privilege.
1t is announced In New York zhat ,bo;,t
five hunderd oils1I aauarelles and nen.aud-
ink drawings bN Tissot, the ce,ebr,t ted
French artist. now in this country. will he
exhibited at the,n American Art Galleries
about the middle of November. Accord,np
to the plan ouuitied the collection will s,n-
sequently be shown Nn Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Boston andfWashington 1t will GER
tainly be very foHturIrste for the art lovers
here if arrangementsia are made to bring thc
pictures to this city, as Tissots hfb,caI
subjects are widely known and highly snnt
en- of.
At the Corcoran Art Gallery there have
been quite a number of new things dis-
played since the doors were opened ,h;s
fall and three new works have been nre
seneed TO form a part of the permanent col
sented portraits of Hon Amos Kendall and
his wife pain-ed by Daniel Huntington
both canvases. being: good examples of The
veteran portrait painters style. Mrs Mary
Yost has presented u bronze bust of Geurye
Y. Coffin, the talented carsoonist The bust
is by Nh. Il. 4. ElHcott and is a very well
executed piece of wark. An interestiur mir
tnre that has been loaned for exhftition is
the large oil paint ng by M SIS Helen Frances
Colburn. The picture, which is Illustrative
of Longfellow's poem THE Skeleton in
Armor,'' bears the title 1.-THE Viking and
the Princess and the subject has been