Evening star., 1898-10-08
A r T ND ARTISTS

n l A N d AR lists
The third annual exhibition Of the Wash
ihgton Water Color Club will De held IN
the gallery of the Society OF Washington
Arusts' lu-o Connecticut avenue. from No
| Nefnoer Il 10 December B. The exhibition
Will consist OF original work I'm water color.
pastel and black and white, and Il Is hoped
that both in the number and variety Of
pictures shown it may surpass the two
previous efforts Of the club. An interesting
feature of his exhibition will be the pub.
hcatiou OF an illustrated catalogue All
artists are requested 10 accompany their
pictures with pen sketches. from which th,,
catalogue committee win select such a.
| may be desired for Illustration. The mum
Der or pictures to which any one artist is
TO DE limited has been set at eight for the
coming exhibition, instead OF four which
was me maximum last year. This ought to
considerably Increase the number of AT
| tractive works which will be shown. VET no,
10 such an extent as to ovcrtax the wall
space of the gallery. Those intending to
submit pictures for the exhibition arc re
aaSutsted 10 communicate with MIR. James
tfeiFS MoSer, chairman of the board of
managers, before october 81, while an
Work must be delivered at the gallery on
the 4th or 5tn of November
Mr.. Carl Gutherz has been somewhat do
layed in his return to Washington. and will
probably not be here before the middle Of
the month. He is sim at ST Paul. where
he has been engaged on some portraits dur
ing the past summer.
In series OF articles in the Nineteenth
| century on The Art Treasures of Amer
sfn NJ H.
gives Washington a foremost place with re
gard to the number and value of it's artis-
tic collections. His opening statement il
that lit is not commonly realized tha,
Amertca-that is TO say, The United States
Is on the way to become the Louvre of The
nations, and he further says: In actual
respect OF art treasures the great cities o.
the states are already beyond our oUn uro-
ylnciaI cities ard towns. among which only
Liverpool and Glasgow stand out pre-emi-
nent. New York naturally has become the
arr metropolis OF the states, Boston comes
next, then Washington"
The Art Students League began its ff-
teenth year of work last Monday. with every
prospect of a successful winter. Although
number Of the former students have no.
yet rctoined their classes the enrolment
so far has been very gratifying and the at
tendance promises 10 be somewhat q. er tha.
OF last year. Owing To the illness Of MIR
| Edward L. Morse. the new instructor in
lainting, his classes viii for the present be
m charge OF Mr. S!ehert. Mr.. Edmund
Clarence Messcr. Miss Louise Tracy Hun
Miss Bertha Z. Perrie and Miss Sallie #
Humphreys will conduct their classes ae-
cordlns to previous announcements.
The work which Mr.. William Fuller Cur
It's has been doing in burnt wood decora-
ton this summer shows a noticeable ad-
vance. In his decoration entitled "Jubilatc
Deo," an angel with outstretch he'd wings Is
so placed as to occupy the entire width of
horizontal panel, while a graceful stalk
of lilies, placed at either end of the compo-
s1uon. adds to the decorative effect. Mr.
Curtis has never done a more beautiful
face than the one which is here set off bN
heavy coils OF dark hair and thrown into
delicate silhouette against the gold back
ground In contrast to the bold combina-
tion of carving and burnt work in the out
spread wings, the face has an exquisite
deicacy that is rarely attained in pyrogra-
ply. This panel alone should be enough to
establish its author in a deservedly high
place among workers in this medium ana
II is only one of his many decorations OF
81 eat merit Hardly less pleasing are the
Nemesis and the supplementary panels
representing Life and Death" th4 decora-
ton called ST. Cecilia" and the series Of
panels called Death and the Lady"
The director Of the Carnegie institute of
Pirtsburg has recently returned from
European tour. during which he has re-
ceived promises of contributions for the
autumn exhibition of the institute from
many distinguished foreign painters,
among them CFz:n, DetaiIle, Gerome, Sar-
gent, Israels and Orchardson. The interna-
uonal jury OF the exhibition will meet in
Pittsburg on October l3 to award honor
and prizes and accept works not passed
upon by the foreign committees. Tho
awards made by the Carnegie Institute
Juries are coming to be regarded as very
high honors among artists.
Miss S. w. Kelly has returned to the city
after a summer spent in the Alleghaui,
at Terra Alta, w. Va. While in the mouI.
tains Miss Kelly made number Of pleaa-
ing sketches in water color of the pictur-
esque scenes all around her. In one vl
these, little sketch. simple in compus.-
ton. but true in colorins, Miss Kelly shows
a rugged West virginia forest with the
peaks of the mountains rising out OF the
haze beyond. Another is view looking
down wooded lane and across 10 tho
mountain slopes Oh :Ie left. Miss Kelly
has moved her studio from 1ith street 10
1902 street northwest
The Franciscan Monastery, which IS
nearing completion on The hills beyond
Rrcokland, will possesS a great interest
for many WashipstJnians, purely from the
architectural and decorative standpoint
Oriental in character the structuT. Ine-
sents a simple and anoStrusiVe aspect from
without but in the interior are TO he found
many unique features in the course OF con-
Prominent among these is the
reproduction of the tomb of Christ at Jeru-
salem, for which Mr.. James F. Earley OF
this city is doing the sculpturaI work The
figures and reliefs of the holy sepulcher
are being exactly reproduced in every par
ticular, and, when the entire work Is com
pleted, will afford most Interesting spec!-
men of the art of that period.