Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

nor more severe and unrelentine self
critic. and working steadily along for the
last Few years he has accumulated a great
many careful and conscientious studies,
that while naturally (and Intentionally
lacking in sentiment and feeling are OF IN
estimaole value as a means OF acquiring
ana Classifying knowledge and for future
reference Lately. however. he has felt
Justified in relaxing a little from this rigid
discipline. and devoting himself TO the COM
position OF pictures rather than studies
Allowing the more poetic side OF his nature
iull play. he is finishing a somber forest
interior, with the ground covered with
crisp. twlnkiing snow, and great. bare. yet
not sharply defined. trees rising against
round yellow moon. This Is n picture
which marks an important point In Mr.
Sieberts artistic career. He has also COM
pleted composition Of a woman and her
dog wandering along the edge OF a wood
on a gloomy November day. He has start
ed the cartoon for a large picture OF a pro-
cesston OF monks in a religious festival in
one of the smaller European towns.
During the summer Miss Sallie I. Hum
phrey did & great deal of design work for
New York manufacturing firms. OF which
two drapery silks-one a sort of Japanese
effect, obtained through the use Of pine
branches. and the other a novel use of that
decorative flower. the poppy-are worthy Of
special mention. AT present she is so busy
with her various classes at the Art League
that she finds little time for outside work.
Among the younger water-colorists in the
city few have made more progress recent
ly than Miss Elizabeth Miller She has de-
veloped careful, restrained vet individual
technique, well adapted to the requirements
OF water colors; still in her rich greens
and in the general quiet and restful feeling
OF her work. she evidences clearly the ef-
rect her fathers conservative way of work
ing must have upon her Most OF her
sketches were made among the CatskllIs
where the great sweeps of mountain
meadow and the handicapped hills give a
fine chance for largely felt painting She
, 70 ger some very novel and spon-
taneous effects In small sketches where
one may carry the idea to finish without
sitting over it until conditions change.
OF the young Washington artists in New
York Mr.. w. Balfourker would seem to he
among the most successful. He has just
disposed OF two stunning figure compost
uons to the Century Company.
Another Washingtonian who has recently
gene TO New York to study art is Mr.
George Parson.
For the last six months Miss Sara Bartle
The last months Of her sojourn were passed
in the quaint old towns Of the Netherlands,
from whence she brings home several very
Interesting sketches. Miss Bartle works for
the most part with water color on gray
paper, and while II is moot point whether
she does not lose a great deal Of the crisp
mess of the transparent wash. she certainly
gains much in body and richness Of tone.
One study of the picturesque Dutch cos
tune is very attractive, with the heavy
SabotS, the full blue skirt and the immac-
ulately white headdress framing the fresh,
rosy face of the little Holland maid. AT
Dodrecht Miss Bartle occupied for a time
the same room Hopkinson Smith usually
takes, and little landscape-or perhaps IT
would be better to say a canalscape-
worked from the window, seems to show
the influence Of association OF ideas with
the celebrated artist. She intends to recon-
mence her regular work of miniature paint
ing at once. and after she has completed
the little portraits. which she works SO
deity, will go to New York, where a num-
Der Of orders await her.
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Miss Helen Maude Lightfoot has lot of
serious work in view for the winter and
has already stagted a portrait OF a beauti-
full young girl, almost an ideal head I'm
fact. A portrait of little Gloria Hunt in 4
witching attitude with her violin raised to
her chin, has just been carried to compile
ton. 1t is sober in color. yet not in the
least heavy, for its delicate reflected lights
redeem 1t from any of that ptchy effect
so many of the minor English portrait
painters of the last century were prone 10
get through an over use of asphaltum.
FAVORITE FOODS OF CHINESE.