Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-11

work VERT soon on a bust of Admiral
Dewey, who saw and greatly admired the
portrait of his brother officer Schley
When 1t is finished the sculptor intends to
present bronze cast from the clay to
the admiral for the further adornment of
the Dewey home
Veerhoffs galleries this week have been
the center Of attraction for the many who
find their chief interest in an artists work
In the spontaneity and informal simplicity
of his Incidental sketches. Before these I'M
studied drawings of Mr.. Beckwith's one
feels on delightfully."- intimate terms with
their maker, who for the nonce seems to
descend from the domain Of serious por-
traiture and work for the pure joy of a
hastily, yet delicately struck color note or
the merely indicated grace of adolescence
He seems to be at home with any medium
and handles with equal dexterity pastel
sanguine, pencil, crayon and charcoal. His
touch Is nervous, spirited and thorough
ly French. yet unlike many of the clever
trenchmen he does not lose the feeling of
MS subject In the pleasure Of its technical
development or the catchy prettiness of
the chic. Mr.. Beckwith'S is true ideal of
beauty and the ravishing lines of a girlish
inquire in some unconscious attitude, the
half caught glimpse of dainty profile are
all rendered with a quick susceptibility to
the changing forms of the beautiful in
a pastel on tinted paper, vigorous in draw
ing and strong in color. yet sweet and
tender In sentiment. appeals at once. and
a nude study of Young Athlete is ex-
Cellent in the drawing of the complicated
action. and the youthful, half formed mus
cles in full play. Another large pastel
panel of a girls head, modelled with great
surety and effectiveness, with the boldly
laid on color. succeeds admirably in it's
imitation of real flesh, while a pencil study
for Dramatic Motif" drawn through
out with only the first stroke, is very easy
and natural in it's management of line.
The whole collection serves to illustrate
fact not as widely appreciated as 1t should
be, that a man may and necessarily does
throw more of his own personality into
and abandons himself more to the inspira-
ton of these haSty notes than to his more
deliberately finished but more coldly studied
paintings.
Miss Una Clark passed a summer in the
Maine wilderness drawing inspiration from
the solitude A number of studies of tall
mountain pines, treated in a decorative
fashion. are the result of the stay. A lit
tie later she visited Monhegan Island.
where she made number of sketches that
incline somewhat to be miniature posters.
They are drawn in fiat washes, with
heavy outline. and with no attempt at
subtle admixture and color harmony, but
with merely the predominant ting tones ind-
Gated in perfectly simple manner.
Though they would probably strike most
as somewhat queer" there Is no reason
why one should be eternally tied down to
cOnVentlOnality in cut and ATTEMPT no
novel and original effects. Miss Clark has
certainly evolved a strong argument for
her method of working in the sketches
themselves, which are exceedingly pleasing
both as direct TRANSACTIONS from nature and
as embryo decorations. Since her return
she has occupied herself with burnt wood
and has already finished a goodly number
OF pieces-frames, boxes and bowls A
drinking bowl, fit for the lips of Omar
khayyam, is designed in grade clusters
and vine leaves and colored in the burnt
brown, dull green and a strange shade
OF blue A more important piece of work
is a table executed in burnt wood with a
design of flying geese. 1t is very rich in it's
combination of greens and browns. Miss
Clarks work represents of the very
best aspects of modern handicraft-that
where the work is attached to no manufac-
tory or guild of producers and is left free
and Gntrammeled to develop d distinctive
style and lavish as much thought and at
tentOn as Is necessary CT each individual
piece.
Mr. Frank Moss has Just returned from
the mountains and Monterey, where he
says he employed most of his time in fol-
lowing the nimble golf ball. He felt that
the panoramic scenery was worthy of only
the most serious study, and not such as he
wished to use for sketches, which would
be merely a summer recreation and pas
time. Yet he brings home one wood in
terror Of bride path seen through the
tree trunks-the sun-splashed foreground
glittering back into the grays of the dis
lance gives all the quivering leaf move
ment which is natures breathing time
Another canvas Is of a French poodle
'Piccadilly.' and 1t is full of the eager
excltab1llty and animation that distinguish
these fluffy dogs. The blue black of the
hair, the sparkling eyes and carmine
tongue give the same snap to the color
that the drawing possesses The artist has
taken his old studio in the Barbzon build
Ing. where he will develop the full program
of winters work he has planned
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New Hampshire, with it's bracing air, blue
hills and bowlder-strewn pasture lands, has
been the painting ground of Miss Lesley
jackson during the warm months, and she
mas completed a great many charming can
vases. Miss Jackson's manner is careful
yet not over-careful; strong in color, yet
restricted within reasonable bounds and
very wei suited to the New England seen
cry, which Is always restrained 50 to speak
and in a way like the old colonial Puritan
stock, quiet and calm on the surface. but
with a great deal of quick fire and feeling
beneath. An attractive sketch is of a char
acteristic New England hillside with the
great fiat rocks cropping out through the
half bare soil, and above 1t the very blue.
cloud-streaked summer sky She has very
c!everly caught the feeling of its barren
ness at the same time with the brightness
of the northern sunlight. Her most import
ant piece of work is large canvas of a
wind break, with a red-brown field in the
foreground. sprinkled here and there with
little patch of golden rod. The blue sky
streaked with long, filmy cloud cobwebs is
little cold, as though the early autumn
breeze were just tinged with faint bite a
half promise OF winter Another of a
meadow Is very satisfactory, and the spec
tator says with Shakespeare: How lush
and lusty looks the grass; how green,' The
sky Is warm. moist gray, and broken
slightly in one place, where a little golden
light creeps through and dyes the meadow
with vivid streak of viridian. a little
sketch of a sunset with some gnarled old
apple trees against the orange conia grafton
is full of the evening spirit.
The National Sculpture Society will give
irc dinner this season on Tuesday