Evening star., 1899-04-08
A ART AND. ARTS IS

| The exhibition of the Society Of WASH
| ington Artists, which opened a week ago
| at 1920 Connecticut avenue, has attracted
| good many visitors, though the gallery
has not been by any means crowded. The
| evening attendance in particular has fallen
| below what was anticipated, and this is
| doubtless due to the fact that many people
are not aware that it is open every even
| ing during the week. The exhibit, which is
| free to the public is to continue for three
| weeks longer and is open daily, except
| Sundays, from am to Pm, and in the
| evenings from to 10. This year. for some
| reason, the artists decided to omit the
evening reception, without which varnish-
| ing day is a pretty tame affair, and the
| unostentatious way in which the show was
opened did not make a sufficiently Strik-
| ing impression at the outset, and is partly
responsible for the moderate attendance
| during the opening week. In glancing at
| this seasons catalogue one cannot fail to
| be impressed by the increasingly large
| number of contributions that are entered
without having any price affixed. With
very nearly half of the pictures the price
| has been omitted, which looks If many
| of the artists had either borrowed works
| for exhibition, or, in the light of past ex-
perience, had thought it hardly worth
| while to place any figure on the paintings
| sent from their studios. Far from injuring
| the quality Of the exhibition, this attitude
| rather raises the tone. The painters who
| take this view send to the gallery not those
| works which they deem most salable, but
| those which they think will represent them
best, and which will add to their reputation
among appreciative people. The moment
| that the artists come to regard an exhibi-
| ton of this kind simply as a market place
IN which to expose their works for sale
the display becomes fatally commercial
and It's true purpose is lost.
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The Japanese paintings on silk which
| are loaned to the above exhibition by Mrs
Alexander Graham Bell, and were hung
| IN the gallery too late for mention last
week, form too important a collection to
| be passed over without comment. This
| display covers one entire wall in the ante
| room, and contains many charming deco
| ratlve motives, revealing that free skill
1ul handling, that facility in arrangement
ana that quaint artistic quality for which
| the japanese are famous.
FROM fund raised largely by the wo-
| men oi the south, aided by the New York
| Camp of Confederate Veterans. a monu
| ment Is soon to be erected over the grave
| of Miss Winnie Davis at Richmond Tho
| monument is to be of Italian marble, with
a pedestal of hammered granite. The de-
| sign CHOSEN is a seated angel, by Zolney
| New York sculptor, who is executing the
| bronze statue of Jefferson Davis to be
| paced over his grave in Hollywood GEM
| eiery, where his daughter Is also buried
! Loney is also designing bronze memo
| rial tablet to Miss Davis which is to be
| placed in st. Pauls Episcopal Church in
| Richmond. 1t is proposed to unyeil the two
| monuments and the memorial tablet at the
al nuai meeting of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, which will be held in Rich
| mond next fall.
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| Mr.. Robert Hinckley has of late been
| devotins himself almost entirely to por-
| traits OF military men, and his studio pre-
| sents decidedly martial appearance. The
| three-quacter-length figure of Gen. Bliss
| Is easily the most striking of the completed
| portraits, and in this work the artist has
| rendered with great truth the keen, pierc-
| ing eyes, the strongly cut features, the
| erect soldierly bearing, and all the impor-
tant characteristics of his subject Mr.
| Hinckley has about completed a full-lengrh
| figure of Maj George Dunn, in full Rough
| Rider uniform and when it has received
the finishing touches still lacking 1t prom
! ises to be an effective portrait. The por-
| trait of Admiral Schley as he appeared on
| the bridge of the Brooklyn during the en-
| gagement off Santiago, bids fair to be one
OF the most important things Mr. Hinckey
| mas essayed for some time, as the situation
| Is unusually dramatic, and affords fine
| chance for display of artistic skill. In the
| preliminary sketch for this portrait Admi
raj Schley is shown holding his binocular
| glass in one hand and pointing with the
| other toward a sinking Spanish vessel in
| the distance.
! 1t is reported that third Partisan salon
| has been organized as protest against the
| election OF Carolus Duran as president of
| the salon du Champs de Mars. An impor-
| tant innovation will be the arrangement of
| galleries eS parlors dining rooms work
| rooms or sleeping rooms in order that oar
| pets, art furniture, draperies, stained glass
decorations, etc, may be displayed in their
| proper places.
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prize of $1,000 for the best colored de-
| sign for art calendar for 1900 has been
! offered by the Armour Company of Chica-
| go, and the requirements are stated in a
| circular that has just been issued. Any
| lists who may wish to compete will find
| that great freedom is allowed the designer,
| both in conception and in color, and the
| calendar may be arranged as single sheet
| or in serial form. Rough sketches will be
considered as well as finished designs, and
! the qualifying points will be appropriate
| ness, treatment and sentiment" All de-
signs must be sent in by June 1, 1899.
|
| The spring exhibition of the National
Academy OF Design In New York opened
| to the public at the first of the week, and
the display is generally commended as an
| advance over those of previous seasons.
| To a certain extent the academicians keep
their customary places on the Hne. but
a growing tendency to give the pictures
| Of greatest merit their just due is mani
| fest, and there are perhaps more pictures
| of real importance than in the show of the
| Society of American Artists. This year
| the Clarke prize of 800 was awarded to
| Edward Potthast for a picture entitled
I 'The Village Carpenter" and the Dodge
! prize Of 800, for the best picture painted
| by woman, was awarded to Matilda
| Brown for her painting THE Last Load"
The first and third HaHgarten prizes of
| 500 and 500. respectively. went to George
H. Bogert and Carle Blenner. The second
Hallgarten prize of 500 was first awarded
| to w. ]. Whittemore. but this artist was
| over the age limft-thirty y-fve-another de-
/ cfsion was necessary. and the prize has
| since been awarded to Louis Paul Dessar.
Only one Washington artist Is represented