The times., 1899-05-07

| Ambitious, perhaps, but surely not unreaS-
enable, with two great schools, THE Cor
coran" and THE League" turning out well
equipped and talented men and women
every year.
Let him that rails at Washington as un-
appreciatiye read this Munich reference to
the Glasgow men who recently exhibited
at the international show there, and be
sure such praise is only bestowed upon new
and personal interpretations of the COM
monplace and not on hackneyed conven-
tional rendering of pretty subjects of
which the people who care for pictures
have grown very weary.
The Glasgow School.
international Studio" for September,
1897:
I'm their own gallery the artists from
over the Tweed reign supreme. This ex-
clusiveness has a wonderfully rich and sat-
isfying effect. AS We gaze on these works
We are no longer in the Scottish section
of the Glas Palast, but in Scotland itself
We are standing with Patterson on some
summit in the Highlands.
With Stevenson, we dream in the cozy
! twilight under the birches.
Thus all of these painters-Gould and
Hamilton Spence and Murray, whoever
they be-giye us pictures of their homes,
until one almost feels nostalgia for that
northern land under whose sadder sky
there flourish artists such as these, where
tender, soulful works Of nature like these
are fashioned.
THE best proof of the excellence OF the
deep truth of this Scottish art is that We
never tire of it"
The artists appear to us in 1897 as full
of life, as original, as refined as they were
in 1890, in which year the public of Mu-
mich, for the first time, made close ac-
quaintance with the Boys Of Glasgow"
Gentlemen, aim high, and Washington,
depend upon it, will stand by you.
Water Colors by the Poet Wilson.
There is now at the Fischer Gallery
portfolio of water colors by the Poet Rob-
ert Burns Wilson, whose charming idylic
verses have won the hearts of us all.
Among them one is conspicuous, very
lovely transcript of early morning in the
country. II is most appealing, for il pre-
sents that moment in summer time when
the early riser walks abroad in the cold,
damp air confident that he is in the COM
pany OF angels. A luminous yellow glows
above roses and violets, the tenderest tints
of mother of pearl. 1t is the dawn break
ing. The tops of chestnut and oak
break through the gray mist and are fine
ly indicated against the rosey sky by this
poet artist. The composition is so SIM
pie just an arrangement of tones, accent
ed with the tree-tops against the sky,
some sheep and the simplest herbage in
the foreground. In that struggling fashion
so characteristic of flock the sheep are
winding their way most picturesquely. 1t
is Arcadian. The very place and the mo-
ment for a poet TO paint picture with
brush or pen. Mr. Burns skillful man.
agement of tones is shown to greatest ad-
vantage in this picture. The other water
colors have varied interest, but this one
is the most notable of all, pictorially as
well as technically-though Mr.. Burns is
not technician. He is poet.
A Portrait by Miss blanche v. King.
Miss Blanche V. King has just complet-
ed portrait, life size, of boy. 1t is an
ambitious picture. With IL Miss King steps
before the footlights, and If this success
is followed by others a new name will be
added TO the brilliant array OF women
painters OF whom Washington is justly
proud. The picture is an out-of-door bit
The child. life size. stands on the edge OF
forest There is a suggestive spring
landscape. with apple blossoms, fine po-
etic touch-this combination that tells OF
extreme youth. While the landscape is not
good, and betrays ineXperience In this
field. the figure is thoroughly painterlike.
The bare baby head, with its frowsy yellow
hair, is pure and sweet in color. The mod
cling is also good. The expression on the
child's face is very lifelike. Miss King is
TO be congratulated on her success with
this most difficult part OF her problem
the face. The pink dress flying in the
wind and the white lace Is well painted.
The quality of white fabric In shadow
always delicate and difficult-is well ex-
pressed. The whole treatment of the fig
ure would suggest Mr.. Uhl as her prob
able master, yet the work is not without
strong hints of individuality and personal
way OF looking at things. Miss King must
hereafter be thought OF as a portrait paint
er. and not a pen draughtswoman and
writer only. So far as. local art is concern
I'd, as a painter she has arrived
JAMES HENRY MOSER.