Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
A IT AN D RTISTS

The members OF the Salmagundi Club
have decided to leave on the wallis as per-
manent display the sketches and studies
which were exhibited during the holidays
In their club rooms at ITO Pennsylvania
avenue. New works will be added from
time to time to replace those that the ex-
hibitors mayS wish to remove, and the dis
play will serve the double purpose of beau
trying the walls and indicating in a meas
ure the progress of the students working in
the club. Regular meetings are bed
Tuesday and Saturday evenings at O'Clock
and on Friday and Saturday afternoons at
80, and the nnle Is generally devoted to
sketching. The club is in very flour
1shing condition, having a membership of
slHty-four. and all the indications point to
It's continued growth and success. Miss NJ.
r. Glennan. with whom the idea of starting
inns organization originated, and who is
now the chairman of the board of manage
ment, mas moved her studio to the club
rooms and Is at present working there.
Mr. Spencer Nichols is now installed in
MS new studio at No. GA 18th street his
atelier adjoining that occupied by Miss
Sands and Miss Burdette. He has been di-
viding his time lately between some inter
estins specimens of black and white Illus
tratlon, and the color work which he finds
rather more to his taste and undertakes
with greater enthusiasm. An effective COM
position which he has now under way
shows two cavalry scouts hating in the
muddy road in front of cluster Of houses.
The gables of the buildings are just touch
ed with the first rosy light of dawn and
the scene has the cool. misty effect which
Mr. Nichols handles with special skill
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A discussion somewhat similar to that
which followed the rejection of thu Mac
Monnies Bacchante by the authorities of
the Boston Public Library has been started
by the action of the committee on paint
1ngs of the Metropolitan Museum in New
York city in rejecting landscape by the
late Theodore Robinson. The courage Of
the members of this committee is at least
to be commended, as many galleries ana
museums acquire worthless pictures simply
through the unwillingness of the directors
to place themselves in the seemingly an
grateful position of refusing gift. In this
case, however, the circumstances were I'M
usual and the affair will not pass over
without a storm of criticism. Last spring
a poSthumouS exhibition and sale of lha
works of Theodore Robinson was held at
the American Art Galleries, and to show
their appreciation of his pictures, the mem
bers of the Society of American Artists
subscribed sum of money to purchase one
OF his productions for the museum, and at
Il fuii meeting of the organization a COM
mittee was appointed to select a represent
tative work TO be presented In the name of
the society. This is the picture that has
been refused. Now, Robinson was an artist
with iconoclastc views, and his work does
not appeal to every one. The writer saw
the exhibit last spring. and for one con-
fesses to finding; an unpleasant crudenass
in the artists work, admirable other
wise for it's ,vrility and force. The rather
Gems ervative museum committee may have
been prejudiced by the painters impress
slonlstc tendencies, but they have never
theIess placed themselves in a singularly
ridiculous position by refusing, on artistic
grounds picture Endorsed by what Is per-
haps the most distinguished society of art
lists in the country.