The times., 1899-03-05
,e all in place and on view next week.

be all in place and on view next week.
From a purely local point of view the
purchase of these pictures is distinctly the
art event Of the winter. There are eleven
pictures in all. The following is full
list of the pictures and the names of the
painters:
Accused of Witchcraft," by Douglas
Volk; THE End of Day" by D. W. Tryon;
Deepening Shadows" by Charles II. Da-
Wis; The Edge of the Forest by Charles
Melville Dewey; THE Issue of the Cock
pit" by Horace Bonham; "Springtime," by
II. Bolton Jones; The Road TO Concar-
neau," by w. L. Picknell; Eastern Sky
at Sunset" by Jervis McEntee; Disagree
ment," by Louis Moeller; THE Fortune
Teller of Brittany" by Robert Wylie; ''oc-
tober," by J. Francis Murphy.
Lucien Poweirs Exhibit.
Mr.. Lucien Powell, our Washington
Turner" held successful exhibition of
his work at the Arlington galleries last
week. Mr.. Powell glories in color, and it
is a pleasure to record that there is
more refined touch in the work than ap
peared in his earlier efforts. These pic
lures indicate careful study and a deter
mination to get all the color, poetry and
charm out OF the glory of sunset effects.
The future is very bright for Mr.. Powell.
An atmosphere OF high art pervaded the
s. W. A. galleries last week 1t was the
presence of the Johnston photographs.
Not so very long ego in art circles these
pictures were barred, because they were
only photographs" This no longer OBJ
tains. The print may now be judged and
enjoyed without thought as to whether 1t
| is the product of brush or camera. These
pictures set the outer limit of photograph
ic possibilities several notches higher in
the art scale and gives one the pleasant
feeling that from so earnest a student as
Miss Johnston still greater things will
I follow.
This exhibition reflected great credit on
the city where Miss Frances benjamin
Johnston has so notably developed her in
teresting art OF the pictures first men
tion must be made Of the half length por-
trait study of Cornne Parker the actress,
who is a very beautiful woman, and learn
ed in all the secrets of Delsarte; knew
how TO pose So Miss Johnston had in this
person a model that would inspire any ar
tist, and the result is a great photograph.
A dark haired woman, with eyes like those
of 'HepZibah," which Hawthorne describ-
ed as "eyes into which one could look
down, down, down deep into the infinite"
/ The flowers in her hair are arranged with
consummate skill. The figured dress of
indefinable shape was gathered about with
Tadema's Roman models. Indeed, seen
elsewhere, one might easily, at the first
glance, be led to conclude that this was a
photograph, from a painting-a detail from
some such composition as that masterpiece
OF Tademas My Sister Is Not In," which
adorns the walls Of the Walters Gallery,
and not what 1t really is, an original
photograph from life Many OF Miss John
ston's photographs hint at n studious APP
probation of the art Of Alma Tadema.
Humphrey Moore, and other English mast
ers, rather than those of the French
school, Another of Miss Parker. THE
Geisha." has Fortuney character. That
OF Mrs. McGee might be a photograph
OF some study of Bastien lie Page. That
Of the Misses Blount just escf pes being
/ the best picture In the exhibition. Had
Miss Bessie looked up from her book and
smiled 1t would have been a tragedy and
comedy" of such dainty artistic lightness
as 10 recall the very spirit of AIdrich's
Farewell to Comedy" wherein appear
these charming lines:
And when you your tragic sister
Tell her how sorry that missed her.
portrait of Mr.. Messer was the most
conspicuous of many artistic male por-
traits. This has much in 1t that Is not
only interesting, but from which any por-