Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-28
AR T N 0 ES.

The most important event upon the ar
tistic horizon at present is the approac ching
exhibition of the Water Color Club. Wash
! ington is, relatively speaking, a small city,
but it possesses for its size the strongest
coterie of water cOloristS of any city in the
country as the displays of former years
have made apparent. Everything this year
points to an exceptionally interesting and
creditable exhibition, and if the public
gives it the support it deserves. and there
is no reason to believe they will not, it can
not fail tc be a brilliant success from
financial well aesthetic standpoint.
The club has issued its prospectus, which
announces a three weeks display, begin
ming November 81. and continuing until De-
cember 16. at the galleries of the Society
of Washington Artists, 1920 Connecticut
| avenue. The exhibition will comprise orig
inal works in water color, pastel and black
and white, and will be supplemented by
handsomely illustrated catalogue All com
munications concerning the exhibition
should be addressed to Miss Grace Atwater,
secretary to the club, at 1872 street.
Mr.. James Henry Moser, as president of
the Water Color Club, is. of course. very
much occupied with the interests of the
coming exhibition, but has nevertheless
found time to take advantage of these love-
ly haZy days. as several large water colors
indicate. He Is also. correlatively with
Mrs Andrews, preparing to send an exhibit
of his work to the forthcoming display of
the New York Water Color Club, which
opens November 5. 1t will be recalled how
favorably his work was received in New
York last year, so this season he intends
to represent himself with further numbers
of his delightful series of miniature land
scapes, so charming in their delicate touch
and true Interpretation of nature, and with
one large picture of coldly Somber motn-
tain swept by the wind and rain. After a
summer spent at Alton and White Sulphur
Springs, Va, he naturally brings home
much of the spirit of the mountains in his
portfolio-far-off sunsets of intense mean
descence, mist-shrouded hills and broad
reaches of sunlit highland valley. Mr. Mos
ers particular quality beyond his technical
ability and artistic feeling is his remarka-
BILE versatility. Via trita, via tuta is not
for him, for two of his pictures are alike
nor Is there ever the least suggestion of
monotony either in treatment or choice of
subject; one who is as close and earnest a
student of nature and as sensitive to her
ever-shifting moods as he must needs paint
SympathetlcaIiy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Coleman Child and
Mr.. William Fuller Curtis have lust moved
into a delightful studio at their new home,
1927 10Th street. Mr.. Child spent the latter
part of the summer at that inexhaustib!e
mine of material East Gloucester, Mass
where he did some very powerful work
| notably, two studies in oil of the moors
back of the town that literally glow with
color in deep rich reds and yellows, with
the shadow tones laid on in full puppies
and blues. Another smaller study shows a
bit of the serene blue between rocks
and sage-colored trees beyond a stretch of
greenish-brown sand, while marine effect
Is worked up on gray day, with the long,
cold waves breaking sulleny upon the
rocks of the shore. OF his water coiors one
| of the most attractive is composed with
rocks and hmpid pool in the foreground
and views back to a stone wall and line
| of fluffy trees 1t Is worked in delicate
greens and tender pinkish tones and is as
clean and fresh as the face of a young girl
Mrs Child did very little serious work
| this summer other than several silhouettes
which are interesting as showing how much