The times., 1899-04-22
SOCIETY OF ART FAKIRs.
Some Unique Pictures in Spirit O
BurlesUUe.


BurlesGUe.
The first annual fake of the Society of
Washington Fakirs was opened yesterday
| afternoon at the rooms of the Art Students
League. The fakirs are the members of
| the League and the fake is a buriesque
on the exhibit of the Society of Washing
ton Artists, which is now being held in this
city
There are about fifty caricatures in the
fake exhibition. Each of these represents
a picture in the collection being shown by
the Society of Washington Artists, and
many of the drawings are very ludicrous.
Nearly all of the fakes have been adorned
with enormous gold and silver medals
while very few bear tin medals for
nerve" merit" and ether things
The first picture in the exhibit is Up
Hair Mattress Glenn" by Featherbed
Brown. This is mass of paint artistical-
ly daubed with feathers. Chick, Chick
Chick represents three chickens, which,
when a nickle is dropped into a slot and a
string pulled. will wag their heads. The
artist is Mrs. o'Hooligan.'
Sunrise After Drink by Artist Most
| here" is a speck of red glass in massive
sheet of cardboard. The Lamentation of
Hector by DearDonny, represents two
small boys weeping over dead dog. My
| Mamma Didn't Use Wool Soap is an ex-
aggerated portrait of young lady in an
extremely low necked dress. Sunset in
the Swiss Alps by Turner, is a low, level
| Holland landscape.
| There are two lynchiDgs labeled Hold
ing the Line" One shows a string
held in a hand; the other is a regiment of
soldiers holding a trench against the ou-
slaught of number of cans which are
| labeled 'Embalmed Beef" The latter de-
| sign has received a tin medal. "On the
| Sheepside' shows flock of toy sheep
which are glued to a painted canvas The
artist is 'Arle Granjon Sun"
"A Quiet Phool'' is green bank painted
upon a small mirror. Her Pets" are a
pair of legs eneased in golf stockings.
Me, Tco" is another young lady in alb
breviated costume. The picture bears a
plaeard which is pasted across the exposed
| portion of anatomy, and reads: Placed
| here by order OF Anthony Comstock. God
Save the King" "A Dun-Bas Relief" is an
advertisement for a cigar Three Cheers
for the Red, White. and Blue" is young
man with starred and striped whiskers
''Remorse" is a brooding baboon. "0ut
Damned Spot" contains enough blood tc
| satisfy any artist. The picture is by Mrs
J. B. c. Infant. Sweetness" is long drawn
out, as the young lady's head resembles
a telegraph pole. This is attributed to F
Rank Mess. "A Yard of Mystery" is sc
much green crepe, by Florence Lord hang
oR-to-us. Struck by the Blizzard" by
| U. S. ]. Rome, is a miniature" which
covers several yards of space. bundle
of woody snow, real thermometer and q
Keep off the Grass sign are the features
The picture is valued at 100000. Still
Life is an enormous croekery washbow
containing tiny flower From an Ole
Garden is large potato. 'Lacrimosa" is
shedding glass tears "a Lake Scene" con
sists of some painted water and two fau-
Gets through which the water pours ink
jars advertising Longstreet's Bluing Fluid
After Rain" is a section of mesquite
netting. labeled Look Out for the Mos
quitoes." The Coast is pain mass Of
pink, which bears the inscription. ,OOt
reward for the discovery of the coast
"A Touch of Nature" by Mo. Sir, is al
aged darkey begging for another drink OF
liquor. "A Country Gentleman is largC
pumpkin, and Line Upon Line" is mas:
of lines by Easy Musser.
AN Approach TO Milwaukee" by Lushy
Powellsh is mass of snakes and brew
cries. Beside the Bonnie Gooseberry
Bush" is an inverted burlesque on the
original "Tonsorial Parlors at Ceiniez'
invites the observer to indulge in HAN
cut while he waits.
The exhibition will continue today at S0t
Seventeenth Street northwest. The fake:
will be sold at auction tonight.