Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-25

falling around the shoulders, besides CIV
ing strikingly eastern appearance, great
ly enhances the value of the clear pure
| profile. Miss Sands has another pastel
head. "Vesta," which, while it is well con-
ceived, Is not satisfactory as the other
in its execution.
of Carl Weller's which is full of the breath
of the ocean and the cool smell of a cloudy
day; another, of some fishing boats drawn
up on the sand, is crisp and sunny as
the first Is soft and moist. a third is as
fine If not finer than any water color Mr..
Weller has ever exhibited. He calls it THE
Harvest Month" and the patient horses are
toiling along the road with a load of hay
from the sweet meadow, while back of the
level stretch rise few large trees and then
the blue hills. 1t is a little lyric in color.
Water CoIors of Note.
CHANGING at the opposite wall. one dis
covers a familiar signature on work that
is at once a credit to the exhibition and to
its producer. The name is Bertha E. Per-
RE, and it can be said without hesitation
that the display she makes this year COM
prises the best water color work she has
yet done. One that will be generally liked
is of broad sweep of rocky hillside, with
single twisted tree somewhat resembling
Capri pine, rising against a sky full of
the motion of hurrying clouds. a marine
view, of white frothy surf banging against
a line of massive rock, shows Miss Perrie
in new field.while two figure studies prove
that her artistic knowledge is profound
not only in the direction of landscape. One
depicts a bronze old sea captain smoking.
with his arms folded and his back against
a window; the other, which almost seems
done by one of the old Dutchmen, is
longshoreman with felt hat pulled down
over his eyes. They are both worked very
sympathetically, and bring out with great
effect the rugged, honest characters of the
sitters. A delicately worked sketch of
group of fog-enveloped fishermens huts
has all the cold and charming atmosphere
of the original scene.
Mrs. Marietta NJ. Andrews is well repre-
scented al the exhibition, and one study of
a glass vase, filled with pink roses. almost
seems to have carried water color to its
limit in the rendition of still life dash
ing sketch of girl turning the leaves of
a book is natural and easy in its tech
nique, and a more elaborate picture of
mother and child is very attractive in its
ma ternal sympathy with child character
Two landscapes, one of a stream wander
ing through a sunlt wood; the other. a |
quiet day along the banks of a lake, dis |
play strong grasp of the truths of land |
scape
Mr.. Edgar Nye is represented by only a |
single picture, but it is an excellent ex- |
ample of his work. 1t is a pastel of |
forest interior with heavy tree trunks. |
worked on a dreamy October day, when |
nature was in one of her most poetic moods. |
i. NJ. Bicknell. who has quite New |
y ork reputation, sends a restrained yet |
fcrceful picture of immense cliffs. almost |
little thinness. would be one of the medal |
pictures of the exhibition.
4 Strong Showing.
The president of the club is naturally |
expected to make a strong showing, and |
indeed he has not disappointed the ex-
pectatiOn, for it must be said that Mr.. |
Moser has never put together a choicer or
more representative collection of his work |
If those who are not in the secret and
are unacquainted with his breadth and YER
s&tIlty were rapidly shown his pictures IN
succession. and informed that they We're
all from one hand, they would be inclined
10 doubt the assertion. In the front room
is most unusual study on gray paper of
the Yucca plants that grow in front of the
Department of Agriculture. Another study
on gray paper is of an old stone house. the |
lower story whitewaShed, a spring house
and some small fruit trees with their feath-
cry summer foliage. Two large studies of
mountain scenery are absolutely different |
both as to the original idea and its trans |
Idtlon INTO form and color, but both convey |
admirably the width and grandeur of the |
sweep Of the great heights Two wood |
interiors, which might be companion pieces
are handled with such consummate knowl- |
cage ana attention to detail that does not |
miss the general effect that they are In
many respects the most satisfactory of |
any of his display. He has succeeded in |
getting that subtle Migratory quality that |
marks them real transcripts of woods In |
sun and autumn tide" A most sparkling !
and bril- liant sketch looks over a common |
and past number of buildings in course. of |
construction to where the Capito. raises its |
graceful white dome, while a brown lug of |
roses-the lovely kind of crumbly. fainty |
pink roses-show what a splendid ensemble
a worthy study Of flowers makes
\ large forest interior sObery rich in IFS
deep green tones, is by f. H. Miller A
limpid brook bubbles down over moscow
cred stones, and the late sun filters through
the whispering foliage here and there
the leaves a more vivid emerald
y picture of great clusters of purple flow
ers against green foliage and off to the
right the blue shoulder of the mountain
pushing up is fresh and sweet as the
thin air of the hills. A portrait of his
daughter is very tenderly and lovingly felt
while another portrait peculiarly attrac-
tive though an unusual quality of mediae-