Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27

| in Mr.. Messer's summer school at Paxson,
Va. Mr.. Messer has been a valued in
structor in the league for a great many
years, and beloved by all the students, he
naturally draws the clientele of his sum-
mer school largely from those who have
come in contact with his genial and in
| spring personality in the regular league
work So it is not inappropriate that along
with the winter work of the school should
be shown some examples of the industry
OF the same students during the summer
months.
| The high quality of the work submitted in
competition for the annual scholarship in
| the designing class enables one to give
accurate forecast of the excellent work
which this class will contribute to the
league exhibition. Only three of the pupils
entered the lists, and they were so we'll
matched that the jury, composed of Mr..
| Messer, Mr.. Victor Mindefeff and Mr. j. K.
| Souther, encountered no easy task when
| they met to pass upon the designs on Mon
| day. Mr.. NJ. NJ. Straus was awarded the
| scholarship on an excellent showing of de-
| sign work, in which he had happily united
| artistic effect with commercial practicable
| ity. The special design given out for COM
| petition-a book cover for Ships That Pass
| in the Night''-proved a difficult subject to
| handle, and none of the pupils arrived at
| as satisfactory results as in the covers of
| their own choosing. Mr.. Straus' cover was
certainly the most successful, but ii did
not compare in effectiveness with his pat
tern in red black and gold for Art in
Primitive Greece or with his cover for
the 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam, in
which simple design of wine fagons
| tWlned with grape clusters indicated the
PERSIAN poets allegiance to the Daughter
| of the Vine" Miss Bessie Durfee's book
| covers a OIL
| lence, and a honeysuckle design for vol
ume of Shelleys poems, and the covers for
"A Midsummer Nights Dream and for
| Opening a Chestnut Burr were perhaps
| the most noteworthy examples of her skill.
| Miss Noyes had an eminent!y satisfactory
| cover design for Vanity Fair but her
| best work was in her original and attract
I've title designs and patterns for textile
| fabrics
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The series of large full-length portraits
which Prof. Andrews is painting for the
| Confederate Memorial Hail. to be built in
| Richmond, is progressing rapidly, and he is
| now at work on the sixth of the set-a por-
| trait of General Joseph Johnson. General
| johnson, though pitted against General
| Sherman during the memorable march to
| the sea, an old friend and classmate of
| the northern general, and Prof. Andrews
| having met General johnson at a dinner at
oiltl man must, Has llttu TIE duf VI
personal acquaintance in painting this por
| trait. Those canvases that have already
| been completed, the portraits of Generals
Lee, jackson, Forrest, Gordon and Hamp
| ton, together with the well-known Dolly
| Madison portrait, Were sent to the recent
gathering of confederate veterans in
Charleston, and the exhibition OF this group
| i'll the theater in which the meetings were
| held called forth very favorable comment.
The artist expects to finish the portrait of
General johnson and one of General Brock
enrIdse before sailing for Europe on July q.
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| Mr. L. II. Miller has about completed a
| picture, which account of a certain time
! illness of subject, he had hoped to finish in
| season to exhibit during the peace jubilee.
The painting is called Young America"
and shows child wrapped in the stars and
| stripes, being borne through the air on he
| back of an eagle. The boys face is a
youthful one, but it is marked by more in
| teiiectuallty than Is usually seen in the
| face of d child, and the books grasped III
his chubby arms help TO carry out the same
| idea. The lines of the composition are
| agreeable, and 1t is one of the best Things
tnat the artist has produced for some time.
Mr.. Miller plans to leave for his summer
| home in the Catskills on June ).
| Mrs Andrews has just sent to the Univer-
| sty of Virginia her striking portrait which
| soon to be opened in honor of the two dis
| tinguished alumni of the university-Edgar
| Allan Poe and John r. Thompson. The
| portrait of Poe for this room is bust by
| the New York sculptor Zolney, and to Mrs.
Andrews was assigned the task of painting
| "a three-quarter-length figure of John X.
Thompson, whose works are well known in
the south, though without the wide reputa-
ton of the writings by the more illustriouS
| of the two men. Mrs. Andrews has pro-
| duced an effective portrait that will do her
| great credit and be a valuable feature of
the memorial room.
| Mr.. S. Jerome UhI returned about week
| ago, after protracted absence, during
| which he spent part of his time in New
! York and part in Cleveland, where he had
| business in connection with the large cell
| ing decoration that he has painted for the
| private residence of one OF the wealthy
| citizens OF that place
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| The presentation of a portrait of Dr.
Charles Z. Munroe to the Columbian Uni
versity will be one of the features that
! will add interest to the class day exercises
| of the Corcoran Scientific School, to be
| held at the university on Monday. Nav %
| Inc portrait is painted by Mr.. Emil H.
Meyer, and has been subscribed for by the
faculty ana students of the Corcoran Scien-
titic School.
| The tiny miniature which Mrs Ralph
kIrkham has painted of the little son of
Col. William G. Rice is dimnutive even
| among miniatures and its exceeding deli
| cacy is source of wonder. The head itself
| is no larger than a ten-cent piece but with
| all the minuteness of execution the face is
| carefully constructed and is drawn and
| modelled with skill and unders landing The
charming color quality in the flesh tints
| adds greatly to the satisfactory impression
| made by this dainty little portrait on ivory
| Miss Edith Ogden has been devoting her
| self more to study this winter than to the
| production of anything intended for per-
| manent preservation, and the injury of
| some of her most important works during
| the blizzard weather in February leaves her