Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-29

ISOLATION, which so successfully managed
| the recent Sargent exhibition. promises to
be event of national Importance. The
exhibit will include works in oil. water
colors pastel miniature and sculpture, and
every effort is being made to give the dis
play national scope. Following the ad-
| mirabe and progressive custom of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the
exhibitors in the first exhibition will elect
the jury for the following year.
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With the aim of stimulating among the
artists of this country a greater interest in
| Its history, the Colonial Danes of Massa-
chusetts have planned a second exhibition
and competition for prizes to be awarded
for the best pictures ''embodying the spirit
of the colonial and provincial periods.
| The contributions may be in OIL, water color
or pastel and the subject should be some
historical episode or story The works
must be by American artists and must not
nave been previously exhibited in Boston.
| The exhibition will be held next December
| in the Boston Art Clubs Galleries, and two
prizes, aggregating $500, will be awarded.
The portrait of Representative James
Wadsworth, which Mr.. Henry Floyd has
placed on view at Fischers for a time, is
| dignified and full of character, and shows
advance. In each new portrait MIR. FLOYD
shows a better grasp of his subject, but he
has not yet emancpated himself entirely
| from certain conventional broWnish ef-
feet in the flesh tints.
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Mr. W. H. Chandlee brought back num-
Der of charming pastel impressions as the
product of a recent visit to the Blue Ridge
Fishing Club. near Harper's Ferry, and
though none of them is elaborate they are
al in the artists best vein. Some are
poetic transcriptions of quiet landscape mo-
tives, with the tender coloring of very
early spring, and in marked contrast to
these is a little study showing an ideal
angling spot with swiftly running water
boiling over the stones.
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During the first half of the week Miss
S. w. Kelly gave up her studio at 1902 L
street to an interesting exhibition of her
work in water color The pictures differed
widely in character, and visitors having a
fondness for either figures, Landscape or
still life had no difficulty in finding sub
Jects to suit their special tastes. In land
scapes there were many c6hscientiousiy
painted views from the Alleghenies, where
Miss Kelly sketched during the greater
part OF last summer, and there were also
HuinpeF Oh interesting motives from the
nelghborhood of Chevy Chase and other
localities nearer home. Perhaps in paint
ing fruit and flowers the artist displa VS.
the most skill and knowledge and the
studies OF this nature were among the most
effective things shown.
X X
otah is to have an art institute which is
to receive for its support $1,000 annually
from the state. Annual exhibitions of work
done by residents of the various cities and
townships will be held In different cities.
ana all expenses will be borne by the state.
Every year 700 will be expended for the
purchase or one or more works of art, and
the prize pictures will become the prop
erty OF the state. The institute will also
perform the duties of an art commission to
pass upon public monuments, buildings and
decorations for buildings owned by the
state An art lectureship committee has
been selected to prepare lectures for the
state schools, and the main purpose of the
institute is evidently educational In set
tlhg up the best talent of Utah as the
highest standard the institute NAV enco,r-
age the artists of the state but such a de-
cldediy lnSular policy will weaken the edu-
cauonal possibilities of the undertaking.
Inc hrst exhibit of the Society of Wash
ington Fakirs held last week at the Art
Students League is now past history. but
echoes Of this unique affair are still heard
in the studios. The exhibition was not only
productive Of fun for all concerned. but
was also the means of raising quite a lit
tie sum of money for the benefit of the
league, and there is little doubt that this
burlesque display will become one of the
regular annual features of the art calendar
OF Washington. The demand for the Illus
tfated catalogue surprised even those who
were responsible for its compilation. and
who naturally had confidence in the merit
OF this creation of their brains The little
booklet was genuine curiosity in litera-
ture, and as soon as visitors discovered how
clever and original it was they bought
Catalogues by fiVes and even tens, in order
to distribute copies among their friends
by the end of the first day the edition was
almost exhausted, and on Saturday the
Catalogues were quoted above par, with
few to be had at any price. At the auction
on Saturday evening the poster designs
brought on an average better prices than
the fake pictures, and though there were
no very high bids registered on anything
the financial result Of the sale was very
gratifying.
X
Miss NJ. V. Wolff, the daughter of Simon
Wolff, has on view at Veerhoff's a couple
of flower studies, which are executed with
eiNeht Oh tiotiS IeeiIllS refinement
color Much of the charm in these works
lies in the loose free handling but this is
perhaps carried to excess and the vague
nebulouS spots of color in a study sup
posedly of carnations leave one in some
doubt as to whether the blossoms are really
carnations or something else. The treat
ment is certainly unconventional, and both
pictures have a singular charm that is all
their own.
A correspondent of The Evening Star
writes as follows:
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
assume that the writer of the notice of
the equestrian statue of General Washing
ton, III the column of Art and Artists in
last Saturdays paper was unaware of the
fact that the equestrian part of General
Washingtons statue referred to was de-
signed and modelled by Mr. Edward G. Pot