Evening star., 1899-04-15
ART AND ARTISTS

view its maiden display-a burlesque Of the
s. w. A. exhibition, which Is now in pro-
gress. There is no charge for admission,
and the league rooms, at S0S 18th street,
will be open day and evening on both dates.
On Saturday evening all the fake pictures
and number of original poster designs
will be sold to the highest bidder, Mr.. ].
H. Moser. the president Of the Water Color
Club, officiating as auctioneer. This sale
will certainly furnish endless merriment,
and the students feel confident that a tidy
sum of money can be realized for the bene-
fit of the league. Some Of the caricatures
in the burlesQue display will appeal to
every one at first glance. but for full
appreciation and enjoyment Of the exhibit
as a whole a previous visit to the Society
of Washington Artists exhibition on Con-
necticut avenue is rather necessary. Visit
ors who take their s. W. A. catalogues with
them to the fakrs' show will find them
very useful. and IN fact, those who fail to
compare the pictures as listed in the origf-
nal catalogue with the same works as listed
In the fake catalogue will miss many good
hits. The burlesque catalogue, which Is
being printed. contains, in addition to the
list of pictures, much other material of in
terest. 1t Is embellished with four effective
full-page drawings and several smaller cuts
and is filled with jssts at the expense of the
league students. the local artists and artis-
ing this caricaturing of their pictures in
the right spirit. and quite a number of them
have promised to cooperate with the stu
dents by contributing to the display.
Mr.. Walter L. Dean of Boston left Wash
ington Monday after brief visit, during
which he was the guest of Mr.. j. b.
Winner. Mr.. Dean enjoys an enviable repu-
tation In his home city, and his work is not
unknown here, he exhibited several
charming water colors in the 1897 exhibit of
the Washington Water Color Club.
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The exhibition Of the recently formed
Ceramic Club Of Washington. which will
Immediately follow the display of the So
ciety of Washington Artists in the Connec-
ticut avenue gallery, will be anticipated
with the keenest interest, as it Is the first
organized showing of decorated china that
has ever been made in the city. The dis
play will not be entirely local by any
means as the club has on it's membership
rolls several well-known china painters who
live IN other cities. but who intend to send
specimens of their work to this exhibit.
With the exception of a fine collection of
foreign pieces loaned for exhibition. all the
contributions will be by club members, and
the exhibitors will probably number about
twenty. Unless unforeseen circumstances
necessitate a change of date, the exhibit
will open at 1920 Connecticut avenue on
Tuesday, May 9, and will continue to the
end of the week. On Tuesday afternoon the
exhibition will open with a tea for the
members and invited friends and at the
reception in the evening admission will also
be by card After that the gallery will be
open to the public. both day and evening,
through the remainder of the week.
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Miss Mamie Stone, the secretary of the
Ceramic Club. has decided to omit her
usual May reception this year, as It would
very nearly coincide with the exhibit of
the club. AS one Of the officers, much of
ments will fall to her lot, and it would be
difficult for her to make preparations
simultaneously for her own individual dis
play.
AT the annual exhibition of water colors
and pastels now in progress at the Phila-
delphia Art Club the jury has awarded the
gold medal to Arthur I. Keller for picture
called Lead, Kindly Light" Mr.. Keller is
young artist who made his reputation
first in newspaper drawing, and has lately
entered the field of magazine illustration
with decided success.
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The Salmagundi Club, at a well-attended
ouSiHeSS HecllIS last odlurudy evening, uc-
cided to hold the spring exhibition imme-
diateiy after the annual exhibition of the
Corcoran Art School. The clubs exhibit
will open on May . and each member will
be entitled to show six specimens of his or
her work The club is steadily growing in
numbers and in popularity among art stu
dents, and will soon move to a well-known
studio building and celebrate its first an
niversary.
X
Among the recent additions to the per-
manent exhibit in the department of
graphic arts at the Congressional Library
is another case filled with American wood
engravings. some of them being original
conceptions and some copies of paintings
by American artists. Rent Day." an
original engraving of darkey life by George
Kruell. is remarkably fine In its express
sion of character, and W. B. Blossoms
''Quadroon Girl'' is also well worthy of spe-
cial attention among the original engrav-
ings Of figure subjects. In landscape Ell
bridge Kingsley easily surpasses all the
other engravers represented, and he al
ways invests his productions with artistic
charm. whether working directly from ma
ture or Interpreting in black and white the
paintings of other men. Frank French Is
another engraver who often makes very
satisfactory original compositions in land
Scape, Dul MS most eHeCt1Ve piece of work
In this display is an engraving after a
painting by Gilbert Gaul. There are also
noteworthy engravings by Henry Wolf, F.
s. King. Caroline A. Powell and s. c. Put
nam in this series.
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Among the new additions to the tenn
porary exhibit at the library are many war
photographs that will prove of great in
terest to most visitors, though in few of
them is there any special attempt at artis-
tic effects. majority of the prints are
of Cuban subjects, and the photographs
by the Washingtonian, William Dinwiddie
are among the best of those exhibited. His
prints not only present the stirring scenes
around Santiago in q most vivid manner,
but have in addition to their historical
value a certain artistic pictorial quality.
Among the many new pictures which have
recently been placed on view at Fischer's
the three-quarter-length figure of a man by
Raeburn is of especial Importance. The
figure is painted with effective simplicity,
but it Is the face that gives this painting
distinction and raises the portrait at once
to the highest plane. The modelling of the