Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-26
ART NOTES..

AK NO 1ES.
Additional interest will attach to the ex-
hibition of work done this year by the
pupils of the Corcoran School of Art, from
the fact that. at the time of the award of
the gold and bronze medal for proficiency
in drawing. a special prize of S25 will be
given for the best series of water colors
executed by pupil of the school. The
jury to make this special award will con-
sist of Mr.. w. II. Holmes. Mrs. Andrews
and Miss Perrie. The exhibition and awards
Will take place. 1t will be remembered at
the Gallery on Thursday evening next.
X
The death OF Frederick E. Church re-
moves one of the few remaining members
OF the early school of American landscape
painters; the brilliant company which in
cluded in its ranks Kensett Moran,
McEntee. barley and Inness The old 10th
street studio in New York was the scene
OF many notable gathering. where Hunt
ington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Whittier
and many other men and women famous
In the literary and artistic life of the time
shared the hospitality of Frederick T.
Church and his fellow workers; the master
spirits of Bohemia.
The Corcoran Gallery possesses another
example OF Church's work entitled "On the
Magdalena River Granada, S. A." 1t is
a comparatively small canvas but contains
much of the quiet sentiment which char
acterzed many of his tropical pictures.
The Capital Camera Clubs exhibition of
photographs will open on Monday evening
next. and continue during the week. Adj
mission on the first three evenings will be
by card; the remaining days will be free to
the public.
photography an art has established
itself upon a serious founda ton, and its
possibilities are questions of the future
Its limitations in certain directions are
well known and distinctive individuality is
a qualty rare of attainment. Wonderful
progress has recently been made in modi-
Tying the positive quality of the ordinary
photograph and rendering it thereby more
interpretive The processes of toning and
printing In various tintS and qualities are
various and offer unlimited possibilities to
the Jealous worker.
Mr.. Francis B. Carpenter the artist who
painted the wel-known picture representing
Lincoln reading the Emancipa ton ProcIa-
nation, died of paralysis. in New York on
Wednesday, after an illness of only two
days, though he had been something of an
invalid for several years. This painting,
it will be remembered, was presented 10
the nation some time ago by the late Mrs.
Elizabeth Thompson. of New Hampshire
and now hangs in one of the stairways on
the House side of the Capitol 1t is I'M
derstood that Mr.. Carpenter left in the pos
session of his family the original study por-
trait of Mr. Lincoln, from which his figure on
the larger canvas was painted, and is said
to be a most faithful and striking likeness
II ought, therefore. to be in public
collection, and would make most appro-
pirate pendant to the portrait of General
Grant, lately presented to the Corcoran Gal
lery by Mr.. Seigman of New York. Is it
too much to hope that some pubic-spiri:ed
citizen may come forward and emulate Mr..
Selgman's commendable example by pre-
senting it to that institution?
Word comes from Paris that the school of
the erratic Whistler is no more. 1t is said
to have grown too much like its founder in
Its characteristics of uncertainty to be
longer profitably popular. Jealousies among
favorite pupils have caused unpleasantness
and Whistler himself has of late shown
himself but seldom. Some weeks ago a
sign was posted on the school doors
that classes had been discontinued. and a
number of students who had paid for tut
ton In advance are out of pocket to that
extent.
There is a noticeable blank space on the
wall of one of the rooms devoted to Amer
lean paintings in the COrcoran Gallery, oc-
casoned by the loan of Church's famous
picture of Niagara for a memorial exhibit
ton of that artists best works, now open
in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
1t was with reluctance that consent to the
absence of this important and valuable
painting from the gallery was given; but 1t
was realized that the exhibition would be
far from complete without it. Indeed, this
canvas Is generally considered the artists
masterpiece: and 1t attracted much atten-
ton from the fact that the sum of So $40,
paid for it by the Gallery. was the highest
price ever paid up to that time for paint
ing by an American artist. Larger amounts
have probably been realized for American
paintings since, but not often, 1t Is safe to
say. where the consideration was cash, as
In that instance.
Frederick MacMonnies' group Of figures
representing THE Army" designed for the
Brooklyn arch, is one Of the most attract
i've works in sculpture in this years salon.
1t Is intense In action and attracts by the
fierce vitality Of the fight depleted The
group representing THE Navy is intended
to contrast strongly. 1t will typify defense
and calm control. while the army represents
attack and conveys the spirit of war IN
every physical sense.
X
1t Is said that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie con-
templates creating an annual prize to be
awarded to the Society of American Artists
for the best painting in oil executed by a
resident American. There is to be no stipu-
lation as to sex or age of the artist or the
subject to be depicted, except that portraits
will not be considered. The prize will prob
ably be $500.
The exhibition of that singular work of
art ''In the Shadow Of the Cross" now at
OF Pennsylvania avenue is still attracting
many visitors, the interest of observers
being pretty equally divided in wonder at
the effect produced and curiosity as to The
manner in which 1t is obtained. From either
point of view the painting is well worth
seeing.
Heartless Indifference.
From Puck.
Young Wife-"Oh. mamma! Clarence is