Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-14

cOran Gallery Iife-study in charcoal of an
old man. The drawing is to be placed in
the life class room for the benefit of the
students. 1t was made during the artist s
student days in Munich and is a fine ex-
ample of academic drawing. Mr.. Meyer re-
Gently returned from Baltimore. where GER
tain commissions have been claiming his
attention for several days.
Mr.. Moser has on exhibition at Fischers
a number of his bijou landscapes. These
little pictures are among the best things
the artist has done. Several of them were
shown at the recent exhibition of the
American Water Color Society in New
York, where they were especially commend
ed by the artists and the press. The spirit
and mystery of gray day can be EXPRESSED
within the compass of three or four square
inches as intelligently and successfully as
in as many square feet.
In the same galleries are to be seen two
large canvases by George Inness The
Spirit of the Night and Shutdown in the
Lane" The first is a fine example of the
artists work, always poetic and interpret
i've. A pale moon hangs in mid-sky at the
edge of a passing sweep of gray Clouds.
The body of the picture is a grass fie d
filled with the silvery illumination. An ir-
regular mass of trees shows pale on the
right horizon, and between the trunks the
lights of a distant village compliment with
their warmth the quality of moonlight and
introduce secondary note of interest in the
scheme. Shutdown in the Lane" is a char
acterlStic picture generally, but 1t is not
so readily Ineligible There Is a feeling of
undue closeness in the sun, which is set
ting directly behind a mass of foliage in
the middle distance. The local color of the
trees is also felt too strongly for the gem
eral treatment of light.
A memorial tablet to the memory of
Sergt Hamilton Fish. who was killed at
Las Guasimas, is to be erected At Columbia
University. Three prizes are offered in the
design competition The first is twelve
hundred dollars. which sum also pays for
the execution of the work. The second and
third are for one hundred and fifty dollars
and one hundred dollars respectively. The
competition is under the auspices Of the
National Sculpture Society. acting for tue
Hamilton Fish memorial fund.
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An exhibition CT the works of newspaper
illustrators. to be known rs the Press
Artists League exhibition. will be held in
the east parlor of the Waldorf-Astoria dur
ing the week of May II. The affair has
been postponed from April 49, owing 20 the
work attending the selecting. cataioguing
and arranging the 800 600 sketches ard
drawings in black and white. oil AMI water
cOlors that have been contributed. Mos CT
the foremost illustrators are represented,
including opper, McDougaI. T. S Allen and
Swinnerton. The patrons include Mr.. Il.
+. Tracy, Geo. Gould and Andrew Carnegie
Eleven American women have been in
vited to send exhibits to the special wo-
mans exhibition to be held IN EarYs Court,
London. Mrs. Cecilia Beaux is one of the
committee. and Mrs. ]. Madison Tailor and
Mrs. Mary F. BorsaH of Philadelphia and
Mrs. Whitman of Boston Will contribute
Among the other artists VINO w1 be repre-
scented Miss Pauline Doaae of Chicago,
Miss Ostertag, Miss Emily Sartaia and Mrs.
Alice Barber Stephens.
Several canvases by Marcus Smons are
to be seen at Fischers. Mr.. SimonS is
painter of the imaginative and the poeticai-
ly dramatic. He possesses something of that
spirit which impeled Richard Wagner IN
writing his music dramas; color and life and
an underwriting of mystery and symbolism.
The Seats of the Mighty" the most i'm
portant work in the collection is a daring
and commanding flight. 1t is theatrical in
a sense, yet there is a rebuke to the almost
crude celebration Of the sky, in the gloomy
canon clothed in vapors that yawns below
the great cliff from whose rugged top the
towers of a mighty castle crowd themselves
. gainst the evening glow. In the gathering
shadows a troop of knights and ladies.
even in che fading light, winds its
way across the dra wbridge of the castle
and down the rugged defile toward the
ShadoWy gulf