The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-16

forceful and sincere. She has way OF
catching the subtle poetry of her sub
ject and transcribing 1t with truth and
fidelity which-the best OF it-satisfies the
most exacting critics. With Mr.. Holmes,
Mr.. Warner, Mr.. Miller. Mr.. Child. and
Mr.. Helmick, Miss Perrie has done much
toward winning recognition for the Wash
ington school in the great New York ex-
hibitions.
Mr.. Lemasure. one of the younger To-
cal painters, has been holding an exhibit
ton of his water colors at the Tesrh1ff
galleries on F Street. While nowhere in
the attractive display shown does his
work reach the high artistic quality and
excellence conspicuous in that Of Miss
PIERRE and Mr.. Holmes, who have New
York regulations. there is still much that
is pleasing in his work. Some of his even
ing skies are especially good and skillful
technically.
Mr. Howard Helmick has severed his
connection with the Art Students League,
where he has been the chief instructor
since the opening Of that school in the fall.
His place was Immediately filed by the
appointment of Miss Mathilde Mueden.
one of the League girls" who has ar
rived" This artist is not so skill
full in rapid chic work, kind of thing
at which the magazine illustrators do SO
Mueden is the best craftsman among the
local artists, and should be fine teacher
Furthermore, she is enthusiastic, and hay-
ing a strong, forceful personality, the
League is to be congratulated on securing
her services in department upon which
its vitality and usefulness so largely de-
pend.
In the Hemicycle at the Corcoran CAL
lery Mr.. Hubert Voss, the noted Dutch
10 hpI nf
of Various Races" (portralts in Oil.
Aside from their chronological interest,
which is very great, these pictures, ma n
ly head and shoulder portraits, are life
size, executed with great minuteness and
conscience. The drawing is thor
oughly good, and while Gerome-like in a
smoothness of finish, they are not as sub
tie and artistic as those pictures Of In
dian subjects which made our own George
De Forest Brush famous.
The most conspicuous picture in the
collection, by virtue of certain Holbein
perfection in realization and color, is the
portrait of Prince Ching" 1t has the one
fault of excessive definition In the lines
on the light side where the fur cap and
the collar meet the field OF flesh-tint,
but that little fault is of small conse-
quence. THE Korean Prince" is good.
and there are some wildly real and ex-
which is that Of a haunting little yellow
princess. Japanese, which may not be
praised too highly from any point of view.
This is a rare picture of.'Innocence. The
model seems not more knowing than some
fieet-f grass-fed animal which knows
nothing of conflict and protects itself
only by flight.
From an ethnologist's point Of view,
this is doubtless the best possible way to
paint portraits, but there is gentier.
kinder, more sympathetic manner Of
painting. However satisfactory his meth
cd may be in the other subjects, one re-
grets that the gentler method was not
used in the portrayal of the elderly |
American lady which occupies a promi-
nent place in this exhibition.
The show is unique and altogether one |
OF large artistic interest. No one should |
fail to see it. The Hemieycle Hall at the |
Corcoran Art Gallery. No admission fee is |
charged. JAMES HENRY MOSER.