Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-31
AR NC ES.

The annual exhibition Of the Society of
Washington Artists is now in progress at
the galleries 1920 Connecticut avenue, and
will continue until Saturday, April IA. The
collection embraces wide range of sub
jects, and, while there Is nothing remark
able in any individual instance, a number
of the pictures would be notable and wor-
thy of important positions in any exhibit
ton. Its tone whole is dignified and
convincing, and is entirely free from GER
tain eccentricities In color or treatment.
which oftentimes tincture the exhibitions
in some of the larger cities, wherein
Wanted originality is often proven to be al
fected and initiative.
Mr.. w. w. Christmas, WHO spends much
of his time in his country studio, has been
devoting his attention of late to the study
of landscape. Mr.. Christmas is best known,
however, by his marine work. and he has
on his easel a large sea piece, which is near
ing completion. He also expects to have
ready for the exhibition in the early sum-
met an unusually large canvas showing
rolling stretch of water, in which he will
endeavor to demonstrate the anatomy as
well as the spirit of the deep.
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Mr.. Edwin Lamasure is another artist
who finds it of the greatest Importance to
live in the country, where everything need
full for picture making is ready to hand.
Mr.. Lamasure has been spending few
days with his parents in Washington, look
ing up certain commissions and other bust
ness matters; for an artist must live if but
to paint.
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Miss Juliet Thompson's many friends will
be panied to learn that she is still quite
seriously i'll in Pennsylvania, where she
went to spend short season for rest and
recreation.
Mr. Wells Sawyer and Mr.. Hobart Nichols
are two of the local painters who are not
represented in the present local exhibition.
The former, in serving the government, is
almost continually on the move, so that he
could at best have time for the merest i'm
pressionistic sketches such as he might see
from the windows of Pullman, but Mr..
Sawyer is not an impressionist. Mr.. Nichols
is also, for the time being, in the embrace
of the government octopus. He is fortu-
nate, however in being consigned to Paris,
and probably is not bewailing his lot.
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Mr.. W. H. Hilliard has decided to become
a resident of the capital. He has fitted up a
businesslike working studio in his newly
acquired home, POO 10Th street, where he
has been engaged for some weeks in assort-
pictures and studies made during his
artistic wanderings in the four quarters of
the world. They embrace sunny bits of the
glowing orient quiet green stretches of
Holland and Belgium, sympathetic scenes
in rural France and sketches of the more
uncompromising austerity of the northern
and western sections of the United States.
MIR. Hilliard is well on in years. but is hale
and vigorous, and tells with great pride of
the days when, in company with Corot,
Rousseau and Daubigny, he struggled to
portray the beauties of the forest of Fon-
tainebleau.
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The dissatisfaction in artistic circles with
the award for the equestrian statue of La
fayette, proposed to be erected in Paris this
year, with the contributions of American
school children, will not down. In fact, it
may be said to be increasing rather than
subsiding, and there are people a-plenty
who aver that the work when completed
| will be far from acceptable, either to the
Parisians or to art lovers in this country
This fear would indeed appear to be justi-
| fled by a review of all the circumstances of
| the case. 1t is to be hoped, however If
even the worst in that respect should come
to pass, that the statue when put I'D will
be more successful and satisfying as a
work of art than is the LAFAYETTE Dollar"
| issued in aid of the fund, and sold at the
modest price of two dollars each. The least
| that can be said of this effort is that as an
example Of coinage it is creditable neither
to the government that minted it nor to
| the cause for which it was issued
According to the annual report of the
i New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
| that institution received gifts and requests
| last year to the value of $3.50, 600 Some
| of the items making up this sum were the
| following: Oil painting by Turner, repre-
senting the Grand Canal at Venice, pre-
| scented by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 100000;
| collection of coins from Joseph Durkee,
$4,000; cash from Charles E. Tilford, $25,-
coo; silver vase. from Robert NJ. Grinnell,
$4,000; cash, (name Of donor withheld),
$4,000; magnolia vase. (name of donor with
heidi, $4,000. During the same period the
whole amount paid out for the purchase of
art objects was only $72s527. while sala-
ries and wages amounted to $50 400 OF. Fuel
lights, stationery, printing, postage, gener-
| al supplies and repairs required $33 7639 81
and other expenses amounted to $109S2 49,
making the aggregate outlay for the year
$40, HOSP. Among the items of receipts
| given, not including the gifts and requests
| referred to above, are the following: From
| admission fees. $4,763; from annual menu
| bers, $40, 100; from special funds SIS, 513 81;
from the city treasury, $95, COO In the
company of all these Imposing figures,
showing receipts and expenditure the sum