The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
IN PICTURE GALLERIES
Local Painters in Water C0l0rS and
Their Work.
Mr. WilIinm Henry Holmes the New
President of the Washington Wa
en-. c,,or Cluh-Amnteur Artists on
the Road to Fame-Auch In
terest in the Corcoran Prizes.

In local studios last week, the most talk
I'd of subject was the $3.50 in prizes. which
the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery al
their recent quarterly meeting decided &c
offer to the Society of Washington Artists
and the Water Color Club at their
annual exhibitions next winter. The So
ciety prizes are: First, $3.50; second. sloo;
third, S100. The club prizes are: First
500; second. $50. These prizes are to be
awarded to the best three pictures in the
oil exhibition and to the best two pictures
in the water color exhibition. The Fifth
Annual Exhibition of the Water Color Club
will be held from November u to December
g. The oil exhibition will occur. as usual,
in the spring. The manner of award is
left entirely in the members of the two So
cieties.
This generous and substantial interest
in the local art organizations is quite in
line with the friendliness that has ever
marked this great gallery's attitude toward
the earnest. ambitious element here no
have striyen manfully against many OBJ
stacles TO elevate the art standard in the
Capital City. The outlook is most promis-
ing and there is little doubt that next
winter will witness greater activity in art
circles than Washington has ever known.
In no department Of painting is the
Washington school so strong and individ-
ual as in water color. decade ago the
brilliant Mary Tiers whose untimely death
was the most serious loss sustained by the
guild since the passing of John Burnett.
attracted marked attention in the New
York exhibitions with her tiny studies in
water ceior Of still life subjects She had
no competitor there, and the critics re-
ceiyed her little pictures warmly, prophe-
sying great things for this young American
woman whose painstaking and artistic
studies rivaled the best Dutch masters in
that field. De Lancy Gill had won the en-
thusiastic admiration of William NJ. Chase.
and his followers, by a series of delicate.
sunny pictures of falkland country. These
were full Of variety. and good to the last
def microscopic touch, where tiny build
ings miles away were treated with a
breadth not common even in larger pict-
ures. Year after year these things of Gill |
were sent TO New York with strong pro- |
gressive work by w. II. Holmes, Bertha |
Perrie. lie Grand Johnston. and the more |
formal and conservative things of William
Magrotte and Walter Paris. Those were
the ralmy days OF the Washington School
and are pleasant 10 remember in the pres
1
r. lie Grand Johnston exhibited water
colors OF sheep in the Academy ANNALS
which were finer than those of Monks |
then so popular. Finer. indeed. than those
OF any American water color painter
These gave him an excellent reputation
there. and 1t is regretted by the friends
of this artist that he has not exhibited at
the Academy in recent years.
Ross Turner is also counted among the
IN dor .-t
he settled in Boston fifteen or more years
ago and developed rapidly until he became
The most brilliant exponent of this refined ,
art which Boston had 10 offer at the New /,
York ANNALS. This position of leadership
he still holds at The Hub. and his work /
Is classed with the strongest and most
Individual done in America Ross Tur- :
ners work is not in the least like the :
great English Turner. II IT may be said I
70 resemble any one painter. 1t is perhaps
The Italian master, Rico. Ross Turner r
he writer counts always as among the :