The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-13

| matched cottages. A fine big open-air eff
feet. "On the Downs line picture, is a
notable piece of work.
| Mr.. Lamasure's sunset skies are con-
spicuous for their fine color, truthful and
very skillfully rendered in one wash. When
this one OF the younger painters will have
carried his landscapes to the same true
note, he Will be heard Of in the great New
| York exhibitions and a new name will be
added TO the little band OF exhibitors there
who stand to the credit of the Washington
school. Mr.. Lamasure has gone TO the Vir-
ginia hills TO live and is TO be congratulated
on being where he can keep in touch with
| nature the year round.
| Prof. Andrews, the Director OF the Corco-
ran Art School, is well represented, but
the impressive effect Ct his work is lost by
the failure to group lis collection. This
is most unfortunate. Had his Dolly Mad
| ison" been placed in the Hemicyce and
| fianked by his ably painted Wat Tyler,
and the girl which hangs above Mr.. Pow
ell in the atrium. Mr.. Andrews would have
been treated with the consideration which
| his work deserved, and his official position
demanded. To no one, perhaps, is this more
| apparent now than to the managers of tie
| exhibition. Mr.. Andrews belongs to that
class of men who if they saw in their path
anything which looked like "a pull they
would step aside and keep very quiet TIL
| IL got by. They are not common anywhere
certainly not here.
Miss Meuden is the best figure craftsman
| In Washington, and knows a great deal
| about painting, as her oil picture of her
I sister and the water color of herself plain
| ly indicate. These pictures do her i'm
| mense credit here, although the water COL
| or is hung too high to be seen at its true
| value, but the pastel portrait done since,
ard placed most prominently Of the three
| is deadly commonplace in drawing color,
and composition. This is discouraging to
| the writer, who regards her as one of the
| very few really able Washington painters.
Not far from this disappointing picture
| hangs another, in subject and method very
much like it. This pastel is by Miss S4nds
| II is easy, graceful and refined. and pos
| sesses also good color and a confident
| painter-like touch, which is very agreeable
| This portrait, though not forcibly drawn
| is far superior to Miss Meuden's effort, and
| is close second to Miss Thompson's best
work-and Miss Thompson's work needs no
| praise-she is genius. This her fine COL
| lection plainly shows. II her stately por-
| trait OF Mrs. Hutchins, hanging around the
| corner, is bit over modelled. and betrays
| nervousness 1t may be easily accounted for
| II is because the canvas is very large and
| the picture was painted in a studio far too
! small for the proper handling of such a
| problem.
Clary Ray is represented by rather am
! bilious full-length figure of lady and II
| must be admitted that he has been fairly
| successful. "A Sunset at Sea-" which he
also shows, is hit. 1t is ruperb in that
| low, brilliant, Inness-like color which is
SO appealing. II is an oben question
whether there is, in this regard, its equal
| in the whole exhibition. Mn. Hyde shows
an oil still life Of onions and bottle a
homely subject made Interesting by good
painting.
"Weller's Column" OF FIVE water colors
supports his high reputation for strong ar
tistic work IL this medium
Miss Hensol's little picture of COW
deep In the grass is one of the most abso-
lutely criticism proof, pictures in the whole
exhibition. She mus. be reckoned with in
the future. for she Is the one of the newest