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

head OF man which adorns the line
he will disarm a throng of critics and
gather about him loyal band of students
and artists whose admiration any man
might be contented with and his artistic
reputation would be secure, even though
he never attempted more ambitious
things. Much criticism in this column is
personal estimate, but the above concern
ing Mr. Morse is so generally the feeling OF
the artists as 10 be practically unanl-
nous opinion. Mr.. Morse is not alone IN
this weakness, there are Others less COIL
spicuous In artistic activities who would
be wise to take the same hint, which is of.
fered in all kindness and in the interest
OF sound art here at home.
Miss Perrie is inadequately represented
in this exhibition by three or four pic
lures high up-so high up that they
count for nothing. Miss Perrie is q
little woman, whom the big men in New
York delight to honor because she
paints either figures or landscapes in a
way that always commands their respectful
attention. The writer never knew her 10
strike an amateurish, cheap, or insincere
note in ten years of close observation OF
her work. There are men here occupying
fgurativeiy acres of wall space in not one
picture of which is there single note as
skilliul and sincere as those which fill her
little pictures from corner to corner, and
this is an exhibition conducted entirely by
women.
Mr.. Holmes supports well. in every piece
OF paper he shows on which there is a
splash Of color, his reputation as one OF
the most skillful painters in pure wash
that America has ever had. Since w.
Hamilton Gibson's untimely death Holmes
has been without a rival. No one should
miss this opportunity to see the large and
unique collection Of his work. So many
OF his pictures In one place would be an
art event in New York and make more of
a Stir there than any other local artist
could hope to create.
Mr.. Helmick was once the vogue In Lon
don. His strong and exceedingly pictur-
esque compositions of Irish peasant life
were famous there, and to his credit be Il
said his work today has lost none of its
artistic excellence and charm. Painted in
Opaque water color, the pictures of Mr.. Hell
mick are kind of art more difficult and
belonging to higher plane than most, II
not all, of the work here shown, for a
glance over the exhibition reveals a dearth
Of difficult figure problems, courageously
undertaken and carried out to a satisfac-
tory conclusion. There abound here pretty
sentimental things done suggestively and
with much poetry because definition shows
UP bad drawing and lack of knowledge.
For that reason these valuable things Of
Mr. Helmick seem all the more conspic-
uous.
Mr. Walter Paris pictures belong to that
dainty and precise English water color art
which people fondly call ''aquarelle'-and
which was the correct thing thirty years
ago. Water color and oil then were two
arts no more alike than a horse is like
horse chestnut" Today the bars are
down. Traditions have been thrown to the
winds and the two arts are different only
in a general way--oils often look like water
color and water colors are as often mis-
taken for oil pictures. Mr.. Paris is true
to aquarelle. and is very skiilful, as may be
pointed out in more than one OF these
dainty things which are entirely worthy Of
the great Birket Foster himself. Mr.. Paris
shows a figure picture and portrait, but
his art IL seen to best advantage In some Of
those little idyllic English landscapes with