Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-05
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The present rare spring days have called
the artists from their winters sojourn in
the studios, where some of them were
showing signs of becoming rusty, to the
beauty of the open fields. There Dame Ma
ture, the mistress of the school, stands
ready to aid all who would learn. The cars
of the suburban lines bear beyond the brick
and mortar bondage of the city laughing
maids in twes and threes, or at times in
larger companies, attended by an instruc-
tor-bodies of Rosa Bonheurs who are
afraid of cows. Occasionally the young wo-
men painters are commanded by single
young man, numerically and probably
matrimonially, If the term may be USED
His artistic nature is manifested as a rule
by profusion of hair straying from be-
meath the ample brim of his hat, which is
probably of that soft and rakish type
known as the fedora or cigarette; or If he
be particularly talented he may be topped
off with plaid even a red Tam O'Shan-
ter He may also wear black and flowing
scarf, or possibly drapery with a touch of
color in the region of his Byronic shirt COL
lar. The young man sits on a rear seat
and smiles encOuragingly through the
smoke of his short brerwood pipe at the
laughing group of his fair fellow students
on the seat ahead. On the same seat may
chance to be another man, of uncertain
age and rather uncouth appearance, who
slouches in far corner and views the pass
Ing landscape with quiet air of under
color, is pulled over his eyes, and he in
dustriously chews the frayed end of a dead
cigar. He is also a painter, but his only
badge is the dtlanidated MISUNDERSTANDING
sketching kit on the seat beside him He
possibly can dash off, in a few minutes a
sketch which would make the short-pipe
young man wish he had never been born.
but possibly he cannot There NAV he
a
can give him points, and he of the brief
pipe may be able to paint all around him
one cannot always tell.
The greetings of the artists of Philadel-
phia have been sent to Jean Leon Gerome.
the veteran French painter, who this year
celebrates his sixty-seventh birthday. The
idea originated with Mr. Stephen ]. Ferris.
the arust-etcher, whose son was a favorite
pupil of the noted master The heads of all
or the art institutions of Philadelphia a
majority of the artists of that CITY and a
number of people who are interested in ART
In other parts of the country signed the
document.
The Art Students League of New York
Will celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary
or It's existence by an exhibition at the Fine
Arts building In that city from Nav Q to
L. One of the features will be a retro
sPecuVe showing including, If possible at
least one example of students work done
during each year of the existence of the
organization.
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The question of bill boards and question:
able posters which has been agitating the
authorities of Washington recently is also
creating somewhat of a stir in Chicago.
The a ri lott
ment there. The park system of the city
has been invaded and many of its most At
tractive suburbs are woefully disfleured nv
them. In France, England, GERMANY and
other continental countries tax Is levied
on this form of advertising. The news
paper Is the fit and proper place for the
display of matter which REQUIRES ,uhlio
notice. and the bald and often obtectionahIs
manner in which the bill boards faunt
themselves should be properly censored.
The equestrian statue of Washington,
which is TO be unveiled in Paris July 3. as a
gift of the women Of America to France
has recently been on exhibition in New
York. This is the first bronze statue cast
in the United States to be sent to Europe
Its weight is $500 pounds, and Its total
height twenty-five feet 1t is also the first
equestrian statue wherein the barrel of the
horse and the legs were cast in one piece.
The monument is thoroughly characteristic
of the artists, Daniel French and e. q
Potter. Mr.. French and his wife are Al
present on their way to Naples, whence
they will go to Athens for q short sotourn
and will arrive In Paris in time for the un-