Evening star., 1900-12-22

Students League. left vacant by Mr.. How
| ara Helmicks fesignation. Miss Muedens 8
excellent training, as well as natural abl-
| ity. will enable her to fill this position most
| creditably. The mems life class is to be in
charge of another well-known Washington
artist.
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Mr.. Rudolph Evans has finished three
portrait busts in the last month; they were
of Gen. Schoefy, Mr.. Underwood and Mr..
Edgar Nye. He is now working on one of
his uncle. DR.. WI w. Evans, and one Of
Mr. Max Weyl.E The latter is to be one of
those exchanges. not infrequently made
among artists, always SO pleasantly be-
speaking spirit 4of friendlness and fel-
lowship. Mr.. Evans has several interesting
photographs in, his studio of work that he
did while in Paris and left across the seas.
as well as mask made not long since OF
| Chiro, the famous palmfst.
Mr.. James Henry Moser has been finishing
lately some of the sketches which he
brought home with him from Connecticut
last fall, among which one of moonlight on
Lake Cornwall is most noteworthy. 1t is
quite small about nine by twelve, very sim
| pie and freely handled, with a touch OF
| pure color here and there, and Is full OF
poetic feeling. mystery and charm
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After nine years absence DR.. David Kin
dleberger has returned to this city and his
| studio in his G street home. Though DR..
kindleberger devotes only his play hours
| to his painting, and chooses to call himself
an amateur, he accomplishes. like many
| another, work worthy Of the professional
circle. In his studio he has many interest
| ing sketches of figures landscapes and
m q ri d1r ha Ia ct fpW
| of which are strong, thoughtful and 1ndl-
vidual. Two of the surf on the rocky coast
| of jamestown. r. l., are very forceful, and
| one of Partisan street scene is an interest
| ing color study. His landscapes are most
| ly simple bits of country, in which he has
found and interpreted great beauty. or
| one done in Wales is this specially true.
| 1t is a large canvas, broadly painted with
| little attention to detail, showing Welsh
| fields. with their curious mud hedges, built
more than two thousand years ago, out OF
| the top of which great trees have grown
| The coloring is semi-impressionistic, but
! very true, and gives the picture an effect
of sunshine and atmosphere that is very
| delightful.
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| Mr.. Walter Paris has in his studio a
collection of about five hundred decorative
| floral studies, which he has made from
| time to time, that are both unique and vast
| ly instructive. They were made to demon
strate the adaptability of flowers for ele-
ments in design. being but semi-conven-
tionalized. Many are for this reason only
| finished in part the various stages OF work
| being shown on the same drawing. A SINH
| lar collection was purchased some years
ago by the South Kensington Museum for
| use in the government schools, among
which it is now being circulated.
Mr.. Lucien Powell has his studio this
| winter in Mr. John B. Henderson's beau
tiful castle home in 18th street He is
busily engaged at present working up
some of his last summers sketches. These
were mostly made in the Yellowstone Park,
which remarkable country does not lend
itself kindly to artistic effect, though 1t
holds all charm for the tourist. The harsh
ness Of its coloring is unnaturally jarring
and inharmonious, but Mr.. Powell has pic
tured it with singular success. In one
painting. representing the Great Falls Of
the Yellowstone. he has given an excellent
impression of atmospheric clearness, while
retaining an effect Of great distance over
the purple mountain tops. Some of his
water colors are IN an altogether varied
style. being somber in tone. restful and
quiet. showing bits of country, very like
our eastern scenes, though done on the
famous Colorado ranches.
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| Miss Reading has. just finished portrait
Of the late Gen. Walter Jones Of Virginia.
son of DR.. Walter Jones of revolutionary
distinction. and himself a lawyer and gen.
eral of prominence. This is a copy of an
old painting by Hardy and IS to be present
ed by his grandchildren to the court house
of Fairfax county, Va, in whose historic
halls is to be placed a collection of por-
| traits of attorneys who 'have in years past
practiced there and whose names are prom
inent on the annals of the state. Miss
Reading is also painting portrait of a
distinguished Californian, to which state,
by the way, most of her work has been
sent.
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| Preparations are in progress at the Con-
gressionaI Library for the fitting up of the
eastern section of the long hall gallery in
which the Gardiner Hubbard collection of
| meZZotInts is now on exhibition. with read
ing desks and sterescopes for public use
with which they propose to give the free
| use of ., ,OCO photogra phs of buildings, people
| and pictures from all over the world that
cannot fail to be of universal interest
Uranus and Its Four Moons.
| From the Saturday Evening Post.