The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-11
WATER COLOR PAINTERS
A Great Exhibition at the Hemi.
cycle Gallery.
The Coming Pan-American ExpOsf-
tion-Such Great Shows Belong
Other Important Annual Art Dis
plays - Points for Confederation.

Pictures intended for the coming fifth
annual exhibition of the Washington Water
Color Club must be delivered at the north
entrance to the Corcoran Gallery OF Art on
Monday and Tuesday next. After o'clock
on the afternoon of Tuesday, no pictures
for this exhibition will be received by the
board of managers.
Our local painters in water color and
pastel were very busy last week. l doubt
II any artist ever sent a picture to an i'm
portant exhibition when he did not feel
that he could greatly improve his contri-
button IL there was only one more day In
which he might uninterruptedly work upon
It. Those belated ones who fail to deliver
their pictures in time will have to wait a
whole year before another opportunity is
likely to offer in which their pictures may
be shown to the public here at home. There
are other exhibitions, however, out OF town,
and important ones, too, which the local
artists should not neglect. One OF the first
signs of the opening Of the art season in
the fall is the advent of those circulars
still called "blanks'-which the various in
etitutions holding annual exhibitions. scat
ter at this season broadcast among the art
workers all over the land. They futter in
on the mail and accumulate like wind-swept
autumn leaves. In some studios they are
tackled on the wall in plain sight, where
any visiting painter may get information
or have his memory logged as to dates for
sending, etc, and this is an excellent plan.
In other studios they are permitted to lit
ter up desks until they become nuisance,
and are consigned to the waste basket.
This lull before the opening of our own
autumn exhibition of work by the local
artists is a good time to talk over out-of-
town shows and their Importance.
First and earliest Of these-it opened
about the LIST of October-is the Carnegie
annual at Pittsburg. This year ii is. how
ever. overshadowed somewhat by the great
Paris fair, which has absorbed the best
recent work of the leading men. The
Carnegie annual. with its mrnificent prizes.
is SO highly esteemed in art circles that
prominent painters the world over are con-
fributors. The standard OF excellence de-
manded by the jury of admission is very
high and of late years it has come to be
considered the most worth seeing OF the
many important annual exhibitions of cur
rent art held in America.
There is much evidence from the circu-
lars received during October that the CON-
ing year will witness greater activity in
artistic directions than the country has
known since 1888 when there was such
a worldwide gathering of pictures at
Chicago. The Pan American Exhibition
of works OF art at Buffalo promises to be
notable. The art department is N charge
OF Mr.. William A. Coffin, who is an able
Landscape painter and the authoritative
art critic OF the New York Sum-" In
circular addressed to artists OF America
at home and abroad, dated November !.
announcing the character and scope OF
the art features of the coming exposition,
II is stated that the exhibition Will be held
in the Albright Art Gallery from May
] to November !, 1901 This gallery is de-
scribed as a permanent marble fireproof
building. and il is stated that after the
close of the exposition II will be occupied
by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. The
usual detailed Information is given as to
the works solicited. There will be four
groups, paintings" sculpture" draw
ing" and architecture" Then follows a
statement of the plans OF this progressive
and energetic art director. There is SO
much good art and sound sense in it. that
much OF il is quoted here. Some such
plan was tae ultimate hope of the mama
gers of the very successful Corcoran Gal
lery exhibition held here last spring. and
Il might be good thing If. after Buffalo
has had its innings next year, Mr. Coffin
could swing his salon down this way and
make permanent thing of it here at the
CAPITAL, where il properly belongs. The
best artists in the great cities of America
could be united on such scheme as they
are never likely to be when IL is ques-
ton of such an important and national
art affair going to either one OF tie great
rival commercial cities.
AJr. Coffin says: "oar purpose is 20 real
= the Pan-American Exposition the
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