Evening star., 1901-11-23

day evening with a private view and recep-
tion in the Hemicycie of the Corcoran
Gallery. On Saturday and for the two
weeks following It will be free to the pub
lie An unusual amount of interest is felt
in this coming exhibition, not only because
in IL the majority Of the local artists win
be represented. but on account Of the splen-
did standard attained last year, standard
which those who have IL in charge main
tain wip be fully reached by the coming
show.
The jury to award the prizes of 500 and
$50 offered for the second time by the trus-
tees of the Corcoran Gallery for the best
two pictures exhibited is to be composed
of two artists and connoisseur Mr.. Mac
donald, the well-known portrait painter;
Mr.. Richard N Brooke, whose landscape
and genre pictures have for many years
been accorded a prominent place in the an
nuals and on the walls of the Corcoran Gal
iery, and Mr.. A. J. Parsons, under whose
able direction the art department of the
Congressional Library has been organized
and developed.
Mr.. Bladen T. Snyder has had large
canvas on his easel of late. A landscape
pfcturing a broad stretch of country In dis
tdili <AThduSdS, STEPPED IN the Hlu-udy Sun
1t is keyed high, is impressionistic in tone,
but with detail as studied and accurate as
in the work of a realist The foreground
is shadowed by n passing cloud. In the
distance some purple-tinted trees meet the
skyline, and as though connecting the two,
little stream is seen tracing its irregular
course and rejecting the heavens blue. 1t
is eolorful composition, which carries
xrit or he titroa 10 fD1nraSSiOn
western rawness and size. water color
of ciump of trees fveterans without q
doubt, in autumn dress, bending before
the merciless strength of the boisterous
wind that is blowing the clouds away after
a shower, is somewhat in similar style. 1t
is little more than sketch, the color, which
is rich and strong, is laid on almost pure
and with great directness; the sky, though
clouded and broken, is gentle and undra-
matte, yet the whrl of the wind is unmis-
takably expressed by every stroke. 1t is
seldom, in fact, that a landscape is so full
of action, yet so simple, fresh and natural.
AS unlike these are some of this artists
paintings of the sea as the sound of trum-
pets from the melody of the flute. The for
mer splendid IN color. aggressive in
strength-the latter low in tone and gentle
in harmony. Light and color, in fact, are
to him of superimportance, and most OF
his work exhibits a tireless striving after
these essential qualities. Three sketches
of an identical place near the northern
French coast, seen under different lights,
make an interesting group, each taking
upon itself an entirely new color scheme
and a marked individuality. Mr.. Snyder
has also in his studio a most interesting
collection of sketches made on small wood
en- panels some winters ago in Tripoli.
They are conscientious, literal studies,
showing great variety in theme and true
painter-like appreciation of picturesque ef-
fects
Miss Hattie E. Burdette has just finished
charming study in pastels of a young
dark-haired maiden, holding a mandolin.
1t is a small and almost square picture,
showing little more than the head and
shoulders. 1t is low-toned and gentle in ef
feet the hair, background and drapery be-
ing all of about the same quality of brown,
gray and green. 1t is strongly put to-
gether, yet dreamily poetic.
Miss Alice Foster has been one of the
band of enthusiastic out-of-door sketchers
this fall, working as long as the leaves
lasted and the weather was kind near Rock
creek at Forest Glen. Besides these later
canvases Miss Foster has in her studio a
number of very attractive and noteworthy
sketches of the nearby country, made in
water colors late last summer. One of the
hillside, is especially picturesque and ad-
mirably handled.
Mr. Frank Moss has reopened his studio
in the Barbizon building, and is at present
occupied with the making of cartoons for a
frieze. illustrating the pretty fairy tale of
THE Sleeping Beauty" He has brought
back with him a number of excellent
sketches, made in the early autumn at
Prouts Neck, Me. One shows a broad
sweep of sunny salt meadows another a
bit of the solitary shore, and several famil-
iarize us with the roads and by-ways of
that picturesque country. A sketch of the
sand dunes. with their long. wirey grass
in scattered tufts and scubby evergreens
forming background beneath cold gray
sky, makes a solemn but exceeding charm
ing and unusual composition.
A collection of very rare Tibetan and
Chinese books which was presented to the
Congressional Library by Mr.. w. W. Rock
hill, was placed on exhibition in one of the
cases in the upper northwest hall this
week. All are of unusual interest as liter
ary productions of a unique people, in a
language entirely unlike own, in a form
altogether individual and of a time long
past. But they also possess real import
auce from the artistic standpoint for all
are printed from engraved wooden plates,
and some are illustrated with most curl
ousy excellent drawings, and each volume
exhibits a binding orentally decorative and
in perfect preservation.
Franz j. Schwarz, who for several years
has had a studio in this city, will spend
the winter in Chicago. Mr.. Schwarz is a
native of Wurtemburg, and is a ceramic
painter of no mean ability, his miniatures
on porcelain being of the highest order of
excellence.
During the past week Mr.. and Mrs. Shcr-
ratt have had a special exhibition of their
work in the ''china art store" demonstrat-
ing anew the close alliance of the arts
and crafts-for almost all the work shown
was not only skiffully executed, but artis-
ticaily designed.
John W. Alexander, in a lecture before
the National Arts Club of New York last
week, again called attention to the ex-