Evening star., 1901-02-23
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ART NO 7 E S.
Again 1t Is announced that the Walters
Gallery will be open to the public upon
Wednesdays in March, Saturdays in April
| and special holidays. This has become
time-honored CUSTOM and there are many
Washingtonians who annually make a pill
grimage to Baltimore in order to visit this
treasure house of masterpieces. 1t is said
that Mr.. Walters has added five new paint
ings, as well valuable Japanese
worries and other curios to the collection
during the past year. The paintings are
by Delacroix, Romney, Raeburn. Boil and
Lawrence and should all be valuable and
interesting additions
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Those who visit this gallery should not
fail to go also to the Peabody Institute,
which is in close proximity and contains an
art collection Of no small interest. In it
may be seen not only many excellent paint
ings, but one of the largest and best collec-
tionS of casts from the antique in this
country, together with goodly number of
rare engravings and quaint old books.
famous editions from the old world presses.
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The Waggaman gallery in Georgetown
will also be opened to the public. This on
Thursdays during February, March and
April. An admission fee of 50 cents,
payable at the door, is charged, which goes
to the fund for the relief of the poor of the
District. Though a smaller collection than
that of Mr.. Walters nowhere else south of
Philadelphia can so many excellent water
colors be seen together The landscape by
David Coke, which attracted SO much at
tention and called forth such enthusiastic
praise from the connoisseurs when exhibit
ed last fall at V. G. Fischer's Is now the
property Of Mr. Waggaman and can be seen
among the other superior paintings in his
gallery. All art lovers should not neglect
this opportunity.
A collection of flower paintings in water
color by Mrs. Luella Gurney Rauch are
now on exhibition in the Veerhoff gallery.
Mrs. Rauch is quite well known as rose
painter and has been represented in many
of the prominent water color exhibitions.
The present showing, however, is rather be-
low the average. a few are fairly good, but
the majority are hard and artificial.
Mr.. Veerhoff has brought from New York
three very important pictures which are
now on exhibition in his gallery. These are
by Westerbeck, Van Lumputten and Lesur.
with sheep. To the left stands little house
with thatched roof, near which the flock is
gathered, and beyond is the shepherdess
standing a hillock gazing back over the
seemingly endless stretch of lowlands The
sky is clouded and the whole is painted in
a soft low key. 1t is done with great sim
plicity and drectness and gives one a
thought of the bigness of the world and at
the same time its kindness. A picture OF
which would not soon weary. The Van
Lumputten is also of sheep, but much more
ordinary, both in subject and execution. A
street in Paris with bit of the flower mar
ket is the subject of the one by Lesur, and
seldom is SO charming a composition well
painted. 1t is done somewhat in the style
of the Roman school, but without hardness
and with great unity. The color is bright
and CHEEKY and there is about 1t air of
action which is very pleasant
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Mr.. James Henry Moser has placed his
painting of Washington on exhibition in the
Ccrcoran Gallery and it has been hung in
prominent place in the upper hall, oppo-
site the stairs. This is view of the city
taken from across the water at a point
midway between the monument and Capt.
tol. 1t is a combination of water colors
and pastels, and was originally painted in
1892, but has lately been retouched to such
an extent that it now bears the date
'92- 1900" The city is represented in
its summer dress the sky is clear, but the
pink tint of the setting sun tinges the
whitencss of the public buildings and is re-
fiected in the calm mirror surface of the
river. The distant hills are very distant
and the whole Is exceedingly atmospheric
picture possessing great local interest
and one that will by and by be of real
historic value.
The sculpture class at the Corcoran school
has been in charge Of Mr.. Rudolph Evans
during Miss Ogdens stay in New York. 1t
is steadily increasing in size and the pu-
pills are doing much good work Last week
a picturesque old colored man with white
hair and beard posed for them, and several
Of the students accomplished excellent por-
trait busts of him-very correct and we'll
modelled.
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Permission has lately been granted the
copysts at the gallery to work every day.
| instead of as always before. only on pay
days" There are quite a number of these
people at work now and many of the ia
vorite paintings, such 1.-THE Helping
Hand" Truesdels Sheep and Corot's
Wood Gatherers' have easels set up before
them. Down stairs several of the students
from the school are making large charcoal
drawings from the casts. a privilege grant
ed only last fall, though long coveted by
the students. as the light is much better in
the gallery proper than in the school. and
the casts less familiar.
Miss Mathilde Mueden has been doing a.
number of interesting studies in red chalk,
which medium she handles with great skill
and unusual excellence. Last week Miss
May G. Norris, who was a fellow student
of Miss Mueden's in Paris sent her a num-
ber Of her drawings from San Francisco
where she is now residing. These were
in no way intended for exhibition, hav-
ing been sent merely on account of a
| mutual interest and desire for friendly crit
icism. Some were sketches of children done
in pastels on the loose leaves of a note
book; others were character sketches of
the women in the cannery, but most note
worthy were some six seven heads
drawn with pencil and carefully studied.
These were exceptionally fine, especially
one Of a young woman with delicately
modelled features and another Of little lad
in sailor blouse.
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