Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
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An exhibition or japanese paintings ana
prints has occupied the hemicycle of the
Corcoran Gallery this week. The former,
about forty-five in number, were by T.
Kasekawa, who is a student of the modern
or western school; the latter were repro
auctions of the work of as many as fifteen
artists of the seventeenth century, among
which were such well-known names as
those of Hokusai, Magahide, Kiyomitsu and
Utamaro. The whole, therefore. presented
a much more genuinely japanese appear
ance than the collection of paintings which
completely captivated the public last
March. The prints were uncommonly curl
Gus and interesting, and showed the various
styles of this distinctive art. They pictured
interiors, panoramas, figures, battles, birds
and still life in both black and white and
colors. Each was neatly mounted on heavy
gray paper, with the name of the artist
plainly printed beneath It. The water
colors were in a great measure like those
shown by Mr.. Kasekawa's colleagues, yet
more characteristic of the art of Japan.
They were combination of the old style
and the new, which was extremely interest
ing. There Is much to be said both for and
against the medernized Japanese painting,
ana this exhibition furnished excellent
opportunity to study and critically compare
it with the old established method.
Mr.. Carl F. Smith spent a short time last
month at Gapland, Md, where he made
a number of attractive little out-of-door
sketches. More recently he has made in
water colors interesting small sketch
of daisy field in the neighborhood of his
Mount Pleasant home, which is especially
realistic and picturesque. Mr.. Smith han
dies this medium with unusual skill, par
uculariy in the Dutch manner and pro-
uuces with 1t most pleasing results. His
time last winter was, however, COM
pletely occupied with the painting of por-
traits that he had been able to give but
little attention to aught else. At present
he is putting the finishing touches on
three-qnarter-iength portrait of Mr.. o. w.
White of this city, which has been pro-
nounced an admirable likeness.
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Mr.. Amatefs has quite an amount of i'm
portant work hand. He is modelling a
small sketch of an equestrian statue of one
of the great federal generals, and has but
lately cast in plaster another sketch of a
statue of a prominent attorney. The lat
ter is a standing pose. The feet are firmly
placed some distance apart, on the same
line, and in his left hand he holds the
speech which he is delivering AS the in
slant chosen for representation is mo-
ment when the speaker has paused for
attitude of repose and attention. Mr. Anna
tets IS also modelling in alto relieve two
ideal decorative figures, representing the
genius of sculpture and painting. These are
both in a grayish-green, putty-ike COM
position, called plastilna, which was in
vented some thirty or forty years ago by
Giudici of Genoa. and very nearly suggests
old bronze. Both are nude winged figures,
chastely modelled and thoroughly ideal. The
one of sculpture is finished and Is strong
and beautiful, in both line and expression.
A man with noble features and magnificent
physique stands for this conception In
his right hand he holds his mallet and in
the left the chisel, while his arms are
folded across his chest in an attitude of
both rest and challenge. The group which
Mr.. Amateis executed this winter, Illus
trating an incident of the late Spanish war
has been prominently placed opposite the
entrance of the Fine Arts building at the
Pan American exposition, and has already
attracted considerable attention and called
forth much praise.
Mr.. William Fuller Curtis has made
burnt wood designs so entirely his special
ty that many will be surprised to learn
that he has lately taken up pastels. On
account of the cool days which came the
first week in June Mr.. Curtis deferred his
departure and is now working upon an in
teresting panel in color which is both dec
orative and symbolical. In it the figure of
a beautiful woman with rich olive COM
plexion and dark hair, Is seen in profile
against background of the foliage of the
chestnut tree. The drapery Is a heavy
brocade of pink silk and a soft light green
scarf, which Is blown by the registering
breeze in a circle about the figure, makes
a conspicuous element in the composition.
The whole color scheme is excellent and
bo rx H.
deed astounding that any one could ham
die a new medium with so great skill
overcoming it's technical difficulties with
such apparent ease. Yet talent Is, after
ali. not so confined to specialties as one
Is wont to suppose, and after draughts-
manship Is once fully accomplished 1t real
ly makes small difference what medium Is
used for the outward expression
Miss Mathide Mueden Is making several
studies of figures and heads. One of a
young woman, which she Is doing in oils, Is
strikingly fine and mastery. 1t is strongly
modelled, simple and excellent in color. and
done with firm, dry brush, in a manner
which signifies both experience and skill.
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The principal summer exhibitions will be
at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo,
ard at the Art Museum of Worcester, Mass.
At the former about one thousand pictures
will be shown, including the most inpor-
tant American priZe-winners of the last few
years. The one at Worcester will be
rather more retrospective, and will consist
of a stable collection of the works Of emf
nent American painters which have been
exhibited at the various notable ANIMALS
of the past ten years in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago.
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The Arts Club of New York will also
hold in it's gallery on West 34th street
an exhibition of sculpture, oil paintings,
pastels water colorS and objects of the in
dustrial arts from today until September
10.
At Yale College exhibition has just
opened under the auspices of the School of
Fine Arts. which includes pictures by al
most all the alumni who have devoted
exclusively to art. Among these
may be found such well-known names as
Frederic Remington, Carrie j. Blenner
John F. Weir, Samuel Isham and Albert
Thompson.
The Glasgow exhibition and that Of Span-