Evening star., 1901-04-20

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way in which It is handled may be thought
to make amends for the lack in that re-
spect.
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Mr. Lucien Powell has spent busy Win
ter, and as a result has some five or six
fine canvases to show. Two of these are
of the grand canyon of the Yellowstone
one looking toward and the other away
from the falls, painted from sketches made
last summer. Both exceedingly large
canvases- and vividy realistic. They are
rich in color, showing not only the rides
cent mist, but also the tinted cliffs of al
most dazzling brlliancy, and are very at
mospheric Both are full of the awesome
majesty which that strange phase of nature
possesses. A bit of this same feeling like
wise pervades another of these paintings,
which represents a western cattle ranch.
lying at the foot of the range of Snow
mountain" 1t has an air of bigness about
it which is very natural and imposing. The
remaining pictures are more in Mr.. Pow
ellis usual style: for one of these is of a
Venetian scene, with it's quaint water craft
and sparkling sea bathed in the light OF
the setting sun. The other is an Irish
landscape. showing an emerald field,
thatched cottages and returning sheep, be-
meath glowing evening sky. All are in
teresting and most attractive.
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In the sixty fourth annual exhibition of
the Boston Arts Club. which is now in
progress, the work of two of our Washing
ton artists has received high praise and
recognition. The Herald, in it's review of
the exhibition. gave most prominent men
tion of the two paintings sent by Mr.. w.
H. Holmes, In The Colorado Desert and
CLOUD Wreaths on Santa Catalina Crags,
and spoke enthusiastically of the work of
Mr.. James Henry Moser. The latter, the
Transcript says, ARE the most noteworthy
small pictures in the exhibition" This
from the ''city of critics is very hattering
to our local art.
A collection of water colors by Mr.. Moser
was on Thursday placed on exhibition and
for sale in the Woodward & Lothrop gal
lery. 1t is composed of about one hundred
drawings. made in Virginia, at Cornwall,
Conn; in the Berkshire Hills, the White
mountains and in and about Washington,
and represents a period Of over ten years
of work. In this lies it's chief interest, IL
Illustrating not only the several styles, but
various steps of progress made in the evo-
luton of the artist. Seldom will pictures
be seen under such trying circumstances,
for the improvised gallery is not only too
small. but poorly lighted, and it's over
crowding permits no opportunity for har-
monlous grouping. Yet in spite of all these
disadvantages a number Of them not only
hold their own, but proclaim aloud the
skill of the painter. For though Mr.
Mosers portfolios have been emptied, this
collection contains some of his best work
One picture comes straight from the acad-
emy in New York and others have been
previously shown in the local exhibitions
Some of the evening scenes are specially
atmospheric and poetical. Many of the
others are rich in qualities of tone and true
INTERPRETATIONS and all
ing. 1t may be added as a fact likely to be
gratifying to Mr.. Mosher that already a
number of the drawings have been marked
"sold.'
On Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week collection of paintings by TIr Ed
Siebert, Mr. Saml. Hodgkns Mr.. w. NJ Rou-
zee, Mr.. Emil Meyer, and other Washing
ton artists. was exhibited at Sloan s, previous
to the sale at auction on the evening Of the
18th. The majority of these We're by Mr.
Hodgkfns and Siebert. and the entire show
ing was above that usually found in an
auction ROOM Among the lot was here
and there an old friend of the exhibition to
be pleasantly recognized, notably Mr.. Sic
bert's Moonlight in June" Several of Mr..
Hodgkins marines were very good, and
two tiny canvases of his painting, a bit Of
meadow and a bright, warm sunset were
quite the gems of the collection.
The late spring has kept the landscape
painters in their studios longer than usual
this year, but with the appearance of these
first warm days many have begun out of
door work. Mr.. Max Weyl Is painting a
most attractive picture from the foot of
18th street 1t is broad view of :resh
green fields with little cottage. sur
rounded by the still bare but awakening
trees, while beyond is the blue Virginia
shore with just a CLINT of the river between.
The sky is clouded. and the whole is
strongly suggestive of the sober, chilly days
of early April.
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The Capital Camera Club opens it's an-
nual exhibition in the hemicycle of the
Corcoran Gallery on Monday. 1t will con-
tinue until the Both, and promises to be
most interesting.
The thirteenth annual exhibition of the
Chicago Art Institute will open on the 22d
of. this month, in which a goodly number
of our local artists will be represented
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The exhibition of Elihu Velder's works
which were shown here in February has
just closed at the Art Institute of Chi
cago, where it has attracted general atten
.ioIi, anu "iltIe HIS large painting called
" The Keeper of the Household' was pnr
chased for the Carnegie Gallery in Pitts
burg.
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Mr. Besser's friends will be Interested to
learn that his little study head entitled
Judith which in the late exhibition
in the Corcoran hemicycle, was bought nv
Mr. S. H. Kaufman. The same gentle
man bought also the December Thaw" :"
by Mr.. Everett l.. Warner, former Wash
ington boy.
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In New York the exhibition of the So
cety Of American Artists is at present the
principal event of interest. Of the 13OO
pictures which were submitted to the jury
for admission only about 200 were accent
ed John La Fargo was elected president
OF the board of control for the coming
year at the annual meeting Of the society
held last week; Kenyon Cox, vice presi-
dent; Samuel Isham, treasurer; Bruce
Crane, secretary. and H. Bolton Jones. a
member