The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-31
PRIZES TO ART STUDENTS.
Their Annual Exhibit at the Corco-
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Prizes and honors were distributed
last night at the Corcoran Art Gallery to
the students of the CorcOTan School of
Art. The annual exhibit Of the work done
during the year by the pupils was dis
| played in the small room on the ground
| floor and the work in charcoal from the
antique and the life model, done by com
petitors for the gold medal, was hung IN
the HemiCyCIe.
There We're nineteen contestants and
the highest award went 70 Miss Jose
| phine GulIedge. the bronze medal to Vii
| liam 7 Davis. and the honorable men
tion to Miss May GoodeII, Miss Lucia n
Rittenhouse. and Miss Jennie Catlin-
| The medals are given by the trustees Of
the Corcoran School Of Art. and can be
/ competed for only by students who have
been members of the school for two
years The students entering the cOmpe-
tIJion must submit six drawings in char
coal, three from life, and three from the
antique.
There was awarded last night also
prize of S25 in gold. offered by the direc-
! tor of the gallery for the best water col
or painting. This competition brought
! out more than a score Of aspirants. who
! presented most creditable work The
! first prize went to Miss PieTson. and hon
/ orabI= mention awas given to Miss Tay-
! Tor and Miss BoeSe.
The awards were made by a committee
totally ignorant Of the authors Of the
work set before them The members of
the committee last night were all from
New York-Edgar NJ Ward, Herbert
Adams. the sculptor, and Bruce Crane
No names are signed to the drawings
shown, but letters only are used to deS-
isnate, and the gold medal award was
made by the committee to the drawings
marked @"
| The work of the prize winner IS recog-
aized by all artists to be by far the best,
and the prize goes to her practically I'M
! disputed Miss GuIIedge exhibits two
/ CharcOais of Angelo statues, one draw
/ ing Of the Milo Venus, two female figure
/ pictures, and one male Her work shows.
( as its main characteristics. deep study and
| sureness CT touch In her cast drawings,
particularly in one Of the Slaves she
I shows some poetry and imagination The
| technique is very adequate taking every
| thing into consideration. Miss Gulcdge
/ has just taken up modelling and exhibit
/ cd a foot which has qualities which prom
/ ise much additional cleveruess and abiI-
! ity in that line.
! Miss GuIedge is a native of Mississippi,
and has not been long in art work Her
4 progress is regarded as nothing less than
marvellous She IS endowed with that
/ gift and adjunct to talent 50 necessary
/ to success, the ability to work, and her
/ winning Of the prize is due to genius,
] backed up by steady study and unrenit-
/ ting labor. The drmness and decisiveness
/ Of treatment. the breadth of conception.
and the simplicity OF execution of her
work were the qualities which, in the
.F
] Ceiying the prize
Taken as a whole the work this year
! averages far above that OF other years in
its standard. and nothing IN the CDnpe-
itiOE IS anything but well done In the
work exhibited by those unable to COM
/ pete for the prize were many notable Wa
7 ter colors and some chaTcoals by Miss
/ Dorsey Brown executed in an extremely
: polished and faclle mauueT-pleasiug IN
( the extreme, even If 0Esn to some criti-
/ cism in the matter of construction and
/ treatment
The water coIors are numerous ana re-
/ markedly we'll done The prize picture b.
Miss Pierson Is simply done little
I sketch OF nOEeTS n q vase. The color
/ scheme IS SUbdued and the blossoms are
pur IN with an easy sweep Of the brush.
! About forty water COIOrs are shown.
i IN the contest are the following stu
I dents and preceding their names the let
! tiers used TO designate their pictures \.
! Morton EilSer; Z. May L GocdalI; c
/ Hannah Mae TTiCOu- D. Miss I Iaude1-
/ slayer, Z. Ruth Clements +. Marion
Page. q. Gertrude HartzaCk. H Bessie
[ GerIach. !. Sadie HeuTicks. <. Lucia N
I RittenhOuse7 L Daisy FaIconer; N, Lei
( Ia Foote- y Suzanne GUthe-Jz. .. Clara
b Sitz; p. Ruth Thompson. =, Joseph
inc CulIedge. z. Jennie Catliu. 5, Blanch
| II. Stanley 7, William T Davis
The medals were presented TO the win
/ rers by 5 Il Kaufman, President OF the
/ Gallery and the Schools Prof Z r IN
drews. head Of the art school, previous
70 the annOUn cement OF the award, made
a brief address from The landing OF the
large stairway in the main building He
gave some figures as 70 the growth OF
the school. putting the present
number OF pupils at about sd,
the class being by far the larg-
est in the history Of the institution. He
said that the work showed an improve
ment in all directions The school itself
he reported 10 be n most Aourishing
condition
In connection w--a the drawing and
I Water-COlOT work were shown some SpeCi-
mems Of modelling done by the members of
q recently started class. The school is not
old al this branch OF work. but the show
ing Is very cTedIt8bie- \ sitting figure. By
{ Edith Hope Ogden. called ''PenSeTOsU.' -
! has in It many things 10 suggest the Won
/ derfully clever things by Bessie Potter.
Alice Hill showed her work 70 advantage
by a very originally conceived alto-Te-
Hevo head. with streaming hsir. entitled
/ ''Iedusa."
Interest in the granting Of the prizes
/ the gallery There was 10 formal recep-
I ton. but the guests were entertained by
/ the music Of an orchestra