Evening star., 1901-07-20
A Daily Routine Of Extremely Inter-
esting Work.
BUSY STUDENTS OF SUMNER SCHOOL
Farmers Like Their Barns Turned
Into Picture Models.
THE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

ART VILLAGE, Southampton L. l.,
July 13, 1901.
An art students summer, to the un-
initiated. when he or she, at the close OF
the winter term in the city school, hurries
away to some picturesque northern local.
ity, is a time OF rest, Of long days spent in
idle contemplation OF pleasant surround
ings. but let one follow any Of our local
attendants at the Art Students League or
the Corcoran School in their summer ram
blings and they will stand amazed at the
earnestness with which these future Corots
and Illnesses cover canvas after canvas,
and the enthusiasm with which they day
after day renew their hard-fought battle
to reproduce nature in Its never-endlng
variety of hues and tints.
OF course. the students have their favor
lite tarrying places. but the majority seek
admission into the classes OF one or the
numerous summer art schools which are
now In active operation at such places as
Gloucester and Cape Cod, on the coast of
Massachusetts,; Fort Washington, near
Philadelphia; Green Point, on Long Island
sound, and on the Hudson river near New
York, but the most extensive OF these
summer art schools as well as the Oldest,
is that on the southern shore near the emo
of Long Island, in the Shinnecock hills,
which Is now in its eleventh year ana
boasts of over hundred students.
The studio building, large and roomy
affair built Of rough logs and with a pic
turesque stone fireplace stands In the
lage," in the Shinnecock hills. not quite
two miles distant from Southampton on
the one side and about mile from the
well-known Shinnecock golf course on the
other side.
Some Of the girl students secure rooms
in the farm houses adjacent to the village
and cook their own meals, thus reducing
their living expenses TO mlnlthula. 80 diu
even the men will sometimes club together
and rent a cottage for the season ana 90
their own cooking, but very good poaro can
be had at quite reasonable rates. ana d
branch of a New York art material estao-
lishment, located in the studio, furnishes
all the supplies needed by the students.
In this peculiarly favored region not only
does the student have on every mana an uli-
euualed variety of motives. but nefe' as
perhaps nowhere else, the toWnspeople anu
summer residents have become so useo 10
the sight of these embryo artists-seens
them at all hours OF the DAY IN .ne i'eost he.us,
in the roads and walks, and in fact almost
wherever one turns-that they take no more
notice of them than they DO or the I'VE
stock grazing often IN the midst OF the stu
dents who are thus rid of the ever-present
gaping crowd and self-constituted critics
who detract not q little from an ARTIST
pleasure in outdoor work in more populous
but less thoroughly art student regions
Indeed, the FARMERS tSPi SSS ho oeA PA AA'S
when, directly after the breakfast hour
crowd Of from twenty to thirty people come
trooping into their back yards and set up
their easels for the mornings work: put, on
the contrary. they seem to take great prlue
in having the, to them, homefy barns. chick
en- coops and outlying farm buildings se1zeo
upon as subjects worthy OF reproductlon'
even in the sometimes, II Is TO De 1eareo'
very 1mpreSston1Stlc colofS OF the Htooein
art student.
A great variety OF work is within the
reach of our student, as during the Gay
regular professional models pose for the
classes. both out of doors and in the studio.
the former afording an opportunity Tor
studying the costumed figure with tne ever
changing effects OF atmosphere and sun
light. which It is impossible to obtain IN
studio work The studio pose is for the
regular portrait workers. and at various
times In the evenings the students them
selves take turn in posing for what IL
known as the sketch class.
Every Monday morning occurs the I'M
portant event OF the week, the public crtti-
cism by the Instructor. Mr. Wnitam M.
Chase Of New York and Philadelphia The
painted sketches-there are generally from
two to six submitted by each student-are
placed on a large frame. the work Of each
person being grouped together. Taking the
sketches one after another as they are
reached on the frame, and first ascertain
ing the author Of each, Mr. Chase proceeds
to point out the errors committed by the
student and what he should avoid In the
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sympathetic manner, but always sternly
insisting that the student shall first exhibit
a true rendering of simple studies. like
barns and single buildings, before attempt
ing the more difficult study Of the ocean
beach and the sand dunes. In this way the
entire class has the benefit OF the criticism
given each persons work. and an oppor-
tunity to compare his own conceptions and
methods with those Of other and more ad-
vanced students.
Sometimes when instructing the portrait
class, Mr.. Chase will paint the model HIM
self before the assembled school, calling
countered and overcome. and 1t Is here
that the genial side OF his nature shows
ITSELF in the nature of numerous anecdotes
and incidents which he relates.
The Art Village, as has been said. Is stu
ated among the great sand dunes between
Great Peconic bay and the ocean. and
standing on the porch of the studio one
gazes upon a scene that, with the extreme
ly clear air here, seems more like a painted
scene in a theater than a real one. The
dunes, covered with a rich growth Of grass
are mostly surmounted by fine residences,
and here and there be seen gigantic
wind MILL constructed after the manner Of
those in Holland. and giving a most charm
ing effect when the evening shadows begin
to fall
1t Is amid busy scenes like these that our
art student passes his summer vacation"
but so absorbing does his art work become
and so strong a hold does 1t have on him
that he invariably returns to the city in
the fall eager for the winter term OF routine
work In the studio. u. p
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