Evening star., 1901-05-04
lately found its way on these walls, which
give place to so many treasures.

lately found its way on these walls, which
give place to so many treasures.
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At the Veerhoff gallery two portraits by
Washington painters have just been put
on exhibition. One Is of Commander South
erland, by Mr.. Harold Macdonald; the
other IS Of Mrs. George A. Troll, by Mr..
William T. Matthews. Mr.. Macdonald's is
very strong and forcibly painted, an easy,
natural pose and an admirable likeness.
The canvas is square, which is a rather odd
shape, and one rarely used even for land
scapes, but is we'll adapted to the present
purpose. and the elaborate low-toned tap
estry of the background is highly artistic
and painted with great skill. Mr.. Mat
thews portrait is also most noteworthy.
In fact, one seldom sees so pleasing
portrait Of lady. for many Of our fore
most artists, whose portraits of men are
thoroughly satisfactory, fail utterly in por-
traying the gentler sex, painting them
either without character or lifeless and
hard But in this canvas neither defect
Is evident. The cOloring is excellent. the
modelling strong, and the face, especially
the lower portion, very expressive. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Matthews painted
the portraits of President Hayes and Pres
ident Harrison which are now in the Cor
coran Gallery.
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What at the Art Students League is
known as "Concour week begins for the
antique class on Monday. This relates to
the prizes given annually beginning last
year, by Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page. the
leagues president. They are four in num-
Der. and are given in the life. portrait, ad-
vanced and preparatory antique classes,
| the first being s25 and the remaining three
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work done in the class during Concour
| week, when no instruction Is given, in con-
nect1on with other drawings made during
the year. 1t is unique plan and one that
would seem should prove a fair gauge Of
| the pupils ability.
| At the Corcoran School the work is being
| pushed forward with great energy, prepara-
| tory to the medal competition and eXhibi-
| ton, which comes the last week of this
month. Many attractive schedules of vaca-
ton trips and prospectuses of summer
schools Dignity the bulletin board, together
| with an invitation to all to join an after
| noon s sketching party whose declared des-
| tination was some apple trees near one
! of the students pleasant suburban home.
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The exhibition Of the Capital Camera
| Club closed the last Of this week, after
| having been continued on account of the
| very general interest in 1t, two days over
| time. One notable feature of this exhibition
| was it's entire lack of cOmmercialisn an in
artistic element which has become con-
| spicuous in almost all the art exhibitions
| in this country of late years.
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| On Wednesday Mr.. James Henry Moser
closed his exhibition at Woodward 4 10th
| rops. It's success must have been very
| gratifying to the painter and his friends.
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| Very great interest is being felt by the
artists In Mr.. Howard's project for ma
tional gallery in Washington. On Tuesday
evening few, among whom were Mr..
Morse. Mr.. Dunbar and Mr.. Brooke, net
| Mr.. Howard and talked 1t over in it's
various phases, planning at the same time
larger meeting and longer conference to
| take place two weeks later, when Mr.. How
| ard anticipates being again In Washinst on.
| The scheme has been In every way thor
| oughly planned, and has many supporters
| both here and abroad having been formu-
| lated after careful deliberation to meet a
| real want so that It's success seems reason
| able as well as desirable, and every effort
| should be made to forward it by those who
| have either the interests of art or those Of
| the city itself at heart
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| Mr.. E. II. Miller is painting portrait of
a little maid Of some twelve or fourteen
| summers, dressed in a simple white mus
| lin frock. and seated on a common place
| walnut chair, with her hands resting to-
| gether In her lap. The face is very sweet,
| youthful and expressive, and the color
scheme simple and harmonious. Mr.. Miller
| is also working on an Interesting genre mic
h11f
| left unfinished. In it may be seen a group
| OF village school children watching a ball
! game, standing In little groups in scat
| tered line along an old rustic fence It Is
| very natural, full of life and attractive in
color, and Of a kind seldom seen nova
| days.
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| Miss Sands has quite large piece of
work on hand. pastel Of a young woman
| with gold-red hair, seated beside a table.
upon which some branches Of the towering
| ounce have been laid. It is oblong in
shape. being much wider than high, and is
| meant chiefly as a color study, various
shades OF green and red being combined
| harmonlously and made to produce very
decorative effect.
| Today closes the exhibition of the Society
| Of American Artists over which the So
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| week been making merry, and with IT the
| art season virtually comes to an end.
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| A wonderful collection Of engravjnes H.
Illustrating the history of that art from its
| earliest period to the beginning of the
eighteenth century. has been loaned by
| Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan to the Lenox pub
| lie library in New York, where they were
| this week placed on exhibition. The col
| lection consists Of 800 prints many of them
| very rare. which were formerly a part of
| the Irwin collection.
| From several cities complaints are being
| heard Of the over-severity Of the Jury an
| pointed to pass upon the pictures submitted
| for the water color exhibition of the Chi
| cago Art Institute, but as only AZ Of the
| 342 sent In by Chicago artists were accent
| ed and 332 Of the entire 377 shown come
| from the east they cannot surely be ac-
cused of fnhospitality. In this exhibition
| the work Of Mr.. w. H. Holmes of this citv
has again received the highest commenda.
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