Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-19


study. With this there is little doubt that
ME- Nye will II thu near future make
name for himself, as there has always
been In his paintings a note of sincerity
and strength which betokened more than
usuai AFFINITY. 20 eIsF 's.sH
MT Walter Paris returned from England
on the 9Th, but did not reopen his studio in
the Demonet blaiidiifg until last Monday,
as he went directly TO Buffalo upon land
ing. He brought back with him many
very interesting water colors and pencil
drawings. The:whole length of his jour-
neylng might, indeed. readily be traced by
means Of the latter, so numerous and so
accurate are they Among the water colors
are several of Henley and the Thames at
the time of the English-American regatta,
which give one a feeling of pleasant ia
nll1arlty with the Quaint old town and the
great event One painting of exceptional
picturesqueness and beauty is a bit of pure
Scotch landscape, and others in which the
typical thaSched cottage of the English
peasantry is prominent feature will sure
surely ind many admirers.
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Mr. E. II. Miller has just finished little
water color sketch of portion of the Po-
tomac near Alexandria. The time is just
before sunset, when the first suggestion of
rosy color is creeping into the clouds. A
seow, oddly rugged with sail, lies at an
Choir not far from the shore, and there is
an air of quiet and restfulness about it
which is very pleasant. While he was at
his Catskill home he painted several inter-
esting out-of-doer pictures One is of
young girl In pink sunbonnet wading
through field of daisies with great
bunch of wild flowers in her arms. Another
shows the rising mists enwrapping the
md
OF a country road winding through a gulch
between the hills. At present he is work
ing on a broad view of the Catskill coun-
try, with the witehing cloud shadows creep
ing over the mountains.
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Mr.. Edward L. Morse spent the summer
at a remote little New Hampshire lake,
whence he had just returned. He
brought with him, as ample testimony of
the beauty of the place, some half dozen
very attractive out-of-door sketches. These
are done in gouache on gray pastel paper
and strongly resemble pastels being at the
same time equally as fresh and forceful.
One of the union of moonlight and sun
light possesses a decided element of poetic
mystery and another of some half-leafless
blrcheS seen across a field bright with
mac, is quite as delightfully."- liberal.
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y. MeSSef IS sui at GreenWlcn,
Conn. He has spent busy summer and
is SO well pleased with the picture-possibli-
ties of that portion of New England that
he has determined not to return to his
Anacostia home until the last of next
month. ,.
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Mr.. Glenn Madison Brown, after spending
the summer in London and Kent, England,
occupied principally in making sketches of
places made famous by Dickens novels,
has returned to Paris to resume his studies.
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The State Normal School at Chico, Cal,
was recently presented with life-size oil
portrait of the late General John BidwelI by
his widow, who, 1t will be remembered, was
Miss Kennedy Of this city. The artist was
Miss Alice NJ Reading of Washington, D. c.
The Chico Enterprise, in its notice of the
presentation, said:
| Miss Reading is daughter of Major 2.
B. Reading, who was General BID vel
closest friend and companion while at Sut-
ter's Fort, and also in the Mexican war.
Major Reading owned a large tract of land
in Tehama county in early days which was
used for trapping purposes, Miss Reading
is. a, native daughter of the golden west,
her mother having come to California as
bride IN 1850 gu sa..aA- 'aE ~ a1t
Inc Piet Z VIII NC lullS III d promlney}t
place on the Normal walls and will take
the place Of the one at present in the main
corridor
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Mr.. Peter Baumgras has placed on ex-
hibition in his studio a number of can
vases painted during the past two years
The collection includes portraits land
scapeT and .still-life studies-all of which
are -conseientiously executed, and The last.
named With astounding realism, : Mr.,
Baumgras was member of the very first
Society. of Washington that was organ
ized and has many interesting reminis-
cences to recount of its periodical meet.
inss, a way back before the war when
some of those earliest American painters
We're still living and our later day school
but just begun.