Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26

ratlve and interesting book cover designs,
besides being at work a miniature of a
little girl of ten or twelve years of age.
Miss Aline Solomons is making a pastel of
the same little lass in the same costume
and pose. The former is clever arrange
ment of old gold and green, sashed and
pulled in the Spanish court style, which,
with the childs light hair, demure face and
somewhat pensive expression, gives the
portrait a quaint old world air. The spirit
OF the painting has been admirably sus-
tanned and the color scheme well managed
in addition to which it is an excellent like
ness.
Mr.. Max Weyl is now quite settled in his
new studio, on the fifth floor of the Corcor-
an building, and is. planning a brief sketch
ing trip to Virginia ere the spring freshness
IS gone. He has quite recently painted sew
eral strong and interesting landscapes
plcturing various places along the Washing
ton water front among which one of Little
river is specially simple, forceful and at
tractive and another of narrow neck of
land, tiny home and pink showery sun
set is unusually atmospheric and pleasing.
The Art Students League of New York
has made a change this year in its method
or awarding scholarships. 1t has recalled
all those which had been formerly bestowed
upon special art schools and kindred insti-
tutions, and offers instead ten at large
Five of these are for antique drawings, and
five for life drawings and all
art students in every art school or art
department Of any college in the United
States, excepting those in New York, may
compete. The faculty of the league, body
% ,Act Iit,ti, bod
Is to constitute the jury of award, and all
drawings entered in competition must be
received by them before the first of May.
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The sixty-fourth annual exhibition of the
Boston Art Club is now in progress. 1t
consists of 250 pictures in water colors black
and white, and pastels, representing some
of the famous Dutch painters as well as
the majority Of the more prominent Amer
lean artists. 1t is therefore a very sub
stantial compliment to both Mr.. Everett
Warner and Mr.. James Henry Moser that
their works should be mentioned by the
press reviewers as among the most note
worthy and meritorious.
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In Chicago the fourteenth annual exhibit
ton of water colors and miniatures is also
in progress in the art institute, and Judging
from the names in its catalogue is a COM
prehensive and notable show One entire
section is given up to the Boston Water
Color Club, and another to the lately or
gained Associate Illustrators
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The American Water Color Society's thir-
ty-fifth annual opened on Monday in the
American art galleries in New York. The
w. T. Evans prize of $500 was awarded to
Arthur 1. Kellers painting, called THE
Finishing Touches"
The Society Of American Artists exhibit
ton may still be seen in the Fine Arts
building, where, on April %. the New York |
Society of Takers will open its annual show.
The jury to decide upon the most meri-
torious and prize winning fakes is composed
of Irving Wiles. Bryson Burroughs and
Kenyon Cox.
Sixteen hundred persons are said to have
visited the loan exhibition recently held in
Baltimore by the Municipal Art Society in
a single day. Five thousand catalogues
were sold during the entire time it was
open, and over So, 400 was received from en-
trance fees, exclusive of the season tickets. |
All Of which speaks we'll for the interest |
taken by Baltimoreans In matters pertain
ing to art, and minimizes. the actual finan- |
cial loss occasionedf by the exorbitant rate |
of insurance and other unanticipated ex-
pense.
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There are sixteentAnnerican painters rep
resented in the aDnual axhibition of the
Academy of Fine ARTS a. Vienna, which |
was lately opened by the Austrian emperor.
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From London cones thetnews that Mr. ],
Pierpont Morgan has loaned his famous |
Colonna Raphael for which he is said to |
have paid $500 Geo. to the national gallery ]
for six months.
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The first statue to the late President |
Mckinley has just been delivered in the |
plaster to the foundry Of the Gorham COM |
pany at Providence, where It will be cast I
In bronze at once and be ready to be UNI
yelled at Muskegon, Mich, on the Both Of 1
May-Memorial day. The statue Is the gift !
of Mr. Charles H. Hackley, citizen Of |
Muskegon who gave the commission for /
the work to Mr. Niehaus, the sculptor with /
in two weeks after the death of Mr. Nc
Kinley, and Mr.~Niehaus says he did the
quickest work he has ever performed in I
getting 1t readysin time. The statue rep
resents Mr. Mckinley as delivering his Pan |
American address at the Buffalo exposition. /
and closely follows a snap shot photograph |
taken at the time.
An extraordinarily interesting portrait Of |
Senator Quay. by Chartran. was privately /
exhibited in the library Of the Corcoranl