Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-21


ne has evolved and put in operation an
admirable practical system for the educa-
ton of the pupils In this direction. Some of
the immediate tangible results were shown
recently in the collection of color work.
exhibited at Veerhoffs. hut the deeper.
more lasting effects resulting from the cul-
tivation OF the pupils taste and familiar
ity with the works of the masters can only
be demonstrated in the years which are
to come. DR.. Lane has not only estab-
TShed this system. but he has trained his
teachers so that IL he goes now he will
leave behind him an able corps of instruct
ors fully capable of intelligently carrying
on the work.
Mr.. Moser has just made a water color
sketch OF view on the upper Potomac.
near Sycamore Island. which is altogether
charming and attractive. The sky is clear
| and possesses the listless tranquility of
early evening with a few scraps of floating
clouds here and there along the horizon.
and very young, silvery moon peeping
from beneath one of them. The water is
gray and placid, and the reflections dark
and dreamy. The banks on either side are
nigh and wooded. and the green of the dense
foliage has been rendered with consummate
Skill MI Moser has in fact given new tes-
tlmony by this picture to the fact that no.
where can more pantable subjects he found
than in the neighborhood of Washington
Next week Mr.. Moser will start on his
cation trip, going first to the Adirondacks
and later to the White Mountains for a
three or four months jaunt.
Miss Bertha E. Ferries sketch class has
been working industriously. and its members
have accomplished some excellent and en-
couraging results. Miss Perrie expects to
spend her summer in New England, as
usual. and will go to Ipswich about the
LIST Of July
Mr.. Hobart Nichols and his family have
months holiday, which means for him a
rare treat and for next winters exhibitions
some good, interesting pictures
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Mr.. George Senseney has been etching a
book plate for Mr. Garrett of Baltimore.
1t pictures a bearded monk in gown and
cowl. standing beside an unglaZed window
reading in an ancient volume, from between
the pages of which dangle markers and
seals. The drawing is excellent. the mod
cling strong and the composition interest
ing. suggestive and appropriate. He has
also been doing considerable amount of
illustrative work, among which some
studies made of the iron works in Wheel
ing. clown. and a portrait of an old col
Ored man are specially notable The last
is done in oils on paper. after the manner
of water color, and is extremely strong and
effective There is Sureness of touch and
nicely of line evidenced in all Mr.. Sen
seney's work which give it particular
interest and charm, no matter what may be
his subject.
During this season of commandments
and weddings ~full-page accounts are ap-
pearing in many of the daily papers of the
closing exhibitions of the various art
schools all over the country Most of these
read much alike, and go to show that vir-
tually the same methods are in vogue in
all. In Philadelphia alone. according to
the official reports, there have been during
the last year less than 300 young men
and women studying the various branches
of'fine and applied art: and among the in
teresting announcements for next year
from the same city is that of the establish
ment of five new travelling scholarships in
the Academy of Fine Arts which allow he
winners two and possibly three years study
abroad, with an allowance of 1000 a year.
This school has now at its disposal the
sum of 5000 for annual awards. and num-
bers both Mr.. Chase and Miss Cecilia
Beaux among its faculty.
The estate of Jacob S. Rogers of Pater-
son, n. j., has finally been settled. and ac-
cording to the last appraisement the Metro
politan Museum of New York will receive
under the will over five and a half million
dollars. The disposition of this great sum
has not yet been determined upon, but in
all probability the income therefrom only
can be used to increase the collections In
the different departments of the institution
The double beneficence of this bequest and
the truth of the old proverb that nothing
succeeds like success were demonstrated
last summer by the great increase in the
number. of daily visitors at the museum
after the publication of the will.
Already the dates for several of the fall
exhibitions have been set and preparations
for them begun. The Copley Society of
Boston, whose seconds new gallery exhibit
ton is among the earliest of these. an
nounces that one of its leading features
will be a group Of some of the most recent
work of John S. Sargent. In New York the
National Sculpture Society and the Flor
lists Club purpose holding Joint exhibition
in the early autumn, and in PHILADELPHIA
the lately formed Society of Miniature
Painters will be among the first to issue a
catalogue.
or special local interest is the announce
ment that Stephan Sinding, the Swedish
sculptor. whom Mrs. Roll Smith selected
to complete her husbands design for the
Sherman statue, has finished one of the
minor groups for the monument. 1t is the
one typifying war, and depicts a dead SOL
der lying at the feet of a female figure,
who is half draped and has her arms
bound, while raven is seen in the act of
picking the mans eyes out. This is truly a
horrible conception, and leads one to con-
slider whether, after all. the old box which
has for so long boarded up the pedestal is
as Objectionable it has often been
thought. Mr. Sinding. who is a brother of
Christian Sinding. the composer. contem-
plates coming to the United States this
fall
The plaster model now on view In the
Veerhoff Gallery of the equestrian statue of
Gen, G. B. Mcclellan was made by the
local architectural modeler, E. Garet, whose
work is well known for excellence and ac
curacy. Mr. Garet. 1t will be remembered
made model Of The Evening Star build