Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12
A RI N OF Els.

From now until the coming of the cooler
days there will be almost a cessation of
| work in local studios. Each week for the
| past month one and another has been
closed and placarded for the summer until
| there are but few left where the door will
| open in response to the usual appeal The
| landscape painters have scattered hither
| and thlther and are gathering their har-
vest for the coming year, while the por-
| trait painters, whose busy season is over,
are making the most of genuine holiday
with just a bit of playwork now and then
| done for the love of the doing.
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Miss Mueden and Mr.. LeGrand Johnston
have both deserted their town studios
within the past few days. Miss Mueden
will sail for France about the 18TH wher3
she expects to remain until the last of
September; returning in time to the charge
of her new classes In the Corcoran School.
Mr.. Johnston has, as usual, gone to his
country home at Beltsvlle. Md, whose
picturesque surroundings have furnished
the painter with many Of his most inter-
esting themes.
Miss Juliet Thompson and Mr.. Macdonald
are each kept in town by a number of Sit
ters, who are themselves busy people and
therefore unable to give the time required
for the painting of portrait except in this
leisure season. Miss Thompson will prob
ably not leave the city until the last of the
month. During August and September she
will execute number of out-of-town or
ders at the country homes of some of her
patrons and the first of October she ex-
poets to open a studio in New York
Mr. Macdonald has several portraits on
hand. One is a full length Of lady, an
other Is Of lad of seventeen or eighteen;
both of which he is painting with out-of-
door settings very appropriately suggestive
of this sunny summer season.
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Mr.. Kemeys is one of the few who has
| no intention of either quitting the city or
| laying aside his work account of the
| heat. He is at present busily engaged
| modelling the fine old lank grizzly at the
| Geological Park. Mr. Kemeys has found
| this old fellow an uncomonly interesting
| subject and speaks of him as an amiabie
| sitter. He has modelled him with head
| bent and forepaw raised contemplating
| with attention and interest the body of a
dead wild sheep that lies across his path.
The group is about eighteen inches long,
and is to be cast in bronze, being one of the
|
| of Chicago.
| Miss Hattie E. Burdette has finished her
| panel of the spirit of Night adding to
| it a most effective, semi-conventiona border
] OF peoples, and has begun another decora-
| tive scheme which promises to be equally
| as attractive and artistic
*
| Mr.. Carl Rakemann, the son of the we'll
| known mural decorator, who returned last
fall from Paris. where he had been study
| ing, has recently painted portrait of
| Speaker Henderson of the House of Repre-
| sentatiVes, which was placed on exhibition
| for short time before the close of Con-
| gress in the Speakers private room at the
| Capitol.
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| One of the many bills pertaining to art
| matters which were introduced in the last
Congress and left over to next year for
| consideration was that appropriating S20-
| 600 for the erection of a statue in WASH
: ington to S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of
| the telegraph. There is a signal absence of
| monuments in Washington to other than
| military heroes, but aside from this statue
| to Mr.. Morse would be of peculiar interest
| ID the artists of this city on account of the
| great inventors connection with the HrSt
artlstS society organized here and of the
| prominent place his son now holds in the
! present society.
Ruchstuhl, the first secretary of the Ma
| tlonai Sculptures Society Of New York and
| the director Of the sculpture exhibition at
| the st. Louis exposition, seems to have
struck new note in his Spirit Of the Con-
| 1ederacy, symbolic group, to be erected
| on Mount Royal avenue near Druid Hill
| Park Baltimore, by the Maryland Chapter
or the Daughters of the Confederacy. A
typical southern soldier. who has given his
| life for the lost cause and still clutches
| MS broken musket in his right hand, is sup
ported by an angelic figure with flowing
robe and outstretched wings, who holds in
| her disengaged hand laurel wreath. The
| manly figure Of the soldier, the broken gun,
the wreath of victory, each symbols
teLlng or manhood, valor and courage,
those universal traits to commemorate
which all such monuments should alone be
raised.
Baltimore Is apparently trying to retain
her right to her old title, ''the monument al
| city,, for the legislature has just made
another appropriation of $4,000 toward the
erection Of memorial to the Marylanders
VINO were killed in the Mexican war. This
| IS TO be placed on tho 90 me- aDnrOac oh n Tho