Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-10

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up composition.The presence of Mr. St.
daudens as instructor has given the sculp-
.ure class added ambition and he has had
some kind and Encouraging things to saw
OF the work being done there under Miss
ogdens direction.
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An exhibition of German posters, which
MRS Andrews collected last summer in
Europe, will be held in the Hemicycle of
the Corcoran Gallery from the 10th of the
month and wills.doubtless prove intensely
interesting. <
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Mr.. Moser attended, as the guest of Mr..
La Fargo, the joint annual dinner of the
Mural Painters of America, and the Ma
tionai Sculpture Society, given last Satur-
DAY night at the Art Club in New York,
at which Sir Philip Burne-Jsnes was the
guest of honor OF it he wrote as follows:
Inc ctup gallery was decorated gorgeous
~. masses OF apple and pear blossoms OBJ
scured the skylights and huge punches
were used for the decorations of the ia
pres Even Lewis Nixon. the new head of
Iammany, spoke enthusiastically for art
ana the identifying of the city,
Inc commercial Advertiser, in it's review
OF the exhibition of the American Water
Color Society, has this to say of Mr. Mos
er paintings: There are health and vigor
IN the many contributions from James
henry Moser, eight examples showing his
Iecundity and application, and all are of
an excellent average, creditable alike to
IIe artist and the exhibition and the
harper Weekly of May has reproduced
MS water color of an Adirondack Pond
as one Of six notable paintings in the exhi-
oltion. This should go little way toward
convincing some of the home sceptics that
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the best.
AL the annual meeting of the Art. Stu
oents League, which was held on Tues
day evening, the same board of control was
rejected, the only change being that both
Mr. Riggs and Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page
are now vice presidents and the office Of
president remains open.
Miss Juliet Thompson has taken studio
IN the Corcoran building for the month of
May, in which to complete a number of
commissions before her departure to New
York. - ->e"
The great Paris salon opened on Nav /
lhere are this year 4,26S exhibits, of
which 1850 are oil paintings by 2O7 paint
'iiN'c seventy -IWO are Americans
torty-eight men and twenty four women
There are about 500 less exhibits this wear
than last, and yet it has been said that
tnere are about that number too MANY
Chartrans portraits of Mrs Roosevelt and
MISS Alice Roosevelt have attracted usual
attention there, and have received high
commendation
The New salon, or, as it is better known,
the Champ de Mars salon, which is still as
alstlhctlVe in manner and spirit as when
created by the secession of certain artists
IN 1888 opened a week previously in the
west END of the Grand Palais which re-
mained over from the exposition of 1900 for
such purposes. 1t offers no prizes and has
no huge or elaborate canvases to show
Carous Duran's great family portrait of
hlmseif, his wife. his children and grand
chlldren is probably the most conspicuous
ana notable canvas In the exhibition vet
lie Temps" says that few works equal
SarSents portrait of the 1.-Two Sisters and
speaks in high terms of Cecilia Beaux's
bats.
An added attra cton at the METROPOLITAN
Museum in New York for the next wear will
be the collection of 135 paintings loaned by
Mr.. Geo. w. Vanderbilt from the famous
gallery of the late W. H. Vanderbilt. among
which are Millets Sewers" examples of
Corot, Daubigny, Troyon, Gerome Fortuny
Messonier and others.