Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-02

the rich; and Vthird. to train the eye and
| the hand to accuracy and usefulness.
To accomplish this end each pupil is re-
CURED to spend, from the first grade in the
grammar school, to The last year in the high
f! school, about SYortyshve minutes a week in
| the pursuance of the study. The old-fash-
| Toned drawing books have been entirely
done away WITH and in their place has
| been Instituted a complete course which is
as varied as It is Unique Art in the mar
row sense hasS been, discarded, save in the
special high school classes, and in Its
broadest sense widely put into effect. Rela-
lively, the practical work along these lines
was better than the special work. and the
work of the lower grades better than that
of the higher ones. Indeed. it was the work
OF the tiniest children which was most sur
prising, for from the first, second and third
grades came paintings of flowers and fruits
which. while simple and crude, were intelli-
gible and showed sincere artistic feeling.
Among the illustrative work of the seventh
and eighth grades many creditable e1orts
were shown, and the silhouette compositions
of these same classes were remarkably
good. In the recently formed department
of applied art, the purpose of which Is 10
encourage the tasteful economical adorn-
ment of the home, great variety of inter-
esting work was shown, among which the
studies in color harmony were not the least
attractive, and in the section given over to
the manual training schools one saw the
actual application of the well-learned prin-
cipals. The pen-and-ink drawings of the
technical pupils were genuinely we'll done,
and the work of the special high school stu
dents was plainly in the right direction.
X
A comprehensive collection of paintings
by w. T. Richards and his daughter were
placed on exhibition in the Veerhoff gal
lery on Wednesday where they will
t1nue to be on view for the next week at
least. Through his two well-known can
vases in the permanent collection of the
Corcoran Gallery Mr.. Richards work is by
no means unfamiliar to the Washington
pubhc, but this is the first time that any
of Miss Richards work has been exhibited
here. This collection was shown a month
ago In one OF the important New York gal
lerles and it has come to Washington di-
rectly from McCleeS' In Philadelphia.
In the seventeen canvases by Mr.. Rich
ards there is a similarity which borders
| on sameness, and Journalism which is al
| most photographic. They lack out of door
qualities, and smack rather unpleasantly
! OF the studio atmosphere. But this is not
| true of all. Horse Head, Conanicut,"
and "St. David's Head" are both strong
vigorous paintings, full of light and air
| the charms of the ever popular Jersey
| Coast in Corcoran Gallery, and the is
| land of Conancut," No. /, is a large, I'M
| usual canvas. Mr. Richards seems, indeed
| to know better than any other marine
| painter of the present day how to initiate
| the transparent coloring of the sea, and
| how to paint sunlight in his pictures.
In these respects his influence is seen in
| his daughters landscape paintings, though
| even in these she shows vigorous per
sonality of her own. Her collection OF
thirtyfour canvases shows a great variety
of themes and manifest strong artistic feel
ing. There are allegorical themes, genre
paintings and landscapes, all freely rem
dered, thoughtful and expressive Knit
| ting and Gossip" ION the Dyke and ''The
Little Brother all possess very real painter
qualities, and THE Dyke of the Zuyder
Zee" "Rapaelo in the Early Morning" and
'Svovaer, Lofoden Islands," are extraordi-
narily charming.
Mr.. Carl f Smith has just finished
portrait of Secretary Shaw, which is prob
ably the best and strongest work of the
kind that he has yet accomplished. 1t
was done in the Secretarys home, from not
more than a half dozen sittings. and was
an order by Mr. Shaw for his wife. AS in
the Chartran portrait, the Secretary is seen
standing His right arm rests on the top
of a heavily carved Flemish oak desk. and
the thumb of his left hand is caught in his
trousers pocket. He wears black Prince
Albert coat, black waistcoat and gray
striped trousers, and is seen against a
brown, atmospheric background. The head
is good in color, well modelled and broadly
brushed in, and the hands are well drawn
and painted. AS a likeness it has been
pronounced most satisfactory, and as a
painting it is considerably above the aver
age. .,.
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Miss Catherine Critcher is painting a por-
trait of Senator Faulkner's wife. which is
most interesting and charming, and is also
at work upon an attractive little genre
study of child life, which already promises
more than we'll. Miss Critcher's paintings
are all strong, simple and extremely indi-
vidual Much interest is. therefore attach
ed to the announcement that an exhibition
of her recent work will be held in the Veer-
hoff gallery the last of this month.
The Chicago Evening Post has the follow
ing to say of the work of two of our local
artists, who are represented in the fifteenth
annual exhibition of American water colors
and pastels now in progress in the Chicago
Art Institute: Howard Helmick of Wash