Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
"A RI N 0 IEs.

The reopening of the Corcoran gallery
and School on Thursday of this week mark
ed, as it were, the beginning or the local
art season, though many of the artists are
still lingering in out-df-town places, and
work in tie studios will probably not be
generally resumed for several weeks. There
is, indeed, little to call the artists to the
city in October for. though TITS the love-
lest month of the year in Washington. it is
truly the outdoor workmans harvest time,
and for the portrait painter an unavailable
period to be regarded as a legitimate hoi-
day.
Mr.. v. G. Fischer has returned from his
annual trip abroad, which this year occu-
pied the entire summer, and Is now bust
ly engaged in rearranging his galleries. In
England and on the continent he purchased
| a number of rarely interesting and valuable
canvases, which he purposes exhibiting here
| before the end of the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman Child spent
| their vacation weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. E.
! L.. More at Chocorua N. H., from whence
Mr. Child has brought home several inter-
! esting out of-door studies. One of these
| shows an old-fashioned flower garden steep
| ed in sunshine; another is a rainy effect
i with the purple mountain ridge appearing
| over. the tree tops; third gives view OF
! Chocorua across the lake, and fourth a
| charcoal sketch, pictures the same majestic
| peak half yelled by floating clouds. All are
| thoughtful, free and vigorous and promise
| much in their development.
| Mrs. Child did no work while she was
away, but in her studio there is now to be
| seen a little sketch, made just before she
! left home, which, for its many charms, is
especially noteworthy. This is tiny panel
portrait study of a young woman who
| stands before the observer in a graceful,
| deprecating attitude. She wears white
! gown and green cloak, and in her hair are
red peoples. The background is metallic
| blue and the light which falls over the
| maidens head and shoulders like a gol-
| den mantle, heightens the effect of the
| rich color scheme. 1t is no more than a
! sketch. yet it is pregnant with that indefin-
| able quality known as artistic feeling.
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| Great strides have been taken in civic
art of late years, and the value of artistic
| surroundings is each day becoming better
| appreciated. 1t may seem far cry from
portrait paintings to brick house fronts,
| but both, if worthy, are within the pale OF
| art When art and architecture were di-
vorced rows of monotonous and unattract-
| i've dwelling houses graced our best neigh
| borhoods and principal streets, but today
| an era of better things has begun and ar
! tistic qualities as well variety are dis
! played in the designs of our modern city
| homes A notable example of this later day
| renaissance is the modest, though hand
| some, brick dwelling being erected for MIS-
| Sheridan on Massachusetts avenue near
! Sheridan Circle, which was designed by
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| city. Its facade is Of rough bricks or grad
| ed color so laid as to form an invisible
| plaid, with light gray stone trimmings. AS
"a whole it is simple, substantial ana Well
| proportioned; individual yet unobtrusive,
| and must always he found in accord with
| its surroundings -"
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| The last issue of the Guardian gives a
detailed account of the city beautiful"
which is to be built by the Garden City AS
| ISOLATION near the great North road in the
| neighborhood of London This city is to be
| both residential and manufacturing, and
| the object is to make it heathful and beau
| tifuI. and therefore the home of stronger,
| more intelligent and happier people than
| town life under the present conditions pro-
duces" This is in lieu of the reformation
of the old towns which have grown up grad
| ually and abound in cherries dwellings and
| depressing surroundings. Inc experiment
| has been tried twice before in England on
| a smaller scale with great success, and
| though in our newer country it is not SO
| applicable the same spirit would go far
| toward improving present conditions and
| aVerting the growth of a similar evil to the
| one it is planned to overcome.
| That the municipality of Liverpool is also
| a staunch believer in the ethical value of
| art is evinced by the annual exhibitions OF
| Fine and Applied arts which the corpora
| ton of that city gets together annually.
| This years exhibition, which IS now in
progress, was selected by jury composed
| of well-known artists and is said to be es
| pecially rneritorious. In it Herkomer is
| represented by his portrait of General
| Booth; Sargent, Collier, Orchardson and
| Ouless by several notable canvases each.
| A portrait of King Edward by Emil Fuchs
| and one of the German Kaiser by Watson
| Nicol are interesting features and two en-
| tire rooms, moreover, are given up alto