Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
Greeks and Italians in the Majority.
ART NOTES

ALL NUltO
| The Corcoran Art Schools annual exhibit
| ton marks in general way the close OF
| the local art season. though the gallery will
| be open to the public until the first of July.
Mr. V. G. Fischer has already gone
| abroad, and the other dealers galleries will
| set forth special attractions during the
summer months.
| Among the artists there is a relaxation of
energies preparatory to the general exodus
| to pastures new" Some will go abroad.
| others to the Catskill and Adirondack
mountains; New England claims her usual
quota, and the neighboring localities not a
few.
Mr.. Morse was the first this season to
fold his tent, leaving the city before the
middle of May for his delightful summer
home at Chocorua, N. H, where he and
his wife will later be Joined by Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Coleman Child.
Mr.. Richard N. Brooke returns to his old
home in Warrenton, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have already taken
possession of their new country residence
erected ON an HlStOIlC Sile III l. Oil ldA
county.
Mr.. Macdonald has located near Hamil-
ton, Va, expecting to run into the city at
intervals.
Mr.. r. lie Grand Johnson has. after the
same manner gone to his Beltsvile home
OF the New England contingency. Miss
Downing is at Prouts Neck, Miss Atwater
and Miss Porter leave next week for lps-
witch, purposng, later, to go farther north
on the coast and the Nichols brothers are
looking forward to a long summer on the
coast of Maine
Mr. Colin Campbell Cooper, of Philadel-
phia, who recently astounded the art world
by revelation of beauty and picturesque
possibilities in the prosaic architectural
Americanism known as ''sky-scraper," is
spending a short time in Washington,
studying the civic aspect of the nations
capital. During the latter part of this
week Mr. Cooper has painted view of
Pennsylvania avenue looking east from one
of the upper windows of The Evening Star
| building.
a very substantial mark of appreciation
| was lately shown the work of one of our
| local painters, Mr.. James Henry Moser, by
| Mrs Westinghouse in the purchase of four
| of his more important water colorS. One
| of these accurate reproduction of
| the interior of the old White House con-
| servatories. and possessed an historical as
| well artistic interest. The other three
| were pictures of the mountains, showing
| unusual cloud effects. All of them had
been well placed in notable out-of-town ex-
| hibitions and had been much commended.
| The present owner. therefore. we'll as
| the artist is to be congratulated.
The last work which Miss Margaret
Downing did before she left for her summer
! holiday portrait of Senator Foraker's
| daughter. 1t is of the poster style showing
| heavy outlines, is decorative, and simple,
| yet altogether satisfactory as a portrait
| The face is in profile, and the shoulders are
| turned little out of line. The background
| is fiat. creamy tint against which dainty
pink peoples nod in pleasant profusion, and
| the gown. which is pale shade of green,
| is made in the simplest fashion, enriched
merely by broad collar of exquisite lace
Both face and figure. while strongly out
lined. are modelled in low relief, and are ex-
pressive well as picturesque. About the
whole there is, indeed, something wonder
fully artistic and appealing. The sensitive
sween of the lines, the harmonious color
and the decorative element combine in pro-
ducng an unusually pleasing effect to
which the novel manner of expression lends
special charm.
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Miss Irma Peixotto. former pupil of the
Art Students League, who has been con-
tinung her studies this winter under the
direction of Miss Mucden, has just made an
| excellent little poster portrait of Miss Bertha
Galland. the actress. She has pictured her
subject at full length. in costume-brocade
gown white wig and Gainsborough hat
The pose was well chosen, and the coloring
is exceedingly dainty. AS a poster it would
be we'll adapted fer billboard use and as
such it would strikingly demonstrate the
possibility and desirability of ailying art
and commercalism.
Mr.. Harold Macdonald's portrait of Ad-
miral Remey has been placed on exhibition
| in Veerhoff's for brief time. This is one
of the strongest of Mr.. Macdonald's recent
paintings, and, aside from it's distinguished
sub, Jet, should be of general interest. 1t is
built up with deliberate care, and consider
able time was spent in it's execution vet
il is broad, direct and by no means oyer-
worked.
portrait by Mrs. Caroline Thurber OF
her father, General Nettleton, Is now on
exhibition in the same gallery In this
the head is well painted, the figure nicely
posed and the accessories skiIlfully express
ed, but whole it falls short of its pos
sibilities. Like all of Mrs. Thurber's work
it displays thought. study and careful exc
cution, but 1t lacks strength and decision
to painful degree.
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During the past season Mr.. F. W. Raw
mond of Chicago has come to Washington
with his wife and children purposing to
make it his home. His student days. which
are not long past, were spent in Paris, Ber-
lin and Vienna. in the, last of which cities
he studied miniature painting under Boub-
litz. This branch of art he has made his
specially, but he has in his studio. at 43os5
18th street northeast. quite collection of
attractive landscape sketches in water col
or. which he has made from time TO time
both in this country and abroad. OF these
a few Venetian fragments and a view of
fishermens cottages at Vineyard Haven