Evening star., 1903-10-24
A R T N @ T E s.

There is now on exhibition in the Veer-
hoff Gallery a collection of photographs
which clearly demonstrates the close alli-
ance of photography and art. The prints
constituting this collection were made by
Mr.. c. +. Curtis of Seattle. Washington,
and they are all of Indians. Half are por-
traits and half outdoor scenes, and with
out exception they are printed in the sepia
tintS. The majority are unusually large,
so that q double row on uniform mounts
covers the available wall space. The por-
traits are admirable: the subjects well
posed the light and shade cleverly handled.
and while artistically indefinite to out
line, they tangible and characteristic.
In finish these suggest the popular Copley
prints. but the outdoor subjects have been
given the guise of wash drawings. This
effect is obtained through printing the pic
ture on ordinary water color paper by a
certain gum process which gives the pho
toSrapher unusual liberty of expression and
when skilfully handled produces the most
interesting and artistic results.
Subiectively. as well as technically, these
photographs possess a special interest for.
though the American Indian is the most
characteristic of American subjects it is
true that he has far made much less
impression upon our art than our litera-
ture, and that, generally speaking. he has
been but poorly pictured in his natural en-
vironment- The possibility of doing this is
emphasized by these prints, and the ne
cessity of doing it now before the red man.
like the buffalo. becomes extinct, must urge
itself upon the artists reason. The col
lection will remain on view until the end
of next week.
Miss Atwater spent the first part of the
summer at Ipswich sketching with Miss
Lesley Jackson. whence they both
went to New Castle, N. H., and later to
Gloucester, Mass. All of these places are
famous artists hunting grounds, but the
sketches which Miss Atwater brought home
with her are as far removed from the usual
stereotyped productions as though painted
in entirely foreign locality. The rocks
the road, the cottages and the streets are
unfamiliar though far from new, and so
we'll adapted are they for artistic trans
cription that it seems remarkable that
they have not long since become common
property. One of these sketches is of a
jutting headland of rocks. smoothed and
rounded by the sea, which lies beyond in
a strip of sapphire blue. In the foreground
coarse beach grass grows in clumps, and
over all is the midday sun. Another Is of
a field yellow with golden rod. across which
a path can be family traced, and beyond
which trees and tall bushes half screen a
little cottage and hide the town. The gar
den of a native New CASTER, gay with
blossoms, furnishes the theme for a third,
and a quaint old street in Gloucester the
motive for fourth. All are done on large
sheets, in clear wash. and are vigorous,
| colorful and uncommonly attractive.
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Mr. E, H. Miller is at present at work
| upon a portrait etching of Abraham Lin
| coin. 1t is about half life size, and is taken
| from a crayon drawing, showing the great
mans true nobility of countenance, which
! the etcher himself made some years ago.
Mr.. Miller spent the summer in the Cat
| skills, and has brought back with him some
| penciled memorandums of that country,
which will later be translated into etchings.
| Mr. Richard n Brooke was in Warrenton
Va, during the entire vacation season,
and though the weather was anything but
| propitiouS for outdoor work. he succeeded
in making a number of exceedingly at
! tractive landscape studies. These are all
done on wooden panels. and with one ex-
| ception are broad views of that charac-
| teristic Virginia country. than which there
| is none more paintable. They are. how
ever paintings which do not depend upon
| the subject for their charm, but are rather
| interpretations of nature which point out
| the lovelness of the common fields and
| the poetry of the evening sky SO plainly
| that even the unseeing must take note OF
| 1t and the connoisseur be satisfied.
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| Mr.. William Fuller Curtis has returned
from Ashiield. Mass. where he spent the
| summer, and is now at work upon the
panel of Love and Labour Glorifying Life. y
which he began late last spring. During
| the summer he not only got this well under
| way but executed in burnt wood and gilt
small ecclesiastical panel representing the