Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-17

mira bic. 1t Is WllHOug DfetanSlQn
trait and .fulnlls all the functions of the
ideal but much abused. miniature
II
Miss Mathilde Mueden has resumed het
classes at the Corcoran School and re-
| opened her studio on E street. She has
at the latter place quite a number of in
teresting sketches which she made abroad
| last summer and a preliminary drawing
of the portrait that she painted while in
| Holland. The last was a notable work. 1t
pictured young girl OF, about fifteen seated
ON bench with a black Persian cat in
| her arms. Her face and figure are shown
almost in profile and the line from the
| shoulder to the knee was long and sweep
| ing. Her head was bent forward and her
| eve downcast; her hair was dark and
very straight. In her right arm she held
tie cat and with her left hand She
dawdled a ball fastened to a string Her
gown was white and the background dull
| dark blue. 1t was primarily simple and in
line and mass exceedingly decorative.
Mr.. William Fuller Curtis of this city is
represented in the arts and crafts exhibi-
ton of the Chicago Art Institute by his en-
graved and colored panel of fish, Sea
Fairies" which received the first Corcoran
prize in the Water Color Clubs eighth an
nual, and by a decorative water color en-
titled Castle Perilous." Mr. Curtis was
awarded this autumn a silver medal by the
superior jury of the st. Louis fine arts ex-
hibition for his panel In burnt wood which
was included in the catalogue of the Amer
lean section.
Two important exhibitions are now in
progress under the Chicago Art Institutes
roof. This of the arts and crafts, which in
cludes many of the exhibits sent from
france to st. Louis, and also the annual
exhibition of the Society of Western Art
lists. AS a measure of the standard of this
latter show the fact that the New York
Academy of Design has requested the loan
of twenty of its canvases for its forthcom-
ing exhibition is sufficiently significant.
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The annual exhibition of the National
Academy of Design in New York will. out
of town, be the next event of Importance.
1t will open on the Both of December and
close the last of january. On January %
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
will open its hundredth annual exhibition.
winch, 1t is understood, is to be made spe-
clally notable, and on February the eighth
annual exhibition of the American Society
of Miniature Painters will be on view at
Knoedlers. The Society of American ART
lists has scheduled its annual exhibition for
March %. ~
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The Metropolitan Museum of New York
has just been enriched by the gift of por-
trait painted by Van Dyke of Baron Arnold
lie Roy, purchased last spring by Mr. Georpa
a. Hearn, who is the donor
The first American photoeranhic salon
winch is to be shown here under the ans
pieces of the Capital Traction Club In lam.
ary opened in the Clausen Galleries. New
fork. last week and has been htebJv oor,
HteHoeo. 1t consists of nearly $50 examines
OF the strongest and best photographers in
America. ~
our additional mural panels by Robert
Reid nave recently been placed in the Massa-
chusetts state house in Boston. Two are
devoted merely to coats Of arms. hut the
remaining two set forth pictorially. re-
spectively, Paul Revere's Ride" and the
Boston Tea Party They are both Of
necessity nocturnes. The first is Iiebted
ny an open door which allows a shaft of
lamp light to fall upon the fieeine, horse
man; the other by lantern which makes
visible the chests of tea and masolerad ding
tnolahs; Both, 1t is said, are admirably
handled and very decorative.
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=. wellington Ruckstahl, who modelled
1or baltimore the beautiful monument
caled The Spirit of the Confederacy," has
been awarded the commission for an
equestrian statue of General Wade Hamp-
TON, which Is to be erected by the legis-
iature OF South Carolina on a reservation
before the state capitol.
miniature Of young girl painted by
Miss Katharine Chapman, is now on exhibit
ton at Veerhoff's gallery. Miss Chapman
was at one time a student at the Corcoran
School and is a Washingtonian by birth
put OF recent years she has spent most of
her time in New York ~
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MISS lrma Stahl has opened her Initial
exhibit of water color and burnt wood
novelties at her studio in the Ra,timora
Apartment. The collection shows consider
abe versatility of style and dainty concen-
'ion eohoihed with charming originality.