Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29

and fruit and are at the same time both lit
eral and decorative transcriptions. They are
done, without exception, on Manila paper
and show each object In its natural size.
One of wild grapes and another of plums
was particularly beautiful. Mr.. Paris makes
these studies with the object of furnishing
data to students. designers and decora tors.
giving the material. as IL were, to them
for endless adaptations. His drawings are
accurate and botancally correct, but they
are more than this. for each has been
made from the artists standpoint with the
thought of decorative effect. The entire
collection which now numbers several hun
bred such studies. is thoroughly unique and
extremely valuable.
Mr. James Henry Moser. Mr.. H. Fl. Mich
OILS Mrs. Ella B. Sherman and Mr.. Parker
Mann are all represented in the New York
Water Color Clubs fifteenth annual exhi-
bition. which opened in the Fine Arts Gal
ieries last Saturday. This exhibition il
said to be uncommonly good this year.
There are over four hundred works exhib-
ited and one OF the special features is a
section contributed by the Boston Water
Color Club. To Mr.. G. FL. Halloweli a
member of that club. the prize of 500 Of
fered by Mr.. William r. Beal has been
awarded for picture of log drivers on the
Wissataquok.
twenty-five Americans exhibit work in
the Autumn Salon in Paris. which was
opened with ceremony by President Loubet
on the 18th of October. This exhibition has
been gotten up under the generalshp of
Eugene Carriere and NJ. Rodn in OPPOSE
ton to q Old Salon. of which Carolus
Duran IS president, and 1t has made both
conservatives and extremists welcome. Its
catalogue numbers over two thousand ex-
hibits One section is given over to paint
inn hxyD ttt-{c do rb,xya thAr IN
sculptures by Prince Paul Troubetskoi. As
a whole the exhibition is said to have
scored a success. and the general opinion
prevails that 1t has come to stay.
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All will learn with regret and a sense of
personal loss of the destruction by fire OF
Mr.. st. Gaudens studio and studies at
Windsor, VT In the execution of his work
Mr.. St. Gaudens takes infinite pains so
that his sketches and studies are almost
valuable as his finished productions. Moth
ing. IT is said, was saved. and that such a
catastrophe should have befalleu the sculp-
tor while away from home and i'll, as 1t is
reported, seems doubly hard and distress
ing.
Mr.. Harold Macdonald is engaged at
present upon a three-quarter length por-
to be placed in the drill hall at West
Point 1t pictures the general In the uni
form of his rank seated in a revolving
chair by his desk At present 1t is little
more than laid in. but il promises to be
both a good likeness and strong paint
ing.
In various shop windows there are now
being displayed a series OF black and white
reproductions of drawings made by the To-
cal sculptor Adolfo di Nesti One is a head
of Brutus and several Roman scenes.
They bid of course. for popular favor and
in some particulars are faulty, but for the
most part they are clever and genuinely
worthy o. note.
The people of Manitoba have erected in
Winnepeg a statue of Queen Victoria. by
Brampton the well-known British sculptor
1t is thirteen feet high and represents the
venerable queen in her coronation robes
seated upon her throne with her scepter
and gloves in her hand.
Chicago seems to be taking numerically
the lead this winter in art students, as well
as other things At it's Art Institute 2.J0o
are enrolled, and elsewhere there are said
to be 800 more.