Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-30

photograph OF The Evening Star DulIdlng,
Wood, Dom & Deming, who show their
drawings for the new Providence Hospital;
Hornblower & Marshall, exhibiting their
design for the Baltimore custom house;
James G. Hill, contributing a picture of
Stoneleigh Court; Appleton p. Clark, Jr.,
with photographs of Wayne MacVeaghs
residence; Totten & Rogers and Percy Ash,
each showing designs for private resi-
dences; w. NJ. Poindexter, with plan for
a naval training station, and James Knox
Taylor. who contributes a group of nine
government buildings, planned under his
supervision.
Mr.. Carl GutherZ left on Tuesday of this
week, with his two daughters, for Bar
Harbor Me, whence he went not only for
recreation, but to execute number OF
portraits for which he has been given
commissions. For the past six weeks Mr.
Gutherz has been hard at work in his
Madison street studio, and before he left
for New England he had completed the
two large panels which are to be set In
the entrance hall of the Fort Wayne Pub
lie Library. In these panels Mr.. Gutherz
has combined the realistic with the allie
gorical and set forth the history of the
pioneer at the same time that he symbol
lied the dissemination of knowledge. The
first pictures, with a landscape back
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the steps of old-fashoned log cabin.
The girl, from position of vantage on
the top STEP is reading to the boy from
a volume in her lap, leading him gently
to higher plane of vision than his I'M
lettered farm life has permitted him to
reach Entering at the gate is an allie
gorical figure representing knowledge
carrying a staff the star of hope.
Around her is a rosy light and over her
head on a scroll is the motto by teach
iv,cJ 10. ,ry,f' Nhn ont
again the same man and maiden after a
lapse of years. She still wears homespun
and he the laborer's attire, but the OBJ
server is given to understand that he has
been out into the world has battled with
the life of the universe, and has returned
to assist upward his former tutor. In
this panel he is seated on a chair, and she
on the steps at his feet. He eXpoundS
from the book and she listens as she
sewS. 1t is the same log cabin, but in
the background the forms of factory and
state house are dimly to be traced and
at the gate again knowledge enters hold
ing in her hand the flaming torch. Per
Gradus Vinct' is the inscription now,
and one is led to recall the many pio-
heers who in this country have won fore
most distinction by just such step-by-
step conquests. The figures in his can
vases are fully life-siZe and are realistic
ally represented, the backgrounds having
however, been rendered with more
thought of decorative effect The color
scheme is keyed somewhat high and is
very harmonious. They are, separately,
pictures as well as decorations, but stud
led conformity they will be found to be
well related.
Mr.. James Henry Moser has been far
from idle since the July days came in.
With the ardour of a scientific investi-
gator collecting specimens he has been
filling his sketch book with paintable
Every morning he has spent in his studio
and each afternoon in varied exploration.
Some of his finds" he has stored away
for future use, but some he has already
turned to good account. One of the most
interesting of the latter is the recent
canoe festival on the upper Potomac. This
Mr.. Moser has interpreted in oils on a
canvas of considerable size. To the right
he has pictured the low Maryland Shore
to the left the wooded Virginia hills in
the dark shadow of which, like a cluster
of jewels on the water, glimmer the myr-
lad lights of the little boats. The moon,
a crescent, is well down in the east shin
ing through a veil of mist; up through
the darkness, putting it to shame, darts
a rocket with a train of splendor, and on
the shore back of the canoes an intense
yellow, chemical light. is burning Thus
it will be seen that the painter had to
deal with triple problem of light He
laQ 10 SHOW ana OlHerentlate the pale
light of the moon, the warm glow of the
lanterns and the artificial glare of the
pyrotechnics. All this he has done and
more, for he has got into his picture
some of the subtle mystery of the night
time air, together with the dignified
beauty of the upper river. 1t is a UNIQUE
picture, but 1t is unquestionably an inn
portant work.
1t has been reported that the Grant Me-
mortal, which is to be erected in this CITY
at a cost of $4,000, will not be completed
by Mr.. Shrady, to whom the commission
was awarded, for at least six years. Up to
the time that Mr.. Shrady won this compe-
tition he had not executed any large work,
but he has since modelled equestrian
statue Of Washington, which is about to be
erected in Brooklyn, and has very recently
been awarded the commission for the
statue of William the Silent which the
Holland Society of New York is to erect at
a cost of between forty and fifty thousand
dollars, on Riverside Drive Mr.. Shrady is
said to have modelled many statues of
Grant during the two years that have pass
ed since that competition, and to have but
Just completed one which was sufficiently
to his satisfaction to be enlarged for the
monument.
The attendance at the two salons this
~ QUAR- 600 OO1 vi eli hut