Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
ART NOTES.

| scription fund was started for this purpose,
and by last fall the committee in charge
| had a sufficient sum In its hands to justify
| the institution of competition NINE
sculptors submitted models. and last July
| to of these, Mr.. U. s. J. Dunbar, the
commission for the work was awarded
| That was less than four months ago, but
| this week the sculptor notified the commit
| tee that the statue, which, on simple ped
estal, is to constitute the memorial, was
ready for a first inspection. In height 1t is
a trife over eight feet and in character it
follows closely the model to which the
award was made. 1t shows Mr.. Shepherd
in an ordinary business suit standing
squarely on both feet with his head turned
Slightly to one side, and it pictures him
not as he was when he was identified with
the government of the District, but rather
in his later years when he came to this
city as a visitor from Mexico. AS the man
retained to the last, however, his force Of
character, so the statue sets him forth In
his vigor and power. The pose Is spirited
and characteristic, and the modelling of the
head has been well DONE 1t is possible that
the committee may desire certain deviations
made from the original model as the work
progresses, but it is probable that 1t will
he found satisfactory in the main.
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Mr.. Dunbar is modelling this statue In
studio which he has built for himself in
the rear of his home on v street between
North Capitol and list. Here he has leased
for term of years a large, disused plot of
ground. on which he has placed a one-room
building, twenty-five feet in width by forty
In length This he literally built himself,
performing most of the labor with his own
hands 1t is constructed with a frame of
heavy beams-boarded and water-proofed
The walls are high and the roof. which is
peaked, is partly of glass, serving as sky
lights. Within, on a high shelf under the
caves, is an honorable array of casts of
portrait bustS made in former years: In the
center of the room is the present incomplete
Work; to the right there are carpenters
bench, forge and anvil, and to the left
| desk and wel-filled bookcase are to be
! seen, while without there is the space and
! the promise of Furnishing, next season,
vegetable garden. Surely curfOuSly va
ried but interesting workshop.
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Miss Clara Hill has finished this week the
tablet which she has been modelling for
Trinity College, Brookland and which when
cast in bronze is to be placed on that stair
way of that institution. Its object, set forth
in Latin on the main panel, is to memorial
ize the gift of a building and art collection
| made by Judge and Mrs. O'Connor of Cali
fornia. To the right of this inner panel
| MISS I'LL lids pictured InOmaS AQuIQdS
and to the left St Luke, while above it are
two kneeling angels upholding a relief of
| the Virgin. 1t is all modelled In compare
| lively low relief, yet it is bold and virle
! st. Luke, bearded man, has the strength
| and character commonly ascribed to the
great evangelist, and st. Thomas bearing
| splendidly BELTS the ascetic of the middle
ages. Both are distinctive, and yet each
| might serve as type. Technically Miss
| Hills work is admirably done. but more
ont into ne
| feeling which made the religious pictures
| of the painters before Raphael pre-eminent
| 1t is simple and sincere, and it approaches
| the acme of artistic expression. Trinity
College is much to be congratulated.
The first of the three small animals which
Mrs. Kemeys has been commissioned to
| make finals for the new Small Mann
NAL House" at the National Geological Park
was cast last Wednesday. 1T is a fox, and
has been chosen for the highest pinnacle
of the roof. Mrs. Kemeys has modelled him
sitting upright with his forelegs together
and straight. His head is bent forward in
| an attitude of inquiry, and in his
eyes and the expression of his countenance
there is the traditional cunning of his race
Generally speaking, the treatment in real
istic, and yet 1t will at the same time be
found to be conventional. The willy mock
ing character of the little animal is well ex-
pressed in the plastic reproduction, but it's
decorative object has by no means been for
gotten. The other two. which with this
copied in triplicate are to form the nine,
are lynx and bear cub and have been
sketched in plasterine. The lynx in pose
resembles the fox, though 1t is more upright
and rigid but the jolly little bear is built
on very different lines. Each has been
shown in characteristic positions and has
been specially selected with view to the
place 1t would occupy When completed
a re tn 10 pra6 txth
a green glaze and sand blasted to a, wax
finish-a process which produces a result
very similar to green bronze in effect.
Mr.. Richard N. Brooke has reopened his
studio In the Demonet building and has
brought back with him from Warrenton,
Va. quite a quantity of interesting sum-
mer sketches. One pictures a sunset be-
yond rolling, grassy fields: neither tree nor
| bush breaks the horizon line calls the
attention from the gently luminous sky.
Along the lower section to the left the sky
is clear and transparently coiorful, above
there is a vaporous gray cloud-curtain, tint
ed with pink, and to the right. rising as
though with night in its folds, is a row of
clouds as yet untouched by the rays of the
departed sun. 1t Is the effect of moment
transcribed for all time; impression jot-
ted down, not from memory, but from the
another shows In the late afternoon sun
light a stubble field dotted with corn shocks,
with the blue hills lying beyond, and third
! represents a little stream sauntering with
midsummer languor through a well-defined
| ravine None is finished. yet each in Its
way is full of the spirit of out-of-doors, and
| possesses in large measure those more sat
| isfying qualities of sentiment and feeling
! which so often in more studious works are
| sought for in vain.
|
| The Washington Water Color Club pur-
| POSES holding its ninth annual exhibition In
the Hemicyele of the corcoran Gallery from
| November IA to December 10 inclusive. APP
| pncation has been made for the use of the
| Hemicycle for that space of time and
| though the board of trustees do not meet un-
/ til next Monday. it Is reasonable to suppose
/ that the privilege will be granted. II SO
/ November 4 and 8 will be designated for
/ the reception of exhibits. Works not here
iofore exhibited in Washington In water