Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
ART NOTES.

A very creditable little exhibition was
held Monday and Tuesday of this week
in the old school room at the Art League
building by Miss Bertha f. Ferries pupils.
1t was almost an impromptu affair, and
number of those who had belonged to Miss
Ferries winter classes had left the city
and could not be represented, but there was
no lack of good material. All the available
space on the walls. indeed. was covered, and
some very excellent work was shown.
Quite a large section was devoted to the
water color studies of flowers and still ! fe,
many of which were both cleverly and
broadly handled, and in some cases sincere
ly artistic. Next to these in number and
interest were the drawings from the
ant que, and lastly came a miscellaneous
collection of sketches and beginners CHAR
coal work. The cast drawings were simple
and direct in treatment, delic ately handled
yet strong in effect, and among the sketches
from life were one two showing c)nSid-
cradle spirit and evincing more than Us Iai
ability. AS whole the exhibition was
malked by an air of seriousness winch sig
nifcd earnest purposes and high ideals, md
reflected much credit upon both the SUI
dents and their teacher.
Mr. E H. Miller is painting now in his
turing a Catskill wood interior. He has
taken 1T from sketch made near his old
summer residence, and he shows in 1t
interesting effect of sunlight on the rough.
gray bark of a yellow birch tree. This vet
eran of the forest stands among other trees
on a wooded hillside, and in an ordinary
light might not be remarked as differing
from it's neighbors, but as the sun has risen
sifted through an aperture in the leafy roof
and literally turned it's bark to glittering
silver. 1t is curious and an unusual eff
feet, but 1t is peculiarly charming Through
openings between the trees the dazzling
light of the sun on lower treetops is to be
seen, but with the exception Of the single
beam the woods into which the observer
looks are cool and shady. A carpet of dead
dried leaves is upon the ground, and over
head the restless motion of the summer
foliage is suggested. There is none who
knows appreciates the woods better than
Mr.. Miller, and this knowledge and feeling
find expression in his painting, which pic
lures them literally, yet at the same time
tentatively sets forth their mystic charm.
Mr.. Miller has also recently reprinted with
good result small canvas which he exc
cuted a year or more ago. This pictures
at the close of sultry August. day negro
man sitting gravel through large screen
placed upright the sandy river shore.
Beyond him is broad field of green be-
tween which and the sky only long line
of bushes intervenes. The sky is dull along
the horizon and partly clouded above; the
grass and foliage are brilliant in color, but
to some extent yelled by rising mist, and
the whole ably carries out the impression
of warmth and humidity. There is a
sharply marked contrast between the fore
ground and the distance, but a pleasing
unity in the general composition 1t Is
without doubt one of the strongest and
most colorful pictures which Mr.. Miller
has produced for some time, and 1t must
always be reckoned among his most nota-
BILE works
There is among the local fraternity no
painter who has to last winters credit
greater amount of work, and good work,
than MI Max Weyl. Some of his pictures
he has shown IN the prominent out-of-town
exhibitions and number have found pur-
chasers, but many are still to be seen in his
studio in the Corcoran building Since al
most the beginning of his artistic career
Mr.. Weyl has been successful in disposing
Of his work, but he is unspoiled by the
spirit of commercialism and paints inces-
sanity and with pleasure regardless of the
market. And it is this love of his work
which to a large extent makes 1t good.
Since :be summer days have come he has
been out sketching much Of the time either
the time to work up in his studio a number
of canvaces which are ruggedly pictur-
esque and altogether most attractive. Later
in the summer Mr.. Weyl will probably GO
with his family to Virginia, but for the
present he will keep open his studio and
continu, his work in and around Washing
ton.
The Cercoran Gallery has recently pur-
chased and received from abroad a plaster
reproduction of the sarcophagus of Alexan-
der the Great. Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith,
the director of the art department of Har-
ward University, is painting panels repro
ducing the bas-reliefs en- the sides of this
tomb, and when these are completed the
sarcophagus will be placed on exhibition
with tho other casts and statues. The Cor
coran Gallery adds one or two notable
works Of this kind each year to its collec-
ton, but SO quietly has this been done that
there are perhaps few who realize that we
now have in Washington one Of the best
and NEST comprehensive collections of casts
in this country.
Mr.. Freeman Thorp. who for the past
two winters has made his home in this
city, IL now at Utica, N. T. where he is
painting q portrait of Mr.. Sherman, which
IL to be presented to the Congressman's
wife by his friends in New York. Mr.
Thorp has just finished, In Chicago. a
three-quarter-length portrait Of the late ].
Sterling Morton, former Secretary Of Ar