Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

ing. and Miss Emma D. Rice Miss 8 ID
Pierson, Miss Elsie George and Miss Laura
liable and attractive. The exhibition will
continue until May 10.
In order to guard more perfectly against
less by fire the trustees of the Corcoran
Gallery have recently had an isolated
building of sufficient size placed upon the
unoccupicd ground in the rear of the gal
lery, in which packing boxes, excelsior and
other infiammable material. formerly kept
in the basement. can. be stored Though
the gallery is in itself a fireproof building,
this is measure which for wise fore
thought should commend itself to those
who NAV in the future desire to loan or
donate pictures to the gallery.
Mr.. August st. Gaudens the sculptor,
who is correctly ranked with the few really
great men of the day, is spending two or
three weeks in this city, and has taken
ternporarily a studio in the Art League
building He is modelling portrait of Sec
rotary Hay and executing other private
commissions.
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Miss Aline Solomons is painting in pastelS
a portrait of very attractive young wo-
study The latter is almost finished, and
therefore can be readily judged. 1t pictures
a. blue majolica water jug and small brass
bowl on a polished mahogany table. against
a background of bronze-colored plush IN
the lug leaning gracefully forward ana
toward the center of the canvas. is punch
of white and pink roses, and in the shadows
OF the background a few stray peacock
feathers can be discerned. 1t is an odd
composition. but none the less charming,
and in both color and Interpretation 1t Is
very decorative and effective.
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Mr. Amateis has a quantity of sculptural
work on hand, among which is portrait
bust of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. This WheA
completed is to be placed in the local pup
lie library. So far Mr.. Amateis has hdd
for 1t only one sitting, but it already Is an
excellent likeness. and portrays both the
individuality and character of the man. II
is rudeIy. but firmly, modelled, and the eN-
preston of both the eyes and. the mouth
has been admirably set forth. If this same
spontaneity is preserved in the completed
work il must without DOUBT De considered
most satisfactory.
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In spite of the wintry winds and frosty
weather summer plans are being dlscusseo
and sketchng classes got together. MISS
Catherine Critcher, who has just painted an
excellent portrait of the Rev. DIR. Crawford
dean of the Virginia Theological Seminary,
is making arrangements to go abroad with
three of her pupils the last of May, purpos-
ing to stay until the 1st of October Ihey
will go directly to Holland, and 1ntend
spending most of their holiday in Laren
and Volendam, taking but a short slsht-
seeing trip on their homeward journey.
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Miss Alice Foster, who has a studio at
141O street, has organized a sketch class
for the spring and early summer which has
already had the hardihood to attempt out
of-door work 1t viii meet on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday mornings, and the
themes will be found in the picturesque
nearby country which forms the outskirts
of the city. rt.
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The collection of water" colors by Mr.
Walter Paris, which has been on exhibition
for the past two weeks in rooms adjoining
the artists studio, will continue to be on
view free to the public between the hours
of II and daily until May D.
Mr.. Glenn Brown of this city has been
elected an honorary corresponding member
of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
an honor which has been bestowed upon
only six other American architects.
Miss Bertha E. Perrie has just copied
with uncommon success an old miniature OF
an elderly gentleman of the colonial period,
painted by a Royal Academician of that
same time. The head is strong and we'll
modelled, and the costume is naturally pic
turesque. In making her copy Miss Perrle
has not only reproduced with accuracy the
line and color of the original, but has got
in her work the painters individuality and
spirit.
Those who still remember with pleasure
Miss Theo Ruggles, who is now Mrs. Kitson
of Boston, will be glad to learn that she
has recently won a competition for a SOL
diers' monument to be erected at Pasadena,
Cal. The figure, a Union soldier stepping
briskly along with a rifle on his shoulder,
will be more than life size, and is to be
placed on rough boulder pedestal
1t is reported that the French government
has bought the famous Farnese palace in
Rome. with the intention of making it the
residence of its ambassador and the abiding
place of the French School of History and
Archaeology. which was established in that
city thirty years ago.
The Pennsylvania Academy solicits the
loan or gift of American family portraits
of interest, inasmuch as it has decided to
set apart one of it's galleries henceforth
for the exhibition of American portraits
that is portraits of such national charac-
ters as Washington, Franklin, Morris ely
mew Hopkinson and Madison. and by such
men Of note as West, Gilbert, Stuart, Peale,
Rush, Inman and Sully.
Much interest has been taken in the
poster competition, instituted some weeks
ago by the Countess Cassinj among the
students of the Corcoran school. prize
of $40 was offered by the countess for the
best poster announcing the garden fete,
which is to be held on April 20, for the
benefit of the Red Cross work in the Rus
sian army. Quite a collection of very at
tractive and clever designs were the re-
suit, but among them all the one by Miss
Ruth Shepherd Clements, which is now
being displayed in Stumph & Lyfords win
dow was adjudged most worthy of the
award. This represents against golden