The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-28
PAINT AND CLAY CLUB.
MANY VISITORS AT THIS HOME
 EXHIBITION.
Some of the Many Notable Features of the DI.DIay-A Treat for Art Lovers.

There are many more who want to go' and mean to go, and some who will put off going until it is too late. The ex- hibition is half over. 79S Chapel street is an easy number to find, just below Orange street: the clubs two signs, scarlet and black-and-white, are con- spicuously displayed to catch the eye os every passerby; while upstairs in the art gallery very pleasant surprise awaits the visitor, even though he may have attended the clubs earlier exhib- its. a sit is universally acknowledged that this one surpasses all others. Nearly all the oil paintings are in the large gallery. A few portraits will be noticed first, as one enters; Miss Ab- bott's large portrait of Joseph Stick ney arrests our attention by its evil dent trutheulness, and as one gazes into the eyes of the picture one feels feels acquainted with the man and can almost hear him speak. Professor Weir's portrait of Elhu Vedder is also very interesting, and full of char acter. Other portraits are: A very at tractive half-length of Miss Spier, by MT. Thompson: an Arrangement in Brown and White.'' a very graceful and harmonious picture of a young girl, by Professor Niemeyer; two DOT trait studies of MT. Soderston, one of them a child with book; MT. Burn hams portrait ot his little boy; Miss Foote's very strong portrait of Orthout c. White. Esq, and two lovely DOT traits, boy and girl, by the late Mrs. Tourney. This little boy, who stands gazing at butterfly which has lighted on his hand. is particularly real and winning, and the girl gazes at us, with eyes full of the innocence of childhood.
 The artists especially invited to ex- hibit have sent very interesting pie lures, prominent among which are John w. Alexanders Green Gown and J. Alden Weir's Pink Bodice" a graceful girl in pink gown of the very palest shade; Walter Griffin's large landscape, Falmouth Foreside, Maine," which somehow strikes the casual observer as being an old fash toned painting of an oldfashioned sub ject. MT. Woodbury's Wave" is a wonderful piece of canvas with noth- ing but the wave; and as one gazes into those green depths one feels ex- actly as if one were looking into the ever-changing deep itself. The wonder is how any human artist, with our or dinary limitations, could ever paint it. A fine example of Allen B. Talcott's work, Joshua Rock at Lyme is loan- ed by Mrs. E. E. Salisbury.
 Among the pictures by local artists I,a hxy son, president of the club. His French Garden" is very generally admired, but ''The Lake" "The Wallow," and one or two other canvasses contain more of the poetry of our New Eng land country than can be found in any foreign landscape. The painter has lived with this scenery. and loves it, and paints it that we may love it also. The same is true of J. I. H. Downes' ssTop of the Hill'' which has both poet " and nature in it, and makes one feel exactly as if one were really walking up that long road to explore what lies beyond while Misty May, has all the charm of the wooks and the spring. MT. Burnhan's Sunrise on East Rock is most satisfactory, especially to those who know the old rock, and know they don't need to go to Greece to get beau tiful effects Of morning and evening light. Mir. Langzettel has two New England landscapes, and especially in his "Corner of the Pasture" do we see true feeling and a careful observation of nature Joline Smith is represented by number of paintings (Why not, as two years ago by one of his beautiful windows?) among which November Evening" and .sWinter, Late Afteroo' are particularly interesting, The truthful and strong coloring of the lat ter make it noticeable among the other winter pictures in the gallery. One of these, Walter Nettleton's Beginning of January Thaw'' deserves special notice The softening sky and the chil- ly atmosphere, which one really feels when looking at this picture, take us back to winter days, even more realis- tically than our recent cold snap has been able to do. In this gallery are many other interesting pictures by artists from out of town. Up Along Provincetown, Cape Cod,' by Helen Harrison of Bridgeport, is very truth ful. and there are two effective little pictures by E. L. Warner; Tn Harvest Time being particularly brilliant in coloring Miss Mary M. Wetmore of New York has two pictures, the small CT Mother and Child,'' has very Rembrandt-like effect, and will well re- pay study.
 At the end of this gallery are the works in black and white, including some very good pencil sketches by Miss Helena Wood Smith, three monotypes by MT. Hopson, in his very best vein; also many very original bookplates. A beautiful -bas-relief portrait by Max Defiant decorates the side well near the window,
 Tn the water color room many inter- esting things are found. MT LaFarge's S Chiefs in War Dress, Samoa occu- pies prominent position, and is cer- tainly unrivalled in it's brillancy of col- bring, by anything in the while gal lery. Many of the landscapes exhibit- ed are beautiful in subject and satis- factory in treatment; two by Miss Allis are very rich in color, while Mrs. Schwab's "Provincetown Garden" has wonderfully fascinting sunny effect. Her Winter Landscape" is also bril- liant bit of color, and she has rather remarkable High Tide on the Marsh in which some very difficult effects are uncommonly we'll managed Miss Edith Trllman's "Dolly" a decorative piece.