Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-12
CREDITABLE DISPLAY
Annual Exhibition of the
Water Color Club.
UP TO HIGH STANDARD
MANY CHARMING PICTURES BY
LOCAL PAINTERS
Private View and Reception Today
Open to the Public Next
Monday
UP TO HIGH STANDARD

The Washington Water Color Clubs
ninth annual exhibition opens today with a
private view and reception in the hemicycle
of the COrcoran Gallery of Art, and from
Monday. November II. to Saturday, De-
cember 10. ii will be free to the public
every week day and on Sunday afternoons.
This exhibition is made up of both local
and out-of-town work. and will be found
to compare more than favorably with the
larger shows held in Philadelphia, New
York and Boston. 1t is serious thoughtful
and a the same time artistic. TO both
painter and layman it will be interesting
and ineligible. In subject and technique
the WORK ii displays Is exceedingly varied !;
the pictures. mostly painted last summer
come from many localities and no one
school Of expression prevails. The standard
set by the club in past seasons has been
well upheld. and with more than one ex-
hibitor there is marked evidence of prog
reSs There are more pictures this year
than formerly and no less paintings
works which, while well executed. set
forth something more than clever teen
nical performance
Three prizes have been awarded tro
given by the trustees of the Corcoran CAL
lery, for the best pictures in the exhibit
tlon. and one offered by Mr. y j. Parsons
for the best water color by a local painter.
ser. Mrs Jane BRIGHAM Child and Mr.
William Fuller Curtis were Ineligible for
the first Of the CorcOrau prizes on account
of having won il in past exhibitions Miss
Perrie and MIR. II Hobart Nichols were for
the same reason out of the contest for the
second and for the Parsons prize neither
Mr.. Holmes nor Mr.. Moser could compete
This narrowed the contest, but left Suffi-
Ctent number of worthy combatants in the
field to prevent the result being a fore
gone conclusion. Indeed. when the jury of
award composed Of Mr.. Richard N Brooke
the president of the Society Of Washington
Artists; Mr.. f. G. Messer, director of the
CorCOran School, and Mr.. Harold Macdon-
aid, the well known portrait painter, met in
the hemicycle on Friday afternoon it found
its task anything but an easy one
The Awards.
After careful study and deliberate
thought however, the following awards
were made: To Miss Bertha f. Perrie, the
first Corcoran prize of 500 for AN Italian
Salt Ship" to Miss Elizabeth Shipper
Green. the second Corcoran prize of So
for calendar design. and to Mr.. II. Ho-
bart Nichols, the Parsons prize OF $50 foI
Twilight In Maine" Honorable mention
To Mr.. Lucien Powell for The Grand Can
yon' and to MIR. w. \. Sharp for a draw
ing. Motherhood"
Taken collectively, the most noteworthy
group of paintings in the exhibition is that
contributed 10y Miss Bertha T. Perrie.
whose work Tor several years has found a
welcome in the foremost Out-of-town eX-
hibitions. and is too well known here TO
need either introduction or praise. IL has
at all times been distinguished by vigor.
sincerity and truth, but Ia these virtues IL
now adds pleasing pictorial quality Here
tofore Miss Perrie has apparently been sat
isfied to reproduce facts but this year she
has gone a step farther and has TRANSCRIPT
ed the effects which go far toward making
the commonplace charming. She has paint
ed into her pictures light and air, and she
has chosen well the moment for interpre-
tation. They are no less true than former
ly but far more significant In point OF
merit there is little choice. There is some
thing very restsul in the quiet light which
surrounds the gray boat houses In "A
Rainy Day" something very realistic and
at the same time very intangible in The
Fog" and something truly mastery in the
simple rendering of big truths in her pic
ture of an Italian Salt Ship" Fishing