Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
ART NOTES.

This is undoubtedly a dull season in
the art world. With the Corcoran Gallery
closed the schools empty and many of the
studios vacated for the summer, there
would seem to be little to chronicle, and yet
things are not as near a standStill as 1t
would seem at a glance. Not a few OF
the local artists have not yet Joined the
general northern migration and in a num-
Der of the studios there Is considerable
work in progress. Mr.. Amateis. for in
stance, is engaged upon two large COM
missions, a military monument for south
ern state and an important government
work; Mr.. Carl GutherZ, besides his mural
panels for the Fort Wayne Library, has
recently received an order for the portrait
of Jefferson Davis, which is to be hung in
the hall of fame dedicated by the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy, Miss Hattie e.
Burdette is doing some illustrative work
and Miss Bertha E. Perrie has a number
of miniatures on hand.
This, too, is the landscape painters har-
vest season, when the freshness of spring
is losing itself in summers luxuriance and
though some may not believe it, there Is
no place where picturesque themes can be
found in greater abundance than in the
near neighborhood of Washington. Some
of the local painters do know and appreci-
near their town studios, and among these is
Mr.. Max Weyl.
Again and again Mr.. Weyl has set forth
in his pictures the charms of our outlying
country, yet he never seems to fall short
of subject or to be forced to repeat him
self. There is, indeed, always a freshness
about his work which Is pleasing; a new
ness which would signify recent discovery
Perhaps Lovers Lane" is not exactly as
,, he painted it or Little River quite as he
has recorded, but the same spirit is there
and surely an artist has the privilege of
removing a tree stretching a stream
Recently Mr.. Weyl has painted two very
attractive canvases down by the river
shore. One pictures clump of willows be-
yond which the water and distant stretch
of land are to be seen, and the other shows
beneath sky grayed by billowy clouds a
wild bit of land, overgrown with trees and
bushes, jutting out into the water They
are both comparatively simple compositions
but they have force and feeling which
of pictures which could not by even the
/, most ruthless be called pretty" but
winch upon close acquaintance become
more and more significant and worth
while"
Mr. James Henry Moser is likewise stay-
ing In town longer than usual this sum
mer and trying his hand" on local themes
Turning from the subtleties of cloud and
mountain effects to the substantially of
| sunny fields and summer verdure he ts
! making studies in a very different vein from
| those he has produced of late Near the
home of one of his pupils, below Alexan-
| dria, he found, last week, some wheat
fields, half reaped, clump of dark trees
and a brook, so grouped together that from
| them he got three interesting pictures.
| Each Is quite individual, though dealing
| with the same elements. and all are done
| with crispness and confidence which be-
| tokens both knowledge and rapidity. The
| skies indicate the approach of summer
| showers, but the landscapes are bathed In
| the warm summer sunshine which in con-
| trast to the advancing shadows seems to
| have become more than usually brilliant.
| They are characteristic of not only the
place but of the season, and show how es-
| sential it is to vary the handling with the
theme.
Mr.. Spencer B. Nichols has some interest
| ing work on his easel and a number of at
| tractive, recently painted canvases in his
HOlmead avenue studio He is occunied