Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-06

surprise, declared It to be pink In tone.
another green and still another gray. With
the passing of weeks the incident was for
the salon and found there the little hut
pink in tone with rich green shadows. set
ting forth the very essence OF that even
ing's twilight. Surely that man had hit It.
he thought, until passing through the gal
scene equally Is s eonvAi 1uhlu A1 painted IN
green and shadowy browns. Ofie was no
truer than the other. Each had been true
to his own vision and had therefore re-
produced correctly the effect The secret
of this, Mr.. Brooks said, was to be found
in well-sustained values-relatfve color val
ues. To merely match local color Is not
sufficient in painting a picture All colors
are influenced by other colors and none is
staple. Place green leaf against green
gray background and it will lose its green
ness; place a gray pewter mug against 1t
and the green again will predominant. He
counseled his pupils to strive for clear, d.
rect expression; to endeavor to see correctly
at first and spare themselves the pain of
many alterations, of hating brush work
and confusing errors. With a common piece
of cloth, little clay and some br1StleS or
a much-despised animal one could create
he affirmed, divine work of art, but even
for the masters he acknowledged there are
days when inspiration is wanting and the
tools resolve themselves into nothing bet
ter than their original elements.
In conclusion Mr.. Brooke gave to his lis
teners measure for picture-an analysis
of good picture. 1t must, he said, answer
five requirements It must have good local
color; correct relative color values true
tone values Cor, in other words. be all in
the same key) it must have pictorial quail
ity, and, lastly. subjective beauty.
Mr.. Victor E. Mindeleff and his wife have
just completed a large work which. II not
commonly included In the field of art has
certainly place there. 1t is the modelling
and ttnting of Typographical models to be
sent by the geographical survey to Port
land part of the government exhibit.
Two illustrate what is known as the "kla-
math project for the reclamation of land
in Oregon and California by the storage OF
water, drainage of swamps and construc-
ton of canals; one picturing the country
as it was found, the other as 1t has or will
become after the project is put in practice.
Another sets forth the benehcent results
of the Uncompahgre project on the Gunison
river, Colorado and a third is given over
to a demonstration of the slate stratas In
the same state. They are miniature land
Scapes more accurate than a painting, more
real than a map Each is made to scale and
great attention is paid TO detail. The foun-
dation is made of thin layers of wood.
carved and fitted. over which the form of
the land is modelled in wax or plasteribe.
This when 1t is completed, is cast in pfas-
ter, shellacked and colored. In the coloring
both accuracy and effect are considered, and
while they are scientifically correct they
are at the same time pictorially interesting.
How difficult a proposition this presents
only those who have faced 1t can realize.
but that less than a dozen have met 1t
satisfactorily in this country should be
found sufficient proof. Like many of their
pictures. Mr.. and Mrs. Mindeleff do this
work together, and nearly equal is their
skill that they are able to do it with expe-
dition, and yet at odd times. 1t is art on
a big scale and of a unique order.
Miss Susanna Gutherz has been meeting
with great success with her posters this
year. A demand has been created for them
and they now find sale almost soon
they are created. And it is not strange,
for they are genuinely artistic and very
charming
Last week she produced a long panel
shaped one Of a girl-a summer girl-stand-
ing paddle in hand in the PROV of canoe,
laden with pond lilies; and this week, in
much the same form. she has been pic
turing in breezy fashion a seashore girl on
the rocks above the sea. They are bright
and picturesque. A good type. graceful in
line and pleasing In color. Not perhaps the
highest form of art but one far-reaching
and worthy. 1t is not always remembered
that the bill boards have q larger audience
than the picture gallery-that they speak to
the masses whereas the galleries merely ad-
dress the few. Good posters would, there
fore, have an educational value which many
may not suspect Miss Gutherz Is also
painting, in pastels, an admirable life-sized
likeness of her brother which shows good
color, broad treatment and considerable per-
sonality.
week 60 the loan collection at the Corcoran
Gallery-"The Bathers," by William Morris
Hunt loaned by Mrs. Slater. 1t is one Of
Mr.. Hunts most famous works and has be-
come familiar to many through engravings
and reproductions. none OF which can, how
ever. more than suggest its charm. 1t
represents a boy standing on the shoulders
Of comrade preparing for plunge in a
shaded woodland pool. To say that it is
one of the best paintings produced in Ameri-
ca may seem an exageration, and yet when
1t was shown last winter in the comparative
exhibition 1t so proved itself. 1t Is an ad-
mrable piece Of work. done with all the
fidelity of the pre-Raphaeites, and at the
same time. subtle and sympathetic in feeling.
1t has large qualities, big virtues, and while
every part is related each one is carried
to the limit Of the painters power 1t Is
a blending of the real and the ideal-a dem
onstratiOn Of the value of finish and of the
significance OF pictorial effect. 1t is paint
ing which all can understand and equally
appreciate.
It so happened that when the interna-
tional Jury first selected from the exhibitors
at the centennial exposition In 1876 thir-
teen artists for honors the two Americans
thus distinguished were William Morris
Hunt of Boston and John r. Key of Wash
ington. Mr.. Key is the grandson of the
author of the Star Spangled Banner"
friend of Whstlers and a member of the
Boston Art Club. He was the art director
of the Omaha exposition and for a number
of years resided in the west, but he returned
to Washington some months ago and Is now
occupying studio in the Corcoran building.
He has painted with great success pictures
of the several great eXpositions and he is
now making series of characteristic pic
lures of Washington. He is a remarkable
technician and reproduces facts with Won
derful accuracy; and he is, moreover, thor
oughly enthusiastic over the beauties Of
this, his native city He has painted OF
late several views north of the Aqueduct
bridge and also a number of the gardens
and vistas at Arlington.