Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02

there seems some doubt about the matter
of acceptance. When the board of regents
met in March the question was postponed
until December and should 1t be further
postponed next Tuesday the probabilities
are that it will be irrevocably lost.
Mr. Carl Gutherz has Just finished two
landscapes of exceeding interest and charm.
Both are autumn scenes painted. or at least
found, In the neighborhood of the artists
picturesque little summer home near Rock
vile. One shows a grass-grown hillside.
background against wood hoary with
frost, bright with color. The early morn
ing sun has just crept over the tree tops
and dispelled, where it rested, the winter
dew, but IL has enyeloped the woods In
mist and covered the Cloudless sky with
gentle haze. 1t is an unusual composition:
uncommonly sympathetic rendering. The
other is, however, more pictorial, and per
haps even more out of the ordinary. 1t
represents vista through q wOod-a road
way, cleared through belt of timber, con
meeting one open stretch With another 1t
is again frosty morning. The foreground
is in shadow, but beyond is sunshine and
promised warmth The boughs of the trees
form themselves into Gothic arch and
frame at the end of the avenue a cathedral
window, the sunlit foliage of an oak and a
maple. There are tiny vistas through all
the trees, little breaks and openings. and
the color of the leaves, though low toned,
lection of an autumn picture; it conserves
the spirit and interpreis the feeling of the
season It is extremely atmospheric and
sincere, and 1t manifests on the part of the
painter not only skill. but a profound APP
probation of Natures moods.
The regular monthly art Talk" will be
given at the Corcoron School. in the lower
hemicycle. next Monday afternoon at 4:l5
by Mr. e. c. Messer, the director. The
subject will be Seeing and Perceivlng,
and it's purport will be to open wider the
eyes of the listeners to the things of beauty
which surround them and which they see
every day. unknowngly. 1t will be made
specially applicable to the work of the
students, but from past experience it Will
be safe to assume that ii will also prove
helpful and instructive to others. These
informal lectures are not open to the pub
lie, but to all who specially interested
cordial welcome is extended.
An event of much interest is scheduled
for the hemicycle for January-the exhi-
biton of Tissot's Old Testament illustra-
lions. There are 3T5 in all, and each, it is
said. has been the subject of careful study.
In New York and Chicago, where they
been exhibited, they have attracted wide
and favorable attention.
K Z
Miss Jane Bartlett has been doing some
interesting work lately with the camera. In
pictorial photography the problems of COM
position, light and shade and technique are
as potent as in painting, and, on account
of greater limitations even more vexing.
In some instances in her portrait work re-
Gently Miss Bartlett has along these lines,
shown laudable solutions. A group of
mother and two children She has handled
with special cleyerness and. some portraits
of a little girl she has interpreted with
much artistic accuracy and feeling.
NJ Hobart Nichols. The Mall-knnMn IncaI