Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-13
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Miss Bertha E. Perrie held an interesting
exhibition of her pupils work in her studio
in the Art League building this week. 1t
consisted of drawings from the antique.
still life studies. sketches from life. decora-
tive designs and water colors. and it repre-
sented the years output of her several
classes. Much of the work was elementary
and very little of it was done by students
purposng TO make art a profession. and
yet it was all serious. virile and academic.
1t showed thoughtful study and good teach
ing, and spoke almost equally well for the
students and the instructor The drawings
from the antique were specially praise
worthy-strong, broadly handled and good
i'll tone-and with them a single stli-life
study set forth in black and white was,
through its unusual merit, found more than
deserving of note. The water colors were
less III number. but equally important
not always correct but exhibiting good
feeling and demonstrating effort expended
In the right direction. One particularly
clever little drawing was a pencil sketch of
Boston bulldog curled up asleep one
OF the studio chairs. which was made by a
member of the Saturday class. David Mac
I-aughlln lad of nine, for his grand
father. President Angel of Ann Arbor Uni
versity. There was some excellent out
door work shown by members of the sum-
mer sketch class, and, among other inter-
esting exhibits, a small plaster cast of a
medallion portrait modelled by one of the
more advanced pupils Taking the exhibit
ton as whole, 1t was remarkably varied
and impressive and studying the exhibits
individually 1t was found that all demon
strated earnest effort and displayed more
than passing knowledge of construction.
From first to last it was exceedingly credit
able.
Miss Mathilde Mueden has just finished a
charming little portrait in red chalk of Miss
Lydia Biddle. 1t is about twice the size of
cabinet photograph and gives a three
quarter view of the head and shoulders.
The likeness is said to be admirable and
the handling is extremely artistic. The
modelling though very delicate Is firmly felt.
and the values throughout are well sus-
tanned. 1t is in places sketchy and yet at
the same time where it is essential it shows
careful finish. Miss Mueden is now making
in the same style. though in crayon. a
portrait of Miss Ferries mother. which
promises to be quite as satisfactory like
ness and equally as pleasing picture. 1t
is an ideal form CT portrature-not aggres-
sive and yet entirely unaffected.
Miss Aline Solomons. her father and sis
ter, and Mr.. Max Weyl left here last
Wednesday evening for Asheville, N. c..
where for fortnight or more they are to
be the guests of Mr. Henry of New York,
whose estate adjoins Bltmore. Mr. Henry
is an old friend of Mr. Solomons and when
he was in Washington last winter became
greatly interested in Mr.. Weyfs work. pur-
chasing two of his canvaSeS and Offering
him commissions for others painted in the
| neighborhood of his southern home. Mr..
Weyl is an enthusiast on the beauty of our
outlying country: he never complains of
lack of subjects, and to him it never seems
to lose its charm He was, however. look
ing forward with much pleasure to his So
journ in Asheville and he will undoubt-
edly bring back from there much valuable
material.
Very recently MIR. Weyl has painted a
number of particularly attractive spring
| pic lures. One is to be seen in the local eX-
h;Eiton at Veerhoff's. and others were in
| formally shown this week in his studio. All
| we're done from a single situation near the
| Junction of the Loughboro and Tenleytown
| roads. OF all, possibly the most pleasing
| is a canvas of considerable size picturing
| long stretches of rolling fields with fringe
| of woods against the horizon and group
| of budding trees in the middle distance. In
this the composition is specially charming;
the coIoring most tender and appealing. 1t
possesses the very essence of spring-its
freshness, its dazzling beauty. and at the
same time it's air of languor-and it is
painted with all the vigor and breadth
which characterize the artists best works.
More commonplace and yet perhaps more
notable is a smaller canvas, also of recent
date, lowlend picture, setting forth IN
simplest terms a gray sky, a stretch of
marShland and a scrap of water. A pecu-
larly tonefui study, crisp in treatment. dull
in color, yet fervid in sentiment and rich in
great exhibition might escape notice, but
which In a home would constantly increase
| in significance.
The death, on Monday of this week of
| Mr.. Flavius Fisher, who for many years
has had a studio and conducted art classes
in the Corcoran building, removed a ia
mliar figure from the local art circle. Mr..
Fisher was born in Virginia over seventy
three years ago. and he gave the larger
part of his life to his painting. Educated
in the German schools at time when,
perhaps. they were most pedantic and least
strong. he became a clever technician and
faithful student. The principles he
| learned in his youth he was true to in his
old age and each of his works gave con-
| scientiously the measure of his ability
He painted in his time some distinguished
| persons, but standing even more to his
credit is the fact that he sincerely loved
his art and strove to attain by it worthy
aims.
In Morreys gallery there is now on ex-
hibition a wonderfully interesting water
color by John ferris, a member of the
Royal Scottish Water Color Society, who
has attained considerable prominence
| abroad but whose work is seldom seen in
| America 1t is picture of London from
| the ThameS-London enveloped in fog.
| loo ming like a ghost city above the wharf
| houses and quays. In the foreground is
| group of barges going up the river. to the
| right is light bridge, and to the left
group of rich, red-brown dock houses, while
| beyond rising tier after tier in the mys
| FERROUS greatness, are the buildings of the
great city itself. house walls, roof tops and
| cathedral spires. 1t is powerful work,
suggestive in measure of Mr.. Colin Camp
| bell Cooper's skyscraper pictures accurate
| in craftsmanship. subtle in sentiment. In