Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07

l States and are laid on in panels after
| the fashion ofthA famous gates by Chi
berd To complete and make perfect the
| proportions tranabm has been added.
and this is now Will nigh finished. It
briefly and alleaorfally sets forth the
spirit and Significance of the whole, and
| while but part of the scheme will be
/ found at the same time a unit in itself.
1t is in both low and high relief. In the
ahanos w Is ns ona n
| her right hand she carries a national
SYMBOL in the Jeff E. palm branch which
she offers to group typifying intellec-
| tual attainment. Heading this group is
| an educator, a college professor in cap
| and gown behind whom stands architec-
ture. sculpture, literature. painting, the
| preacher and the teacher Balancing this
/ group to the left are those who stand for
4 the material development = agriculture,
| mandatory, commerce; the soldier, the
sailor. &c The composition is excellent;
! the thought well carried out The space
4 is nicely apportioned and there is no
| overcrowding of figures. Each section
has it's own meaning. but a whole the
| is spirited and clever and the artistic
| feeling which it betrays augurs well for
| the completed work.
| =
| Mr.. Max Weyl has painted recently a
number of extremely attractive canvases,
some of which will doubtless find their
| way into the more prominent spring an
nuals. One Is a poetical transcription Of
| a picturesque bit of landscape-a purple
1 hill, low meadow land tall, symmetrical
| grain stacks and sunlight sitting through
| an October fog. Another shows a dreary
| stretch of marsh beneath gray wintry
| sky-severe. vigorous, simple, yet at the
same time strong and appealing-and a
L I, It'd yAk4
| nearby hillside and tree-grown dell. or
the three this last is perhaps the most
| notable. 1t Is no less virile than COM
| monty. but more profound. 1t is not only
| a painting of place, but of time. It
| Is full of light and air and IL brings to
| the observer the keen delight which ma
ture sometimes awakens. 1t was an eff
| rect winch Mr.. Weyl saw last week, and
| 1t has been rendered with infinite truth
| and delightful feeling.
| X
| The Corcoran School will reopen on Nom
| day, after two weeks intermission. That
| afternoon at 4:15 Mr.. James Henry Moser
will give, in the lower hemicycle, the third
of this seasons art talks. His subject has
not been announced, but 1t will be one
| which Is directly applicable to the work of
! the students and at the same time purpose
| ly thought provoking. This and other lee
1 lures of the course are open to all artists
| and students. That Mr.. Mosers wife and
| daughters have recovered sufficiently from
| their recent serious Illness to enable him
| to resume without anxiety his routine work
| is matter of sincere congratulation.
| X X
| Mr.. Freeman Thorp, whose official por-
| traits have found much favor in this city,
| writes from New York that he and his
| family will return to Washington early
| this month for the remainder of the winter.
t1tf,,
| family of Mr.. o. L. Richards of the we'll
| known banking firm of c. B. Richards &
! Co., and notable among his accomplish
ments of the past summer are likenesses of
Representative and Mrs. Sherman of Utica,
| n Y, and of eX-Gov. Horace Boies of
Iowa. Mr. Thorp had indeed a busy sum-
| mer season, going from Chicago to his
home in northern Minnesota, then back to
New York; from Utica to Iowa. then to
Montana, and finally east again. During
that time and along that route he painted
sixteen portraits. twelve Of which were
from life.
The New York Herald of January men,
toned in the following gratifying manner
Miss Alice Readings portrait of the late
Lieut.. Henry Herbert Balch, which has re-
Gently been hung in Squadron AS armory,
Madison avenue and Oath street. 1.-THE
portrait-an equestrian one-was painted at
Mrs. Balchs country home near Easton,
Md where the artist had the advantage of
being able to use Lieut.. Baich's favorite
riding horse as model. The work is
spirited, the Hkness good and the drawing
and composition excellent
The Inness' medal given annually at the
New York Academy exhibition by George
Inness jr. in memory of his father, for the
best landscape shown, was awarded this
year to Edward Gay.
collection of thirty-nine recent water
colors by Mr.. f. Hopkinson Smith is now
being shown in the Noe galleries, New
York, and will later be exhibited in this
city.
On Thursday evening of this week there
was sold at public auction in this city a col
lection of oil and water color paintings, chiefly
by local artists. For several days previous to
the sale the pictures had been on exhibit
ton and the auction had been well adver-
tised. There was, therefore, more than a
fair gathering of well-to-do Washingtonians
in attendance at the sale. The auctioneer.
in way of Introduction, knowing his bust
ness well, explained at length the value of
the works offered, the celebrity of the
artists and the need of encouraging local
talent. There was neither prevarication nor
Misrepresentation, and when the paintings
were sold later for little more than the
worth of their frames 1t looked to the
casual observer bad for local art. To those
who were in touch with the work of the
local artists. who were aware of the stand
ard of the current exhibitions 1t was plain
ly evident, however, that the collection was
far from being representative. The ma
jority of the painters whose names were
included in the catalogue are rarely ex-
hibitors in the local shows, and almost none
of the paintings would have passed local
exhibition jury. There were, it is true,
some good men among the number. but
only very inferior examples were shown,
and in almost every case the pictures
brought their full value.
LEILA MECHLIN.