Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27
pictures lack. canyeE picture by Mr..
Powell Is now being exhibited at Vserhon ..

pictures lack. A canyen picture by Mr..
Powell Is now being exhibited at Vserho6 O.
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Miss Foster and Mrs Kirkham, who have
occupied adjoining studios on the third floor
of $40 17th street this winter. have been for
the past week or SO making interesting
studies In oil from the same model-a young
| girl, wearing simple, low-neck gown of
white standing by a table The background
| is light gray beocade, giving a suggestion
| of opal tints and serving as an excellent foil
to the girls dark hair and fresh complexion
Inc pose, half dropping is graceful and
easy, and the whole composition while sim
| pie, is exceedingly picturesque During the
winter Mrs. kirkham painted in vigorous
| style an admirable miniature of her hus-
| bands father, and very lately Miss Foster
| has scored unusual success with a minia-
| tire, charming in cclor and bio adly handled.
| of Mrs David Fairchild.
| Mr.. Moser has been much occupied of late
with his water color class at the Corcoran
! School, but he has found time to paint a
| number of mountain and cloud pictures
which have met with very substantial ar-
probation. One was a view on Lake George
In the foreground was the CLASSY water and
the steep purpie-green shore while beyond A
Jutting headland rain clouds were seen trail
ing their vaporous garments and hiding the
distant view. 1t combined and strongly
contrasted. the strength and grandeur of
the hills with the subtlety and uncertainty
| OF the clouds and rain. 1t was clear cut and
yet elusive: colorful, but far from Migrant
| This is the subject and the effect which Mir
Moser knows best how to handle and in the
handling of which none has excelied him
sketch class and, with number of pupils
is making pilgrimages bi-weekly into the
city's suburbs Last Saturday she went
| down Lovers lane, in Georgetown. a IA
vorite haunt of the artists, and painted
with her pupils, little view of a veteran
oak and some loose-lying rocks. In paint
able possibilities there is no city which
rivals Neutrality-suspicious. in which the coun-
try is so close at hand. so accessible or
more varied. 1t offers peculiar facilities
for sketch class, and. SO long as the heat
is moderate. induces many of the local
artlsts to curtall their out-of-town trips
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Worcester Mass. which is in the direct
line of summer travel, has arranged for
the fourth season a notable exhibition of
modern paintings. to be held in the Art
Museum from June to September "a. The
directors of the museum have offered three
for the best three paintings exhibited. and
Frederick Vinton, Henry Smell and Edward
Redheld have consented to act jury
of award.
In other art matters Worcester seems to
be in the lead, for she is almost immed-
ately to erect in front of her county court
house an equestrian statue by French and
Potter of Gen. Charles G. Devens, which is
TO cost $4,000, and will undoubtedly be a
worthy work.
The French government is at present hon
| oring the memory of the late James Nc
Neil Whistler by holding. in the Luxem-
bourg. a comprehensive exhibition of his
works, similar to the recent memorial ex-
hibtions held in Boston and London. King
Edward has loaned his private collection.
and both public institutions and private
owners in England and America have con-
tributed to its success. Mr.. Charles u.
Freer of Detroit. who is one of the art ex-
ecutors of Mr.. WhistIers estate and has
one OF the finest collections of Whistlers
eXtant, has loaned a number of notable
examples. He sailed from New York the
early part of May. purposing TO visit this
exhibition.
The King of Wurtemburg has recently
presented the Johns Hopkins University
bust of Schiller, which has temporarily
been placed in Mccoy Hail. but viii later
be permanently erected upon pedestal On
the lawn at Homeward, the universtys
new site.
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From Berlin it is learned thst the city of
Frankfort has bought Rembrandts Be
trayal of Samson" from the Won Schoen-
bonn gallery in Vienna for So, go of which
all but $4,000 was raised by popular sub
scription. This measure of appreciation IS
welcome, and yet its hardness is a little
pathetic when it is remembered in what
dire want the painters last years were
spent and how meagerly during his lifetime
he was rewarded.
In this same connection it is interesting
to know that at a recent sale in Munich
three paintings by Lenbach brought.
spectiveIy, S6,SI5. s. :iT5 and $50. They
were portraits OF Bismarck William l and
MOltke. LEILA MECHIIN.