Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-13


| his best works and a portrait he has re.
Gently wrought Of well-known local law
| yer is worthy to be ranked with the best
1t Is small canvas showing only the heae
and shoulders. The background Is a dark
| urobtrusive color. the clothes gray. thu:
the attention and interest is centered or
the head and face, which are admirabl.
modelled and most expressive Ii wa.
painted with less than a half dozen sittingi
and In as many hours but while il pre-
serves the spontaneity of a sketch II pos
sesses the finish of a mature work 1t Is
an excellent likeness and IL is strongly per
vaded by the personality of the sitter.
One of the first artists to leave the city
this season is Miss Katharine Chapman
who goes on Monday to New York and
from thence TO Cragsmoor where she has a
charming summer studio. Cragsmoor by
the way. can boast in summer OF what Mr..
Howell has been pleased to call the best
society-a society made up of some of the
foremost painters, writers and scholars of
this country. Among the cottagers are to
bt numbered the Illnesses, Charles CIrran.
Robert Henri. the kellars and the Delan-
baCghs. The place itself Is delightfully."- sit
uated. fairly inaccessible and as yet suf-
| ficiently unciviliZed to be picturesque. Miss
Chapman spent the greater part of last win
ter in study. but she found time to paint
several miniatures. most notable among
which was one of her father-a yigorous
The Metropolitan Museum has not waiteu
for the arrival of its new director to turn
over a new leaf IL has suddenly awakened
TO the knowledge of its poverty in Ameri-
can works of art, and in the recent report
o! the trustees published a long list of. the
| names of artists who are either inadequate
ly represented or not represented al all in
Its collection. Notable among the former
are Gilbert Stuart. Trumbull. Peale and
Ailston; Church Wyant Homer Martin and
Theodore Robinson; and among the latter
Copley. Suly, Morse Clifford. William NJ.
Hunt, Hart and Moran.
Plttsburg. Pa, is setting a noteworthy eN-
ample in the monument she is erecting to
! the memory of the late Senator Magee. In
stead of the conventional bronze portrait
statue 1t is to take the folm of large
di linking fountain. ard the commission for
| its design has been awarded to Mr.. Saint
Gaudens. 1t is to cost $4,000.
IL the east wishes to continue her pres
tige in art matters she will have TO be
the alert in the future. as the west is COM
ing forward with rapid strides In all the
large cities of the middle west much inter
est in art matters has recently been
aroused and interest of high order of in
| telligence is being demonstrated. Mime
! apoliS has been acquiring some notable
mural paintings for its public buildings
| this winter. as well a picture by John w.
Alexander for its art gallery. and st. Louis
has within the last three months organized
| Fine Arts Society. got possession OF a
building for gallery, and purchased by
public subscription. among other things. a
| painting of the cascades at the St. Louis
1 fnir tod oil, .l,.l1
! Denver can boast of an excellent Municipal
| Art Society and many of the smaller towns
| are seeking loan exhibitions and striving
fof better conditions through civic improve
| ments.
|
| The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy has just
| received from Mr.. Albright an offer of an
| annuity of $1,000, which it is understood
| will relieve it of the cost of maintaining
| the new gallery. and enable it to devote a
| large part of its income to the purchase of
| new works of art
| x
Mr.. George de Forest Brush, whose pic
| tCre of a mother and child occupies so
| prominent a place in the Corcoran Galery's
collection, returned a short time ago
| this country from Italy, where he has been
| residing for more than a year. He has
COME, II Is Sdlu 10 paint Il Hufnbtr Oh pot-
traits.
! The annual exhibition of the Royal Acad-
envy, which is now in progress in London.
| contains this year some specially notable
| portraits. Sargent heads the list with large
| canvases of the Marlborough family and
| the Countess of Warwick, which are de-
| scribed as brilliant, but theatrical, and with
| ikenesses of Garcia. Lady Helen Vincent
| and Leon Delafose done in his still clever
| but more studied manner. Fidles por-
| trait of Queen Alexandra occupies the place
| OF honor, but divides interest with Speeds
| Belfast portrait of the king Ouless' like
| ness of the Prince of Wales and Arthur
| Cope'S presentation of the German emperor.
| To this array j. j. Shannon, another
| ABglo-American painter, who by the way,
has been executing commissions in New
| York the greater part of the past winter,
! makes four important contributions. mas
| terly portraits with well-handled landscape
backgrounds. LEILA MECHLIN.