Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

rural OiStrlctS lS new 10 most travellers
This proved both an interesting and profit
able experience, the city and the town yield.
ing before the end excellent as we'll az
unique working material. The farm houses,
with their square windows and matched
roofs, proved peculiarly picturesque and the
old city courts. with their stained walls and
odd construction, specially paintable. From
Denmark the artists went to Holland, and
from Holland to France, and from thence
home, stopping only long enough In the
large cities to visit the great galleries.
Many of Miss Mueden's sketches are still
unfinished. but even in their present form
believe. an adequate idea Of the subject
matter to be found in and around Copen-
hagen.
Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, who
through her artistic photography has won
for herself considerable distinction, both in
this country and abroad. returned this week
from quite an extended tour in France and
Italy. She. too, went to the out-of- the way
places, and has brought back with her a
collection of unusual pictures. These she
will probably exhibit in her studio at some
specified time in the near future, as early
in the winter important commission will
take her out of town.
There has been quite a turning about Of
studios this fall. attended by the usual
search for suitable and convenient quarters
Miss Sands and Miss Burdette who gave
up their rooms 18th street early in the
summer, have taken communicating stu
dos on the fourth floor of the Evans
building, where after the list Of November
they will have as neighhors on the floor
above Miss Foster and Miss Nicolay.
The students of the Corcoran School will
hold on November l. 2, 3 and an informal
exhibition of summer work. 1t is purposed
merely for the benefit of the workers, CIV
ing them opportunity for criticism and criti-
cal comparison, and is therefore not opened
to the public. 1t is. however, one of the
events of the school year. and of special
interest. inasmuch 1t manifests the ap-
pllcation made by the students of the pre-
1t is gratifying to note the increase of in
terest shown. week by week, in DR.. Ray
monds lectures on the Essentials of the
Artistic" The class room, which was more
than large enough to accommodate the
audience when the first was delivered, has
become overcrowded, and last Friday, when
the lecturer began, afforded standing
room only And this in spite of the fact
that the lectures have been scholastic
rather than popular. There have been no
illustrations and no pictorial descriptions,
but instead acute analysis, accurate defini-
ton and thoughtful explanation of the
psychological sequence of cause and effect.
They have been deeply interesting and in
but they have not been addressed
to the general public. That they have,
nevertheless, proved popular, goes far to
suggest, if not to prove, that there Is on
the part of many of our community a gen.
uine and intelligent interest in art, and
that other public lecture courses on kim
dred subjects might be equally well re-
ceived.
The school or architecture of the George
Washington University has opened this
year under specially suspicious conditions
There are already registered thirty-seven
students, and to the faculty has been added
Mr.. A. B. Bibb. special course, outside
Of the regular course, has been arranged
in architectural design and architecture. for
the benefit of architectural draughtsmen
and advanced students which will include
the study of the regular problems issued
by the Beaux Arts Society of New York.
Messrs Nathan c. Wyeth E. Frere Champ
ley, Charles Mason Remey, E. w. Dom, jr.,
and A. B. Bibb will each have charge of
a single problem from the making of the
sketch to the completion of the
''rendu' and the work of every student
will be individually criticised before the
class. Besides these, regular problems will
De given by the professor of architecture
Mr.. Ash, and special lectures and instruc-
ions Some of the lectures those given
on Mondays and Fridays at 1850, are, like
Dr.. Raymond's, open to the teachers of the
public schools and others specially inter- |
ested.
Thirteen hundred and fifteen works were |
entered by the international jury for the |
Carnegie exhibition in Pttsburg last week. |
This jury, which was chosen by ballot of |
the exhibitors, consisted of Messrs. Charles |
Cottet of Paris. Alfred East of London, |
Ben Foster, John w. Alexander, Robert |
Henri. J. Alden Weir, Thomas Eakins, w. |
Elmer schofield, w. L. Lathrop and Will |
lam Henry Howe of New York and Penn
sylvania- The exhibition, which opens on !
the I'd of November and continues to Jan |
Iary l. is one of the chief shows of the |
year, and its awards, three In number, |
ranging from $500 to s., 500, are, aside from |
heir money value, much coveted honors.
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On the Goth of October the Chicago Art
Institute opens its annual fall exhibition of |
oil paintings and water colors, to which, |
IS special feature, will be added a sec
ion given over exclusively to the work of |
modern Frenchmen.
Columbus (Ohio), which is, Ii is under
stood, looking forward to the erection of /
In art museum, is holding in one of its
public halls loan exhibition of American
On November II the New York
Water Color Club opens its sixteenth an
lual exhibition in the Fine Arts Galleries,
md on the Goth the Art Club of Philadel-
ohia sets forth its annual display of Oil
and sculpture In its galleries on
south Broad street. Following these on
he list of out-of-town events come the
Square Clubs architectural exhibition
n Philadelphia. from December 1 to %; |
he National Academy Of Design, In New |
York. from December % to January 20, |
and the Pennsylvania Academy, from jan
nary % to March 3. Surely an interesting
array!
The Autumn Salon, which opened in Paris
he nf lie hos ,iof