Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-13

. background, has been stretched q friexe
Of gold. This has been laid on Ia con.
ventional pattern and though still bright
IL not obtrusive. The simplicity and SIM
cerity which the Pre-Raphaelite Brother
hood set out to restore Is notable In this
painting.
Another artist has been added to the
local fraternity Miss Caroline van Fl.
Bean. the daughter of DR.. Bean Of the f1si.
commission, has opened a studio In the
Metzerott building Several years ago, when
but school girl, Miss Bean exhibited one
or two OF her paintings with the work of
other local artists at the Cosmos Club.
Since then she has spent one year In Paris
studying under Mr.. Phil Thompson, an Eng
lish painter, has worked with Mr. chase
and has been through Smith College He-
Gently she has been in Bermuda, and from
there she has brought back number OF
interesting canvases. One is a picture OF
the bay sparkling in the sunlight, another
sets forth an old flight of brick steps, fern
grown, leading from roadway TO an oid
dwelling, and third interprets the rear OF
O house boasting good architectural lines IN
spite of age and most attractive Vine
covered trellis. All are colorful and some
what impressionistic in tendency put AT
the same time full Of outdoor light ana ar,
vigorous and convincing. Not mature or
finished work, but uncoznmonly fresh and
more than promising.
Mrs Ralph Kirkham. who has now
charming studio in the Octagon house-the
one formerly occupied by Mr.. George Sen
seney-recently finished in miniature a pic
ture OF Pandora lifting the fatal lid 1t Is
nf %
conceived, charming in color and good In
draughtsmanship Pandora, a dark-haifeo,
childish maiden, is seen to have thrown
herself idly on the floor in stately hail,
and half curiously, half thoughtlessly to be
raising the cover of jar, quaint in line
and device. 1t is probably not more than
four by six inches in dimension, but it has
been carefully studied and minuteiy rem
dered.
The January meeting of the National So
ciety of the Fine Arts, which will be the
first annual meeting Of the organization, Is
to be held at the residence of Mr.. Charles
M. Ffoulke, POLL Massachusetts, avenue, on
Thursday evening, January IS, at $50
o'clock. Mr.. Howard C. Walker of Boston
will deliver an Illustrated address on
Architecture"
e-quarter-length portrait of ex-Sec
rotary Paul Morton has been added lately
to the collection of official likenesses in the
office of the Secretary of the Navy. 1t is
by George Burroughs Torrey of New York,
and is neither very good nor extraordinar-
lily bad. There is probably no class of
paintings less commonly satisfactory than
portraits in oil and none of the class less
notable than those which usually find their
way into our government departments
This one is not poor as the majority,
but less good than 1t should be. 1t is a
fair likeness, but not a great or even rep
resentative work of art,
A portrait of Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood,
one of the four founders of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution, has been paint
ed by Miss Aline Solomons of this city and
presented to the Mary Washington Chap
ter of that organization. 1t shows merely
the head and shoulders, but is life size and
an admirable Likeness. The modelling is
strong, the color good and the minutia OF
detail extremely we'll treated. Miss Solo
mons is best known as a painter of still
life, but in this and other instances she
has scored in portraiture unusual success.
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At the entrance to the Secretarys office
and within now stand on exhibition the
models of the new Naval Academy building
scheme and the completed chapel designed
and constructed under the superintendent
of Ernest Flagg of New York, the we'll
known architect. These represent one of
the largest architectural projects under
taken of recent years, and at the same
time one of the most interesting. The
model of the general plan is about twelve
feet long by five wide. and that of the
chapel has been made on a scale sufficiently
large to admit OF display of detail. Together
teal study. Mr.. Flagg, 1t will be remem-
bered. was the architect of the Corcoran
Gallery. LEILA MECHLlN.