Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08
ject and decorating 1t. and that these
craftsmen have demonstrated.

ject and decorating 1t. and that these
craftsmen have demonstrated.
II II
Mr.. e. II. Miller has just finished an ex-
ceptionaIly interesting picture in water col
or. A landscape showing the play OF sun
light and shadow across green fields and
open country. To the right is group Of
trees some rocks and border OF brush,
but to the left the vista is uninterrupted.
The sky is partly obscured by floating
Clouds one of which, focusing the interest,
has caught, and Is rejecting, pale yellow
tint. The place is the same as tnat PIC
tured in the second of Mr.. Miller's paint
ings in the Water Color Clubs exhibition,
but the view point is different Mr.. Miller
Is at work now on a water color Of two lit
tie children-a barefoot boy and a wee
girl-approachin through a country lane,
and he is also doing some decorative de-
signing.
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Miss Alice Foster is finishing a charming
miniature which she has recently painted
of little maiden scarcely more than two
years of age 1t measures about an inch in
diameter, but shows firm modelling, good
color and nice expression. Miss Foster has
in her studio a sketch that she made in
water color last summer of Anne Hatha-
ways cottage. which is fresh, spontaneous
and charmingiy pictorial, besides more
recent landscape study made late this fall
near Forest Glen, which also shows excel
lent feeling.
Local architects are we'll represented In
the T-Square Clubs annual exhibition
which is now in progress in the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadel-
phia. Among the most original and meri-
torious work shown is a group by Messrs.
a.
signs for city residences must be counted
those by the well-known local firms of
Wyeth & Cresson, and Totten & Rogers.
One entire section of the exhibit Is devoted
to the park commissions plans for WASH
ington, and with the public buildings Horn
blower & Marshalls plans for the new Ma
tional Museum is given prominent place.
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The water color exhibition in the hemi-
cycle of the Corcoran Gallery closes on the
18th, and those who have not seen 1T should
be reminded that it has but one more week
to run. Two paintings by the late Walter
Paris and one by Miss Munroe-the winner
of the second priZe-were purchased almost
as soon the exhibition opened.
Favorable comment is being made upon a
portrait which Mr.. Rudolph Evans of this
city has recently executed of Miss Maude
| was the sculptor or the Arbor Day me-
mortal erected at Nebraska City, in honor
of the late Sterling Morton, one-time Sec
rotary of Agriculture.
An exhibition of wood carvings by Miss
| E. M. Heller was held, the early part of
| this week, in Miss Juliet Thompson's studio
| in New York.
According to new book of reference en-
| titled "a Conspectus of American Biogra-
ply" Washington leads all the cities in the
number of it's public statues, having IS.
against Greater New Yorks 76, Boston's
SO and Phadelphia's SO. In all, it is said,
| there are 53S in the United States.
The entire exhibition of miniatures re-
which, by the way, included a Mother
and Child painted by Mrs. Ralph Kirk
ham of this city-has been shifted from
Philadelphia to Boston, where it may now
be viewed with additions by Boston paint
ers, in the great hall of the Twentieth Cen
fury Club.
The John Heron Art Institute Of Indian
apolis formally opened on the evening
of November 20, and on the following day,
when it was free to the public, 1t was Wis.,
1t contains, at present. notable exhibit
and sculptures loaned by artists and col
lectOrS LEILA MENHI.IN