Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17

committee in charge was particularly for
tunate in securing the Niagara, which is
one of Twachtmans most important can
vases. 1t is too individual to show to the
best advantage in its present environment
but It holds its own among even uncon-
genial companions.
A Conservative Impressionist.
Twachtman was one of the pioneers who
discovered air and learned how to paint IT.;
he was a conservative impressionist; he
had a message and he delivered 1t we'll
Mrs Conan is an exponent of the same
Scholastic is now over seventy, but she is
In the vanguard of the forward movement
Her painting is at the same time both
subtle and pressionistc but
real. The landscape which she sends is
study ia blue and green-a big, restful pic
ture full OF the mystery and joy of an early
summer morning. 1t is a true TRANSCRIPTION
and a beautiful work of art.
The Mygatt again sounds dinerent note.
It. too is Individual, but more given to con-
vention There is a broad stretch of bright,
almost colorless sky, group of fiat, con-
ventionaliZed trees, low meadows, tiny
thread of a brook and in the foreground
some tall slender saplings. The COMPOSE
ton is reduced to posterlike simplicity; the
colors are brought into simple, harmonious
relationship 1t is q lyric, clothed in beau
uful form-a poem, dream, rather than
reality.
Subjects. like birds are likely to flock to-
gether Almost always there will be in an
exhibition a predominating theme-autumn
pictures snow scenes boats or the ike
Marines seem to be the accidental feature
of this present show. Childe Hassam's
brilliant Summer Morning. Isle of Shoals.
for.yhich he was awarded the waiter Lap
pincott prize at the recent Pennsylvania
Academy's exhibition. is here with its mo-
sale of color spots it's odd technique and
vivid Impressionism. On one side of The
Siren" has been hung Lionel Walden's
painting Of the waves breaking over rocks,
a pleasing but not remarkable work, and
on the other is to be found Charles H.
Woodburys mid-ocean picture, called from
the incident Of It's composition The
Bark" George Gibbs. an erstwhtle Wash
ington painter sends a large canvas, trans
cribing. with virility and swing. the surf
on q Weather-beaten shore; and from j. 3.
Davol comes. unique and colorful: the sea
Pool" and Where the River Meets the
Sea" Walter l.. Dean of Boston contrib
utes an illustrative painting of the United
States Training Ship Enterprise" under fun
sail, as well as a more painterlike rendering
entitled Drifting" "Polperro," a rocky
harbor pictured on gray, foggy day repre-
sents Mr.. Henry B. Smell, but does not do
him Justice while THE Ice-brimmed Allie
gheny" stands questionably to the credit
Of George w. Softer.
One of the largest canvases, and possibly
one of the most striking in the exhibition,
is by Augustus Koopman and pictures the
Return of the Shrimp Catchers and one
OF the most daring in color Is The Maui
illus" by Hugh H. Breckenridge-the PIC
ture of a young girl seated under glaring
artificial light gazing wraptly at smell.
Local Artists.
The local artists collectively do not make
as good a showing this year as commonly,
though some few send good work indicative
Of progress Mr. Richard n. Brooke the
president of the Society of Washington Ar
Nv
pathetic transcription of a sunny harvest
field in Virginia, and Mr.. E. C. Messer. the
director of the Corcoran School, by a small,
significant canvas entitled 'In the Shadow
of the Blue Ridge" picturing, with excel
lent effect, the last rays of the setting sun.
To this upon the first ballot, the third Cor
coran prize was unanimously awarded. Mr..
James Henry Moser's contribution is
clever nocturne, The Canoe Carnival as
Seen From the Aqueduct Bridge" and Mr..
Everett L. Warmers admirable presen-
tation of "Old Houses of Montreuil-sur-
Mer' seen IN the half light of fading day
Mr.. Edward Lind Morse, the chairman of
portraits, this year three attractive land
scapes-"Just After Sunset" toneful
painting showing nicely related values;
THE Golden Valley" colorful and well
subtle rendering. Mr.. Max Weyl shows a
spring picture. an autumn scene. and view
near the Warm Springs" while Mr.. Lucien
Powell Mr.. Robert Coleman Child and Mr..
Spencer b. Nichols. in landscape render
ings, make notable contributions.
There are some new names and young
painters who have either appeared or come
into special prominence this year. Mrs.
Alta West Salisbury. who was formerly
student OF the Corcoran School, has sent
from her new home in New Rochelle, n. Y,
an excellent little landscape, and from New
York city has come an altogether charming
little genre, Compensation by Mrs. Mary
Slgsbee Ker. while Miss Berta N. Hanson,