Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-15

was an exhibition held this month at Lynn,
where quite a colony OF New York artists
have for number Of years established
themselves. There were twenty-one ex-
hibitors. and, including sketches, about $50
exhibits. Too many pictures to hang In q
single hall, so they were divided between
the public library and the town han. The
former place contained fifty paintings, the
latter special groups Of each artists work.
Old Lynn is one of the most attractive
places on the Connecticut shore, and the
''Griswold House." where the first artists
went and made their home, is of colonial
design. commodious and pleasantly situated.
Year by year the colony has been growing.
The place is conveniently near New York
and yet pleasantly unspoiled by summer
tourists. Childe Hassam, William S. Rob
inson, II. r. Povre and others have de-
serted East Gloucester for II. and are find
ing within its borders a superintendent
amount of paintable material. II is there
that many of the winters pictures have
their genesis, and many. of the paintings
recently exhibited in the little public IL
brary win doubtless appear In prominent
places In the Forthcoming seasons shows.
Among those represented were Childe Has
sam. Carleton Virgins, Willard L. Metcalf.
Frank Vincent Du Mond VIII Howe Foote,
II. r. Poore, Arthur Dawson and William
8. Robinson.
There is still another artists colony on
Long Island and there the landscape paint
ers are lingering to gather their autumn
harvest. The marshes just now are turning
to orange and go.d-the foliage on the
dunes to crimson and russell, while the sea
and the sky are never more blue. Thomas
W.; Deering has sold his summer home at
Cornish to William H. Hyde, the portrait
painter, and moved to East Hampton,
where already Thomas Moran Albert Her
ter and William J. Whittemore were estab-
lished. On Peconic bay. Furthermore, there
Is settlement of marine painters, and on
the little sound strip running east from Fire
Island light the sketchers umbrella has
in recent years literally ceased to be a nov
city.
A monument is to be erected here to the
memory Of Fulton-a monument which is
to be at the same time a memorial and a
tomb. 1t is to be paid for by popular sub
scription and Cornelius Vanderbilt is the
president of the association which has the
work in charge. Leopold Brac0ny has mod
eled and sent to this country design for
this monument which has SO pleased the
committee that il will in all probabilit be
accepted. or at least largely followed. 1t
was received in New York last week and
shows" says the chairman, "a heroic fig
ure of Fulton contemplating model Of
the Clermont, surmounting a shift In
which is supposed to be a winding stairway
to the observation landing. AT the base of
the shaft are symbolized the various
spheres of human industry. and the corners
Of the base are ornamented with ethnolog-
ical groups depicting the four races OF
man. or, in other words, the four quarters
of the globe" The materials are to be
white marble and bronze. Six hundred
thousand dollars is still needed to COM
plete the appropriation.
The municipal art commission of this
city has just approved the statue of Verdi,
by c. Pasquale Civilette of Palermo,
which is to be erected on the triangle made
by the intersection of the Boulevard. 10th
avenue and 73d street, by the Italians Of
the United States 1t is to stand on a pc
destal of Carrara marble and have at its
base figures representing Verdfs greatest
operate creations-Othello, Aida, FalstaR
and IL Trovatore. The unwilling will take
place October II.
A third monument is to be erected-a me-
mortal to Joseph Jefferson, the great actor,
skillful painter, clever writer and genial
friend. 1t is to be placed In Central Park
and will be a bronze statue depicting Mr..
Jefferson in his famous and favorite char
acter of RIP Van Wrinkle" Frederick Mac
Monies has been given the commission
and the cost will be about $4,000.
Tourists passing through the Long Island
railroad station in Long Island City observe
with interest a fair collection of pictures OF
fish accurately transcribed and neatly
framed, which are used in part sum-
mer advertisement and in part as a deco
ration. They are all reproductions of work
done in the illustrative division of the fish
commission in Washington and bear testi-
mony to both the skill and artistic ability
of the illustrators Technically and scien-
tifically they are as nearly perfect as posi-
ble and in line and color they are really
charming. LEILA MECHLIN.