The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-22
Private View of Pictures
Hung in COrcOran
Hemicycle.
III7YI1I1

The private view of the % pictures
comprised in the fifteenth annual ex-
hibition of the Capital Camera Club oc-
CURED last night in the Hemicycle of
the CO-cOran Gallery of Art. The gath
ering included not only the members Of
the club and their friends but large
representation from the ranks Of the
local painters. and members OF the Ma
tionai Society of the Fine Arts as invited
guests. From the numerous attendance
last night it would be difficult to deter
mine whether photography or the art of
the painter is closer to the approval of
the public.
The impressions of the exhibition must
be governed wholly from the point of
view of the visitor. To those who have
failed to keep in touch with the progress
OF the local club. and have omitted 10
visit some of its later exhibitions. there
Will be a feeling that the exhibitors have
been departing from the standards OF
years ago. and those who admire micro
scopic detail VIII probably feel that this
later photography is lacking in the
qualities by which they formerly deter
mined whether a Photograph was well
or poorly presented. Those who have
visited the exhibitions from year to year
certain Improvement of those exhibitors
whose names are familiar to a Washing
ton audience-they may also feel n con-
viction that they have seen some OF
the pictures before and in this they VIII
be correct. for as this exhibition marks
fifteen years Of endeavor along pictorial
lines on the part of the camera club
pictures made at any time during the
existence Of the club have been consid-
cred eligible. provided that they possess
ed sufficient merit 70 DO included In an
exhibition held in the Hemicycle. Merit
was the only condition precedent, and
the fitness OF the pictures accepted was
determined by jury or Washington
painters-R. n. Brooke. Il. q. Messer.
Harold Macdonald. Jnnea MozeF. and
Miss Mathilde AIucden. All OF the mem
bers Of the jury had served on previous
occasions as Judges OF Photographic
work. and the exhibition therefore.
stands as their estimate of photography,
from the point OF view or the painter
First Purely Local Exhibition for Years.
There had been some complaint from
year to year that the annual exhibitions
of the club were becoming more and
more the exhibitions Of out-of-town ex-
hibitors. To a certain extent this was
true. for the attention of photographers
from all parts OF the country had been
attracted by the high-grade exhibitions
held here year after year. and TO have
a picture accepted by jury Of Wash
ington painters was becoming more ana
more desirable, and while the standard
Of the exhibitions was materially
heightened by the influx of outside
work, II became more difficult prob.
lem Tor the local members to keep in
line, for the reason that they were re-
CURED 10 submit new work at each ex-
hibition. while the "outlander'' could
mass the efforts Of years. and submit a
superior collection and shine with great
glory. and then rest on his laurels for a
few years, and then appear again as
star OF the first magnitude. The present
exhibition IS. therefore. the first eXhl-
bition of a purely local character for
several years.
Come Notable Examples
Among the prominent exhibitors whose
work is worthy Of special notice is that
cf Mrs. J. E. Bennett. formerly OF Bal
timore. and who has recently made her
home I'm Washington. Mrs. Bennett IS
represented by nineteen frames. and her
former versatility in depicting phases of
life of the French peasants IS strongly
emphasized in the present exhibition.
Most notable in this classi is her Woman
Cunning" No. IS. which strongly re-
eembles some of the charcoal studies Of