Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01

torious. but most notable of all his works,
perhaps, is a large series OF decorative
studies of plants and flowers made from
ture as an aid to design. This last is of
very real and unusual value and should for
the benefit of future workers De preserved
intact by some public Institution. Mr. Paris
was an indefatigable worker, and he ieaves
his own works Of art. What disposition
will be made of these by his executors Is
not as yet known.
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The national gallery project, given
tangible form by the opening OF the spe-
cial exhibition room in the National Mu-
scum this week, is attracting wide atten-
ton. It seems to be well on its feet and to
promise rapid growth and development.
Few who remember the great lecture hall
which has been converted into the pres
emit picture gallery would recognize 1t in.
its new guise or have believed that such
q delightful transformation could have
been SO simply effected. The proportions
of the hall are good, and this, with the
coloring of the walls and pleasing ar
rangement of exhibits, gives the whole a
dignified and really imposing aspect. On
the south wall are hung the paintings
from the Harriet Lane Johnston collec-
ton, which now for the first time are
publicly set forth. They alone will repay
an excursion to the museum There is
madonna by Luini which shows charm
ing color, a portrait by Pourbous both
convincing and wonderfully wrought a
likeness of Miss Kirkpatrick by Rom
ney, one of Mrs. Hammond by Reynolds,
a Hoppner. a Lawrence and Beechy of
considerable note, as well as landscape
by Constable, an interesting portrait OF
the King of England when Prince Of
Wales and a picture quantity real and not
inartistic of his majesty's visit to the
tomb of Washington in 1861, painted by
T. R. Rossiter. Off from this gallery opens
q devoted n eXnOSitiOn of the
processes of reproduction-the graphic
arts-wherein on exhibition will be found
a number of valuable and interesting en-
cravings and etchings. AS a whole ii is
modest beginning, but earnest Of
good faith and serious determination.
At the public library in Mt. Vernon
square there is an exhibition of original
illustrative drawings set forth in the
upper hall. Some are distinctly meri
torious and instructive, and, while others
are less important, the collection as
whole is noteworthy.
The December Art Talk" at the Cor
coran school will be given by Mr.. Richard
N. Brooke, the vice principal, on Monday
at 4:15 o'clock, in the lower hemicycle
and the subject will be Current Art"
| NIL bIo Ohe has just returned IEOH bOS-
ton and New York where he has been
visiting the studios of leading artists in
the interest of the Corcoran gallery
forthcoming exhibition. On almost every
side he has found evidence of vital inter-
est in the enterprise, and genuine Wiling
ness to contribute toward it's success
Many of the artists have declared that
they were saving their best for Washing
ton, and in order to make the exhibition
entirely representative several prominent
collectors have promised to loan some of
their choicest canvases in cases whore
the painters themselves were anxious but
unable to send. Mr.. Brooke is invariably
worth listening to, but in the present in
stance what he has to say should prove
specially interesting and instructive.
Mr.. Max Weyl is painting a number of
exceedingly attractive pictures, the themes
for which he has found in the neighbor-
hood of this city. One was begun out-of-
doors only a couple of weeks ago and
shows the last colored leaves clinging scant-
lily to the trees. The composition is simple
and the coloring low-toned and harmonious
and yet 1t is an impressive picture-onc
that would linger long and pleasantly in
the observers memory. Another, likewise
in Mr.. Weyrs characteristic manner is a
before the autumn fros.s had colored their
foliage; while a third pictures, under a
twilight sky a broad stretch Of unused
| meadow. In all of Mr.. Weyrs work the
| real charm of the outdoor world is def
nitely felt.
The last issue of the Art Bulletin of New
York is special Washington number and
sets forth at some length the chief art in
terests in this city.
Several Washington artists were repre-
sented in exhibitions recently held in the
Pennsylvania Academy OF Fine Arts in
Philadelphia. In the catalogue of the sew
enth annual exhibition of the Fellowship of
the Academy were to be found the names of
Mrs Nina E. Allender and Mrs. Ruth He'll
prin Hammerslough: while in that of the
Society Of Miniature Painters Mrs. Ralph
Kirkhams was noted Both of these were
important exhibitions and included chiefly
the works of eminent painters
Many will be surprised to learn that Miss
Suzanne Gutherz sailed for Europe two
weeks ago with the purpose Of spending
a year more in uninterrupted study.
Miss Gutherz has already done much ac-
ceptable work. Her posters have been pro-
nounced uncommoniy clever and have won
well-merited popularity, while her por-
traits have given her claim to serious recog-
milton. But She herself, felt the need of
more fundamental knowledge, and desir-
ing the best equipment. determined to give
all her time for the present to study. She
will spend the winter with friends in Paris
and in the spring probably visit the great
picture galleries of southern Europe.
Prince Troubetskoy who for a season or
more was numbered with the Washington
painters, has, 1t is reported, been extremely
Ill since he returned from abroad this fall
and has determined to spend the early win
ter at his home in Virginia.
Mr.. Henry B. Smell, the president Of the
New York Water Color Club, through an
arrangement with the Maryland Institute
of Baltimore, will give criticisms weekly to
the classes in that institution this winter
Mr.. Smell is one of the leading American
water colorists and an accomplished
teacher. An exhibition of his work was
held a few winters ago in the assembly
hall of the Cosmos Club.
LEILA MECHLIN
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