Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06

Not only are we bringing to Washington
the works of the foremost painters, but
sending out that of our own. In both the
National Academy of Designs eighty-sec-
ond annual exhibition and the Phila delphia
Water Color Clubs current show Wash
ington artists are fairly we'll represented.
The National Academy display consists OF
over four hundred exhibits, and is set forth
! in the Fine Arts Galleries. New York. 1t is
the first since the merger OF the academy
T and the Society of American Artists. and
while comparatively representative. mani
SITS no especially new or significant tend
encies. One of the most notable of its ex-
hibits is AN Interlude," a painting of q
! mother and child. by Sargent Kendall.
which has been purchased by Mr.. William
T. Evans and presented to the National
| Gallery. Miss Mueden Miss Hanson, Mr..
Hobart Ncols and Mr.. Everett l. War
Eer are all admirably represented, and on
the list of exhibitors few familiar names
are missing. The prize Ginners were Emil
Carlson. Henry Prellwitz William Cotton.
Hugo Balm. Eleanor c. Winslow and Mrs.
Edith Woodman Burroughs.
The Philadelphia exhibition. which is held
In and under the auspices of the Pennsyi-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts, is even
more notable Not content with presenting
the most comprehensive collection of water
colors and pastels from native workers
which has been gathered for many years,
/: the managers have made extraordinary ef
forts to secure representative groups from
the most able artists abroad. Thus CASTOR
! LaTouche, Henrietta Crespel, Alexander
Robinson and CASTOR LeMains are repre-
sented. as well Abbey, Tryon, Smell.
Dana, Miss ReauX Mr. HasSam and Others
and opportunity is given to contrast the
works of the several schools and remark
various differences. The illustrators also
are included, such as Violet Oakley and
! Elizabeth Shipper Green, and the wood en-
graVers and the etchers. In all, 500 exhibits
d, are set forth, but so orderly Is the arrange
ment that there seems none too many. and
the impression carried away Is most salts
factory. And in such assemblage the
Washington artists have not only been
made welcome. but given good place. Mr..
James Henry MOser contributes group Of
ten water coiors. one Of which, snow
scene is reproduced in the catalogue Mr.
William II: Holmes, curator of the National
Gallery, as we'll as chief of the bureau of
ethnology, is admirably represented by
| four characteristic landscapes In the same
| medium. and to the merit Of Miss Lesley
Jackson'S "Hydrangeas" Ga Gloucester door
| Yard pleasing tribute has been paid. Mr..
H. Hobart Nichols sends "A Lane in
Laren.'' Mr.. Edward Lind Morse Eagle
Rocks-Shenandoah Valley and Mr. George
Senseney two foreign etchiDgs. Though
, composed chiefly of works in what has been
termed the weaker medium" it is in every
respect a strong as we'll important ex
hibition.
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The Capital Camera Clubs annual exhibit
| ton closes tomorrow afternoon, but will
be on view this evening from to 10
O'Clock. One week seems almost too short
a time to become well acquainted with so
excellent show. but there is something to
be said on the side of concentrated inter
est. Certainly it has been we'll patroniZed
and genuinely appreciated. Deviation was
f>made this year from the customary illus
trated catalogue. plain though appro-
pirate, little unitarian volume taking it's
place For all practical purposes this Is
sufficient, but if preservation Is desirable,
and in most cases 1t is, few illustrations
are Well worth while.
Progress IL being made with the inter-
national memorial which is to be erected
|. to James MCNEIL Whistler in England
Space has been allotted for it at the west
end of the gardens. Cheyne Walk, Chelsea
Embankment. near where the great artist
lived and died The total cost will be
about $4,000. and the work, which Is being
done by Rodin. will. 1t is understood. be
completed by next year. ..... ....
II
Of months last year in this city, and whose
work Is included in the Metropolitan Mu-
seum's collection OF modern sculpture is
now in Florence. where she has lately ex-
ecuted a small fountain, and Is occupied
with other commissions. The Luxembourg
owns certain examples Of her medallion
portraits. and she IL one Of the few who
have produced outdoor sculpture of a dis
tinctive type.
Mr.. Edward Kemeys received quite lately
from the artist. 1t Is picture of the
woods. tinted by autumn and shaded by
, dusk, yet mysterious and inviting. Not
larger than a magazine cover. 1t yet is spa
ciously suggestive Mr. Shurtleff has spent
many summers among the woods, and has
transcribed them most sympathetically. AS
a rule he produces not only their form, but
invests them with their feeling and natural
alurement.
Mr.. ]. H. Sharp, whose remarkable por-
at the Cosmos Club. Is back at his nome
in Montana, busly painting in his sheep
wagon studio. which he has named the
prairie Dog" One of his portraits is now
on exhibition in Veerhoffs gallery and will
well reward observation. 1t is from such
painters, who live the life of our great
west. that we may expect some day to re-
ceive its message.
LEILA MECHLIN.