Evening star., 1907-11-09

Mr.. Jas. Henry Moser, the president OF
che Washington Water Color Club returned
to Washington last week. and on Monday
resumed the direction of the water color
class at the Corcoran School. From
West Cornwall, Conn, Mr.. Moser brought
bac ck with him three pictures in oils and
quite a number of water colors, which
will undoubtedly find their way into this
winters exhibitions and be accounted
among the best that he has produced.
Because Mr. Moser has achieved such
notably good results in water color IS no
reason why he should use no other me-
dium, and yet one experiences surprise
when it is discovered that even for a
season he has turned to Oil painting.
Medium. however, does not greatly sig
nifty and there is certainly no complaint
to be made when it is as manifestly well
employed as in this instance. All three
of the canvases referred to were painted
out of doors after the autumn frosts had
colored the foliage, and one was done
at night solely by the light of the moon.
They are vigorous, direct statements pic
torially interesting and technically strong.
One shows a cornfield strewn with ripe
pumpkins against the rich. dark color of
a nearby hill; another pictures a road
beneath some trees through the gay foli-
age Of which the sunlight trickles; and
a third, the nocturne, represents a barn
with a peaked roof standing opposite
noble oak plainly outlined yet half. mys-
terious in the cold, silvery light of an un-
seen moon. Subjectively the three are
very different and yet they all make
potent appeal. Mr.. Moser expects to re-
open his studio in the LIE Droit building
about the 18th of this month. but at pres
ent he Is occupied with arrangements Tor
the approaching exhibition of the wash
ington Water Color Club and the organi-
zation of his classes.
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A recent painting by Mr.. Max Weyl
was loaned this week to the Corcoran
Gallery of Art by Mr.. Emile Berliner 1t
is a large canvas, and is entitled Forest
in the Sapphire Country, North Carolina"
To the right and left are groups of great
trees whose branches interlock and Sorm
a Gothic arch. Through this is given
vista of sunny, fields and summer sky
the light and color of which pen Htrat s
the forests border and lies reflected in Two
little mirror-like pools. The composllon
is both excellent and charming; the values
well sustained. 1t is a pleasant picture
and one that would hold its own in nota-
BILE and dignified assemblage of gfea'
painters works. Mr. W2yl is essentially
Washington painter. for he not only
began his career in this city, but has
spent here his best years. Since the cary
eighties his pictures have found adnlis-
sion to the leading exhibitions in New
York, and many are included in tha cata-
logues of W ll-chOsen private collections.
The fact that he is to celebrate his seven
tieth birthday by holding an exhibition of
his work in the hemicycle of the Corcoran
Gallery will, therefore BE- matter OF
general interest. The anniversary is ID =
cember l, but the exhibition is to open
November 30 and continue for ten days.
1t will undoubtedly prove an event OF
more than passing note,
Following Mr. Weyrs exhibition, from
December II to to p, a memorial eXhi-
btion of the late Edward Kemeys' works
in sculpture is to be held in the same
hall. Mr.. Kemeys was pre-eminent among
American animal sculptors, and he has
left a splendid record of his genius and
his zeal. The lions which guard the en-
trance to the Chicago Art institute are
his work. as are also the still Hunt in
Central Park, New York; the Evolves
in Fairmount Park. Philadelphia, ard the
Prayer for Rain a fountain IN Cham
paign City IL. A collection of his smaller
pieces Is now to be seen in the National
Gallery collection at the National Au-
scum. Such an exhibition as it is pro-
posed to hold at the Corcoran Gallery is
indeed a fitting tribute to his memory. in
asmuch as it not only honors but con-
tinucs his work.
collection of paintings. made chiefly
in the Yosemite valley. by Mr. II c. Best
and his brother, Mr.. A. w. Best Of San
Francisco, was shown in the assembly
hall of the Cosmos Club this week. to
4 number of years these artists have con
Quoted a school for art study in their
native CITY. though Il portion of each year
has been spent in outdoor sketching -.lr
H. c. Best, who IS now on his way to
Europe, tells Interestingly of art condt-
tons in the far west, of the isolation Ca
the painters and the lack of good exam
pies Most Of the really good raiHtngs
which were in San Francisco I fisbed in
the earthquake fire. There are no such
exhibitions of contemporary work there
as are had in the east, and each painter
seeks out of necessity, a road OF his own.
And yet Mr.. Best said that coming east
for the first time he was surprised to fno
how well the work of his fei ow-painters