Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07

commendable. The exhibition will con-
tinue until March IA.
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At veerhoff's, Monday, an exhibition
of paintings and drawings by Miss E.
Mildred Walker of Hamilton, Scotland,
was opened. Twenty-siX water colors
six oils and score or more of etchings
and pen-and-ink drawings are shown.
The water colors are probably of chief
interest, and have been rendered in the
Dutch manner in broad wet washes.
They are essentially impressions. and
while pleasing in tone. are somewhat
bewildering in fact. They are good in
lOOseness of the technique seems at
times almost to amount to carelessDess.
Scotch Fishing Smacks at "hitby,"
while less imposing than some, has
luminous quality in the sky which is
pleasing, and the Orange Sial." In
terror of Notre Dame de Gaudebec" and
North Street, ST. Andrews display
good composition and colorful charm.
This exhibition also will continue an
other week.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art mas just
issued new catalogue of it's permanent
collection of paintings one which
should set standard for such publica-
tions. The simplicity of the cover. the
quality of the paper, the arrangement of
lists and the half-tone illustrations are
all to be heartily commended. The front
ispiece is a photogravure, printed in
sepia. of Elliott's portrait of Mr. Cor
coran, and scattered through the volume
are eighteen half-tone reproductions of
important paintings ownd by the Cor
coran Gallery. Among the illustrations
or nlypo inva nf nj rerhn a Nv
Land and Sea-" Willard Metcalf's May
Night" and Winslow Homer's "A Light
on the Sea- all of which were pur-
chaS led last winter from the exhibition
of contemporary American paintings.
while among the older works represent
ed are Church's Niagara" Israeis IN
terror of a Cottage" Wyant's Land
scape" and Brush's Mother and Child"
The last is a peculiarly fine reproduce
ton. the best probably which mas been
made. Such a catalogue serves dou-
BILE purpose. and helps to increase the
benefit to be derived from the collection
which the gallery sets forth.
The four Gobelin tapestries belonging
to the Hon. w. A. Clark. which were
included in the tapestry nd@textiles exhi-
bition, have been lent by their owner to
the Corcoran Gallery and are now hung
on the main staircase. where they can be
seen to the utmost advantage. These
tapestries. which are valued at 100000.
were woven at the Gobelin atelier' be-
tween 1862 and 1910, after cartoons by
Adrian They belonged at one time to
Madame du Barry, and the fields of the
panels are a shade of red known as rose
du Barry" They represent the elements
earth. air, fire and water-and picture
Jupiter. Neptune, Ceres and Juno They
are exceptionally fine examples of the
work executed at the Gobel!n atelier dur
Ing the period of finest production.
Some interesting prescriptions of west
ern scenery have been made recently by
Mr.. Louis D. Ridenour of this city. The
same country that Moran and Lucien
Powell have pictured he. too. has painted,
but in a somewhat different way. In
stead of great canvases he had limited his
transcriptions to small water colors-
studies in gouache rendered with consid-
cradle breadth and chiefly for erect. For
tunately he has not attempted to repro
duce nature, but has endeavored rather
to make known to others that which was
significant to him. His work is not
faultless, but purposeful, and though 1t
is, in a measure, immature. 1t has marked
individuality. In color some of his paint
ings are exceedingly pleasing, and in
feeling they are good. Mr.. Ridenour is
actively engaged in business and, there
fore, gives only his playtime to this work
He is practically self-taught and has been
led to produce primarily through a de-
sire for expression. He has not, up to
the present time, exhibited. but collec-
ton of his pictures is soon to be shown
in Providence, r. l.
Much interest is being manifested in the
great exhibition of sculpture which is to
be held in the 9Th Regiment Armory at
Baltimore. Md. under the joint auspices
of the National Sculpture Society and the
Municipal Art Society. from April 4 to
o5, Practically every sculptor in this
country will be Representatives. one
hundred in abby about four hundred
examples of their work number of
equestrian statues. marble groups. statues,
busts. bas-reliefs and alto relieves will be
shown, and no less than two hundred
bronzes cast i'm American bronze foun-
dries will be included The armory in
which the exhibition will be he'd is an
immense hall affording an acre and a half
IN floor space. is well lighted and add
mirably adapted for the purpose.
The florists of Baltimore will furnish
material in the way Of plants, strawberries