Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07
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quaintance will be renewed with pleasure.
not reluctance.
The landscapes make also important
feature OF this show. There are the frank
vital transcriptions of Willard Metcalf
Charles II. Davis Henry w. Ranger and
others of the outdoor world when IL is
| most green: then there are the gentler. but
no less virile. interpretations OF J. Fran
els Murphy. d. w. Tyron. Leonard Ocht-
man and Will Robinson: veracious and
poetic paintings that will fit into neither
category by Emil Carlson. Granville
Smith and J. Alden Weir: sunny pictures
such as Frank w. Benson paints: snow
scenes by artists no less well known
than E. W. Redfeld. G. f.. Schofeld and
Charles Morris Young: nocturnes. lovely.
indeed. by Charles Warren Eaton. Charles
Melville Dewey. VIII Robinson and Ar
thur Parton.
scription. After all, one must see these
pictures to appreciate them.
The local painters are extremely wen
represented and stand as 1t were. shout
der to shoulder with the best. The names
Of sixteen or eighteen are included in the
catalogue and these have twenty-one
paintings to their credit.
Mr.. Messer and Max Weyl each
send two landscapes-Mr. Messer an early
morning and a late evening scene: Mr..
James Henry Moser contributes a
comparatively large canvas. painted last
summer in Connecticut. transcribing a
group of pine trees set high a hill
side partly covered with sweet fern-a
| seriously studied and beautifully rendered
composition
+. HI. Miller has sent pleasing little
nocturne by the sea. lie Grand Johnston
Is excellently represented by a bit Of
simple landscape sympathetically inter-
preted. To Mr.. Macdonald's credit is the
| strong portrait which he painted Of
Joseph L. Thropp last summer. and to
Miss Mueden'S a recently completed por-
trait of herself
Miss Hanson sends a virile portrait OF
| Judge Goode: Miss Perrie Miss Critcher
and Miss Meta Craig contribute attract
I've portrait studies. Carl Smith. like
| wise, makes good showing i'm figure
painting made last summer in Holland
one OF the men OF Volendam. standing
with hands folded In prayer Lucien
Powell Is seen at his best in large
painting OF the Grand Canyon across
which the rays Of the afternoon sun are
falling. and Miss Solomons. than whom
| rev render surfaces more knowingly by
a group of still life amid which a bunch
of pink roses in a brass jar is prominent
| And with these painters may be men,
toned John r. Key, Mrs. Alice c. Patten
and John K. Souther, late Corners to
Washington. who. nevertheless. through
| their contributions lend distinction to the
local showing.
1t seems natural TO class Ii. Hobart
! A<ICNOiS ana everett warner with the
painters Of this city, though 1t is true that
they no longer claim residence here.
| Mr.. Nichols, who is now living at
Tuckahe. n. Y, sends a delightful sum-
mer landscape, certainly one of the best
he has produced: and Mr.. Warner. who
10 now in New York city, winter street
scene, Brooklyn Bridge in Snow fer
which he received a medal at the Penn
sylvania Academy last winter.
American painters residing i'm Paris are
| largely represented and doubtless well.
From Holland have come paintings by
| Mr. Hitchcock and Miss Upton. and from
I Florence one by Julius Rolshoven-
| large picture of ''Masque."
| This is only a brief summary. but il
may indicate in a measure. along broad
lines. the real merit and interest of the
display as a whole.
From tomorrow until January II it will
be open to the public during the usual
| hours and under the customary restric.
lions Of the Corcoran gallery.
| LEILA MECHLIN.