Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-11

on exhibition large collection OF pic
! torial post cards of Washington-its
streets public buildings monuments and
points of general interest. To an eX
/ tent the picturesauenesS of the city is
manifested bur at the same time the
badness of the reproductive methods is
made plain. Though 1t is understood
/ that many Of the American post cards
are printed abroad. IT is undoubtedly
+ true that those picturing foreign cities
are much more artistic than those Of
fered for sale on this side of the sea.
Some of the trouble may be in the
/ that much of it is to be charged to view
/ point The photographs made for the
| tourists are not. il must be admitted,
commonly works of art.
! Next Wednesday evening the nine
teenth reading of the National Society
of the Fine Arts Will he held at Hub
bard Memorial Hall at $50 o'clock. The
/ feature of the evening will be an illus
| trated lecture by Mr.. Edwin Fl. Rlash-
field on The Evolution of Mural Paint,
! ing q subject upon which he is well
qualified to speak Mr.. Blashfield Is
himself. it will be remembered. murai
painter of no small distinctions mem
Der of the leading art organizations and
of the lately appointed art board OF Tue
National Gallery. The ceiling of tire
rotrnda i'm the Library of Congress Is
his work and in the Baltimore court
bouse Minnesota state capitol and other
public buildings his decorations are 10
be found. This is the last meeting or
the Fine Arts Society for this season
\ number of persons interested in
oriental art are arranging Tor lecture
to be given in this city April so by Prof
rlo SIlh n
the lecture. which is to be fully illus
trated will be the Art of emma. ana
omnb,sis will be placed on it's poetlc
Sideaover and lanScape painting MT.
Fenellosa is the great. n not me oiia,
authority upon the art OF tne cas-; ~
as a lecturer he is cSpeclallS sii.;
The place will be the Hubbard Memorial
Hall.
Owing In the financial depression the
~. MARKET has heen rather dull this year
but in spite Of his some OF 'he io."
,+.,s have done uncommonly well. MI
Max Weyl scored success IN MS eAr'o'
lions held both in this CITY ana i'll Ne"
York and Mr. Powell has had the graz
fication of selling. privately, Whnh enT
past few weeks. four or hse "a, ne crsnd
vases The Last Clean in the HIanu
CANYON" which was shown III the Soci
etv of Washington Artists recent SNl.n
ton. has been purchased pE lo'al -,
ness man for his suburban home anu 'iie
venetian scene has been procured U!
collector who was passing through lhe
ci,y AS the welfare of at depends Id &c
Iiy upou patronage this is most encouras
ing.
Misc Janat Scudder who now has
s,udio in New York has nodded and
sant tn this city a Charming little sketch
for a chldren's fountain. In the center
If tho large shallow basin on an ofna-
mental tripod is seen little girl holdins
a,oft in her right hand pond lily Whlch
She is supposed to have just pluched
while in the basin three DoNs as'iIus VI
Turtles form merry race ne Dogs aiE
blowing water AT one aiothei
conch shells and from the mouths Oh
three frogs seated on the basin ll"i
other streams play toward the center: ne
composition is excellent, the Wotn spii - :.
and pleasing. Without being frivolous n
is eay~interpreta,ive of child life and
yontbful frolic OF this kind of work
in sculpture there is not enough.
Remarkable interest is being spayed
in the memorial exhibition of Saint eau
dens, work which is being held in the
Metropolitan Museum. New YORK. be
tween March 3 and ~ over ss."n per-
sons are said to have visited 1t. me at
tendance Saturday afternoons (Which III
New York are half hoidaysl has averaged
over 1000. and Sundays. between 1000
and II 600 1t is greatly to be hoped 'hat
the exhibition may be held mere next
winter.
Attention is also called to the great ex-
hibition of American sculpture now IN
progress under the joint auspices of the
National Sculpture Society of New YORK
and the Municipal Art Society of Balti-
more. in the 9TH Regiment Armory of
Baltimore. Almost every we'll known
sculptor in America is represented and
lover 800 works displayed. The drlll
hall in which the exhibition has been set
forth has been converted into garden.
and no more attractive scene can be
imagined than that which first Sreets the
visitors eye. This is by all means the
finest and most comprehensive exhibition
of sculpture which has ever been held
in this country. and as it is comparatively
near at hand it is the more deserving OF
note. Lila MF1N r1>i->.