Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21

Preaching to the Indians" ard 1.-The Pill
grms on the Mayflower. Here also are
decorations for Mendelssohn Hall, New
York. Frederick Dielman's handsome
series for the business office of The Star
in this city, Maxfield Parrish's clever
nursery rhyme illustrations for famous
New York grillroom. Robert Reds lu-
nette The Light of Education his most
recent work. painted for the high school
at Springfield, Mass. and E. II. blash-
fields charming pendentatives for the
courthouses at Youngstown, Ohio, and
Jersey City. as we'll as F. d. Millets dec
orations for the Cleveland Trust Com
panys building, in Cleveland, Ohio, and
Most hble of all. possibly. both in
the decorations by John w. Alexander
representing the Growing of Labor
the originals of which are In the
Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh These
derricks. men working with iron and
steel they show the life of our own day
and yet in manner genuinely decofa-
tive. The frieze. 1.-The People" which
represents a vast thrOng pressing onward.
typifies the progress of the masses. and
is virile and at the same time full OF
beauty. With these attention will also
be arrested by the series of decorations
Violet Oakley painted for the Pennsyl-
vana capitol at Harrisburg, which, If
very different in character, are no less
individual or decorative. One could in no
better way acquaint ones self with Ainerl-
can mural paintings. save by INSPECTION
of the originals, than by reviewing care
fully the collection Of photographs at the
Library of Congress.
THE Washington Society of the Fine
Arts holds it's first meeting the 10th
of November. at which time Joseph Lin
L. otaE
ture on .Ankor-Wat," the Great Hindu
Temple in Cambodia,' one of the most
beautiful buildings in the world, which
is, however, very little known. Mr.. Smith.
who is well known both as a painter and
traveller. has recently returned from sew
eraI months sojourn in the east. Both
the members and public courses OF iec-
lures to be given under the auspices OF
the Washington Society of the Fine Arts
this winter are uncommonly interesting
In the members course the December
lecture will be given by Mrs. Kate Thee
la Conley of Boston, on Imagery in Mu-
sic; the January lecture will be by
John w. Alexander, president of the Ma
tional Academy of Design on american
Illustrators" while in succeeding months
will be given lectures on The Art of the
Blind and The Future of American
Landscape Painting. the latter by Birge
Harrison, the distinguished landscape
painter.
All of these lectures, except the second,
will be illustrated with the stereopticon.
The public course, to be given at the Pub
lie Library. as usual. Will be devoted to
the history of painting, Italian. French.
Spanish, Dutch and British paintr-: be-
ing considered in turn. The first two
lectures, which will occur November 10
and December 8, will be given by Frank
Jewett Mather. jr., Marquand professor of
art at Princeton University and formerly
art critic of the New York Evening Post:
the third, January ., will be on French
Painting and will be given by Miss
lecturer and writer: the fourth and fifth,
February IL and March II. will be re-
spectively Spanish and Dutch paint
ing, and both will be given by Charles
H. Caffin, who is the author of books on
these subjects; the sixth April q, will be
on British Painting" the lecturer having
not as yet. however. been announced. Xxx
hibitons of photographs of celebrated
paintings of these various schools will be
exhibited in the Public Library from
month to month. thus suppementng and
continuing the value of the illustrations
shown at the time the lectures are given.
Furthermore, arrangements Will be made
whereby those desiring to take the fun
course may register and secure lists of
books Obtainable in the library for sup
Elementary reading. These lectures are
free to all.
THE CORCORAN GALLERY is MAX
ing arrangements to hold during the
coming winter an exceptionally interesting
series of one-man exhbitions-that is
small exhibitions made up entirely of a
single artists work. The first, which will
open early in December, will be of paint
ings by Philip Little of Salem, Mass.
who has many friends here. Later will