The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21

Everyone who attended the art exhibi- tion yesterday at the Hotel Hillman en- loved it. The friends of the artists were delighted with the sunshine which encour- aged visits downtown. and glad to see the evident appreciation of the best eX- hibition in the history of the Art club. The display continues today.
 The painters are receiving their full need of appreciation, and congratulations are showered upon them. Several sales were consummated yesterday before noon. Thus was material interest and encour- agement added to praise of exceptional work.
 The person of academic training who, with sudden disgust for the commonplace | in art, throws aside all his technical | learning and endeayors to rise to the veriest heights of idealism. unhampered | by ordinary observances of drawing and | color, is by no means as rare a phenom- enon as each coterie of devoted followers to each individual genius would have us believe. Mutiny is a good, healthy thing In art and out of it much that is good, as well as inevitably, much that is tedious and absurd, has come. All of which oc- cured to me as l examined those three charming things sent by Miss Eloise | Montgomery who is at present in Se- vance. Miss Montgomery's work exhibits fine independence. She calls one paint ing, Tn the Mist" another: "In the Ciouds;' the third is a sketch done in Provinceton, Mass, a thing that admlra- | bly expresses the chill winter of a fishing village. The first two one fingers over with great enjoyment. Miss Montgom- l ery's work is all done in a very high key and has an exquisite refinement. | Some exceptional things were contrib uted by Miss Emma Augusta Jones of the Birmingham seminary. Her work is all done in a conscientious, careful manner. The two paintings of the German build ing in Chicago are admirable. A sketch done on Michigan avenue is splendidly handled.
 Miss Hannah Elliott's miniatures are well worth in themselves a visit to the exhibition But, added to these she has shown some fine water colors. The sketch, My Mother" is not only a charming painting, but a remarkable likeness and one which any friend of that lovely lady would recognize and momentarily appre- clate. A large painting, Tn Shades Val ley" is an evidence of Miss Elliotts abil- ty for broader work. She is showing other delightful things.
 Miss Lillian Orr's drawings and water colors exerted an especial appeal to number of visitors yesterday. compro- mise between European and Oriental drawing were the flower sketches that formed e charming group, and tiny pie ture-a doorway in New Orleans-revealed exceptional talent.
 Mrs. J. A. Montgomery's landscapes and portrait studies are capital Not only the charm of line but the vivid, clear color ings in the small water color paintings must appeal to the modern art lover who Is in the throes of color worship!
 
 The exhibition of ceramics is large and important There are remarkable decora- tlons engraved or executed in enamels also charming examples of lustre work Miss Lucille Douglass Is showing & tea set and some beautiful conventional plates: Miss Sara Neil, whose display is always fine. has some of the handsomest pieces of flat and raised enamel work ill the col lection. A Satsuma fruit bowl Is thing of rare beauty; her plates are also eX- quisite. Miss Glennie Moseley's china has been very much admired. There are
  jar. a bonbon dish and other handsome things which give evidence of her talent. Mrs. W. F. Motion is showing q cracker jar, in enamels, a bowl and a plate, also In enamels. that are remarkable both in design and workmanship.
 The best way in which to be convinced of the excellence of the Art clubs exhibit is to it. Scores of people-men and women in about equal numbers, by the way-strayed down picture lane" yes terday armed with catalogues, investi- gating the authors of especially clever productions. Two charming things were sold by Miss Douglass to Mrs. E. M Tutwiler. Both were sketches made last year in Holland Miss Hill numbered among her purchasers Mrs. s. k. Thomp- son, MT. William l.. Melton, MT. Robert Jemlson, Jr., and Mrs. Charles T. Fair bairn. These sales occurred yesterday morning shortly after the exhibition was opened.