Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-22

" HE exhibition of the Washing
ton Water Color Club opened
to the public today and may be
seen in the new hemicycle Of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art
every day until Sunday, April 6. For six
teen years. Washington artists and theil
friends have looked eagerly forward te
this show annually, and have taken pride
in IL; first, because there was to be seen
here the best home talent, the chosen
work of members Of the club, and o.
Washington's well known artists, ant
next of the splendid representative worf
by artists from other cities, pictures in
spring to see, and also rejecting honor
upon the organisation which gathered
them and brings them to this Nationa
Capital
Artists and their friends will not be
disappointed in this present exhibition
the seventeenth of the club. 1t consists
of original work in water color. pastels
miniatures. drawings in black and white
etchings and colored prints not before
publicly shown in Washington. They
were carefully selected and hung by a
jury and committee composed of the
officers of the Washington Water Color
Club and board of managers. who are
President, James Henry Moser; vice pres
ident, William HI. Holmes; treasurer, j
c. Fitzpatrick; secretary, Bertha e. Per
RE; board of managers, E. Lesley Jack
son, Carl Weller and Mathilde Leisenring
In this entire exhibition the hanging OF
the pictures, always difficult thing tC
accomplish well, has been done effective
ly; always certain balance of the dark
and the light of the large and the small
has to be kept, always the harmonious
combinations Of color must be considered
and the effect OF the room as whole Is
to be studied: An exhibition is a great
decorative scheme to be planned, and
each contribution must be given it's best
possible place and environment. The ar
rangement in this exhibition Is carefully
done. At the right, as one enters. are
the prints; then comes the beautiful
bringing bright spots of color before ap-
preaching the black and white work.
then there is the transition through little
color prints again to the full strength OF
the larger pictures, forming the largest
part of the exhibition, for there are over
100 of these.
Although there are some pastels, the
majority of these pictures are water col
ors. There was a time when water color
painting was not taken very seriously
amateurs dabbled in it, young ladies toy
ed with II, clever men juggled with II.
There are still to be found those who
think only of the brilliancy of the ham
ding and the purity of the pigment. An
exhibition like this makes one gladly
realize how much more seriously water
colors are now taken.
Any subject that can be handled in oils
can also be undertaken in this charming
medium and i'm this exhibition a great va
riety of technique and of subject can be
studied The things that the painter cares
most for and works hardest for, are the
mood. the atmosphere, the vibration OF
the air, the graduation of light. the sim
plicity of tone, the delicate relation of
values, the fine proportion and rhythm of
masses. the musical division OF space. the
unity of subject. the sincerity of purpose.
The catalogue will give full information