The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-01

art lover in the city the offering of a yearly prize called after his or her name If this plan could be adopted 1t would result in bringing outside work to the exhibitions, and making them every year finer and more attractive.
 The two pictures which received Hon orable Mention are Peach Blossoms by Miss Carrie Hill. and Summer Peo- ple' by Miss Alice Rumph. The formers painted in the faint emerald greens and cobalt blues that combined In the dls- tance, produce the exquisite irridescence of spring coloring. shown peach tree in full bloom against a cream coiored cabin with faintly green roof. The lat ter shows three figures, a woman and two little girls in a field of daisies. In the middle distance are sloping bowery woods against a dove gray mountain and. fleecy sky. It is picture of graceful sweeping lines, full of feeling of fleeting light and shade and the blue bloom of a hazy atmosphere The figures. in shadowy white, are wind blown, and you can all most feel the cool breeze and see the cloud shadows floating across the daisy fields.
 Miss Adelaide Mahan of Brierfield, Ala, sends a set of charming studies done in Provincetown, Mass. Had her painting of "A Backyard" been the required size, she would have been a close competitor lOi tic CiuD pIiZc. us COOi Wlltc U ciiiocd buildings might mean Italy, With It's faintly green foliage, translucent shadows and warm touches where flowers show. 1t Is a lovely and poerrca1 picture. Her Lumber Wharf Is a cool, breezy study of a girl fin wind-blown white dress, who comes down plank walk, at the end of which slender palely green trees blow against a blue-gray sky.
 Miss Della Dryer. the president of the club. has, among other pictures, "A Study in Rose and "A Corner in Bruges.' '' The first Is a delightful study of dark haired girl in an old-fashioned pink flow cred gown seated beside a quaint little table, on which she leans. The back ground is a cool white curtain with touches of rose, the carpet lilac pink. The shadows in this picture are especially we'll painted, being transparent and full of color. "A Corner in Bruges" shows the quaint architecture of that old city of red roofs, with a group of picturesque figures in the foreground.
 Miss Eloise Montgomery of Monteag1e, Tenn, is the acknowledged poet of the Art club. For the past few years she has devoted herself to the study of mists in the mountains. With a perfect sense of design her lovely little dream studies look like Japanesque decorative schemes, and you feel that, in their silvered frames, they should hang on walls of grass cloth. The title of the largest Fair was the spring, but amidst his greening gray were the days of the hidden sun explains itself. transparent brook flows quietly through pale green grass, from which rise delicate tree forms, seen faintly through the mist. A touch of scarlet shows in the featherly foliage of the maple in the foreground.
 Miss Willie Mclaughlin has a charm ingly poainted head of dark haired girl in rich blue kimono.
 MT. Leslie Welton exhibits several fine water-colors most of them painted abroad. "A Canal at Dordrecht Hol- land," Fountain Louvois Paris, ]" "Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus, Ath- ens'' and others.
 Mrs. J. A. Montgomery has a number of landscapes. Tn oils Virginia Mountains ' and in water colors several studies done around Birmingham, an especially charm ing one being the Swimming Hole at Blount Springs. The old Blue Hole which is quite green-loved of small boys.
 Miss Clara Moorman of Mentone, Ala, las several creditable little studies of Lookout mountain and of Mobile bay. Miss Mildred Rumph some excellent Bir- mingham landscapes. A study of ''Chero- kee Roses by Miss Armantine Brown of Mobile is well done and decorative in design.
 Miss Alice Rumph has an unusually fine collection of oils and water colors this year She exhibits for the first time her Salon picture, Dutch Interior,' which was also exhibited at the Amercan Wom- ans Art association, Paris, in the Amer ican Watercolor society, New York, and in the Art Institute, Chicago It repre- sents an old Dutch woman, in a blue gown and quaint white cap, seated knit ting at a window. Beside her a little girl is sitting on a stool. The coloring of the picture is principally browns and blues, with touch of yellow in the jug and 0 fraint green seen through the win dow. It is full of atmosphere and the handling is wonderfully broad and ef- fective. "The Old Mudd Homestead near Elyton" is a strong, splendidly painted oil, the white pillared, red roofed man. sion, seen through dark tree boles on a green slope. "A Peristyle, North Caro- lima might be a Greek temple to Pan surmounting flight of rocky steps in a mysterious wood. There is a fine study of Pines near East Lake and a~poetic little City BeautifulP' taken from the Altamont road.
 Miss Emma Augusta Jones of the Louie Compton seminary sends her usual col lection of good, stron, interesting work, the finest perhaps being her "Bit of Gar field Park" Chicago. This is a lovely pergola study in jade greens, rose and turquoise blues. Her Church Interior is also excellent with its brilliant stain ed glass coloring, and her Blackberry Falls is strong and we'll painted.
 Miss Carrie Hills set of oil studies are all Birmingham scenes, mountain and valley landscapes, pines on hil!sides, studies of moonlight and twilight Her hest work next to the one which won her Honorable Mention is her Fire of Spring where vivid bed of scarlet tulips rise like flames against green fields and soft distant trees.
 The finest still-life is Miss Dryer S painting in blues, showing a jar of corn flowers and two magazines with blue covers against a gray-blue background
 Miss Lucille Douglas has striking set of studies of the California coast, great gnarled trees with pale trunks and branches seen through dark and heavy foliage against blue sea and sky; tolling white sand dunes. out of which the trees rise almost like silhouettes; pictures that are wonderfully decorative in design and striking in color.
 Miss Hannah Elliott exhibits one of her charming miniatures charcoal study of her mother, and a Birmingham lands cape. Also a design, in pencil, for a per- sonal Christmas card.
 The collection of china and crafts-work is larger than usual, and the architec- tural exhibition the finest and most com plete ever held in the city.
 MISS KIRKPATRICK
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