Evening star., 1915-04-03
Noteworthy Portrait.

An extremely successful and note
worthy portrait has been contributed
by Mathilde NJ. Leisenring-a pastel,
slight in treatment and yet fully au-
thoritative, lovely in color and most
expressive.
Miss Critcher shows landscape and
a small figure study. the latter very
spirited and engaging, the former
broadly painted and effective, besides
a colorful picture of a foreign gate
way
Four small pictures hung in group
stand to the credit of Bertha T. Perrie
and form an attractive feature of this
exhibition, All are of foreign scenes
and were painted last summer. Here
the brushwork is direct the color
strong, the effect impressive spark
ling and vital. At glance one rec
ogniZes these as works of experience
the trained hand and vision of the art
ist
Among the landscape painters none
makes more notable showing than f.
c. Messer. who has long held high rank
in this field He contributes two pic
lures. one entitled Evening" the 9TH
er Twilight" both gentle In tone and
fun of the feeling of the hour which
they interpret. AS a composition the
former is especially noteworthy and as
work of art 1t possesses very big
and at the same time rare qualities of
distinction.
AS Il memorial exhibit a Landscape tv
Max Weyl is shown, lent by private
collector. and a most representative
work II viii be found to be- strong,
tonefui and very digniiied--a picture
winch would hold its own in any COL
iection-a work of enduring merit
Alexis y Many makes Two coutribu-
lions. both Of which are unusual and
welcome. one is winter Iaudsca pc
showing Snowcovcred fields on "A
mountain SIDE in the light of the moon,
the other is = still life study-:i basket
Of brilliant colored zinnias No two
pictures could ina measure be more
unlihc--the one so extremely subtle,
The other so frankly obvious. The
landscape might well have been done
by one who took Whistler as his mas
ter, the flowers by none other than a
disciple of the modern school Both
are enormously knowing and clever.
Representations of Still Life.
There are other excellent paintings
of still life in this exhibition, not
merely students work nor studies, but
works full of artistic feeling-such, for
example, as one of chrysanthemums by
Grace Russell Raymond; another sim
ply entitled still Life" by Marguerite
Brennan Mauze, and third by Eliza
beth Muhlhofer
Annie ID. Kelly contributes a pecul-
iarly charming landscape which one
does not have to look into the cata-
logue to know is or must be Dawn
in the Catskills," and from Carl We'll
ler have come several very engaging
and we'll rendered landscape themes
Two Of the pictures, Frosty Morn
| ing" and "Oxon Run" recently shown
in Winfield Scott Clime's exhibition in
| the Nicpold Gallery. are here, and to
these has been added a third, AT Sun
| set" by the same artist, which is, per-
haps, even more interesting and not
\ able.
| Lucien Powells paintings always lend
| colorfui quality as well as interest to
| an exhibition. and those by which he
| is here represented are no exception Io
| the rule. He shows in his best man.
ner a picture of Venice in all heI
| glory aud spIendor of colorinR and sun
! light, one OF the Grand Cany on. SO al
| most unpaiDtably superb. and yet a
\ third of bridge spanning amid sum
| mer foliage "O1d Broad Run" The
| group is very representative. and goes
| to show the Individuality and also the
| versatility of this well known local
] Aainter. whose pictures have. It may he