Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20

tention with this child portrait. All are
of men who have taken their places
! among men and each is a strong char
acterization, well drawn, grlmly mod
I eled and good in tone.
Mr.. Bryant's method of painting is d.
rect. but it has the appearance of being
studied. His color Is good but low
toned, and his shadows are. as a rule.
rather heavy. Though his training was
in Boston and Paris, his work rather
| suggests the influence of the Munich
| school. that school from which came
| some Of our best painters more than a
quarter Of a century ago.
There are styles in art as in other
things, and the style in which Mr.
vogue. but it is a good, sound style.
and one which will always have its
advocates and admirers.
| A picture of a peasant woman and
interior painted back in Mr.. Bryants
| student days in Paris, which were at
that time shown in the Paris Salon.
testify both to the thoroughness of his
training and the inherent ability upon
which he had to build. These are pic
| lures of the type the people always
like-real pictures. with human inter-
est. In recent years themes of this
kind have almost invariably been left
to the current illustrators. the story
picture having in other realms fallen
| into ill repute because painters under
| took too trivial themes and rendered
them in many instances feebly. But
| such pictures are now returning to
popularity.
Mr.. Bryant is at present painting
portrait of the Rev. DR.. Roland Cot
ton Smith, rector of ST. Johns Church,
a friend Of many years standing. This
continue throughout the present week.
RATIJEp ,pusno1 evhihitIop ~
~ rare ancient Chinese potteries has
been held during the past fortnight in
Yamanaha's exhibition room. on Con-
necticut avenue. This comprised eight
cen exhibits, several of which were lent
| by well known local collectors, such
as Frederic May, C. v. Wheeler and
Henry Adams. Some of the exhibits
| dated as far back as the first part of
the Christian era, others belonged to
the tenth. thirteenth and fifteenth CEN
turtles.
| Chinese porcelains are generally
/ much better known that the potteries,
much better known than the potteries.
scum such specimens as were recently
| shown here are to be seen. Extremely
! interesting was a vase loaned by Mr..
May, excavated pottery of the Tang
dynasty. with serpent handles and in
the form of Grecian vases of an early
Of hgurines of the same era remarka-
bly, modelled.
From Mr.. Wheeler's collection came
a pair of jars, olive-green glaze, coated
with the lovely silver iridescent in
crustation and showing an animal pat
tern in low relief. These were Of the
Hang period.
Mr. Adams contribution was a gar
de seat. Ming pottery. in the form of
a drum, aubergine glaze and turquoise
blue, decorated in low relief with lotus
flowers and heron in low relief.
An extraordinary exhibit was a group
of excavated Hang potteries taking
| the form of dog. rooster and min
/ iature well and bowl. The dog and
| rooster were delightfully."- entertaining.
and may have been modelled any time
between 200 B. c. and 221 A. D. In
many respects they seemed extremely
| modern"
| Other ancient Chinese works of art
are still to be seen at this place. among
| which may be mentioned some carved
figures and a head, which presumably
date from the ninth century and are