Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-11
I NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
eight in all, the majority of which
were made in Japan; four. however, are
Mexican subjects and show that this
artist is not merely repeating herself.
having discovered formula. but is IN
terpreting themes in a manner which
has become her own.
Miss Hyde. we are told By one Of hcr
recent biographers, chose Japan as =
field for work somewhat by accident. She
has studied painting in San Francisco
under two Danes, Ferd Riohardt,
pupil of the famous sculptor Thor
Waldsen, and one-time court painter Of
Denmark and Emil Carlson, the well
known painter OF marines. Then she
went to Europe, where she studied n
Berlin under Skarbina and in Parif
under Raphael Collins and Albert Ster-
ner. Felix Regamey. director OF the
Nusee Guimet in Paris, was also one
Of her teachers and IT was his entausi
asm for Japanese art which first awak-
ened her interest AS so often happens
it was failure which led to success
painting which Miss Hyde offered TO
the salon was refused and she returnet
to her California home determined to
give up her art. But art Is not so cas-
lily cast aside! It was IN that time OF
despair that the unexpected piotur-
esQueness OF San Francisoo's China
town made its appeal to her. and she
began again. Her water oolors and
color etchings of the people the chill
dren she saw there and Of the place it.
seiI Immediately attracted attention
and from then on success has attended
her. 1t was her Chinatown expert
ments which induced her to 20 to
Japan, intending to stay a few months
put she remained fifteen years. Thir
anese print making.
once in japan she rented the hous>
or Buddhist priest in the mountain
village OF Nikko. made 1t into q studio
ana arranged for lessons with ono OF
the last of the famous school of Kano
artistA Her apprenticeship was rigid.
pensation.
Luckily. Miss HYDE does not initial.
Japanese prints; her works have IN
dividuality and hence distinction. T.hc.
are simple. decorative. direct and ei1-
nincant: each tells its own story A, ite
own unanected way. They are worls OF
art OF a very engaging character.
e.
Announcement IL made Of IN exhfN .
ton Of industrial art a. rslated n In :
terror decoration and the furnishine or
houses to be held at the Arts Club OF
Washington from March . to 10. This
exhibition will be restricted to the work
OF craftsmen residing in washinSton
ana nonresident members Of the club.
II Will doubtless be a surprise to many
when this exhibition opens to discover
acter is being produced here in our
very midst.
The Society Of Washington Artists an
nounces its twenty-sixth annual exhibi-
ton to be held In the new special ex-
hibition room Of the Corcoran Gallery
Of Art February % to March ., inciu
sive. A private view and reception will
be held on the evening Of February q.
This exhibition will comprise oil
paintings and works in sculpture not
previously exhibited In WashtnRton,
There Is some possibility that a Sc
lected number Of pictures shown IN this
exhibition will at its close be sent on a
tour OF certain southern cities. These
arrangements have AZ yet not been conf
summated.
The eighteenth annual exhibition of
the American Society of Miniature
Painters will be held under the au-
spices Of the National Academy of De-
sign at the American Fine Arts build
ing, New York, from March II to April
&.
ciety's agents in New York on Febru-
| airy 81. This exhibition will be held in
connection with the ninety-second an
nual exhibition of the National -Acad-
envy Of Design.
From the 9Th OF February to the 1st of
March an interesting exhibition of tap
estries and carpets from the royal pal
ace in Spain, loaned by the King Of
Spain. will be exhibited in the galleries
of the Hispanic Society of America In
New York.
Under the auspices of the Washington
Center of the Drama League, Percival
Chubb of St Louis, president of the
Drama League of America. will give
lecture in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Museum on the evening of Feb
ruary 81 at o'clock on The American
Spirit and Its Expression in Art and
the Drama" No tickets will be sold
and there will be no cards of admts-
sion. but 1t is understood that the lee
ture is for members Of the Drama
League and their friends and those
specially Interested are assured a wei
come. One of the good tendencies OF
the time is to break down the boun
daries which for some time have exist
ed between the several arts retarding
their development.
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An exhibition of paintings and
sketches by Miss Bertha E. Perrie ana
Miss Elizabeth Sawtelle will open in
the Arts Club February 16 and continue
for fortnight thereafter.
The group Of paintings by cotempo-
rary foreign artists which, pending the
close Of the European war and their
return to their respective owners. has
been loaned to the national gallery. is
now on exhibition In the Telfair Acad-
envy of Savannah, Ga, and will next
month be shown in the Gtbbes Memo
rial Art Gallery. Charleston. g. G.
LEILA MECHIE.