Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-01
WATER COLOR CLUB
EXHIBIT TOMORROW
To Open at Corcoran Gallery
of Art and to Continue
for Two Weeks.
ABOUT 800 PAINTINGS


opens its twentyfirst annual exhibition
tomorrow in the special exhibition gall
lery of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
with a private view from 10 in the
morning to o'clock In the afternoon.
and from 8 to IL o'clock in the even
ing.
This exhibition Is numerically the
largest set forth by the club, compre-
hending approximately 900 works, and
1t Will be found thoroughly interest
ing and engaging display
Fifty years ago water colors were
literally wash drawings, white paper
being used almost invariably as the
background for light washes of trans
parent color. Twenty-Five years ago
gouache-the practice OF mixing the
color with Chinese white and employ
ing gray or other tinted paper-came
in vogue Now both of these ways are
used and as many more. and all are
considered permissible. 1t is not
method, but result that counts. For this
reason there is great variety in the
present show-much greater than
would be found in an exhibition of oil
paintings
Furthermore. water colors have a
brightness and gayety all their own;
they must be direct, hence they possess
spontanelty. and because they are pro-
duced at the moment of enthusiasm
they reflect almost OF necessity the
artists delight.
The exhibition which the Washington
Water Color Club has arranged this year
is essentially gay and cheering. The
works shown are sprightly and color
full and are of exceptional merit Many
are from out of town. but the local
artists make excellent showing.
Pictures by Lucien Powell.
Prominent place has been given to
group of pictures by Lucien Powell of
this city-pictures painted last sum-
mer on a trip through the Canadian
Rockies to our own far west. The
Of the great canyons, as seen in the
red glow of the setting sun This is
painted much in the spirit of an oil,
with no tiny portion of the paper or
canvas showing through. The other
six (there are seven in the group) are
more sketchily rendered, the color
being applied as pastel with broad
telling strokes of the brush. serving
as pencil. They are charming and de-
l1ghtful-very suggestive and extreme
ly picturesque.
Miss Lesley Jackson is also represent
ed by group showing six pictures, all
of which were presumably painted last
summer at Gloucester. They are not
the usual Gloucester scenes, however,
nor are they executed in a usual man
ner. One shows a group of men bait
ing the hooks" another a group Clean
ing the fish," both are virile and i'm
pressive-the figures well drawn and
very skillfully interpreted-real scenes
from real life. interesting because they
have significance and are free from all
anectation. There are in this group
also pictures of a side street in Glouces-
ter. admirably rendered. of a flower
garden. OF view through an opening
| giving a glimpse of the sea. All are
| strong. colorful, well handIed-in short.
pleasing and very meritorious.
Some of the vivacious aspect of this
paintings contributed by Miss Felicie
| Waldo Howell, which have not been
| grouped. but are to be found here and
| there on the walls and which lend
| much In both vitality and color.
One Of these is of the main street in
Gloucester and is an excellent portrait
OF place" very true and very skillfully
handled. Even more significant, per-
haps, Is a picture on the opposite wall
| of a corner of old PHILADELPHIA. A
commonplace brick building with little
to recommend 1t to notice architectur-
| ally is bathed in sunlight and thus
through the artists discerning vision is
transformed and glorified into a lowell
exclaim. This result is attained by no
trick. but by fine drawing, a nice ad-
justment of values, a discreet use of
color. and the power to have seen the
| beauty which was latent therein Miss
Howell is Washington girl. a former
student of the Corcoran School of Art
a pupil of Mr.. Smell. She has had phe-
nomenal success-her pictures have
found their way into all the leading
exhibitions within the past two years
and. Furthermore. have found ready pur-
| chasers-but she has not been satisfied
to relax effort. and as a result she Is
still making marked progress.
Pictures of Fishing Towns.