Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-26
Notes of Art and Artists

popular prize" This award will b.
determined by the vote of the visitor.
| to the exhibition during the week be
ginning January IL and will be made
to the artist whose picture receives
| the greatest number of votes. The
purpose of this prize is to stimulate
! interest and to encourage the public
| at large to study the exhibition. Dur
ing the week named every visitor will
have the privilege. of casting a vote
and every picture will be regarded as
eligible.
| BY artists throughout the country
generally this exhibition is consid-
cred one of the most important held
and for 1T as a rule the painters re-
serve their best works. 1t has done
ton on a par with the great exhi-
bition centers. such as New York
Philadelphia and Chicago.
portrait of Justice Charles r.
Howry, by Haskell Coffin, was placed
! in the courtroom at the Court OF
Claims and unveiled with suitable
ceremony last monday morning. 1t
Is a three-quarter length anu repre-
sents the justice seated in a high-back
armchair, of course, wearing his robe
| of office.
1t is well constructed and good
in color. The head is particularly
we'll modelled and the face expressive
It has been pronounced an excellent
In the courtroom hang other
portraits Of other Justices one paint
ed by Charles Bittinger, formerly OF
this city, others by Robert Hinckley
of Washington.
Mr.. Coffin was a pupil of Mr.. Hinck
ley. studying some twenty years ago
| at the Corcoran School in this city
From Washington he went to New
York. and from there to Paris. He
is now back in New York and has a
buildings on West 4Oth street.
He is perhaps better known as an
illustrator anu a designer of maya
zine covers than as painter. for
though ant he ne =. is constantly doing
deal. One of his latest and most sue
| cessful portraits is a likeness of his
| friend Leopold Godoski, the pianist
who is at present much in the public
eye.
| Mrs. H. K. Bush Brown has recently
completed very satisfactory and in
teresting portrait of Worcester R
Warner of Cleveland. Ohio. This, too
is three-quarter- length and shows
the sitter in an archair, facing the
| observer. AS a painting it is essen
tally virile, and as an Interpretation
of personality exceedingly good.
In her studio at present Mrs. Bush
Brown has number of her more i'm
portant portraits-for example, tina,
OF her husband, Mr.. Bush-Brown, the
sculptor, at work; one of Miss Ellen
Day Hale. her confrere, the daughter
of the late Edward Everett Hale
and likewise well known as a painter
nf ~
the British embassy, who as a pic
| torial photographer has won well
merited distinction.
| Mrs. Bush Brown has lately been
! making number of very attractive
| small portrait studies in charcoal and
colored chalk. She has a peculiar
faculty for Selling a likeness and her
craftsmanship is very good.
| X \ X X
Miss Bertha E. Perrie has brought
back with her from Gloucester a mum
Der delightful paintings of boats
made there during the past summer.
Not for many years have the artists
! had such an opportunity for painting
the boats in Gloucester harbor as this
| fishermen were on strike and the
! boats. therefore. at the wharves, idle
But few made such good use of the
! opportunity as did Miss Perrie.
Heretofore Miss Perrie has gener-
ally painted in water colors. This
summer she used oils, and she has
produced paintings of very vigor-
/ Gus and impressive character, using
her pigment with the same freedom
that characterized her treatment in
water colors. and yet sacrificing none
of it's peculiar qualities of strength.
! The Gloucester f1shercraft are built
| on the lines of yachts, and there is a
certain romance about them which