The Washington herald., 1921-11-06
LANDSCAPE
EXHIBITS SERIES
OF FINE SKETCHES
Offer 123 Pictures Of
Nearby Landscape
Scenes.
By e.rtrud. RlsA.ra..p s-isA.n. PAD.

By Gertrude Rishardseu Brigham. Pad.
Thumb Box Paintings" by the
Landscape Club. now on exhibition
at the studio. 1891 Fifteenth street
northwest, not only offer an inter
estinE display OF i23 Eastern
American Genes but recall the
unique development of this wash
ington art organization. Eight or
nine years ago one or two solitary
painters in town used to stroll out
on Sundays in search Of choice
landscape bits. A passerby would
stop to admire their work, and oc-
casionally an Intelligent comment
would lead to a few words
do you paintT' the artist would
ask. "wouldnt you like to join us
every week? We are men In gov
ernmept ONCE. and free only on
Sundays. when we make long ex-
cu-sions to study landscape re-
sources"
So-the organization grew. q pick
ed body of tried recruits, who
didn't hesitate at tramping ten or
fifteen miles to see nature at first
hand. One is a Frenchman by way
of Louisiana, another is Of Dutch
descent. via Grand Rapids. and ore
of the leaders claims scandinavian
ancestry. Thus the cosmopolitan band
was built up, some OF them gov
| ,rnmcnt engravers or Illustrators.
| giving Uncle Sam efficient service
! and at the same time developing
/ FOR themselves an aVocation.
Others were professional artists,
| like DR.. William II. Holmes, direc-
| tor of the National Gallery OF Art
and president of the Society or
| Washington Artists. He Is rep
| resented in this exhibition by
eight charming water color
sketches in his best style. No. 30.
"A Risky Venture" Is a bathing
scene, with nude figures lightly
sketched. the surrounding rocks
and stream being portrayed with
single wash. of color.
Fourteen OF these little framed
landscapes are by A. II. o. Role.
| president of the club. whose work
| has a very delightful poetic quality.
a softness and delicacy. and a fine
/ unity.
c. II. seaton is Identified with the
Bureau of Soils. He has eight
works in the exhibition. some Of
them made but a few days ago. and
with all the freshness OF the pres
ent autumn coloring. No. 81, a
lovely Landscape Sketch" is the
work Of only two hours.
Henry V. Patterson. jr.. one OF
the younger members and a gov
ernment engraver, comes from Bos-
ton, where he formerly studied at
the Massachusetts, State Art school.
| Another. perhaps the youngest
member. is A. ]. Schram. From
service overseas he brought back
Interesting scenes, such as The
Destroyer" a view from his port
hole window, where he saw the de-
stroyer and the rolling green seas
portrayed in his thumb box sketch.
X. F. Cornett. who also likes TO
paint the Eastern Branch. has
eleven pictures in the exhibition.
No. 81. Autumn near Mount
Rainier. is a pleasing one. and No.
/ 81. The old Houseboat," an old
houseboat drawn up on the beach
below the Navy Yard, is actually
the home of an aged sea captain,
who lives summer and winter in
this tidy shack.
w. Boyer Pain has eight sketches.
very pretty one. No. Z. AT
| Takoma Park. Md" was made IN
only twenty minutes. Mr.. Pain. who
was born in London. studied art in
England. was an enE-aver engaged
upon some OF Dickens works for
a number of years and then became
an illustrator.
! Benson Bond Moore, who has
fourteen subjects. is a Washington
man, a former Corcoran student and
a member of the Washington
Artists. His cloud effects are quite
wonderful. especially in No. is,
'Moonrise on the Marsh" and No.
AZ. "Thunderheads"
| Herbert Francis Clark. who has
five scenes, was born in Holy
Oke, Mass. but studied at the Cor
coran. and is also one of the WASH
ington Artists.
Others in the exhibition are Capt.
Winfield Scott Cline. c. F. Witte-
nauer, Frank W. Meyers. George
D. Mitchell, and ]. r. Richardson.
The membership Of the Landscape
Club is limited to men. because, so
Mr.. Cornett says, "Tt would be quite
impossible for women to climb
about where we 60. over the rough
country and through the wet
marshes. or to endure the freezing
cold of many winter days"
| This club" explains Mr.. Seaton,
has grown by gradual accretion,
| hut tboy boya <taynd toUatbar hv