Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-09
Notes of Art and Artists

In the upper gallery at the Arts Club
of Washington this month there Is on
view a collection of charming water
colors by Miss Lesley Jackson Of this
city. Miss Jackson is one of the most
talented of our local artists and her
water colors bear comparison with
the best. She is an excellent drafts
man with. fine sense of color. Fur
thermore. her pictures are invariably
well composed.
While Miss Jackson is a professional
artist, she has never maintained
studio during the winter. but has for
the most part restricted her activities
in this direction to the summer sea-
son, when she could work out Of
doors and directly from nature. But
this does not mean that her interest
in art has not continued throughout
the year. She Is a hard student, and
when she was not painting regularly.
she was studying. Furthermore. Miss
Jackson for many years took an &C
tive part in arranging for the Water
Color Clubs annual exhibitions. She
has employed water color almost en-
tirely as her medium and her works
testify to her knowledge, both OF its
possibilities and its Limitations.
For some summers Miss Jackson had
a studio at East Gloucester with her
friend and colleague, Miss Grace At
water After Miss Atwater's death
| Miss Jackson went to Provincetown
for a few seasons, but for the last
year or two she has again made East
Gloucester her summer headquarters.
She is one who has Travelled extern
Europe, and having made trips to
Alaska and once around the world.
Quite recently she spent year in
Japan and the majority of the water
colors included in the present exhi-
bition were painted there at that
time. They give a delightful interpre-
! tation of the f1owery kingdom. and
/ manifest the reasonableness of its ap-
peal to artists. The quaint temples,
! the blossom laden trees, the unique
groves rs she has pictured them, have
| great allurement, but not more so
| than the fiowery gardens and the
| quaint old trees of Massachusetts
North Shore" towns. 1t is exceeding
ly interesting to see pictures of these
| two remote places in juxtaposition
and to observe how equal is their in
| terest in picturesque charm.
| In addition to the more elaborate
compositions showing places. and in
l some instances people. Miss Jackson
has included in this exhibition a num-
Der of japanese figure studies painted
in gouache on gray paper, very direct
in treatment and full of character.
There is sincerity and frankness
and soundness of merit in Miss Jack
sons work which assures genuine
interest and regard. Obviously, it is
the work of a well trained, gifted and
truly sincere artist.
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In the lower gallery at the Arts
lection of paintings in oil and water
color by Lucien W. Powell, who. for
many years. was identified with art
in Washington. Mr.. Powell is a Vir-
ginian. and after thirty or more years
residence in Washington, has re-
turned to his native state and pur-
chased a country home, near Lees
| burg.
He is above all things a colorist, a
follower to a great extent of Turner,
and the subjects which have given
him opportunity to demonstrate this
enthusiasm are those which he has
found most congenial. His Venetian
pictures and his pictures of the grand
canyon are among his best.