Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1921, Page 20

20 | Notes of Art and Artists ||t d \ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 2, 1921—PART 1. [AROUND THE CITY city with property not belonging to] him hidden away in his bag. ‘Which, gentlemen of the jury, shows what circumstantial evidence can do. * * % % one printing is necessary to produce | of street scenes and has a gift for the desired effect. Hence the result 18| interpreting the spirit as well as more individual than in the ordinary| the aspect of a place. Miss Perrie was represented by a characteristiz Gloucester subject,”and Miss Eleanor Parke Custice contributed an_excep- 3 o to the Public and get ‘No. 22 of One Hundre Selections,’ edited by Phineas i There are thirty-five of these books. T hope you will suce 4 tehing nishes a difect medium for exprei ‘The which littie more than a fortnight ago, has to the public on December 18 and con- | Gallery are landscapes and architec- cast a shadow of sadness over local| tinue to January 23, The jury of se-| tural subjects. Some of the Inttar] ~SNisited: graceful andlnn] st so. wisdom, like the plps on|and the women took turns telling [comings and goings of job-lot human-|We have. And we couldn’t ask for art circles and the opening of the |lection I3 exceptionally strong; con-|are quite elaborate in composition MAntic charm, and Mrs. Marion Boyd|an autumn rosebush—and it helps. |each other what a terrible creature |ty that must buy other peoples’ cast. | ST In8 better than fricnds, coud e2s0n. artists of Washington more highly esteemed or better beloved than sne. JMiss Perrie was born In Washing ton and educated here. member of the Art Students’ League and tthe Society of Washington Ar-| tists. tary of the Washington Water Color Club. for herself enviable distinction. work wall placed tions York, An exhibition of her water colors was held in the Corcoran Gallery of Art iaat s sent t Arts on a circuit of the art museums this winter by those best qualified to judge fer work was ranked in merit with that of the foremost water colorists. only charm but exceptional ability. It was serious, simple it_showed no evidence of striving for effect; true. qualities her personality. No than she, more true or simple-hearted. Her attitude to the world was that of a confiding child, trustful of its good- ness. and was she found it. had a traordinary ab she found untold plea | across which white wind clouds were | which became operative this morn- happy d i advance appreciation of American art| drifiing Iike frolicsome puffs of smoke, | Ing. These duties will be applied to |teeth on edge.” hunted and hunted from one end of | published by Frederick A. Stokes| —A dozen' men were injured and ity for casting aside|and to give Washington recognition |z motive which Charles H. Davis has| 6,000 .individual articles, Incluling | The women, honestly, didn’t seem |the apartment to the other, knowing | Company, New York. 1If the writer|many arrested after a clash hes ies _ which temporarily de-|as an American art center. * |delighted to interpret and render with|optical and other scientific_instru-|to be over thirty-five, but they sald |the secrctiveness of Miss Beverly's|does not find it, from this description, | between the police and 600 un anxiet. pressed HERE is a street of second-hand smells. Also, there are nolses—the Babel shrill of foreign voices, the in- sistant procession of pushcarts, and the n. Each‘print may be regarded dially yours, Mrs. B n orfginal. Included in the collection now on view In the atriym of the Corcoran tionally strong water color of boats. w. Closson, who, though not a Washingtonian, is well known here. showed a figure study in his usual vein, but more skilled than commonly Jauntily as she hopped over a muddy ripple made by a hose. She was a pretty young thing, who showed gray silk stocking to the near-knee line, annual exhibition of ' cotemporary American ofl paintings, to be held this midwinter. The_exhibition will open death of Bertha E. Perrie, occurred at Gloucester, Mass., The above information later from M L. T. So, you dear R. F. O. also ¢ HEN youth is dead and our 1dols broken crockery, most of us sort of grow a world- D. she must be, pretending her skirt could get wet, and S0 on— It didn’¢ seem to occur that it mighi be a habit inherited from a mother who had to guard against mud-caked skirt braids, and a grandmother who hiked her train over gutters, but, anyhow, seeing that youth has such a little time to be gay and foolish In, and so many years of mothering and :nending and m’nkinx ends meet, wkere is the:'fun ot The Epluribus man was right, some things 4o sct Four teeth on edge, ‘which makes it all the more comfort- ing to know that most of us grow wisdom, like the pips on an autumr rosebush. and “display exceptiorally skilled draftsmanship. There is, indeed, one showing a court which is a master- fece of art—beautifully drawn, love- y In color, charming In tone and at the same time teeming with interest. There are no short cuts to art of this sort, and it is of a kind the worth of which s enduring. Mr. Senseney’s landscapes also show a knowledge of drawing and com- position as well as.a decorative sense and keen sensitiveness to the subtle beauties of nature. They are not coples, but In the truest sense inter- pretations. Some are moonlight ef- fects. others early morning or even- ing. All are nof equally muctesaful, but the majority are exceedingly fine. To an extent they recall some of the lovely colored mezzotints of the Eng- lish school of the etghteenth century, ';'L,:;‘:;‘32"&'L‘é':,:,,’.';"cs:,',1,{;},,“,{;',.?I | sisting of Frank W. Benson of Bos- ton, chairman; Gifford FBeal and Charles H. Davis of New York, Vic- tor Higgins of Chicago and Taos, N. M., and Joseph T. kearson, jr., of i Philadelphia. During the past year former Sen- ator Willlam A. Clark has given the Corcoran Gallery of Art $100,000 to perpetuate the Willlam A. Clark{ prizes, amounting to $6,000, which have, 'through his generosity, been awarded in connection with the Cor- coran Gallery's medals at these ex- hibitions for several years. There- fore the much-coveted prizes of $2,000, $1.500, $1,000 and $500 will be awarded as usual. In addition to these, how- ever, the surplus income not'so ex- pended may, by the terms of the gift, be, at_the discretion of the trustees, expended in the purchase of pictures included in the exhibition. In the most recent of these exhi- bitions the sales amounted to over $67,000, thirty-nine pictures being sold. The Corcoran Gallery has al- ways been a liberal purchaser and the Clark fund will now insure an even more generous continuance of [ this policy. For the artists nothing could be more stimulating or grateful. The Corcoran Gallery’s exhibition two seasons ago was by all adds the best held in the United States that year or for several years. There is no reason why the coming exhibition should not uphold the same high standard. Such exhibitions held here at the National Capital do much to * % & % Which makes you sorry for the other kind—the ones who never shed the ability to find fault. A well dressed, clean-scrubbed man had on the back of his neck that de- moralizing thing that we call a bump when we have it ourselves, but which, otherwise, is heartlessly known as a boil. Two women be- hind (street car) must have espe- clally relished the ill that the man's flesh was helr to, for at every stiff movement of his head they looked at each other and giggled and giggled and—well, of course anybody is liuble to get into gusts of nervous laugh- ter—still, there is always a time to stop. But the women didn't stop— they kept on giggling. If the sufferer heard he made no show of resentment. You may have observed how cowed we are under an affliction that carries ¥idicule— and ridicule goes with boils. But the friend with him was obviously not of the mold of which saints are made— not by no manner of means. To look at, he was a big-jointed, yellow- toothed, Epluribus Unum Eagle sort of man, and when he turned around and spoke to the women, these words he did say: “Excuse me, but would you mind lowering your voices? My friend doesn’t care, but to me the laughter of women over forty always sets my Washington Arts Club, was repre- nented at her best by a portrait study. * X K % ‘The Washington Society of the Fine Arts announces a course of lectures! on great painters to be given byi i offs because—everybody knows why. But at one corner the other morning the sun lay like a new yellow blanket 2 on the pavement and the leaves swirled Gown from a tree as if dying were aj gay sort of dance. Also, there was a box and on that box sat an old woman, browner and more withered than any | leaf, allowing you want a contra And she was selling pencils. A passing man who was in a hurry} to get to wherever he was going—one of those men who are goinz to heaven n they die—hurried a coin out of a pocket, dropped it on her tray and was sprinting along when she halted him with @ reminder that he had forgotten to take his pencil. He must have thought this remarkable, even as you or I, for he halted. “I am not in the begging business, sir. T am selling penclls.” He took off his hat, selected one and went his way. There was none among the to them verse I remember of ‘Carrier Dove." give you the rest. She was a Royal Cortissoz, art critic of the New York Tribune, one of the foremost au- thorities on art in this country. The i subjects of the lectu T | Making of Portrait Painters,”” “Ingress and Art” “Degas, a Modern Type,” “John LaFarge, A Great American.” Mr. Cortissoz is the author of the au- { thorized “Life of John LaFarge,” and also of the recently published and much discussed biography of White- law Reld. The lectures will be given For many years she was secre- from home: As a water colorist she won Her | was invariably welcomed and in the leading exhibi- of water colors held in New Philadelphia and other cities. Oh, fiy to my nutive land, hand. pring znd was to have been 0 the American Federation of stray, Oh, fly to her Lower, sweet bird. “With love, “MRS. * % ok % V]SS BEVERLY s being trained to put her toys away after she ie jthrough playing with them. And she obeys. Her grandfather, a distinguished jurist of Virginia, was a guest the other day, and during his stay Miss Beverly's young cousin called. Having arrived at the age that re- | quires her to pull at everything she | jcan reach, Miss Beverly dragged big cousin's purse from a table and tod- dled around swinging it from her arm. Then, mindful of parental injunction, she put it away so carefully that when the time came for cousin to go home she wus unable to find it. Mother special invitation. By but inherently they are quite differ-|vember 16, December 14, January 18, ent, quite unlike anything else even|lepruaty i5 and March 15, They will in the same medium that has been|g) be illustrated with stereopticon done. They are enviable possessions. | giides. LEILA MECHLING genuine and very enjoyable works of art. The collection will be on-view until the 8th of this month. P In the summer exhibition in the Gallery on the Moors” at Gloucester this season Washington artists were given chief prominence, the places of honor on the two side walls being oc- cupled respectively by paintings by Hobart Nichols and Fellce W. Howell. Mr. Nichols showed a bit of the moorland against blue summer sky It had not ever betrayed any symptom of expect- ing a customer to do more than donate | the ballads of long ago. a little cash. to be the only case on record. But he was wrong. There are always others. In everything. * * k k “DEA“ MADAM: ‘An 1dyll of the very sincere, extremely and direct. It made no pretens: voice. NEW CUSTOMS DUTIES. Levies of One-Third of Value Made by Great Britain. LONDON, October 1.—Customs du- ties equal to one-third the value of certain imported goods will be levied, beginning today, under Great Bri tain's act for safeguarding industrie: it was peculiarly naive and In the possession of these iss Perrie’s work reflected NANNIE —_——————— one was ever more guileless through your column, can be found in a collection of verse, ‘Point Lace and Diamonds,’ by George A. Baker, j he loved the outdoor world thrilled by beauty wherever Her art was her life a She | Smash Windows. hiding places, but the mystery deep- ened until a parcel package arrived next day from Virginia. Little grand- no more. What could they say? And pretty soon they got out. ments and various manufactured scarcely less skill. Miss Howell ex- metals and chemicals. The making of Despite a somewhat timid hibited a view of Chestnut street in he was guite fearless and 'EE I will copy it for her. Very truly, “R. W. R. Kensington, Md.’ offices. t T had a copy, but find Libraey L " what zood friends “ Y dear Nannie: This is the only the Perhaps soize 078 can The lover is send- ing his bird away to bring him news 4 “Oh, fiv to my native land, sweet bird. And bear these lines to my lady love That I've traced with a trembling She marvels much at my long delay, A rumor of death she has heard. Or, she thinks, perhaps, that I falsely N. L. B ‘This is the first verse of a dear old Afterward he mentioned |Song asked for some time ago, and that it was the first time a pencil vender [Was sent by a most beloved lady, whose memory is a treasure mine of and which He said he believed hers |she sings in a soft and sweetly, tender LANCASTER. POLICE AND IDLE CLASH. Perlod,’ requested by R. F. 0. D..| Lozen Hurt When 600 Unemployed LEICESTER, England, October 1 employed men who had smashed the windows of the board of guardians’ dccomplished andertakings of very considerable hardnes She was an_excellent teacher. Upon the death of James Henry Moser some vears ago, she was made instructor in water color at the Corcoran School of Art. and the work of the water color_class during this period upheld the high standard it had attained during Mr. Moser's term of office. Miss Perrie was also, for a long time and until her death, the teacher of art at the Gunston Institute. and at her studio in the old Art Students’ League building. S08 17th street, she conducted private classes. The place she held was unique and there is no one to fill it Miss Perrie's studio has for years been a meeting place of artists. The Sketch Club met there one evening a week during several past winters. It was also a place of delightful social gatherings he had a wide circle of devoted fricnds and she was a charming hostess, Last winter Miss Perrie was chair- man_of the exhibition committee of the Washinzton Arts Club, and under | her direction a_series of notable col- lections were shown there. Early he went to Glouce: not Tittle building on Rocky from those occupied by Mr. ridge and Miss Felecla Howell. was. in her usual health and spent long days sketching on the wharves, her specialty being the Gloucester fish. ing boats. For a couple of weeks she was ailing. then suddenly came a change for the worse and. notwith- standing every care and attention that friends and skilled physicians could give. in a few davs she was gone, without even realizinz the seri- ousness of her own condition. To those who tarry here she seemed too young to die, for she was but in middle life and capable of adding much. through her art, to the sum of | beauty in the world. But her corner of the world is-undoubtedly the bet- ter and the brighter for her having lived in it. Her gentle personality and her sturdy, excellent art will be much missed. Plans are being made by a group of her friends for a me- morial exhibition of her work some- time in the near future. * % x % The Corcoran Gallery of Art has Just issued a prospectus for its eighth This Niagnificent coil-spring seats and backs, ! paintings, but for the csual series of icoran School of Art and also for | number of years under the late How- ‘ard Helmick. |like any other etching. try Suite Is a Rare Value--124.50 Ordinarily you would expect to davenport alone, as this special sale three-plece suite. The davenport is 6 ft. in length, has deep The Corcoran Gallery of Art opens tomorrow with one gap in its fac- ulty—that occasioned by Miss Perrie's death—and one change—Burtis Baker of Boston taking the place of Alex- ander James, who, on account of ill health, was obliged to resign. Mr. Baker ‘'was a pupil of Ernest Major, Joseph De Camp and Edward H. Bar. nard. He has made a speclalty of portrait painting and his works are to be found in the Massachusetts state- Louse, girls’ high school and Harvard ard Law School. In the Corcoran Gallery’s most recent exhibition he was represented by a picture of a girl playing a guitar and by a still Iife| subject. He comes highly recom- | mended. Mr. Tarbell continues principal of the school and Mrs. Leisenring re-| tains the secretaryship as well as her place on the faculty, which in- cludes, as before, Richard Meryman. ® ok x % C. Powell Mennigerode, director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. made an extended tour of the art museums abroad this past summer, visiting those in England, France. Holland, Italy and Spain. He returned the the great exhibition of contemporary unusual small exhibitions which has come to be reckoned one of the pleas- ant features of the winter in the field of art. * ok ¥ % The first of these special exhibi- tions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art consists of a collection of color etch. ings by George Senseney, and is now on view. Mr. Senseney was a Wash. ington boy and studied at the Cor It was while he was working with Mr. Helmick that his first experiments in color etching| were made—experiments which were 80 successful that later on he spe-| cialized in this medium and became its leading exponent. A color etching in its first stages is A copper | plate is used and the subject is etched upon it by means of acld, the lines being scratched upon the sur- face with a needle. In printing, however. colored ink# are applied 4n- | stead of black, and often more than! 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