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The spring exhibition of the St. Louts Artista’ Guild opened at the Museum of Fine Art. Friday night probably will be the most successful the guild has ever mianashed, “for the reason that the pictures are said by crothes to be the best that have ever been shown by St. Louis artists. The work of the Hanging Committee has been very conscientious and painstaking, and Its effect is sen in the absence of pictures below the standard. The drawing which is regarded as being easily first in the exhibition is the balon picture of BR. E. Miller. Mr. Miller has no name for it, but it might be called At Her Devotions.” It is a picture of an old hom an holding a prayer book and fit quite up to Mr. Miller's reputtation. Louis Mutrux is a young artist who has studied sbrond and will probably return to France or Switzerland. He has tramped over the whole of France and through the Swise Mountains, and has gained much ‘strengths and understanding by this time The best picture he has is a portrait of “Mies B. Who the lady is Mr. Mutrux does not say, but very liely the picture can be identified by most of those who go to The exhibition. Mr. Hubert P. Sringhurst has several sculptured groups. The best among them Bene is “The Flight of Time,” which is atending for the Textile building of the World's Fair; this will repay study. Misa Clara Pfeiffer, a young woman scul por of considerable renown, young as fe is, has a bronze which she calls “Spring’s Awakening.” It is the best poe of work she has ever done, and will go very far toward extending her reputation beyond local knowledge. Miss Florence Sharman has a very pretty female figure in plaster. The spirit is excel lent, the pose graceful, the curves exquisite. Paul E. Harney has some new pictures of bucelle scenes containing pigs and chick ens. Mr. Harney gets very close to nature with his pictures, and he also gets very close to the public, and he evidenced the vales during the last exhibition of the Artists’ Guild. Every picture exhibited by Mr. Harney at that time was sold, either see the exhibition or within a few days after. J. Wilton Cunningham has some remark ably good work, the best of which probably is his “View of the Government Mansion at Jeferson City From the Front.” Robert M. Root of Shelbyville, Ill., is an artist who gives great keny. When he was working In St. Louis a few Years ago all sorts of things were predicted for him by his associates and teachers at the Art School. He offered two pictures to the Hanging Committee; one was a portrait of Mr. Norman Foster, which was accepted and hung; the other was a picture he calls “Girl and Peonies. This picture the Hanging Committee after careful considera tion rejected, but some who have seen the picture think that the bige tap was a lit tle too ly if such a thing could be done, the bast way to treat a pro of this sort ure is would be to exhibit it with a criticism by the Hanginommittee. Part of the piehe of the girl, is very good and it shows at least that Mr. Root would make a great miniature pain ter. The drawing of the body is not so good. There seems to be not in the own, or rather Mr. Root, after satisfy ing a _— the head, seems to have any a lot of drapery to it. Mr. Root when In na Louis was a room mate of E. H. Wuerpel, and t wore In separable chums. Both exhibit lctures, and t was their custom. when a picture was rejected to eet it up in the corner and each how shoes at it until it was utterly de stroyed. Miss Sophie N. Schuyler has a triumph in portrait painting exhibited. It is a picture of Norton, the young son of her brother, Wiliam C. Schuyler. The portrait is excel lently drawn, wall colored, and, moreover, a good likeness of the boy. This last thing is deemed by some very advanced artists to be unessential, but Mies Schuyler is clever enough to see that the resemblance is the chief part of the portrait. Mr. Wuerpel's best picture in the exhibi tion is one which he does not name him self, but his friends have called “The H of the Druids. It is a thick woods o uvisted, grotesque trees, with a dark, mus ic Reader zck O. Sylvester has several pic tures, among them two very x00 ones of the Eads Bridge. The best of the two is a pats which is owned by the Eugene Field don. Frederick L. Stoddard exhibits a water color design for a cover of one, and also a large painting which he did while in Paris in 1590. This picture is called “The Last Souvenir,” and represents a mother and daughter looking at the relica which have been sent to them by the comrades of the son killed in the war. Other exhibitors are Mary E. Bulkley, who has some exquisite specimens of book binding art: Helen D. ie George A. Marker, Grace Haxzar, Lillian M. Brown, Henrietta O. Jones, Cornelia F. Maury, Louis Mullgardt, Carl G. Waldeck who has some remarkably good portraits in his best and most characteristic style; Gustav Wolff, and J. C. Straure, who exhibits some inter- Knee 3 specimens of high art in photo. Following are the committees of Indies who have just been appointed by the Artists’ Guild to receive at the exhibition at the School of Fine Arts during the week: Committees. Paysites: a; Apel X—Miss 4 Hazard, chatr roan; uret, Mr eae Jonea, Mrs Peeltine Maury, Mimman, Mie, Bradford, Mr. Kurtz, Mr. MacAdams, Mr. Mull ardt. Wednesday, April $—Miss Sophie Bey es re ehabane Se epee ae aire Sarre ‘Own, mm ey. airs. ema ‘Mrs. Vieh, Mr. nich, Mr. ie cues Thursday, In—Mrs. F. M. y halee Kronsie “avs Me All ort a ron, re, ie en, ented Mr. , Mr. Po Pommer, Mr. “nests Mr ieneaee Friday, ana W—Mra. John Green, chairman; Mise I. Frown, Mise Hoke, Miss Hayward, sth Jot, Mrs. Richardson,” Mra. Wuerpel, Hodges, Mr. Johns, Mr. Nagel, Mr. Piateas PITISK-MAID BY GUSTAV WOLEF Horror. BY SOPHIE SCHUYLER, Apen Story! BY PAUL EF. HARVEY. GIRL AMD PRONIES, SY ROBERT TM. Reow
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St Louis Republic
St Louis, Missouri, US
Sun, Apr 06, 1902
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