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life of Washington-rarely making entrance into the art colony or mingling with the local artists. They came today and were gone tomorrow, and did not become part and parcel of the city's art life.

Glancing back over our shoulder numerous familiar figures pass, as it were, in happy parade, men and women associated closely at one time or another with art life in Washington now gone to other localities or to the "better country."

Among these I would make mention of Walter Paris, an Englishman by birth, one of the founders of the famous Tile Club, of New York, a man of large frame and interesting personality who painted little English landscapes in distinctly fine but miniature-like way. And Carl Gutherz, who painted the ceiling of the of the House of Representatives, Reading Room at the Library of Congress, and many notable mural decorations in other parts of the country, a kindly, genial gentleman full of the love of art.

Each of us who attended the exhibitions held by the Washington Water Color Club and the Society of Washington Artists fifteen or twenty years ago, will remember the impressive and decorative works in pastel by Juliet Thompson, Mrs. Robert Coleman Child and Mrs. Barney, and the delightful landscapes by Hobart and Spencer Nichols; Robert C. Child, Edward Lind Morse, the son of the great inventor —who, by the way, also is a painter of portraits, Parker Mann and Everett L. Warner, the pictures of George Gibbs, the burnt wood panels of William Fuller Curtis.

It is natural to feel that these backward glances recall better times than the present, and it is true that none take the places of those who have passed, but there is always an infusion of new spirit and the opening of new avenues of vision.

Within the last few years several artists of distinction have come to Washington to make it their home, such for example as Miss Ellen Day Hale and Mr. George J. Zolnay.

The spirit which animated the early builders of the Republic has not passed and it will not pass. Washington is becoming more and more a place which invites art and in which the art spirit is bound to flourish. The art life at the National Capital will naturally be enriched as time passes and its influence felt not only in Washington, but throughout the nation. Let us hope that it will remain as simple and sincere in the future as it has been in the past, as untouched by the taint of commerce and as far removed from those eccentricities which are often associated with art, but which really have no inherent connection with art of the finest sort as it ever has been during the century and a quarter which we have so briefly reviewed.

GOVERNOR ALEXANDER R. SHEPHERD'S

PHOTOGRAPH.

By WILLIAM TINDALL.

(Read before the Society Dec. 21, 1921.)

In the paper on Governor Alexander Robey Shepherd, which I read before the Columbia Historical Society, on April 12, 1910, and which is recorded in pages 49 to 66 of volume 14 of the records of that society, I expressed regret that the statue of Governor Shepherd which is located on the space in front of the Municipal Building at the corner of 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, represents him as he appeared when advanced age and disease had impaired the features of his countenance, and corpulence the symmetry of his form. Although that statue may accurately portray his appearance at that stage of his life, it implies no criticism of the artist who designed it, to pronounce it a sculptural-anachronism which does the Governor injustice, and is historically misleading in implying that it resembles him during the period when he was in the public service from which he derived his fame.

In order that those interested in the subject may have access to a portrait of Governor Shepherd as he actually appeared when he was Vice-President of the Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia, from May, 1871, until September 13, 1873, and while he was Governor of the District of Columbia, from the last named date until June 20, 1874, when the office of Governor of the District of Columbia was abolished by the Act of Congress of that date, I am enclosing herewith a copy of a photograph of him which

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(From photograph in possession of William Tindall, taken while Governor of the District of Columbia.)

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