Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-07

Of the collection was given by the art
critic Of the New York Times:
THE pictures were for the most part
small, and included a considerable group
Of charming pencil drawings. A number
Of the paintings were reminiscent of the
artists student years. In Antwerp he
was a pupil in the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts. and a portrait Of a tidy kitchen.
also study of street corner. with its
grass-grown pavement and its shrine, and
a study of his own bedroom, were rem
intscent of his Antwerp period. Kitchens
amused him, and he painted his own. a
picturesque room with wall Of black
and white tiles and a red-tiled floor. a
shelf Of cleaning brass and copper, and
a capacious cupboard; also a Swedish
kitchen, with many woven hangings.
chairs with turned legs. and pots Of
plants. as different from the Belgian YER
sion as one language is from another.
"A third kitchen scene was from Stan
ton, not far from the artists English
home at Broadway. a huge gray-plastered
place, with beamed ceiling and a tagged
was kept not only in the particular fur
nisrings. but in the color and tone Of the
whole. There were several delightful
fragments Of the Clovelly landscape. and
there were pleasant notes of travel in
Capri. Venice and the Black Forest A
few details Of mural decorations were in
cluded in the collection. as were a num-
Der Of portraits. Not an overpowering
collection. but the more appealing for its
intimate and personal character and its
Offering of modest canvases that had a
special relation to the painters personal
experiences"
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r. HE exhibition of portraits by the
National Association of Portrait
Painters. which was to have opened in
the National Gallery about the 18th of
this month, has been delayed in transit
and will not open until the 21st. 1t
will, however, remain on view for four
weeks. This exhibition promises to be
most interesting and notable.
THE League for the Decoration of the
Public Schools has done and is doing
an excellent work in Washington-a work
limited only by its financial resources.
Its object has been not merely to put pic
lures into the public schools and thus
widen the school children's knowledge, but
to create environment. literally to deco
rate and make more beautiful the build
spend SO great a part Of each day for
the long season. The Hubbard School
was the first decorated. This was done
completely from top to bottom as an ex-
ample. Since then others have been done
in whole or part. From the first the
league has had the cooperation of the
municipal architect and the school board.
and has worked in harmony with both.
Tangible aid has also in some instances
been given by the teachers.
Great improvements have been made in
the school buildings in recent years: there
has been improvement in architectural
design, and also in interior finish. The
newer buildings are not the dreary, un-
slightly affairs the older ones are or were.
The walls now are tinted. woodwork we'll
finished, light properly regulated. In
some instances the league has met the
expense of tinting old walls. but ordi-
narily this has been done hv- the District
authorities. Its mission has been to Sc
cure pictures. sculpture. objects of art Of
suitable descriptions. and see that they
were properly placed. Within the last
year four or five schools have been deco
rated and moro will receive attention as
rapidly as the means at the disposal Of
the league permits. The membership of
shall is president, Miss Myra Hendley
secretary, and Miss Grace Lincoln Tenn
pie chairman of the committee on deco
ration.
AN exhibition Of hand printing and
"A Illuminating by Robert Wilson Hyde
Of Santa Barbara, CAL. is now being held
in the Arts and Crafts Shop. on 18th
street. There are texts and whole para
graphs which one might wish to read and
reread, ornamentaIly printed and framed;
there are books and there are odd say
ings, combined with photographs ex-
uuisiteiy colored by hand. Printing Is an
art-more truly SO than many today I'M
derstand or believe-and the fine printing
In this instance Is combined with very
ornamental decoration. There is some
thing q little florid about Mr.. Hyde's
fornia suns and wealth of nature. hut
there is reserve also. He shows excel
lent craftsmanship, and his productions
are quite out Of the ordinary.
-HE next lecture in the popular course
on modern masters, which Is being
given under the auspices OF the WASH
ington Society Of the Fine Arts. is to be
on Saint. Gaudens and will be pfven by
Glenn Brown, president Of the society.
Tuesday evening at $50 o'clock in the
auditorium of the National Museum. Mr..
Brown directed the arrangement OF the
Saint Qaudens exhibition which was held
here some years ago in The Corcoran Gal
lery and later in the Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh. Season tickets Tor those lee
lures were piven out to those registering
at the first OF the season.
4 Il
THE art talk at the Corcoran School
which was to have been given last
Monday afternoon was postponed on ac-
count OF the small attendance. occa-
stoned by the storm. 1t will be given
next Monday at the usual time. 4:b PM.
and will be on Technique, With Refer
ence to Some Present Day Tendencies
LEILA MECHLIN.