Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

ii leading art museums IN thls
! y country. as we'll as many others
| ;,+iu.telv associated with art. Will
come to Washington this week 10 AZ
tand tho annual convention of the
american Federation of Arts. which
ii, no hold in the large ballroom OF
the New Willard Wednesday. inurs-
day and Friday. The sessions Will oe
morning and afternoon. and Will De
omen to the public At each session
there will be notable speakers, and the
topics under discussion will be of wide
interest.
At the opening session. Wednesday
| morning, Mr.. Henry White, formerly
American ambassador to Italy and
France, will give an address on The
Value of Art to a Nation" Among the
sneakers that afternoon will be Miss
Cecilia Beaux and Herbert Adams.
Thursday morning the opening address
will be by James Parton Haney of New
York, and will take the form of brief
sample illustrated lecture. such as
those given at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum during the past two winters to
large audiences of children. This will
be illustrated by drawings made before
the audience.
The afternoon session on the same
day will be devoted to the subject of
art education in the colleges and uni
versities. and the speakers will come
from points as widely separated as
Cambridge, Mass; Columbia, Mo-, and
New Orleans.
The Friday morning session will be
given over to industrial art. Frank
l. =,
ject of The Relation Of Art to Educa-
ton and Industrial Expansiono; DR..
Arthur Fairbanks, director of the Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, Boston, will tell of
the Art Museum as a Factor In In
dustrial Education" and the president
Whybrow, will speak on the subject
of the Outlook for Industrial Art in
America.
The convention will be concluded on
the evening of the 14th. with dinner
to be given at Rauschers. at which
the speakers will be Ralph Adams
Cram, Paul Bartlett. DIR. Arthur H.
Hamerschlag, director of the Carnegie
Technical Schools: p. p. Claxton. COM
missioner of education, and DIR. Ed
ward Robinson, director OF the Metro
politan Museum. The privilege Of at
lending this dinner has been extended
to members of local chapters OF the
American Federation of Arts. 1t prom
memora BILE occasion.
THE exhibition of paintings by Miss
u Catherine Carter Critcher and Miss
Sarah SewalI Munroe, which opened
the Sd of May in the gallery at 725
18th street, has attracted much favor
able attention. Both Miss Critcher and
Miss Hunroe are virile painters. and
their works are without exception dar-
ing and strong The world of nature in
all it's freshness and brilliancy sets a
high standard at this time Of year. but
so sparkling and colorful are the
paintings exhibited by these artists
that they are unhurt by comparison
Quite a number of the subjects shown
are the same, Miss Critcher and Miss
Munroe having painted much during
the past winter in the same studio and
from the same model, but this rather
adds to the interest. showing the varia-
ton caused by individuality Of treat
ment This variation in similarity may
he specially remarked in two large
compositions. which in each instance
make the center of group. Miss CRIT
cher calls her picture Society Knit
ting"-Miss Munroe has entitled hers
The Committee on War Relief Both
are extremely cleverly handled.
Miss Critcher shows a number OF
very attractive. vivacious portraits.
among which may be especially men
toned those of Otto l. Veerhon. IT,
and a little girl named Betty Much
praise must also be given to very
striking outdoor picture by this same
artist showing a little farmhouse set
back of a picket fence. radiant in the
summer sunshine. and OF a nude modei
most brilliantly painted.
Miss Munroe exhibits not only OILS,
but water colors and etchinss The last
are very conservative. Not few OF
the works in other mediums show,
however, an engaging tendency TO ex-
periment with the newer and less CIR
cumscribed methods OF the present day
the ultra modern art which doubtless
has beneath it's informality real grain
of truth. Miss Munroe plays with these
way and one that seems to arrive at re-
suits which are really conclusive.
Among her water colors she shows two
very attractive pictures of the sea
This exhibition continues until the
close Of the present week.
mo a local sculptor, or at least one
u who has now for some time made
his home here, has been awarded the
commission for the monument to Rob-
ert Morris to be erected in Philadel-
pha on the public square at Broad and
Arch streets. -Four well known sculp-
tors entered this competition by invi-
tation, and of these Richard E. Brooks
Of this city was recently declared the
winner. Mr.. Brooks associated with
himself in this competition L. NJ Lei
senring. architect. of Washington. and
he speaks in the highest terms Of the
contribution in the way of architec-
tural setting that Mr.. Leisenring has
made toward the success OF the work.
The model submitted by MIR. Brooks
shows figure of Morris on a simple.
well pXoportioned pedestal. which in