Evening star., 1917-04-15

found in improved homes. additions TO
houses. the purchase of farm imple-
mentS and animals and mapy comforts
which could never have been enjoyed on
the slender incomes from the land
alone. This is certainly art of a very
practical nature.
The lace is of many kinds. from filmy
doilies to elaborate bedspreads and
table linen.
collection of water colors by An
| thony Dyer of Providence is now on ex-
hibition at the Moore Galleries. on 18th
street. Mr.. Dyer is an exceedingly
skillful technician: more than this. how
ever. he has keen appreciation of the
pictorial in art and his compositions are
invariably not only well rendered, but
well composed. agreeably coIorful and
pleasing. Better than almost any one
else. he has pictured some of the cot
tage doorways in France, England and
other European countries with BIOS
SomlnS nowers in close proximity. In
the present exhibition there are several
OF these picturesque doorways, but one,
a little picture. is peculiarly lovely in
tone and intimate in feeling. The
| larger works hare decorative quality
and are to a great extent purposed for
emplacement as overmantels
among MI. Dyers most recent works in
TINS exhibition are New England hill
| top with trees silhouetted against a clear
and cold blue sky. a mountain vista at
Dublin, n. H.. seer through a screen of
trees: group of oossoming fruit trees
IN Rhode Island with gray spring mist
covered sky as q background, all o. which
nave excellent feeling and are more than
skillfully Interpreted.
The National Gallery has received as 4
GIT from the painter the portrait of ], J,
Shannon by Orlando Rouland, included
in M. Roulands exhibition now on view
at the National -du, cum. This is an ex-
cellent portrait and valuable acquisition
to the national collie, ton. II was painted
IN London sors se yea ago and met with
MI SHANNON: entire approval
M. Shame n is a native of New York
state. but for many years has resided
abroad and i perhaps, since Mr.. Sargent
has stopped painting portraits. the lead
ing portrait painter today in Great
Britain. He is repre- sented in the Cor
coran Gallely's collection by a portrait
of a young woman in brown. Since the
outbreak of the prese nj European war
NJ. Shannon has become citizen Of
Great Britain. but this makes him mona
tire less an American artist.
Several of Mr. Roulands portraits will
be reproduced in the pictorial supple-
r,ent Of The Star of Sunday. April o.
| There is some probability that an ex-
libition of the paintings by Ossip
Pereln,a the Franco Russian artist whose
portrait of Fleming Newbold, recently
completed. is illustrated herewith, may bs
held IN the National Museum before the
close OF the present season. 1t is much to
be he ped that these arrangements will
be coasummated, Mr.. Perelma s work
is OF a distinctly unusual character.
The annual meeting of the League
for the Decoration of the Public Schools
Of the District of Columbia will be held
in the parish hall of st. Johns Church.
10th and II streets. Monday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock. At the same time \
group of photographs Of pictorial land
scapes. lately presented by A. c. Rob-
inSon to the league, VIII be displayed.
These photographs are enlargements Of
small negatives made by Mr.. Robinson
of places visited in New Hampshire,
Vermont and West Virginia. as well as
in the vicinity of Washington. Three
or four of the number are of very
handsome trees. white birches. elms
and a pine. All are very charming
compositions and will suitably serve as
corations in the public schools.
The exhibition of etchings by Cad-
wallader Washburn in the Dayton gall
lery. which was to have closed last
week. has been extended for few
days.
Mr.. Washburn is one of our fore-
most American etchers and his work
well merits attention. 1t is extremely
individual and artistic. His line is sem
sitive and significant, and whether he
etches architectural subjects. land
scapes OF portraits his plates arc
equally sympathetic and worth while.
In the present exhibition are etchings
of Venetian palaces and of buildings
which made part Of the exposition
dream city at San Francisco, pictures
of marsh land and sandy shores. as
well as a portrait of Buddhist priest
and two Indians.
One has feeling in viewing Mr..
Washburn's works that they were ex-
ecuted with genuine pleasure. that the
artist not only found interest in the
themes, but delight in the work OF
rendition. for they are spontaneously
joyous
At the annual meeting Of the WASH
ington Society of the Fine Arts, held on
last Wednesday evening in the audito-
rum of the National Museum. Prof.
Hamlin of Columbia University gave an
Interesting and instructive lecture on
..Gothis Elements in Modern Architec-
ture" Prof Hamlin first explained the
real significance of the true Gothic
and then pointed out the difference be-
tween an Interpretation of style and q
mere imitation. reviewing modern
works in France and England as well
as in this country. In recent days,
Prof Hamlin said. great improvement
had been made in this particular, inas-
much as cotemporary architects are
now adapting the Gothis to modern
needs and relating external design to
the fundamental requirements Of plan.
LEILA MECHLlN.