Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

An exhibition and sale of paintings
and sculture donated to the Red Cross
by Washington artists will open in the
New Willard Hotel tomorrow and con-
tinue throughout the week. This exhi-
bition will include pictures by the FORE
most Washington painters, among
whom may be mentioned f. c. Messer.
Richard n. Brooke. Miss Bertha Perrie.
Miss Catherine Critcher, Miss Sarah
Monroe, Mrs. Leisenring. Miss Lesley
jackson. Edwin Deming, Edgar Nye.
Michel Jacobs, Admiral Davis and 9th
ers, and sculpture by no less distin-
guished artists than Paul Bartlett.
Richard E. Brooks. Julian Zolnay and
Miss Clara Hill. AS the object is pri-
marily to raise a fund for the Red
Cross. all the works will be priced as
low as possible and an exceptional op-
portunity will thus be given the public
to procure meritorious paintings and
sculpture at extremely low figures.
Artists as a class are extraordinarily
generous, ever standing ready 10 help
one another and to contribute to great
humanitarian causes. Thousands or DOL
lars have already been given by the art.
lists of America to foreign relief, ana
now that the call has come for aid for
our own country they are no less ready
to give. And what is more. in giving
their works they are giving or their
best; no feeble effort, but paintings ana
sculpture which are fully representative
and have previously been shown IN pup
lie exhibitions. This is splendid evi.
dence of patriotic zeal, and II is hoped
that il will meet with no less cordlai
response on the part of the pubic
In the Corcoran Gallery of Art
special exhibition of paintings by John
F. Carlson was opened on April "a. and
will continue until May 10. Mr.. Carl
son is a Swede by birth. but an Ameri-
can by adoption. His art studies were
pursued entirely under American mas
tiers, and he is a member of the Ma
ton Academy of Art. of the New York
Water Color Club and of other Ameri-
can art organizations. Furthermore,
MIR. Carlson is now head Instructor IN
the Woodstock School OF Landscape
Painting, having succeeded TO this
position upon the resignation of Birge
Harrison. with whom in this work he
was for some years associated.
The majority of the thirty-f1ve paint
ings in the present exhibition were
executed in the vicinity of Woodstock,
a beautiful bit of country lying back
of the Hudson In the foothills OF the
Catskils. Because Mr.. Carlson Is
largely occupied during the summer
season with his classes. most OF his
individual work is done in the fall and
winter 1t has, however. great variety
as we'll as force and charm.
Mr. Carlson is one of the painters
whose work gains in value through
aggregation. indeed. no more encour-
aging and impressive one-man exhibit
ton has been shown in Washington
during the past season than this De-
spite the fact that the outdoor world
Is now most beautiful, these paintings
dare COMPARISON and retain their full
measure of appeal. The themes are
pleasantly varied, but without excep-
ton are rendered with feeling ana
skill. They interpret natures MOODS
fully pictorial. To open the eyes OF
those who will look to such beauty IN
nature is the artists mission. but many
there are who fail to realize 1t.
Most charming are some OF the small
pictures by Mr.. Carlson in this exhibit
ton pictures which perchance might
be lost or overlooked in the great ex-
hibition, but which are peculiarly SUIT
home. 1t would be difficult to say too
much in appreciation of the work OF
this sane. skillful and keenly artistic
painter.
A
Weir has recently been placed on view
in the atrium of the Corcoran Gallery
of art, Mr. Weir is far better known
as a painter than as an etcher, but
when one is genuine artist medium
does not greatly signify. To appreci-
ate and understand fully either Mr..
weir's paintings or his etchings one
must know them well, for neither are
of a tyne to force applause upon the
instant.
Writing Of his paintings; Duncan
Phillips recently said: They seem
unconsciously to express the reticent
idealism which guides and guards the
matter-of-fact materialism of Amer
ica," defining idealism as "a gracious
at people and places" These same
characteristics distinguish his etchings.
They are reticent, they are intimate
and to an extent idealized. No one
can doubt that they were produced
primarily for the artists own pleasure,
and their manner of production is es-
sentially his own. All are not equally
successful; some are slighter than
others, but all show the trained hand
and instinct of the master.
Quite the most interesting painting
shown in the exhibition of the Society
of Independent Artists. which is in
progress at the present time in the
Grand Central Palace, New York, is
the portrait study of an Irishwoman
by Miss Bertha Noyes of this city.
which was shown here in the Society
of Washington Artists most recent an
nuaI exhibition. This picture, through
its colorful quality and vivacious brush
work holds it's own among the many
freak paintings which outnumber other
works in this extraordinary exhibition.
There was no jury for this exhibition
every one who became a member of the
society had the privilege of exhibiting.
and the works are hung alphabetically,
according to the painters last names.
There are approximately LOO paint
ings, some few by good painters, but
the majority by one of the classes
of painters-those who have cast aside
all tradition and are striving for form