Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16

background. This portrait will be seen
at the Dayton Gallery. on Connecticut
avenue. during the coming week.
MISS Burdette has also painted a
schoolgirl. This is a small canvas,
showing little more than the head and
shoulders. but is exceedingly good. The
race Is seen in profile against q gold
blue and very like japanese kimono
in style. The picture, ax a WHOLE is
attractively painted. decorative in effect
and distinctly toneful.
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At the Moore Galleries. for the next fort
night, will be shown collection Of paint
ings chiefly in water color. by Mr. Takes
hiro Kanokog, an artiat OF Japan who
has studied in Paris under Jean Paul
Laurens. and others, and who follows
western methods in his art. Mr.. Kano-
kosi was one Of a group OF five or six
Japanese artists who, 1T will be remem-
bered, held exhibitions of water colors
here In the Corcoran Gallery and in the
Cosmos Club sixteen years ago. Since
then. year after year, he has exhibited
IN the Salon in Paris, winning for him
self a definite place in the esteem of art
critics and collectors.
y
number of very attractive portraits
in pencil. crayon and chalk by Mrs. Egg
bert Cramer of London may also, from
now until Christmas. be seen at the Moore
Galleries. Mrs. Cramer has a knack for
likeness and real skill as a craftsman.
She numbers among her sitters many in
teresting and distinguished people With
In the last few weeks she has made por-
traits of Percy Granger, Caruso, Thebaud,
Micha Elnlan, John Drew and John Bar
rymore. 49,
Mr.. Cramer is also an artist, but limits
his work to landscape. He is Hollander
and has behind him the traditions of the
great modern school of Dutch painting
He and Mrs. Cramer spent last winter in
California and have crossed the continent
in their own car, coming by way of Ari-
IONA, New Mexico. Texas, Louisiana and
the seaboard states, stopping at will here
and there, driving themselves, camping
out from time to time. painting as oppor-
tunity and commissions came their way.
They are now en- route to Florida.
Mr.. Cramer's sister Mrs Tien stork
Of New York, is an exceedingly gifted
caricaturist.
The Society of Washington Artists
twentieth annual exhibition, which
opened on Thursday of the past week,
lis an exceedingly interesting and
creditable display. In it's catalogue
are comprised number of compare
lively small paintings, obtainable at
moderate cost, which have estimable
quality and genuine charm. There has
been a tendency among artists for
some years to paint very large can
vases. which show to best advantage
in exhibitions, but are by no means
adapta Bile to the walls of home. This
has been unfortunate both for the
artists and for those who are lovers
Of art. because only by possessing
works of art does one really enter into
their pleasure. and by merely seeing
them in exhibitions one loses their
intimate quality and comes to feel that
their prime object is that of being
shown.
sons who have regarded art as a lux
ury. but more and more the people
generally are coming to feel that it
is large factor in the higher civiliza-
ton for which as nation we are
now fighting. 1t may be well. further
more. sometimes to recall that France,
whose courage has proved indomitable,
has for many years been the most
artistic of nations and held art in high
est esteem.
There is much of promise and pleas
ure to be found in this little exhibition
set forth by the Society of Washing
ton Artists in the Corcoran Gallery's
semi-circular hall
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The Autographs of war work in Great
Britain and America by Joseph Pennell.
exhibited at the National Gallery dur
ing the month of November. are now
to be seen in the Dayton Gallery. on
Connecticut avenue. This will give
many who missed seeing the litho-
graphs in the National Gallery oppor-
tunity to view them.
Turing the mast two months thesa
Autographs have been exhibited in
many of the. principal cities in the
United States. and have attracted an
enormous amount Of interest and at
tention. LEILA MECHLIN.