Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-06
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

ers. Charles J. Connick's wonderful &C.
-clesiastical stained glass windows are
shown by means of illuminated auto
chromes Charles Yellin's work In
wrought iron. which compares with
that of the finest iron workers OF the
Gothic era. is well represented.
There is Jewelry, work in silver. cop
per and other metals. wood carving.
baskets, besides some very interesting
English work in majolica.
One of the large galleries Is given
over entirely to institutional work and
there are shown bedspreads made by
the women in our southern mountain
regions: by the Handicapped. the blind
and feeble-minded in the various insti-
tutions. by the children OF the Play
grounds Association in Baltimore and
by their parents. the majority of whom
are immigrants who have brought with
them to this country a knowledge OF
their foreign crafts. 1t is this section
of the exhibit which is most thought
provoking and goes to show a national
resource the value of which cannot a.
yet be estimated.
This exhibition in a measure takes
the place of the exhibition which dur
ing the past two years has been held
here in the National Museum, and IL
will continue through the Goth Of May.
1t is we'll worth a visit.
Miss Gabrielle Clements of this city
has recently copied. as an order for
Bryn Mawr College. the portrait Of
Miss Garrett of Baltimore by John s.
Sargent, which belongs to the Johns
Hopkins University. This is one of
Sargent's best works and Miss Glenn
ents has found much pleasure and in
terest in copying it. 1t is the first
time that she has ever made a copy Of
work of a modern master and ii was
only at the urgent request of those who
desired the portrait that she consented
to do so.
Miss Clements mural decorations In
this and other cities are well known
and her etchings both i'm black and
white and in color rank high because
of artistic worth.
With Miss Helen Day Hale, Miss
Clements will leave Washington about
the 10th of this month. going to Folly
Cove on Cape Ann, where she and Miss
Hale have their summer home and
studios.
An exhibition OF etchings and dry.
points by Frank W. Benson will open
at the Dayton Galleries on Connecticut
avenue tomorrow and continue for a
fortnight or more. Mr.. Benson is bet
ter known as painter than as an etch-
err. but his work in the latter medium
has in the last few years won him es-
pecial distinction. 1t was in 1882 that
Mr.. Benson made his first etching. He
was then a student in the school of the
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston. and the
etching was a view of Salem harbor.
intended and used as frontispiece for
a magazine which the students of this
school were at that time issuing. De-
spite the fact that this first effort was
eminently successful Mr.. Benson did
not attempt work in this med UNI again
for thirty years.
In 1872, after having made number
of wash drawings in black and white.
he began a series of experiments in
etching, the success of which this exhi-
bition shows.
Mr.. Benson is a lover of the outdoor
world. sportsman as well as paint
er. and it is this world which he has
interpreted in his etchings, slowing all
kinds of wild birds both at rest and in
flight, and huntsmen in the pursuit of
game. With wonderful pow err of per-
ception, swift vision and acc rate mem
DRY. he has drawn the birds Is probably
none other outside of Chime or Japan.
Yet his work is without original flavor
and is essentially his own.
Mr.. PAN of the Boston Mus I'm of Fine
Arts has said: "It is not TIL. least vir-
tue of his plates that thss birds are
scientifically observed and that being
both an ornithologist and o gunner he
yellowlegs Interesting to. spotsmen.
For. above all. Mr.. Benson 3 work re-
fleets the feeling of a sen lent a man
who is out of doors to sh sot and Ash
not primarily to sketch an artist
whose impulses are as flesh as the
facts of beauty which giveSthem rise"
A distinguished Belgia2 architect.
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city on the 18th and 18th q t,is month
under the auspices of the q Jorge WASH
ington University and G,e Belgian
scholarship committee.
Prof. Horta, at the outbreak of the
present war, was in charg of the con-
struction of the great cer$faI railroad
station at Brussels and Che General
Hospital of Brussels. whiah were be-
ing built by the municipn ity. as well
as the Museum of Fine 4 is at Tour
mai. He was also director Of the Ecole
Royaie de BeauX Arts. Is is a menu
Der Of the Royal AcademsSof Belgium.
knight Of the Order de A.eopold and
officer OF the crown of 1talE
His lecture the 15thSof May will
be on characteristics of .ie Religious
and Civil Architecture of Belgium" and
on the 18th. "One Centu..r of Modern
Arts in Belgium Both fill be Illus
trated and are to be givess in the audi
forum of the National Museum.
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Beginning May II an exhibition Of
paintings by Albert ID. tohop will be
displayed at the Corcora7 Gallery of
Art. Mr.. Gihon, althoutl native
born American. has spenS more than a
quarter of a century paSnting in the
rural sections of France4 His present
exhibition of thirty-fouf3 pictures are
all landscapes.
Mr.. Gihon began his ST studies in
Washington over thirty years ago,
working under Prof. Ans.rews of Cor
coran. He lived in this CITY about five
years This is his first paivate exhibit
ton in this country. butt many of his