Evening star., 1917-04-15

Tho New Hope group of painters is
occupying at present the special exhi-
bition room in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art. These painters are r. Sloan
Bredin. Morgan Colt. Daniel CARRIER.
W. L. Lathrop, Charles Rosen and Rob-
ert Spencer. all of whom reside for
portion of each year at or near New
Hope, Pa. Almost without exception
the pictures shown are landscapes
painted in the New Hope neighborhood;
sound, painterlike productions. but
neither very brilliantly colorful nor
very obviously inspired.
Daniel CARRIERS work is perhaps of
all the most individual. showing in
most instances an overemphasis OF
some feature in the composition which
results in the production of an unusual,
and. as a rule. pleasing, effect. His
work is decorative and has almost an
oriental flavor, recalling the paintings
by the old oriental painters, little
known in the :occident until recent
years.
Robert Spencer's work likewise has
marked individuality. He is one OF
those who discovers and rejoices in in
terpreting beauty in unpromising. un-
attractive places, such. for instance,
as the White Tenement. His values
are always beautifully related, his work
has invariably something to say and
says it well.
w. L. Lathrop has long been reckoned
among the foremost American land
scape painters. painting broadly yet
himself frankly. holding much in re-
serve. Gray skies and open pastures
have furnished him themes perhaps
more often than green meadows and
sunny skies.
of winter pictures and he paints snow
and ice with unusual skill.
Morgan Colt has sent to this exhibi-
ton both summer and winter pictures
among which perhaps the most pleas
ing is an old house adjacent to which
full bloom.
r. Sloan Bredin is represented by
pictures painted in Italy as well as in
New Hope. and the comparison is inter-
eSting No doubt the country at New
Hope is very lovely. but even as these
excellent painters have interpreted 1t it
lacks the charm of the old world scenes.
If a criticism were to be made of the
works of these artists. IT would be
that they have presented fragmentary
bits of nature rather than complete
compositions. but this is a criticism
which may be brought against much of
our current Landscape paintings
In the upper atrium Of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art there is now on view
a collection of works in sculpture by
Chester Beach. Twentythree are In
marble. twenty-four in bronze. In
size these works range from a life
size statue of a young woman to q
tiny little figure of a man. purpose3
as a seal. The range in subjects is
no less wide and varied. There are
several portraits of tiny baby. two
days old, three days old and three
weeks old, awake and asleep. wide-eyed
and coutented, and with mouth wide
omen. as if waiting pitifully. There are
wonderful little nude figures OF boys
and girls, men and women: there Is
Nero, a Bacchus and kid, a symooilcai
figure. Sacred Fire." and several
imaginative compositions such as
CLOUD Forms and "Life's Vortex" in
which the human figure is seen emery
ing from the mass, lending rhythm OIL
form and Intellectual significance.
Very powerful and impressive is a
figure in bronze, The Stoker." sug-
gestiye somewhat of Meunier. but by
no means initiative. Impressive also
is a little figure In marble. powerful
nude man. entitled achievement.
Rarely does one see in the work of a
sculnture so much evidence of the
workings of imagination or in one
man exhibition such diversity of both
manner and theme.
This exhibition will continue until
the 3Oth of the month.
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Next Tuesday, April 1t. an exhi-
bition and sale of laces and cut WORK
made by the Indians of North America
under the direction of the Sybli Garter
Indian Lace Association will be held
at the residence of Mrs. Henry kirke
Porter, 1900 1 street.
On many of the reservations the In
dian women are now making iace as
fine as that made by the Italian or
French women, who have had genera
tions of training.
Miss Sybil Carter. a missionary in the
Episcopal Church, journeying among
the Indians of the northwest, and see
ing them at their beadwork. was sim I'M
a broad and making study of lace
making, she initiated this work among
the Indians. The first that she taught
we're the Ojibways, and the first lace
king SCnOOl LOT lHe " dS
onened at White Earth reservation.
This work is now carried on in eight
centers. in which six tribes are repre-
Oneidas, Chippe-
was. Sioux, Pueblos and the Mission In
dians of southern California. The
schools are located at Onondaga Castle
and Tuscarora, N. Y: Oneida. Wis:
birch Coules and Onigum. Mimi: La
lola reservation at Valley Center, Mesa
Grande and Santa YsabeI, Cal. and
puna. n NJ. So well have these In
dian women succeeded in making lace.
rivaling in quality the great centers of
the world, that their work is not only
purchased by connoisseurs and wealthy
PATRONS, but specimens of 1t have found
their way into the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of New York and other notable
lace collections.
The practical side Of the work Is