Evening star., 1918-06-02
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

registration bill now before Congress
which proposes to protect the designer
through registration of designs and
through the designers the interest
of the manufacturer.
There was also considerable discus
sion of the possibility and desirability
of the establishment of a national
school of industrial art in Washing
ton, at which both designers and
teachers of design might be trained
and from which manufacturers and
directors of other schools throughout
the country might draw material as
sistance. This is big question in
volving not a single section of the
country, but the whole nation, and
one to which the nation is but just
awakening.
We have already in our National
Museum the beginnings OF an indus
trial art museum. 1t is not improba-
BILE that in the future the dream of a
national school of industrial art. such
as the South Kensington School OF
England and the national schools of
have attained supremacy in manufac-
lures, will be realized in this our Ma
tional Capital.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art has
recently acquired a most excellent
and valuable example of the work OF
John H. Twachtman. 1t is medium
sized canvas and is entitled The
Waterfall"
Until acquired by the Corcoran Gall
lery it had remained from the time of
the painters death in the possession
of his widow.
Twachtman was one of the great i'm
pressionistic painters of this country.
His work Is essentially subtle and
interpretative. It beckons to the be-
holder to come and see beauties in
nature heretofore unseen. There
have been times when Twachtmans
expression has been so exceedingly
subtle as to seem to lose force and
not the case in this instance There
is beautiful drawing, fine modelling
and exquisite rendering of the facts
as well as the spirit of nature in this
painting which the Corcoran Gallery
now owns.
During the summer from mid.
June until September, the Corcoran
Gallery will show in its special ex.
hlbition room a collection of paint.
a
oeing assembled by a special COM
mntee OF Baltimore painters, among
Whom may be named C. Y. Turner.
Ailce Worthington Ball, Thomas Corr
ner and others.
ihere are many excellent painters
IN Baltimore and their works are
only too little known in WASHINGTON
therefore,, this exhibition promises to
ne OF much more than passing in
Inc ist OF September the Corcoran
GALLERY is planning to hold an exhi-
bitlon of original rawlings by Jo.epb
Pennell. of munition- factories and
other war work centers in the United
states. This will include not onIv
the originals of the lithographs
SHOWN at the National Gallery last
winter and quite generally through
out the United States, but of other
drawings made during the summer
under the extension of privilege
gwen by the Secretaries of War and
the Navy.
Ossip Perelma, who for more Than
year has had a studio in this civ
is in Detroit at present painting por-
traits of Mr.. and Mrs. Booth, the
father and mother of George G. and
Ralph II. Booth of the Booth Pub
fishing Company
Mr.. and Mrs. Booth have lately
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
OF their marriage, and no painter
could want better subjects for his
brush.
Owing to the interest shown in the
exhibition of portraits on ivory by
Miss Edgeiy. at the Moore Galleries,
the time of closing has been cxtend-
ed for week.
Prince Arthur of Connaught took
the occasion while in this city to Sc
cure the second portrait of his
mother. the Duchess of Connaught,
which the artist painted shortly be-
fore the opening of the war.
The portrait of the Princess Pat
ricia, the only unmarried sister Of
Prince Arthur. is also on exhibition
at the Moore Galleries.