Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
Notes of Art and Artists.

, should be legibie a bold Roman
type or the italian lettering of the
! sixteenth century based on it. is the
! type most suitable.
| In all memorials simplicity, scale
and proportion should be aimed at
! rather than profusion OF detail or
| excessive costlineSs OF material. II
/ is the artistic Imaginative and intel
| iectuai quality of the work that gives
| it it's final value.
Before the adoption of tentative
| plans and preferably before any
! plans are made. secure expert advice
! This can usually be best obtained by
! calling in d competent artist. pe ne
| an architect. sculptor. painter or
| Il landscape architect. If there is TO
/, be a competition careful speclfica-
| tions setting forth the terms of the
competition should precede it II
| should be remembered that the abiest
artists are not usually willing to en-
| ter competitions except for structures
| of the most important Kind.
The American Federation OF Arts
will make war memorials one of the
| general subjects of its next annual
| convention. which is to be held at the
! Metropolitan Museum. New York. in
| May 1919. 1t will at that time hold an
exhibition of photographs of existing
war memorials which have been
erected in the past in Europe ana
America. and also suggestive not only
for cities but equally for country vii
lagos
::
There is no more interesting per
sonality in the field of American art
today than Joseph Pennell, the dis
tinguished etcher, photographer and
illustrator Mr.. Pennell was the init
mate friend of Whistler. and his BIZ
ographer Though Philadelphia by
birth. Mr. PenneN has for many years
lived abroad. His etchings of European
ca thedrals are world famous. 1t was
he before almost any one else. who
discovered and made patent the IN
herent beauty of the great skyscrapers
of New York. 1t was he who saw nfst
i'll the building of the Panama cana
a subject of profound artfstlc slgniI-
canoe And it is he who since the war
began has shown us the wonder OF
work in the munition factories, the
shipbuilding yards and other war
work shops in Great Britain and TINS
country.
Mr.. Pennell is to give an iliustrateo
lecture on war work in Great Britain
and America, illustrated by stere-
opticon slides of his own Autographs,
in the auditorium of the Central Hlgh
School next Thursday evening. under
the auspices of the Washington So
ciety OF the Fine Arts.
Il :;
A collection of original drawings OF
geese and ducks by Frank W. Benson
of Boston, is now on exhibition in the
Dayton galleries. on Connecticut ave-
nue. Mr. Benson has won exceptional
distinction in these interpretations OF
game fowls. treating his subjects with
amazing accuracy and artistic skill,
which equal that ofsthe oriental ar
fists.
c. Ambrose Webster, an exhibition
of whose paintings opened at the
Washington Arts Club yesterday. Is
one of the so-called "Beachcombers'
of Provincetown,- Mass. He is pupil
of Benson and Tarbell in Boston. Lau-
rens and Benjamin Constant in Paris,
but an exponent of the so-called mod
ern school His paintings. while ex-
tremely direct and bold and brilliantly
colorful, are sane and true to nature,
and once seen are not easily forgot
ten. Much interest, therefore, should
attach to this exhibition, which Will
continue until the 18th Of the month.
LEILA MECHLIN.