Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-07

The jury of selection and award OF
the Corcoran Gallery's biennial exhi-
hilton, which S to open with a private
view and reception on December ~,
will meet at the Corcoran Gallery TINS
week This will bring to washington
five of the most distinguished Ameri-
can artists.
willard L. Metcalf, who is chairman
Of the committee. is one OF the fore
most of our cotemporary landscape
painters. In the Corcoran gallery
nermanent collection he is represented
nv NAV Nisht,",a wonderful nocturne
showing colonial mansion Win Coi
umned portico f1anked by DiossomIns
horse chestnut trees ana oaTneu III Sne
flipht of an unseen moen. In the Ma
t;onal Gallery collection he is repre-
sented by a'Io less notable WORK, d
m Midsummer landscape full OF, 1resn-
ness and color. Mr.. MetcaiI seeLhs
have absorbed the teaching OF
but in ms ln1e thair
m athods. without exception MS PAIN.
;nes are atmospheric and iufhinouS
ana bis technique is above reprCaou.
nut his pictures have q cnarn srhe =
.eyceeds their technical interest,". ;ns
are in each instance nne conp Saa,,ty
anu averaee observer would see
left to himself. 10. a.
Daniel CARRIER of the COMMITTEES n;
phiIadelphia painter and mas Won u
tinction not only by his AahIsS"tt oo
but by his figure palnt,h1 sn. Might
and air pictorially rendered. but
MIN II would seem that pattern no ..
even greater significance. some OF ms
most successful landscapes nave oeGn
nictures of a river painted IN VIC
cinity of Philadelphia. as seen .as hnr-
Fol;
daring the near shore. HIS con
tons as a rule have emphasized noi
,ontal lines and his rendering rs
times reminiscent of the ART " III
oriental painters. His ngures a+
usually been shown VIII Wiz o strone CON
trasts of light and shadow. sun suns, IN
and shade. His work is essentially IN
diyidual artistic and SOUND.
Richard E. Miller. the tnird mem
Der of the committee. has ms stuulo
at present in St. Louis. but ne mas
lived for many years in Paris and Is
essentially cosmopolitan. He IS ng-
nre painter and as a rule nowadays
uses rather a gh-keyed psllette. Lire
his colleague. Mr.. Fireseke, ne mas
painted figures not because Oh ms ~
inherent beauty, but rather as units In
a composition. bringing together ioye-
,ly colors, harmonious arran gements y. :
line In the permanent CORRECTION IN
the Luxemburg Galleries In franc is
Viei1ies DemoiseiIes, picture OF
aged maiden ladies which lis as full OF
human sympathy and as charming
characterization as any painting
which this great gallery owns.
Irving r. Wiles. the fourth memner.
portrait painter Of the highest attain
ment. The Art Institute at ?oungs-
town, Ohio,lha recently ACQUIRED MI
Wiles' portrait of Mrs. Gilbert, the
actress, which is worthy of comparl-
son with the great rs pOe,ra,ss S ol tns
seen in exhibitions in this city in past
seasons Mr. Wiles' portrait of Julia
MSrlowe and also his portrait OF his
wife and daughter. He is suave but
virile painter and his PORTRAITS lnVa-
riably have distinction.
Charles H. Woodbury.. the last OF the
group, comes from Boston. though he
spends good part of each year at
Ogunquit, Me. where. summer after
summer until this last season, he has
conducted an outdoor school OF paint
ing Mr.. Woodbury. is a marine paint
err, or. rather, is especially famed for
his paintings of the sea. which have
a picturesQueness and yet at the same
time convey sense of silence and i'm
mensity. In the last of the Corcoran
GalleryS Dlennlal exhlDltlCnS ne was
represented by a large, splendid can
vas Of rainbows playing over the
waves ais seen in midocean. He is
also an etcAer of the foremost rank
and is well represented as such in the
collections of the Library of Congress.
Such jury is bound to be both con-
servative and liberal: to be sufficiently
open minded toward that which is
new and yet sufficiently insistent upon
those elements in art which are uni
versal and enduring. The judgment
of such a jury should not only be