The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-23
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Pictures Sent Out by National Organization Draw Crowds to the Watts Building.
 Closes for Holidays

Gratifying attendance and widespread interest has mark ed the first exhibition, under the auspices of the Jefferson County chapter of the Ala bama Art league, of prints in colors and photographs of noted works of American and foreign art.
 The exhibition, which opened last Friday, closed last evening for the Christmas season, but will reopen Wednesday. December 29, and remain open thereafter until January Is, with the public cordially invited between the hours of and in the afternoon.
 Stimulation of interest in Alabama and more particularly in Jefferson county. in the better works of Ameri- can art. is the immediate purpose of the exhibition, which is the first of it's kind held in Birmingham. In a broader sense it is to famiiarize people with the fine quality and wide and diversi- fled range of subjects in prints, now available for American homes.
 1S3 PICTURES
 Tine exhibition has been aSSemb bled and sent to Birmingham by the Amer ican Federation of Arts of Washington, which from about 250 works of art. has selected 1S3 as most typical of the en- tire groups and as most likely in their appeal to those who may wish to pur- chase high-class reproductions of stand ard classic and modern art for their homes.
 The prints are arranged about the walls of the chapter rooms in the Watts building and the exhibits from day to day are in charge of the several wom ems civic, artistic and social organiza- tions of the city. The pictures include fac simile prints in color, enlargements, photographs. color prints and sculpture groups with a special showing of Cop ley. Vermeer and Whistler prints.
 Among the more noteworthy units of the exhibit are group representing Sir Gallehads Quest of the Holy Grail" reproduced from the famous friezes of the Boston public library; the Frederick Remington group of six pictures, in vivid color, of typical scenes on west ern plains and waterways; the sculp- ture group which includes St. Gaudens'
 
 park, Chicago; an especially fine land scape group, from the Chicago Art in stitute; ten reproductions of MaXfield Parrish, and the classic group which in cludes some of the better known works of Da Vinci, Raphael and other medieval artists. and which are included in the Medici prints.
 Modern English art is represented in works by Reynolds, Romney, Sargent, Alma Tadema and others. offering much that appeals to people as suitable for permanent home decoration. The re- productions, which are considered as showing the finest artistic technique, are comprised in group of three land- scapes, After the Rain" by Murphy. Early Autumn" by Traver. and Re turn to the Fold" by Mauve. These were shown last year at the Metroopli- tan Museum of Art. and Tn one instance the original and reproduction were framed alike and placed side by side. Nine out of ten people, it is said. se lected the latter as the original paint. ing.
 'The Wave" by Frederick w. Waugh, carries especial interest from the fact that MT. Waugh was in Birmingham last spring in connection with an eN- of his paintings at the South ern club.
 Miss Margaret McAdory. secretary of the Jefferson county chapter of the Ala bama Art league, believes that, guaged by the interest so far shown, the ex- hibit at closing time January 15 will have done much to bring home to the people of Birmingham the wide field of choice open to them in the selection of artistic reproductions for the home.
 The prints, now on exhibition, are not for sale, but duplicates may be obtained at prices ranging from few cents to a few dollars.