Evening star., 1921-11-06
Notes of Art and Artists

pathy and skill. Somwhat similar in
style is the work of Mrs. Bertha Lum
Of San Francisco, who also choose fig
ure subjects, but whose work is of an
illustrative and imaginative character.
One of the subjects by which she is rep
resented in this travelling collection is
a photograph Of the West Wind COL
lecting the little breezes under her
cloak at eventide.
The Lemos brothers of Leland STAN
ford, tr., University are accomplished
wood block printers and take as their
subjects typical California landscapes.
Gustave Baumann of Santa Fe, N.
NJ. is an acknowledged leader in this
field Of art. and his landscapes, such
as blossoming apple trees and wood
land meadows, take high place, both for
Pictorial and colorful quality. -,
From the middle west comes the work
Of Birger Sandzen, who has done much
to leaven artistically that portion of
our country, through his teaching and
through his production, and who finds
real beauty in wide sweeps of sky and
plain.
The south is ably represented by
Alice Huger Smith Of Charleston. who
has taken as her themes typical
southern scenes, Moonlight on Cop
per River" ''The Cotton Picker" "A
Messy Tree" all of which she has rem
but in a manner genuinely her own
Most beautiful and perhaps most ex-
traordinary of all her works is a rep
resentation of a. moonflower and a
hawk moth set forth with all the
subtlety commonly ascribed to oriental
art.
There Is one Canadian represented
in this exhibition-Walter J. Phillips
who shows, among other things, a
winter snow scene of extraordinary
quality. An interesting fact concern
ing these wood block printers is their
Individuality and their varied inter-
probation Of familiar things.
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The exhibition for children is again
quite different, consisting Of original
paintings of children subjects by
Elizabeth Shipper Green Elliot prints
in color of children by Jessie Wilcox
Smith and illustrations Of world-fa
nous children's romances by Maxfield
Parrish, as we'll as portraits of chill
dren by Reynolds. Raeburn and other
great English painters of other days
With these are shown illustrated
chiidren'e books; and lending charm
handmade toys--two sets of Indians
by Dana Marsh, mural painter-In-
dians in war paint, mounted on
horses that prance, with tomahawks
in their hands: and a dolls bedroom
set with all appointments, complete
bed covers, silk quilts, books and
book ends, lamp. candle and match
box-a genuine work Of art. And be-
sides all these are ARTICLES of utility
silver, handwrought knife, fork and
spoon with a pottery bowl, etc.
Such exhi ibitions as these have been
assembled from time to time by the
Children's Art Center in Boston and
by tho museums here and there fndi-
vidually, the purpose being, obviously,
to interest these little citizens in that
which is artistically worth while. and
80. during the most impressionable
period, cultivate taste and discrimi- :
nation, thus opening the avenues Of
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In educational work along art lines
for children Washington is behind
other cities. New York, Boston. Chi
cago and Toledo are all doing excel
lent work through the medium Of ex-
hibitions, Of lectures, story hours and
tours through the museums. In Bos-
ton they have not only the Chill
dren's Center, which is the children's
own museum, but arrange for the
cbiIdren ~ the school n1avgrOundS