Evening star., 1921-03-20
Notes of Art and Artists

I hibition will be found to possess ex-
traordinary interest.
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On Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
March "a. % and &c. the College Art
Association of America will hold it's
tenth annual meeting in the audi
torum of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
! The first session will be on Thursday
afternoon. at o'clock. at which time
there will be reports from chairmen
of the special committees and ad-
dresses by T. P. Claxton, bureau of
education; G. II. Edgell. Harvard Uni
versity; A. V. Churchill, Smith Col
lege. and c. c. Zantzinger of Philadel-
phia.
On Friday there will be two ses-
sions, one in the morning and the
other in the afternoon. Among the
speakers will be Mrs. C. F. Braun of
the University of Tennessee, David
NJ. Robinson of John Hopkins Uni
versity. Cornelia G. Harcum of To-
ronto. Charles Kelley of Ohio State
University and Ellsworth Woodward
of the Sophia Newcomb College. New
Orleans. On Friday evening an Illus
trated address on the subject of "Es-
theticS for College Students" will be
given by Albert Kelsey of Philadel-
phia. architect of the Pan-American
building.
On Saturday morning Duncan Phil
lips of this city will describe the pro-
posed Phillips Memorial Art Gallery.
Prof. John Pickard of the University
of Missouri will tell Of Some Decora-
tions Recently Unveiled in the State
Capitol of Missouri" and George J.
zolney will describe The Reconstruc
tion of the Nashville Parthenon."
Visits will be made to the National
Gallery and to the private collection
of Ralph Cross johnson and Duncan
c. Phillips.
There will be round-table discus
sions on various subjects related to
art in the colleges at luncheons and
dinners.
David NJ Robinson of Johns Hopkins
University. Baltimore. is president of
the association. and John Sharpley
secretary.
An attractive portrait of lady by
Thomas Sully. an American artist, has
been presented to the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art. 1t is a very characteris-
tic work. charming in color. suave in
execution and simple in treatment.
Sully was born in Herncastle, Lin
coInshire. England. in 1888, and was
brought to this country as a boy of
ten years of age. His parents set
tied in Charleston, s. c. He is some-
times called the American Law
renee. because of a certain similarity
in his work to that of Sir Thomas
Lawrence. But the fact is that he
was probably much more Influenced
by the work of Gilbert Stuart than
by that Of Lawrence, though he was
not SO gifted or SO strong a painter
as Stuart.
One of his best known works is "Boy
With Torn Hat" which has been re-
peatediy reproduced. He is one of
those artists whose work, for a good
many years, was not nearly as highly
esteemed as it should have been. He
was a tireless painter, and there is
record today of over 1000 portraits
by him. The majority of these were
on canvas or wood, life size. Sixty
one, however. were miniatures. Be
sides this great number of portraits.
he is known to have painted 543 sub
ject pictures. That he could have ac-
complished so much even in a long
lifetime, and not only pleased his
sitters," but upheld his work uni
formly to high standard. is very re-
markable.
An elaborate Memoir of the Life
and Works of Thomas Sully' has
lately been prepared by Edward Bid
die and Mantle Fielding of Philadel-