Evening star., 1921-10-23
photo by International.

fnow asking is for whose collection it
/ is destined.
A Washington Handicraft Guild
has lately been formed by local
craftsmen. The president is Mai.
, George Oakley Totten. jr.: the vice
president is Mr.. Sangstad. the treas
urer. MIR. Neigh. ON the board of
governors are MIR. Bush brown. MIS-
! Martin. Mrs. Sommers and MIR. Clag-
! horn. Mrs Minnigerode Andrews IS
, chairman of the exhibition committee
and is to arrange for an eNhihition
between thanksgiving and Christmas
The objects of the guild are to en-.
courage and promote professional
handicraft and to stimulate interest
in and appreciation of artistic hand-
, work.
Under the auspices of the guild eN-
hihitioRs will he held and demonstr2-
tions given, as well as lectures and
open conferences. The membership
is made up of professional handi-
craft workers. lovers of handicraft
and serious students.
Virgil Barker, who has spent
couple of years in Pittsburgh and
! Kansas City assisting with the inter-
national exhibition at the Carnegie
Institute and serving as director OF
the Kansas City Art Association, has
returned to Washington and Is at
present assisting Mr. Minniserode at
the Corcoran Gallery with arrange
ments for the approaching biennial
exhibition of cotemporary American
art, which will open in the Corcoran
Gallery in December. Mr.. Barber
proposes hereafter to give the major
norton of his time to critical writ
ing and will probably make Wash
ington his permanent home
d
Miss Hale and Miss Clements, who
spent the summer, as usual, at their
home at Folly Cove on Cape Ann, are
and spend the winter in southern
Italy
Miss Clara Hill has returned to
Washington and reopened her studio
In the Art Students League building,
SO7 18th street, where. on certain
afternoons in the week. she is con-
Quoting classes in modelling
! A very welcome addition to the
local art colony is Mrs. George Oakley
, Totten, jr., who was formerly MRS.
Vicken Won Post of Stockholm, Swe-
den. Mrs: Totten is an accomplished
| sculptor, and has done most interest
lain, producing charming little groups
and statuettes full of grace and charm
and fanciful suggestion in that rather
unusual medium. An exhibition OF
her work was shown here in the early
summer, and later at Newport, at
tracing much favorable attention. 1t
is to be exhibited in New ork this
autumn, and will later be shown in
other cities.
A statue of Massasoit by Cyrus E.
Dallin of Boston has lately been erect
ed on Coles Hill. Plymouth, Mass. by
the Improved Order of Red Men. 1t
is colossal in size. the figure measur-
ing feet inches in height. Its
erection may be regarded as a part
of the celebration this past summer
and autumn of the anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims. There is
a story current to the effect that
when New EnGlander recently
boasted that his ancestor had come
over in the MayflOwer, an Indian in
the company spoke up and said that
his ancestor was a member of the
reception committee. 1t is well that
the reception committee is likewise
being memorialiZed.
Dallin has made a speciality of In
dian subjects. and his sculpture pos
sesses genuine artistic merit. One OF
his equestrian Indian statues is in
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. an
other, The Appeal to the Great
. Spirit has been given excellent
place in front of the Boston Art Mu-
scum. 1t would be fitting tribute
to the red men was some great me-
mortal to be<erected in our public
parks. here LEILA MECHLIN.