Evening star., 1922-12-24

'DWlN N1lL--At<D
- holding an exhibition of his
l. paintings, decorations anu
bronzes of american Indians
and animals in the Brooklyn Museum
which is proving of much interest,".
Mr.. Deming, who Is well known III
Washington on account OF nd. ihS
spent several years here. has MADE
specialty of Indian life and ls one OF
nnr American artists who has de-
voted himself entirely to the pictoriai
Interpretation of the American ln-
dian.
He was born in 1860 in Ashland.
ohio. but while he was still !i.'it
child his parents removed TO Il tra.'
of land in Illinois, where he grew 10
manhood on the old Fox and Sauk
reservation at the time when the
Wiuncbagos went there to spend the
winter hunting and trapping his
l.laymates and companions we're IN
dian days He learned their ways
and habits and became Interested III
the life and rites of the aborigines.
His early manhood was spent among
the different tribes from HUDSON pay
to New Mexico. sketching them, pho-
tugraphing them and making notes
of their religious ceremonies. folk-
lore. etc. This was all before Okla
homa was opened to settlers
MIR. Deming lived In SITTING Bun
camp when the last outbreak occurred
and witnessed the big war dance be
fore the Wounded Knee fight: He
was adopted as the son of w mite
Calf the famous old rhiet OF the
Black Foot tribe. and wen; through
the sun dance when it was Stlll
danced as a religious rite rather than
for the entertainment of tourists IN
Arizona and New Mexico he lived
with the Apaches and Navajos.
A year ago. after leaving Washing
ton. Mr.. Dcming went 70 South
America where he has explored ex-
tensively, and where he visited the
Motalone Indians. 4 tribe of pigmy
cannibals which no white man preVl-
ously has visited.
The Brooklyn eNhibitloG comprises
scventy-one exhibits. fifty-four paint
iugs fourteen hronzes and three Sc
ries of book illustrations. Among the
most important of these is the series
of paintings recently made in Snuth
America. Another Interesting group
comprises original designs of wall
decorations in the Morris High School
in New York. The bronzes are of
buffalo. antelope. bears, puma, lynx
and groups of Indians and animzls
Mr.. Hemir- seerls 10 be equally sue
cessful as a painter and sculptor
CPECIAL interest attaches to the
opening of the seventh annual
exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of
Etchers in the print rooms of the
brooklyn Museum on December 20.
inasmuch as the rotary exhibition
sent out by this society. comprising
100 prints. is to be shown here in the
Smithsonian Institution under the
division of graphic arts January 10
To February :. and also because of
the fact that the president OF the So
ciety. John Taylor Arms. is a former
Washing, oman.
Two hundred and twenty-five prints
ere included in the catalogue of this
exhibition. representing etchers IN all
parts of the United States Three
prizes are to be awarded-the Nathan
7. BLUR prize of SIS for the best
print by an exhibitor who is not
member of the society: the Kate W.
Arms memorial prize of $25 for the
best print by a member and the Henry
" Noyes prize of $50 for the best
print shown. whether by member or
non-meinber.
Interest in etching has greatly in
creased during the last few years
general public. Etchinss today have
better sale than any other form of
pictorial expression. and the quality
OF the work being done is exceedingly
satisfactory. The collection of etch-
iugs is Il delightful hobby and one
prove lucrative as we'll. Etchings by
Zorn. which Were purchasable some
years ago for less than S100, now
bring much nearer $1,000. The same
is true Of the works of some of our
American etcherS. as one may note
in the present exhibition Of etchings
by Lester G. Hornty in the Corcoran
GALLERY of Art. one Of the prints
shown therein now, priced at $500
S--. a. fn
MISS ELLEN DAY HALE and Miss
-'A Gabrielle Dew. Clements have
returned to Washington. after an alb
sence of year. two-thirds of which.
if not more, was spent in southern
Italy. They have. brought back with
them from Sicily number of etch-
1ngs delightfully."- suggestive of the
quaint charm OF the Sicilian cities.
Both Miss Hale and Miss Clements
are Skillful etcherS realizing boil, the
possibilities and the limitations of the
medium and employing it well. Miss
Hale has perhaps the advantage in
delicacy Of line and simplicity of
treatment, but Miss Clements has ex-
celled in the use of tint and color.
She is at present making some very
Interesting experiments along this
line which promises to produce unusual
and artistic results.
1t was the intention of Miss Hale
and Miss Clements to spend the Will
ter IN the south. and for this reason
they rented their St. Matthew alley
studio for the season. but they are
lingering on in Washington and may
be here for some weeks.
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TEEN COMINS. who is nov occupy
- ing Miss Hale and Miss Clements
studio in st. Matthews alley, is
Boston artist who has won enviahle
reputation as u painter of portraits
;tnd figures.
For u number of summers he has
Lad studio at East Gloucester and
Ias conducted classes there, giving
interesting art talks for the benefit
of his students and others. One VIM
ter not long ago he spent in Califor-
not. where he painted a number of
portraits of prominent persons. Tn
luckily his studio at Gloucester
burned last summer, the fire con-
suming not only the little building
but twenty or more of Mr.. ConIins'
works.
In the National Museum. in the de-
partment of history, in the war collec-
ion is to be seen a series of por-
doughboys. men in the ranks with
whom lie came in contact painted to
show to those in the future who may
he interested the variety OF racial
influences, represented in the 4. Il. +.
Mr.. Comiiis gave Il talk last Thursday
evening at TIL. Art Club on The
treat cycle of Painting" in which he
explained some of his own theories
of art. He is one of those painters
who has been deeply interested in
III, modern movement in art. while
not accepting it in its entirety: in
fact, in his work combines the spirit