Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-01-08
Notes of Art and Artists

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Interest in the exhibition at the Cor.
coran Gallery Of Art increases rather
than aiminishes as the weeks pass.
The attendance to January 3 was
something over $4,000. Up to the same
time eighteen pictures had been sold,
approximating in the aggregate
$4,000.
mention should be made of the sale
OF all but one of the water colors and
wash drawings by Frank w. Benson,
which formed q separate exhibit ar
ranged in the atrium In compliment
os hs. shs aens ct the si
the chances are that each OF the
works purchased will within a COM
paratfvely short time be worth double
the amount paid for it. Mr.. Benson
has been proverbially successful SELL
that the public is ready to purchase
works Of art, provided they make ap-
peal. Mr.. Benson's paintings. water
colors. wash drawings and etchings
possess almost invariably pictorial
quality. They are pleasing. they have
IN them a note Of joyousness. and at
the same time they are eminently
well done, skillful, original, artistic.
A large number OF the pictures in
the current exhibition at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art are later to be shown
delphia. The exhibition in Baltimore
will be held in the Peabody Institute
In February under the joint auspices
OF the institute and the Charcoal Club
The exhibition in Philadelphia will be
the one hundred and seventeenth an
At he rrlx lin,
Academy of the Fine Arts, which
opens early in February and continues
at least half through the month Of
March.
a number of the pictures now on
view here have been invited for the
annual exhibition of paintings by
American artists in the Albright Gal
lery, Buffalo. held under the auspices
OF the Buffalo Academy of the Fine
Arts in April and May, an exhibition
to which only invited pictures are
to Buffalo is the portrait Of Theodore
w. Noyes by Richard S. Meryman,
which was personally selected by
Mrs. Cornelia B. Sage Quinton, direc-
tor of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
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The Cleveland Art Museum has re-
Gently acquired through purchase the
portrait of Mrs John Thomson Ma
son by Gilbert Stuart, which for q
long time was loaned to the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. This portrait was
painted in Washington about 1903. at
which time Gilbert Stuart spent two
years in this city.
An interesting account of Stuart's
sojourn in Washington is given in
the journal and Letters of Dolly
Madison" edited by her niece. Ap.
parentiy he was in great vogue and
| had more orders than he could well
to leave, yet yielding to persuasions
to stay. At one time he talked OF
| making this city his home and laid
| elaborate plans for the erection OF
an art palace or gallery here. even
! it is reported, acquiring property for
| marriage was Elizabeth Beltzhoever
! the daughter of Hollander who set
| tied in this country during the last
quarter of the eighteenth century
Her husband. John Thomson Mason
| was nephew of George Mason OF
Funston Hall. and his home was
Montpelier. neaH Hagerstown.
The Cleveland Museum takes great
pride in the possession of the por-
trait. which was purchased and given
to the. museum by J. H. Wade.
e. Hodgson Smart, an English por-
trait painter. was in Washington this
week. painting a portrait Of the Pres
ident.
Two years ago Mr.. Smart was COM
missioned by friends Of the Cleveland
Museum to go to Paris and paint a
portrait of Marshal Foch fos that
museum and, through the good offices
of Myron 7. Herrick, ambassador to
France, he was enabled to secure sit
tings. The portrait was finished and
unveiled about the time of Marshal
Foch's recent visit to Cleveland.
The friends of art Of Baltimore have
arranged a loan exhibition to be held at
the Peabody Galleries from January
to "a, inclusive.
On the evening Of January 10 Mischa
Itow Of Japan will give a group of his
famous dances. followed by brief talk
on 1.-The Japanese Gospel of Art"
At the Maryland Institute in Balti-
more some time this spring there is to
be held loan exhibition of paintings
prove Of great interest, inasmuch as
many of the paintings will come from
private homes and have not been pre-
viously-or at least for many years pre-
vious-exhibited.
The Minneapolis Art Association.
which is the governing body of the Min
neapolis Art Institute and also the
Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, has re-
ceived as a bequest from Mrs. John Van
Derlip an annual income approximating
between $4,000 and $4,000. Fifteen
thousand dollars goes to the school and
is to be used to give students therein
the facilities. both of travel and study,
that are available to students in other
cities. The other portion Of the be-
quest goes to the association for general
purposes and for the acquisition Of
works Of art to be placed in the insti-
tute's permanent collection.
Mrs. Van Derlip was the daughter Of
Clinton Morrison, who gave the land
on which the museum and school now
stand. She and her sister gave the
building for the school as a memorial
to their mother.
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Tho Washington University at st.
Louis, Mo-, has received as gift from
w. K. Rixby. president Of the City Mu-
scum, st. Louis, and a vice president Of
the American Federation of Arts, $780,
900 for a building to be erected on the
main campus to house the School of
Fine Arts. The gift was given without
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