The Washington herald., 1922-04-30

rying a g-een ostrich fan, stun
ming portrait; Mrs. Tom Sweeney. in
cream-color lace dress. with gold
scarf and topaz bracelet: Mrs. Guy
Con, wife of the Assistant Attorney
General; and Mrs. Wells Goode-
koontz. wife of the Congressman
from West Virginia. Another re-
cent portrait is of Governor Nor
gan of West Virginia, for the State
House in Charleston.
.-' Corcoran Gallery.
The important exhibition an
nounced for May at thel Corcoran is
the Thayer Memorial exhibit, in
which will be included important
works by the late Abbott Thayer,
Americas leading artist. Many OF
his pictures. which have already
been shown in New York in a SIM
liar memorial display, will be
brought to Washington.
In the recent show of Washing
ton Artists. just closed at the Cor
eoran. besides the pictures sold as
named in The Herald OF last SUM-
day, other sales were Alice Ache
sons The Schooner" MS. L. Med.
Sleeth's AT Laguna Beach," and
Miss Edith Dyer Leffingwelrs still
life composition entitled Turkish
Curtain" which was the highest
priced work purchased. Miss Left
fingwell is a New York artist. Miss
Acheson. who is one OF the younger
Washington painters and not yet a
member of the Washington Artists,
had an interesting marine subject
in the picture she sold.
Models New Bust.
Mr. U. S. ]. Dunbar, the we'll
known washington sculptor. has
just made a striking new compo-
sitiOn Of a noted young musician.
Alden Finckel, the 19-year-old eel
list, in a half-length portrait with
his cello. 1t is an exceptional sue
cess, as Mr.. Dunba- has caught the
feeling of rhythm throughout the
work. in face and figure and in the
vibrant instrument. over which the
boy is bending. So greatly do Mr..
Dunbar's friends like this latest
production that he has been asked
to have it reproduced in small
bronze models to be sold especially
to music lovers and musicians.
Young Finckel. who was a Wash
ington boy, studied here first with
Ernest Lent and later went to Bos-
ton under Alvin Schroeder, first
'cellist of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. Mr.. FinckeI has recently
given a very successful concert
here. His father played the viola
in a Brussels orchestra under Eu-
gene Ysaye, and his mother was a
fine pianist. SO that Alden Finckel
comes naturally by his talent. Mr.
Dunba-'s achievement in creating
q l. L.
markable because he had only one
will probably be completed in
bronze.
Mr.. G. Hamilton Martin, jr.,
whose large collection Of valuable
Japanese prints is so widely known,
addressed the Art Glass of George
Washington University on Japan
ese Prints-an Interpretation" last
Wednesday afternoon. The lecture
was illustrated by many beautiful
examples from Mr.. Martins collec-
tion.
At the silver jubilee convention
of the League of American Pen
Women at the Wardman Park Ho-
tel the past week, one Of the most
interesting exhibits was the display
of examples of Czecho-Slovak arts.
including handicrafts and fine arts.
These embroideries, paintings and
etchings, were brought to this
country direct from Prague, and
formed a new art feature. which
aroused great enthusiasm when
shown in New York as well as here.
The Art and Archaeology League
announce an illustrated lecture by
DR.. Mitchell Carroll. on "Praxiteles
and the Venus Statues" for Satu=-
day. May s, at the Corcoran Audi
torium, 4:3o p. m. The public is
invited
DR.. Carroll. who is editor of art
and Archaeology" and secretary of
the Washington Archaeological So
ciety, will visit Europe with Mrs.
Carroll the coming summer. They
will sail about July 1, going over
with Prof. Fattio and a party who
are to attend the summer school at
Geneva, Switzerland. which will
study international problems. Prof
Fattio recently Iectu-ed at George
Washington University on this sub
ject. DR.. and Mrs. Carroll will also
meet their son. Mitchell. who has
been for the past two years an ex-
change student in France. They
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countries.
Mr.. Lucien Powell, who sold so
many works in his recent exhibit
tion at the Arts Club, was asked
how many pictures he had painted
during his long life. He replied
that he had averaged a picture a
day for the past fifty years, and
that when visiting show places. like
Venice. he always made II a rule to
paint two a day. 1t was estimated
that Mr.. Powell has painted at least
10000 canvases. a greater number
than any other artist. American or
European, is reported ever to have
achieved Mr.. Powell is still doing
some of his best work, and his pro-
ductfons are in as great demand
today as ever.
A travel tour of Europe for art
lovers is announced under the au-
spices of the Art and Archaeology
League. The party, which will be
limited in number, will sail in June.
going by the Mediterranean route
and visiting Palermo, Naples, Rome.
Florence. Venice, the Passion Play
at OberammerGau, Munich. Stras-
bOurV. Paris the hatfIahelds and