Evening star., 1922-05-28
Notes Of Art and Artists

ing an endowment fund of 100000
tQr the purchase OF modern paintings
from its : International exhibitions.
This amonnt Is being donated by pub
!ie.spirited. citizens Of Pittsburgh
poration OF New York that for every
$1,000 SO given an additional $1,000
VIII be voted to the fund,
Following the example of Wash
fhgton. The Sage Foun,lati ton of New
York is securing plan for New York
and its environs, This will be
regional plan looking to the future
for the purposeSof orderly as well as
artistic civic development.
The project was announced and ex-
piained at . meeting held in New
York recently. The chairman of the
ton. at one time secretary to Presi-
dent Taft. later Assistant Secretary of
the treasury and at present treasurer
OF the American Federation of Arts,
f,rederick r. keppel, formerly AS
sistant Secretary Of War, is secretary
and on ths committee are Frederick
A.; Delano OF Washington Jphn NJ.
Glenn, secretary of the Sage Foun-
datfon, New York; Dwight ". Nor
row and Frank l.. Polk.
The speakers at the meeting when
the project was announced were
Eiihu Root. Herbert Hoover. Alfred
K. Smith and Robert w, De Forest.
An exhibition Of American art is
to be held In Paris in the spring of
1928 under the auspices of the French
ministry of fine arts and the min
istry of foreign affairs. The French
government has lehl the building
known as the Jeu de Paume. in the
Iulieries Gardens at the corner
formed by the Rue de Rivol and the
Place de la concorde, for this pur-
pose.
1t is the desire of the French gov
ernment. that this exhibition include
the fine. decorative and applied arts:
tnai tue exhibits selected be individ-
ual In design and execution and not
reproductions of European art The
organizing committee appointed by
the French government consists of
Bryson Burroughs. curator of paint
lngs at the Metropolitan Museum of
dent. New York Chapter. American
institute of Architects: Paul Cret.
professor Of architecture at the Uni
Nersity OF Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
William Emerson, director school of
architecture, Massachusetts Institute
or Technology. Boston. and Julian
Clarence Levi. treasure New York
Chapter, American Institute Of Archi--
tects
This project is the outgrowth of an
exhibition sOf American architecture Or
ganiZed by and sent to France last year
under the auspices of the American In
Stltute of Architects. which after being
shown ~ Paris was invited and shown
IN London, arousing in both great cit
les deep interest and calling forth nigh
commendation. Exhibitions of this sort
DO much to create friendly interna-
tionai relationships. almost perhaps
more than any oiher single medium
5. Peter Wagner of this city has
brought back with him from St Peters
burg. F.a.. series of extremely inter
estins and excellent water colors giving
characteristic views of that typical
southern city on the Gulf of Mexico
These pictures are not of the fash ion
able quarter, or that occupied by the
winter residents. but set forth instead
the homes of SOME of The working peope
low frame houses for the most part
painted white or gray and with typical
everyday surroundings. In not A few
he has intI oduced figures giving to the
compositions a human interest Fur
thermore. he has painted his pictures in
ttic |'SHt VI d SOutHeTl ana
shows interesting contrasts of sunlight
and shadow. His co'or is fresh and
quite sparkling; his drawing is excel
lent and he has employed his medium
with freedom and capability attained
only through experience.
Miss Clara Hill has taken a studio
house at Provincetown for the summer
and expects to conduct there class in
modelling during June, July and August.
Provincetown is one of the largest
and most important OF the American
summer art colonies. 1t is there that
Hawthorne has his outdoor school of
figure painting and two or three othe,
painters have summer classes.
There Is an excellent little gallery in
Provincetown managed by the Province
town Art Association and therein each
August an interesting exhibition of the
work of members of the summer colony
is held.
Miss Sarah Munroe of Washington is
another local artist who summers az
Provincetown. having purchased ::ouse
there and couple of summers ago
added thereto q studio.
The Washington Handcraft Guild
he'd its annual meeting and election
Wednesday evening. May "a The Off
GERS elected are Olaf Saugstad, prcsi-
dent Robert lie Fevre. vice president :;
l.. Ferguson, secretary. The following
were elected members of the board Of
governors: George Oakley Totten. jr. /:
Henry h. Bush Brown. Joseph E. Clag-
horn. Mrs. Emmy Sommers. Miss Marian
Lane and J p. S. Neigh. The guild
which has membership now of lo4 and
under the auspices of which the excel
lent exhibition of handicrafts has re-
Gently been held at the Art Center. is
making plans for extending activities
next season At the meeting on Wed
nesday evening it voted TO become a
chapter of the American Federation OF
Arts. the national art organization
whose thirteenth annual convention was
recently held In this city.
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Capt. W. S. CLINE. formerly OF
Washington, but now living in New
York, has just been awarded the
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
scholarship in painting. and he leaves
tho LIST OF June to spend the summer
al oyster Bay. L. l., painting under
the instruction of Daniel CARRIER.
Mrs. Cline will join Capt. Cline al
Oyster Bay Immediately after the
close of her concert season on
June Is.
LEILA NECHLIN.