The Washington times., 1922-12-31
Mrs. Bush-Brown, Washing
tons Leading Woman Artist,
Com bines Both Happily
WORKS ARE ON EXHIBITION
To Conduct Joint Show With
Husband, Who is Sculptor.
IN Philadelphia This Week
BY VIKTOR FLAMBEAU.

good one too, as we'll as sue
cessful artist-that's what she
succeeded in finding: Mrs. Mar
garet Lesley Bush Brown! She is
Washington's best-known woman
painter. wife of the President Of
the Arts Club, Henry X. Bush
Brown.
Yes. we are holding Joint OK
nibitlon just now in Philadelphia.
she "a. ID To Nlktor Flambcau. And
that's one reason why we stayed
out of the annual display at IN"
Arts Club. though I have small
picture there
BEGINS WEDNESDAY.
II is on We'd: sdiy. January ,.
that the Bush Brown show begins
at the. Philadelphia Art Alliance,
1928 Walnut street. with a large re-
ception, and as the Quaker town is
Mrs. Bush Browns old hom" they
are sure. of course. Of a double wei
come. one of the pictures she is
exhibiting is a fine portrait, three
quarter length, seated, of her tath-
er, the late Prof. j. Peter Lesley,
formerly dean of the Scientific
Faculty and professor of geology IN
the University Of Pennsylvania be
sides beng state gcoioSlSt
This picture. which has been lent
by the university. received an hon
orable mention when exhibited pre-
viously at the Philadelphia Acau'
envy. 1t is Il replica of the one
which hangs in the rooms OF the
American Philosoph'c"l Society. i
"Other things there" explained
Mrs. Bueh-Brown, care my recently
finished portrait of Mr.. George burh-
ham, ir., a drawing of l)r. Nlllian
s. Gannett and Mrs. Gannctt' Wh"
was May Lewis. Besides, there are
portraits of {. w. Amcs' ol 81 lau''
and of Miss Ellen Day Hale, whose
picture is lent by tn" National Mu-
scum here. Yes. of course, MISS
Hale is well known as an artist her
self and ALSO as the daughter OF the
late Edward Everett Hale.
but how have you found leisure,
Mrs. Bush-Brown. to paint so mucn
and have q family at The sam" time?
uueried Flambeau. You know Rosa
Bonheur, the great French woman
painter of animals. and Mile. H"le re
Dufau, the most noted moutin
woman French painter, neither OF
them marriedE
STUDIED ABROAD.
at happened in 1856, she rcmin-
isced. 81 was from Philadelphia,
where I had studied at the Academy,
being one of the first students after
the erection Of the present building.
Mr.. Bush .Erown was from New York.
and he had been adopted by his
uncle, Henry Kirkc Brown. who is
known as the Father of American
Sculpture After our marriage Mr..
Bush Brown and | spent three years
in Europe, studying in Paris and
Italy.
"My husband modelled some Of his
most charming things while abroad.
one of which, done in Florence, was
q group representing Cimabue, who.
you remember. is called the Father
of Italian Painting at the moment
of finding Giotto. the peasant shcp
herd lad. drawing on a stone his IA
nous sketch of the sheep. 1t was
exhibited in the Paris salon of 1883.
Yes, | studied. too. of course, at the
Julian Academy. under Lefcbvre and
Boulanger, and also with Henncr
and CarOlus-Duran. Mr.. Bush |
Brown and | are the same age
Then she told rf their ideal home
life, and of her four children, all of
whom have the art gift.
At a recent holiday pageant in
the Bush Brown studios. when Mrs
Bush-Brown and the only daughter.
Miss Lydia Bush Brown, appeared
in a tableauX together, both in
Renaissance costumes. they might
almost have been mistaken for sis
ters, both youthful The sons are
already successful in their chosen
profession, Harold Bush. Brown as
an architect, and james as q land !
scape architect, though neither hap |
pens to be showing anything in the !
present joint exhibition
Mr.. Bush-Brown. who is n char. |
ter member of the National Arts
Club and the National Sculpture
Society, n member of the ArChitec. |
tural League, the Cosmos Club and
the Scenic and Historic Preserva-
ton Society of Kew York. besides
being president Os the Arts Club, is !
exhibiting. among other things in
Philadelphia, his bronze bust Of
Lord Bryce, the recent portrait
bust of his uncle, Henry Kirke |
Brown: q little figure Of Liberty
Bringing Peace TO the World"
which is a variant of the colossal
model upon which he is now at
work in his Washington studio, |
besides several Childrcn's portraits. |
and charming sketches Tor monu. !
ments.
EXHIBITS CREATIONS.
Miss Lydia Bush. Brown, the
third in the trio of exhibitors, stu.
died design at Pratt Institute. and
has now a Greenwich Village studio
I'm New York Her sense of color
and form is well developed. and
she is gifted in textile designing,
scarfs and wall hangings, an ex.
ample of which was shown in the
recent American Ilandicrafts at the
National Gallery here, a show that
IL was next TO impossible for n
Washington artist 10 get into. She
is displaying some lovely creations
In Philadelphia.
The family have now widely
national, If not international, repu.
tation, and the mother has quite
lately returned from the West,
where she painted I'm oklahoma the
very grand Indian chief of the
Usage tribe of Pashuska, whose no. 4,