The Washington herald., 1922-06-04
Pennsylvania Art Exhibit
Planned at Corcofan Hall
Gallery to Be Filled With Work of Philadel-
phia Men for Edi6cation Of Wash
maton People This Summer.
b. eERTRupE RICHARDSON BRIeHAM, php.

DSON BRIGHAM, Ph.D.
Baer tells US. are rare on pottery
outside the Minbers valley The
public 10 invited.
Drive for Members. =
At & meeting of the executive
of. the Art and Archaeet-
ogy League. the fall program was
arranged. clubhouse and member
ship committees were appointed
with a view to opening club rooms
and increasing the membership tc
1000. and II was decided to adopt
the more popular name OF Art
League" while retaining officially
the original title.
A field day at Giencariyn. Va.
was enjoyed by members of the
Club OF Washington on
Tuesday, May 30. when Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Seaton entertained the club
and their friends at the very beau
tifal seaton estate.
A decided sensation in modern
pictures may be found in the
charming studio of Philip Adams,
1910 Massachusetts, avenue north
west. where studies in the classic
nuuc ana lduusCdpCo ~ NS
been brought to a singular perfec-
tion. Adams has the idea Of paint
ing pure emotion in color, and he
has developed a color scheme to ex-
press II. In his pictures. nature
responds to the mood Of the figure
depicted.
The Farewell" one of the large
and beautiful compositions, shows
a parting at evening. two lovers by
a river above which rise tall cliffs,
a sunset scene, which might be In
the South Sea Islands. only II isn't
Nature as an adjunct to emotion
is what 1 tried to express" Mr..
says of this, and he adds:
The passionate red of the sky sug-
gests the last flaming up of love
and even the hills are leaping up
ward and almost merging into the
ether, in sympathy with the emo
tion felt by the two actors"
Soul Release" is another OF
those emotional fantasies, a moon
light scene by a river, where in the
quiet calm of early evening, the
soul responds to spiritual influences
and frees itself from the body to
float upward to its sphere in the
moon. The mysticism of A dams
painting is not unlike that of Ar
thur Davies. whose work he ad'
mires and who is well known since
he won the Corcoran First Prize
and Gold Medal in the Biennial ex'
hibition three years ago.
Artist Goes Abroad.
Miss Marion Lane. one of the
best known of Washington illumi'
nators, has closed her studio at $50
street northwest ano
is sailing from New York for Eng
land. her early home. Miss Lane
who was trained in the best Brit
ish schools, as a landscape painter
and bookbinder. has hao
many rare commissions, including
the binding and tooling of the me
mortal volume presented to the
Queen of Belgium and other notable
presentation gifts and illuminated
inscriptions. Miss Lanes wintel
classes are always popular. and she
has made a wide acquaintance since
coming to Washington in 1905.
New Summer school.
The young Peruvian artist. AL
berto Barreto, whose portraits o.
conference leadefs and others, ex'
hibited at the wardman Park Ho
tel during the meeting of tn
League of American Pen Women
aroused so much interest, Is open
ing a now summer Art School. u
continue from June to September
90 Mr.. Barreto. whose studio is a
No. 419 Oxford Building, Fourteenth
street and New York avenue north
west, will teach perspective. anat
omy. still life and color, besides
landscape and portraiture.
An interesting exhibition at th'
Y. W. c. A. on F street northwes
the past week. included handicrafti
and decoration by pupils of Mis-
Clara Saunders. well-known' AR
teacher. The china painting wa
very attractive, and the motif
were striking and original. One o.
the students. Miss Grant. had ;
large display. Basketry was vel
developed in carefully woven models
of excellent design. The Y. W. c
A. classes Of Miss Saunders number
from twenty-five to thirty-flve pu
pills.
Results Of the competition for ar
prizes at George WASHINGTON Uni
versity will be announced at thu
commencement exercises June I. A
dozen essays have been submitted
on a variety Of subjects. These
prizes. established in memory of tn,
late Miss Genevieve Chatterton Nc
Cutchins. are OF s25 and s15. re
spectively. and the contest is oper
to all regular students.
Excellent papers have been sub
mitted. including Psychology II
Art" by Bertha Meridian: THE Ma,
noelino style in Architecture" by
w. Waldo Girdner. who has trans.
lated much from the Portuguese
Contemporary American Artists n
the Eighth Biennial E~hibitiop." by
Laura K. Pollock: THE Spanish
School of Painting" by Mrs. Grace
]. Hall: and art IN the Home" BY
Miss Alma Dehler.
First prize winners Of last veal
and the preceding year were Jay
Fuller Sooerri. on Modern Russian
and Miss Alexandra Ga
leski. on THE Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood"