Evening star., 1922-03-12

ent from that commonly employed by
Mr.. Hopkinson and others today-a
method less direct, but yielding more
intimate, toneful results; method
giving greater heed to minutia and
creating by a process of building up
rich surfaces. For some reason not
fully understood, the portraits painted
in this manner would seem to have
greater spiritual quality, suggesting
deeper insight into character The
more direct method yields unques-
itionably more Immediately impressive
results, but they register to an ex-
use phrase common to photography.
they are snapshots, not psychological
analyses, although they may be found
deeply significant.
ticularly illustrative, especially when
contrasted with the recently finished
portrait OF young girl. entitled
To-day" The title for the latter
picture was chosen as Indicative of
the subject, but applies equally to
the method of production.
| Again, the same contrast Is found
between the portraits of Miss Eliza
beth c. Putnam, which is most reti-
cent and subtle. and the frankly rem
to the left of Mrs. Arthur A. Shurt-
left, painted out of doors. with a most
typical Ipswich landscape as back
ground. Unconsciously, the painter
t1nStlnCI1Vely seems u represent
his work both the older and the
newer generations.
Every now and then Mr.. Hopkinson
| makes an excursion into the field OF
| landscape painting, and it is no won
| der; for there Is no lovelier spot in
north shore of Massachusetts, where
Lis summer home Is located. view
| from his own piazza is set forth in
the painting entitled "The Island
l.
L Williams. And the companion pic
ture, Salem Bay" shows but a con-
tinuation Of the same coast.
Mr.. Hopkinsons water colors. which
| fill the anteroom and give introduc-
ton to the larger exhibition, were
painted almost entirely at his Man
| chester place. They are bold, intelli-
gent experiments in color by one who
| recognized and remembered the limi-
| tations of his medium ~ painters
/. greater favor among the artists than
! laymen.
Mr. Hopkinson was born in Cam
| bridge. Mass. in 1859. He studied at
the Art Students League of New
York, but not abroad. He is mem
Der Of the Boston Water Color Club
| and the Copley Society. and has re-
| ceived numerous medals and awards!
He was one of those chosen to paint
| portraits for the national collection
d
replica of one Of these, that of the
Japanese representative to the peace
conference, is included in this exhl-
bition.
At the Cosmos Club last Monday
evening Fred P. Ciatworthy of Estes
Park, Colo. gave an interesting dem
onstration of the possibilities in color
photography. exhibiting eight auto
chromatic lumere plates of scenes in
California, Arizona, New Mexico and
Colorado. Mr.. Clatworthy is one of
the foremost of our American pic
torial photographers. He has fine
| sense of artistic values, as well as
| knowledge of the principles upon
! which true art is built. His COM
positions are almost invariably good,
and his handling of light and shade
ern California. of the desert. the
Grand Canyon and the great noun
tains of the far western ranges were
not only beautiful but very pictorial.
in registering sunset-an achieve
4 ment which no painter has yet at
tanned. The lumiere plate translates.
it would seem, not only color but
light luminosity. and is able thus to
set forth the radiant beauty of a
sunset. which has heretofore entirely
eluded the power of man to tran
scribe.
There have been those among the
artists and art lovers who have felt
rival art, but Mr.. CIatworthy has
shown that color photography as a
medium for an artist had potentiali-
ties as yet but little understood.
i Mrs. George Oakley Totten, jr.. for
merly Nine. Vicken Won Post of Stock
holm. Sweden, is showing at present,
n
urines in porcelain in the Art Mu-
scum. Brooklyn.
The following f1attering comment
on the exhibition was made by the
These little igurines embody the
playful spirit of Sweden, the happi-
ness of the Swede with tools in his
hands. They are less compact OF real
ism than the Danish sculpture in
little, and have something Of the
J crisp daintiness that allies the people
of Stockholm with the people of Paris.
There is a certain daring hlppant
humor in the poses and gestures; a
hint also OF the pretty sadness of the
eighteenth century, that removes the
work from the Danish and German
i porcelain figures of the present time.
recalling the Dresden statuettes, but
only to mark differences greater than
of the Swedish work is its cotem
poraneousness. 1t belongs to no
other time than our own, to no other
country than Sweden Graceful,
competent. amusing, it is a pleasant
variation in the exhibition field"
X X X
The Society Of Washington Artists
announces it's thirty-first annual e,S
hibition, to be held in the. Corcoran
!, Gallery Of Art from Saturday, April
s, to Sunday, April %, inclusive. A
private view will be held on April Z.
Entry cards and further information
may be obtained from the secretary
of the society, Herbert F. Clark, 3034
r street.
L X + \ X
u The Baltimore Watercolor Club is
holding it's twenty-sixth annual ex-
hibition in the galleries of the Pea
body Institute, Baltimore, opening on
March and continuing to April s.
The jury of selection for this ex-
hibition consisted of Hugh H. Breck-
enridge. Alethea H. Platt and Chaun-
cey F. Ryder.
+ r K x
II An exhibition Of paintings by Leon
Kroll is to be shown during the month
Of March in the galleries of the
Maryland Institute, Mount Royal ave-
nue., Baltimore. Mr.. Kroll is New
York painter, and was represented,
it will be remembered. in the Cor