Evening star., 1922-02-05

situte gallery its thirteenth annual
exhibition of cotemporary American
painting and sculpture. Two prizes.
one Of 500 and one Of $50, are offered
be awarded by the jury of selection,
comprised of Jean NJ. Mclean, Joseph
T. Pearson, jr., and Robert Spencer,
/ the other to be selected by the ballot
of visitors during the first two weeks
of the exhibition.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts holds its one hundred and
seventeenth annual exhibition IN
March 26. This is generally acknowl-
edged one of the most notable eX-
hibit ions of the year. Numerous prizes
are offered and the foremost painters
of America are invariably represented.
The National Academy of Design
will hold its ninety-seventh annual
lean Fine Arts Society. 2l5 West 57th
street, New York, from March "a to
April 25. Next to the Pennsylvania
Academy Of Fine Arts. this is the oldest
United States.
The Landscape Club opens tomor-
row. in it's rooms. at 1921 18th street
northwest. an exhibition of paintings
by members of the Sketch Club of the
Carolina Art Association. This exhi-
bition. which comprises sixty paint
ingS by ten Charleston artists. Will be
open to the public every afternoon and
evening from sis to o'clock, for u
fortnight
While this exhibition is being held
here the Landscape Clubs exhibition
is being shown in Charleston. The
members of the Landscape<C e<Club are
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ton Sketch Club are all women. In
both instances the exhibitions for the
most part comprise paintings made in
the vicinity of the artists homes. the
Sketch Clubs exhibit being made up
largely Of pictures painted in and
| Clubs exhibit being composed of
sketches made in the vicinity of Wash
| ington.
! The painters represented in the
Charleston exhibit now on view here
are: Amey Nicholson Allan. Mary W.
Ball, Emma S. Gilchrist. Fanny Mahon
! King, F. NJ. La Bruce. May w. Paine.
| Elizabeth O'Neill Werner. Edna Reed
Whaley, Eola Willis and Eleanor T.
Wragg.
In the Smithsonian Institution sec
ton of photography. arts and indus
! tries, a collection of pictorial photo.
graphs by Floyd Vail illustrative OF
| the artistic possibilities OF photogra-
ply is now on view. This exhibition
/ was collected for the Brooklyn 1nsti-
! tute and sent to Washington by spe-
F.; cial request 1t comes highly COM
mended by Mr.. Vairs colleagues and
! will prove of genuine interest. 1t will
! remain on view here until February
| Is.
! Miss Virginia Wood opens tomorrow
an exhibition of her portrait drawings
| in pastel, crayOn and chalk in the
Hisada Gallery, on Connecticut avenue.
| Miss Wood has made specially OF
portraits in these mediums--intimate
portraits of very attractive character
rendered with artistic skill and SYM
pathy.
khouette portraits done in india ink on
Bristol board, and she has offered to
execute commissions for these during
| her two-week stay in Washington, for
! the benefit Of the Russian relief.
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| Tho Corcoran Gallery Of Art reopened
to the public last Friday. the temporary
collection having been dispersed and
! the permanent collection replaced all
! within a fortnight.
/ Within the next week or ten days
! three small special exhibitions will be
placed on view, and next Saturday the
Washington Water Color Clubs annual
| exhibition will be opened In the semi
/ circular gallery.
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| Miss Edith H. Whitehead, associate
| member Of the Royal Miniature Socie-
ty Of London, held an exhibition of
her portrait miniatures in the studio
of Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews on the
afternoon Of Thursday, February 2.
Miss Whitehead is spending the winter
! in Washington. and executing num-
ber of commissions for miniatures
while here. Her work is essentially
in the style employed by the majority
of the British miniature painters and
has found much favor.
! LEILA MECHLIN.