The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-11
SCENES ABROAD
ARE PICTURED.
BY CLEPHANE
Has Seventy Exhibits in Oil
Pastel, Water Color, and
Some Early Drawings
CLASSICAL RUINS SHOWN
WaShington-born Artist Was
Educated As Engineer, But
Adopted Art As His Career
By vIKTOR FLAMBEAU.


Lieut.. Com Lewis Painter Gle
phane is holding an exhibition of
paintings, mostly foreign scenes,
at his studio, Ills Eye street
northwest
Commander Clephane, brother of
Walter G. Clephane, well-known
Washington attorney, is. of versal
tile talent. He has had exceptional
opportunity for travel and study
abroad, having sailed his own 500
ton yacht across to the Mediterra-
mean. visiting Egypt, Greece and
the Black sea.
Although trained as an engineer
and graduated at Cornell in the
class of 80, he decided to follow art.
He became pupil of Birge Harri-
son, of the art colony at New
Hope, Pa. Later Mr.. Clephane
studied with Alexander Robinson
in Holland.
20 PICTURES SHOWN.
In his present exhibition, which
will continue through Sunday,
March IL, he is showing more than
seventy different pictures in oil,
tempera, pastel and water color,
composition studies Italy, Greece
cent canvases from the Alleghenies
and Woodstock.
Several interesting themes are
the old Greek Temple at Aegina, :"
moonlight scene on the Italian
coast; In Old Ravello," Naples"
Capri" Maine Rocks" Antwerp
Harbor," and a summer landscape
near Washington with figure,
Daisy Field A recent sale was
one of Clephanes best snow scenes,
Winter Landscape" purchased by
q patron from Buffalo visiting
Washington.
Among the guests at Clephane's
studio on the opening day were Mr..
and Mrs. Lucien Powell, Mrs. T.
l.. Casey, Miss Ella Snowden Walk,
q New York artist spending the
season here. Mrs. George Julian
Zolnay. Thomas O'SulIivan, Mrs.
Edward HI. Gheen, Rudolph de
Zapp, Mrs. Helen Smith Wright, OF
Pittsfield. Mass; Mrs. John Wesley
Smith, DIR. and Mrs. Henry Krog-
stad. Mrs. Clarence Barnard, Mrs.
A. G. Shannon, w. B. Bryan, Capt
r. f. Brown, Miss Isobel Lehman,
Mrs. A. FELTON, Wood of New
Haven. Conn; and Miss Bonnie
Williams of Philadelphia.
CLASSICAL RUINS.
His early engineering training
has tended to emphasize Clephane's
preference for architectural sub
jects. He has painted many classi-
cal ruins in foreign lands. along
the shores of the Mediterranean
and in Dalmatia. Hel is also fond
Of Alpine scenery, and was paint
ing in the Austrian Tyrol among
the Dolomites when the opening Of
the war. in 1914, recalled hlm to
America.
He was commissioned in charge
OF naval activities in the upper
Chesapeake bay, following a period
at the Norfolk Navy Yard and sea
He was later sent to Baltimore to
organize naval activities in two
shipyards.
He was born in Washington in
1869. He is a member of the So
ciety of Washington Artists, The
Washington Water Color Club, the
Washington Arts Club the Society
of Independent Artists and the
Washington Society Of Fine Arts.
A landscape, THE Edge Of the
Pines" painted by Clephane years
ago, has recently come back to
Washington by the demise of the
patron, who requested that it
should be returned to the artist.
The studio will be open on week
days from 10 a. m. to $50 p. m,
on Sundays from 2 to p. m, and
on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 8
70 II p. m.