The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
WOMAN ARTIST
RETURNS WITH
INDIAN VIEWS
Miss Catharine C. critcher's
Studio Open to Public Any
Day Of Week but Sunday
AWARDED PORTRAIT PRIZE
Studied Under Famous Paint.
ers anr Exhibited in Paris
Salon, Goal Of Students
BY v1KTOR FLAMBEAU.

Although opposed to Sunday
studio receptions, as reported last
week, Miss Catharine G. Critcher
viii receive the public on any
other day, at No. 8 st. Matthews
Alley, her art school and studio.
She has recently returned to
washington FROM the Southwest,
and brings with her some fine COM
positions of Pueblo Indians. from
Taos, New Mexico. She paints with
style and expression and was the
winner last year of the first prize
insthe annual exhibition Of the So
cieky OF Washington Artists, with
portrait of Glenn Madison Brown, an
artist fellow member OF the Arts
Club, in which Miss Critcher has al.
ways been active.
EXHIBITED IN PARIS.
Born in Westnaoreland coanty, Vir-
ginia, the birthplace OF George WASH
inGton. Miss Critcher calls herself
Washington girl. and has long been
closely identified with art interests
here. She studied with the noted
American artist, Richard Miller, and
in Paris with Charles Hoffbauer.
She exhibited in the Paris Salon, the
goal Of our art students.
IF I have made any progress in
painting" says Miss Critcher. ut 10
because / was willing to listen to
criticism, and have tried to profit by
it, Her work is strong in colo /,
excellent in drawing. original. ana
sometimes q bit futuristfcs though
newer extreme.
wishing to gain, ga fresh eye." as
the artists put it, Miss Critcher de-
cided last year on a trip to Italy as
the proper inspiration.
But changed my mind" she ex-
plains 81 went instead to California
and New Mexico, because /, decided
that we have in America scenes as
inspiring as can be found in Europe.
OF the canvasses she brought back.
now on exhibition In her studio, two
Indian pictures impress US most, one
Of q serious. thoughtful type. CARRIED
In white, his black hair IN bFatass =
meditative face ana attitude 10 he
sits cross legged on the floor, while
the other subject is a similar charac-
ter, painted o1t-of- doors, an indian
on q Mexican burro. the sagebrush
landscape forming the background
In art serious vocation? Yes, ut-
doubtedly so to Miss Critcher. Every
morning finds her early at her
studio, engaged with commissions or
students, and even Saturday 10 not
free, for then many school children
come as pupils. She held o little
exhibition Of some Of their work last
year, and may repeat the experiment.
Friday afternoon IL her at-home day,
but she does not object to visitors
at other times
ALLEY IS STUDIO QUARTER.
Miss Crircher is q member Of the
Society of Washington Artists. the
washington Water Color Club, and
the National Association Of Woman
Painters and ScuIptors of New York,
besides being a leader in the Arts
Club of Washington, where she has,
until recently, made her residence,
in the attractive clubhouse at 2017
I street northwest. She held q one
man show there last season, and is
Just now represented in the present
exhibition of resident members work,
In which she has two pictures, por-
trait head and a large composition,
The Red Sari,'' ftIll-length, seated
figure of a charming woman.
ct. Matthews Alley, in the rear Of
the big church with the Byzantine
dome is known as the elite studio
quarter, and Miss Ellen Day Hale
q daughter of the late Edward Ever
EFT Hale, has studio there. Another
is Mr.. Eben Comins, Of Boston and
New York, who has recently painted
several important portraits, includ-
ing Senator Holxr Smith, Miss Louise
Goff, debutante daughter of the AS
sistant Attorney General, and others.