Evening star., 1923-04-01

~ Emil Carlsen will open Tues
n day of this week in the Cor,
coran Gallery of Art. 1t will
comprise approximately thirty-fiVe
important paintings in oil and in tenn
pera, and about the same number of
little thumb-box sketches in the for
mer medium.
Mr.. Carlsen was born in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in 1853. and studied archi-
lecture and painting at the Danish
Royal Academy. In 1872 he came to
this country and spent some little
time in Boston, and then permanently
established himself in New York. In
1906 he was made full mem Der OF
the National Academy of Design. Tie
is also member of the National In
stitute of Arts and Letters
His paintings have won awards,
among them gold medal, st. Louis
exposition; the InneSS medal, National
Academy of Design: Temple gold
medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts; Carnegie prize, National Acad-
emy of Design. He is represented in
the permanent collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, by paintings entitled open
Sea- and still Life" In the Albright
Gallery. Buffalo. is his painting.
Moonlight on the Kattegat." The
National gallery. IN TINS city, pos
seSses his painting of the seacoaSt
entitled The South Strand" The
Brooklyn Institute Museum has THE
Lazy Sea" He is also represented by
notable examples in the Chicago Art
Institute. the Minneapolis Institute,
the John Heron Art Institute, In
dfarapoliS; the Worcester Art Mu-
scum, the City Art Museum. St.
Louis; the Institute of Art. San Fran
CISCO; the Pennsylvania Academy OF
Two rfc loo I,,t 81,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, which owns
his Moonlight on a Calm Sea" pur-
chased from one of it's notable bien-
malls.
This promises to be one of the most
important and interesting exhibitions
of the season. Fortunately IL will re
main on view for the entire month of
April.
TN the Washington Arts Club was
placed on view today special ex-
H. X. Bush Brown and of decorative
textiles by Lydia Bush Brown, her
daughter. The portraits are in char
coal and chalk on gray paper and In
oils. and are of an extremely intimate
srt. One is drawing of Mrs Grant,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs F. A.
the two children of Maj. Godfrey A
third is of Mario. the small and at
tractiye son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cuni-
bertL Among the oil portraits is
one of Miss Martha Birnie Mrs.
BuSh-Brown has a special gift for
work of this kind, for she is an eX-
cellent craftsman and a sympathetic
Interpreter of personality.
Miss Bush-Brown shows pictorial
hanginGs literally painted with dyes.
semi conventional. essentially mod
ern in spirit and very decorative and
lovely in effect. She also exhibits, in
addition 70 the wall hangings. scarfs
and garments Of a unique and deco
rative sort. Her gift is particularly
for decorative design and she has an
excellent sense of color and extraor-
dinary originality.
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TN the lower room at the Washing
ton Arts Club on Tuesday will
open a group exhibition of oil paint
ings by Mrs. Duncan Phillips, who
won place for herself in artistic
circles before her marriage, exhibit
ing here in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art as Mariory Acker.
1t will be extremely interesting to
have this opportunity to view col
Lection of Mrs Phillips work and
thus be enabled to become more ia
miIlar with her style and better able
to measure her strength. Her tai
ent seems to be of an extremely
sensitive and refined order. as was
that of TwaChtman. and it has as
foundation structural knowledge and
appreciation of the fundamental prin-
ciples upon which all great art is
built.
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A N interesting collection of pic
torial photographs by some of the
leading pictorial photographers of
America is now on view in the Arts
and Industries Building, National
Museum. This consists of the prints
assembled for reproduction, because
of their special excellence, for the
1922 Annual, published by the Pic
rorial PhOtographers of America. and