Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Notes of Art and Artists

A exhibition of paintings by
| ~ Felicie Waldo Howell is being
held this week and next at the
Central High School under the
| auspices of the Public School Art
League of Washington, of which Miss
Grace Lincoln Temple is president,
Mrs F. A. Delano. vice president, and
Miss Myra Hendley, secretary. The
exhibition was arranged through the
| fundamentally of Miss Baker of
Central High School for the teachers
| institute which was held there the
last of this week, but 1t is open to
the general public and will be seen
and studied by all of the students of
the school.
Miss Howell was a washington girl.
though she was born in Honolulu. ana
her first instruction in art was IN
the Corcoran School in this city.
From here she went to Philadelphia
and later she became pupil OF Henry
| Il. Smell. For several years now she
has had her own studio in New YORK
| in the winter and Gloucester in the
summer. and she has lately been mace
an associate member of the National
Academy of Design. She is still less
than thirty years of age and her sue
cess has been phenomenal. Not only
have her pictures been accepted anu
| shown in he leading exhibitions OF
the country, but group exhibitions OF
her works have been invited ana
sought by some of the foremost mu-
Seums. She is already Represented
| in the permanent collection OF the
tional Gallery of Art and in several
| of the other American museums.
Her pictures have found not only APP
probation among the artists, but
popularity with laymen and ready
sale. They are distinctly individual
| and at the same time genuineiy
i worth while. She has made spe-
cialty Of architectural subjects
| houses and street scenes, and she mas
| frequently painted boats and WharFes.
At first her paintings were chleny
! in water color-in gouache, on gray
! paper. Il little suggestive of pastels'
! line playing large part in their
composition. She still uses this me
dunn, but she has perhaps scored hT e.,
greatest success with paintings IN
/ oils. in which tonal quality and
subtle relation of values were con-
spicuously we'll interpreted. Each
year her work has gained IN assur-
ance and also in subtlety until II now
ranks with the best, even of the older
! painters 4 year ago last summer
she spent considerable time III
Salem and at Marblehead. painting
historic houses and the charming tree
shaded streets in a way genuinely
delightful. Three of these pictures
are in the present exhibition. as Is
| also a picture of the Treasury building
! in this city. These are all paintings
of pictorial interest and yet of great
! artistic merit, well composed. good IN
color and most skillfully rendered.
| This is one of the exhibitions circu-
/ lated by the American Federation oil
Arts.
D.; :; = !.
! IN the Smithsonian Institution. un-
der the auspices of the National
Museum, there is now on view an IN
| teresting exhibition, comprising 100
etchings assembled and lent by the
Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and set
forth under the charge of the division
of graphic arts. Included in this col
LECTION are aquatints, dry points, pure
or bitten etchings. mezzotints and
soft-ground etchings Each process
lis admirably described in a foreWord
to the little catalogue which the
Brooklyn Society of Etchers has Is
sued.
Two Washington etchers. Miss FL
lien Day Hale and Miss Gabrielle De
Nv. Clements, are represented in the
| collection, as we'll as an erStwhlie
! Washingtonian, John Taylor Arms
now president of the Brooklyn So
ciety. Miss Hale and Miss Clements
have. both sent scenes in Mount SAINT
Michel. Miss Hale street scene anC