Evening star., 1923-05-27
Notes of Art and Artists

of flowers and foliage, arranged by
those who know.
TWICE recently Charles Colfax
Long OF this city Mas shown to
invited audiences remarkably
beautiful series Of stereopticon slides
in color of Washington. Some are
authochrome photographs and others
are photographs in black and white.
colored by one who must be not only
a skilled craftsman. but an artist
Mrs. Rankin.
What Mr.. Long has done Is to as
photographs Of our public buildings.
streets, statues and environs, which
strikingly illustrate and make man.
ifest the pictorial charm. the real
beauty which here In our Capital city
surrounds us. 1t is safe to say that
no city In the world could furnish
material of a more lovely character.
more genuinely artistic or appealing
to the artistic sense, and there Is rea-
son to believe from this showing that
the time Will come when Washington.
because of it's beauty, will be a
mecca for artists and for those who
love art. even as Paris and the old
world capitals are today. Mr.. Long.
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pathetic personal appreciation, which
heightens their interest.
That photography may be reckoned
with the arts no longer needs to be
proved. but that 1t is not always so
employed those who have made a
study of the subject will admit.
There Is a long distance between
those who press the button and let
others do the rest and the pictorial
photographers who understands good
atN
value Of light and shade. Also. IL one
can accomplish such results through
a semi mechanical process. how much
more an artist, with his greater free
dom, could do.
A NEW exhibition Chat is. one not
previously seen before in Wash
ington) of etchings by prominent
etchers not only of the United States.
but Austria. Belgium. Czechoslovakia.
France. italy. Holland, Great Brit
ain. Russia, Germany. Sweden and
TSmithsonian building. under the au-
spices of the National Museum. until
June 9. This exhibition was assem-
bled by the Brooklyn Society of
Etchers from its second interna-
tional exhibition. recently held in
New York. The American section is
prints. but the British is a close sec-
ond with twenty-eight.
In the former section are included
works by Howell c. Brown, secretary
George Ebert Burr OF Colorado. Sears
Gallagher of Boston. Childe Hassam.
Charles +. Hiel. who has made a
speciality of birds and Is represented
- v-f.
Museum: Alfred Hutty. who is ex-
hibiting water colors at the Corcoran
Gallery at this time; Bertha E.
Jacques. a collection of whose etch-
ings was lately shown at the smith
sonian: Carl Melchers. who exhibits
THE Supper at Emmaus." his first
etching; Louis Orr who made. 1t will
be remembered. the remarkable series
of etchings of Rheims Cathedral:
Joseph Pennell. who is represented
by one of his characteristic pictures
of New York as seen from Governors
Island: Charles A. Platt, architect of
the Freer Gallery: Ernest D. Roth.
who is represented by etchings Of the
Spain; ]. Andre Smith. who was one
of the artists sent abroad by the gov
ernment during the war to make
drawings at the front: and j. w.
prominent among American etchers
today.
In the British section are shown
works by Lee Hankey. E. Hesketh
Hubbard. Augustus John Nevinson,
who Is one Of the leading exponents
of cubism, but who has abandoned to
some extent its extreme tenance; Sir
Frank Short, George Soper and E. NJ.
Synge-all brilliant artists. Six Ger
man, FIVE Italian. three Dutch and
two Russian artists are represented,
besides seven French and a scatter
ing of Austrian. Czechoslovak, Swedish
and Swiss. Apparently in the field Of
art those Of all nations can amicably
foregather. for here indeed is an inter-
national alliance which is all compre-
hensive.
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IN the National Museum recently
have been set UP two architectural
exhibits of considerable local as we'll
as national interest. Both are from
the old Warder house, which has
lately been demolished. and are ad-
mirable examples Of the Richardson
design and period. One is the en-
trance doorway, with its high arch
and elaborate carving; the other is
the mantel, of beautiful colored
marble. likewise exquisitely and
elaborately carved.