Evening star., 1923-08-31
.C0RC0RAN GALLERY
EXHIBIT
Paintings by Mrs. HaiIman of
Pittsburgh Shown for
\ Month.

! Announcement is made by the presi-
dent. and trustees of the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art that a special exhibit
tion Of paintings by Mrs. Johanna K.
/ w. Hailman Of Pittsburgh. Pa, will
be placed on public view for one
month, commencing tomorrow.
The exhibition includes thirty three
pictures in oil OF varied subjects,
every one Of which is most ably and
sympatheticaiiy treated in the judg-
ment of rtscrittcs who have viewed
ithem.
Mrs. Hailman is regarded in the
art world as one of the best woman
painters lin this country. She is YER
, satile in her work. painting land
scapes. portraits, figure compositions.
still life and flowers.
In fact. her pictures are Of any SUBJ
ject or. object which may appeal to
her intrest or her sense of the beau
full in life. There always has been
a demand for her pictures and she has
had frequent exhibitions in New York
presented her work in all the best
exhibitions in America.
| Mrs. Haflman has recently been in
yited to serve as member of the
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ttonal exhibition of art, which Is to
be held in the Carnegie Fine Arts In
stitute Of Pittsburgh. early next
| spring.
Mrs. Hailman is the wife of James
ID. Hailman, member of the board Of
| trustees or the Carnegie Fine Arts
| Institute and who is a member of the
hne arts committee of that institution.
She is the daughter of the late Joseph
X Woodwell. who also was painter
OF unusual ability and a man highly
respected throughout the American
| world Of art.
Taught Daughter.
Homer Saint-Gaudens. director OF
the department of fine arts OF
the Carnegie institution, and son OF
the famous sculptor in a recent paper
describing the work Of Mrs. Hailman
wrote regarding her early training
and her accomplishments: Her father
friend of Sisley and Renoir during
his youthful days in Normandy. ulti-
mately taught his daughter what lie
had learned. his technique. not as a
rack TO hang so much paint upon
but as the means by which she might
express her delight in the charming &
fHspect of life. In her case. most fire.
quently 1t has proved to be flowers
! because her fathers garden was. and
Is. not only behind her house and be
fore her house. but all about hel
house.
| 'Of course. then. Mrs. Hailman
cherlshes the flowers she paints. Wit
ness two such Canvasses as Under
the Parasol' and Madonna Lilies
Nor VIII any OF US hurry away from
them. In these days of jaded nerves
she teaches US lesson in allowing a
gentle fancy to float about us or a
wave of delight.
But Mrs. Hailman is far from al
artist of one manner. She visualiZes
her love of the world through man,
subjects. Study her whole -he a ri &c
understanding of the character of hel
native city in Pittsburgh Mills OIL
Eliza Furnace" Or in more tranquil
tatmospheres, see with what wide com.
prehension she treats her western
Pennsylvania in such landscapes as
! those of the gentle Laurel Ridge
or of the spring turbulence of roll.
ing Rock Creek" Then follow he,
northward to her New England
Dunes" or visit her home. with thai
colorfpl waitress Martha" bearine
an Offering Of fruit
Despite all these other excursions
| however, when Mrs. Hailman leaves
her own garden she is probably most
at home among the tropical pictur.
esqueness of the Bahama Islands. In
such decorative canvasSes as those O,
the wind-blown cocoanut palm with
the peacock beneath II, or of Cocoa
nut Grove with it's foreboding deer
blue sky. or of the exotic leaves q,
that huge century plant known as
! Natures Jalousie' we have othel
glimpses of the luxuriance she So
: enjoys.
In The Deserted House and .Th,