Evening star., 1923-01-07

water colors and etchings by Joseph
Pennell has been on view. Mr.. Pen
nell is particularly well known in
London. not only because of his work,
but on account of long residence and
of having been one of the organizers
and for some time president of the
Senefelder Club, composed Of distin-
guished photographers. The water
colors In the recent exhibition were
chiefly views Of New York painted
from the window Of his. home in
Brooklyn. and they have not only
created much interest, but met with
favorable comment from the British
critics. interpreting with great skill
and sympathy the IoveIiness of big
New York-its towering skyscrapers
silhouetted against the sky through
mist and fog, I'm sunshine and In rain
titan, yet indicative of sosmethIng
more than size and power
4 T the Anderson Galleries in New
= = York. on the afternoon and even
ing Of January "a, selections from the
private library of the late Arthur
Jeffreye Parsons of Washington are
to be sold. Mr.. Parsons organized
and was for many years head of the
print division of the Library of Con-
gress. He was also, 1t will be remem-
bered. member of the board of di-
rectors of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art and an organizer and director OF
the American Federation of Arts-a
man of extraordinary taste and ar
tistic discrimination. Among the
books in his library which are now to
be sold are some in rare bindings ex-
ecuted for royal and notable person
ages by Mearn, LIE Gascon, Derome,
Duseuil, Rouette, Clovis Eve, Pade-
loup and other masters; notable edi-
ttons of, famous English authors of
three centuries, books with colored
Rowlandson, seventeenth century ro-
nance and eighteenth century illus
trated books.
THE New Society of Artists of New
York opened its fourth exhibition
in the Anderson Galleries with a pri-
vate view on January 2, which proved
to be a very brilliant affair socially
and artistically. This exhibition,
comprising 211 exhibits, includes not
only oil paintings, but water colors,
drawings, wood engravings. litho-
graphs, etchingS, and sculpture in
marble, bronze and plaster. 1t COM
pFises the works of thfrty-one art
fists, among whom may be mentioned
Chester Beach, Clifford and. Reynolds
Beat George Bellows, Timothy Cole,
Ernest Lawson, Carl >Melchers. and
others. II will continue througmhout
the month, and is apparently a sue
cessful effort on the part of the art
lists to themselves organize a note
worthy show.
lrIh af III
week before last Duncan Phillips,
by special request, read a most en-
gaging and instructive paper on the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, explaining
its conception and it's purposes and
describing fully and delightfully."- that
section of the paintings owned by the
gallery now on view. In this paper
he emphasized the difference in pur-
pose of this gallery from other gall
lertes; in its disregard. of chronolog-
: ical sequence, of historical signifi-
canoe and of cliques and schools. It
is the intention of the organizers of
this gallery 70 show works in har-
monious relationship and to provide
| thereby as il were, a feast which
shall be both enjoyable and stimulat-
| ing for. those who are sensitive to
| beauty.
I. At the same time Mr.. Phillips an
| nounced the establishment of q
branch office or depot in New York,
] to extend the influence of the work
undertaken, and to- reach a larger
audience through the medium OF tenn
:porary exhibitions. The establish
,ment of this. depot. will also enable
| the. directors of the gallery to keep
continuously in touch with current
production, and it's establishment is
/ significant step. Mr.. Phillips also
described the galiery's publications,
1.-TWO of which have already been is
sued, one on Weir, the other, just
from the press, on Daumier, both en-
| Tightening and at the same time de-
| lightful.
+ X X X
| At the Smithsonian Institution, from
! January 10 to February 8. in the
| division of graphic arts will be ex-
/ hibited the Rotary Exhibition of the
| brooklyn Society of Etchers. compris-
| ing one hundred prints. This Is the
! first of a series of exhibitions Illus
trative Of the graphic arts which this
Sis{on-Aas KEN
Lulu MECHLIN.