Evening star., 1924-03-09
Notes of Art and Artists

art critics of the New York Times
made the following comment: Mrs.
Walcott Is the wife of Charles d.
Institution, and a scientist, whose in
vestigations have led him into the
great fossil hunting grounds of the
Canadian rockies and the northwest.
She has accompanied her husband
with her skctching kit and water
'olor paints, and has to her credit
everal hundred studies of wild
lowers made on the spot and show
ng the flowers in their natural set
ling. She does her work with scien-
titic accuracy. painting her subject
ife size with every distinguishing
feature noted. and has given vital
impression of many kinds heretofore
known only in pressed and faded
specimens. In certain instances the
sketching had to be done with great
taste. lest the delicate little flower
close and die before the record could
be made.
"To the pre- Raphaelites this devo-
ton to nature would be in itself a
sign of the true spirit of art, and,
curiously Yet logically. the pendulum
asain has swung toward exquisite
precision in the drawing and paint
ing and flower subjects. Unless such
precision is united to sense of the
whole and is made to suggest the
force of growth in the plant and the
residence that in plants and human
beings alike is the chief outward
sign of life. it is not, of course. art,
nor for that matter science.
Mrs. Walcott is able to communi
cate this subtle rapture of being that
invests the most fragile wild bloom,
and her work recreates rather than
copies nature. 1t IS very fine form
of art and one that can be to GER
tain extent appreciated by even the
child in the street In the proposed
will be accompanied by page of
description that includes directions
for growing transplanted specimens
where that is possible
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EVERETT WARNER. formerly OF
IL this city, and for many years a
member of the Society of Washing
ton Artists as we'll as OF the National
Academy of Design, the American
American Water Color Society, ETC., is
holding an exhibition of paintings of
New York in the Arlington Galleries,
Madison avenue, New York. at this
time. This exhibition comprises
forty-seven works, and gives PIC
lures of the city streets and build
ings and the ever-busy water fronts.
x X Il
WHEN, in 1913, the armistice was
" signed our government had al
ready begun the huge task Of reha-
bilitating our disabled soldiers. Thou
sands of men in the hospitals were no
longer able to work at their former
occupations. When the time came for
these men to leave the hospitals to
enter training a number chose COM
ia1 IF nY0feSSiOn.
Members of the Society of Illustra-
tors, New York, notably &. B. Faile,
who had won special recognition dur
ing the war by his posters. and Ray
Greenleaf conceived the idea of hav-
ing the government equip school
for training these men as commercial
artists and furnishing materials, the
members of the Society of illustrators
giving their services as instructors.
Mr.. Greenleaf came to Washington
and succeeded in convincing the Vet
Grams Bureau of the need of such
school. In 1921 the school was start
ed with nineteen students, under the
direction of William A. Rogers, well
known illustrator and caricaturist.
one of the best that our country has
produced.
The school. which is at present To-
Gated at $50 Lexington avenue, has a
record of having placed 50 per
cent Of it's graduates in lucrative
positions The school is at present
holding its third annual exhibition at
the Art Center. in New York. The
character of the work shown reflects
greatly to the credit both of the stu
dents and their instructors.
IT TIUDER the auspices of the Wash
~ ington Society of the Fine Arts,
Lorado Taft, the well known sculptor
and author. will give an illustrated
lecture in the auditorium of the Gen.
trail High School next Wednesday
evening on French renaissance sculp-
ture.
Mr.. Taft, it will be remembered. is
not only the sculptor of the Columbus
fountain in this city, but of the
Fountain of the Lakes and the Foun-
tain of Time in Chicago and other
Der OF the Illinois Art Commission
and author of 4 comprehensive and
authoritative book on the history of
American sculpture. At the time of
the worlds fair he gathered around
him a group of young sculptcrs. who
co-operated with him in producing
much of the sculptural work shown
at the fair, all of which, alas. perish
ed with the White city. the influence
Of which, however, is still felt He is
essentially public Spirited. and has
dcne much not only to advance his
beloved art. but to increase it's ap-
probation among the people. He is
moreover, an excellent speaker.
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A GAIN a pupil of the National
School of Fine and Applied Art in
this city has won scholarshipsin the
New York School of Fine and Applied
De- r.
time the fortunate winner. This
scholarship entities to a seasons tut
ton in the school in Paris. Mr.. Mars
man sailed for France last week.
T,F Ia NEruTIN