Evening star., 1924-03-30
Notes Of Art and Artists

Ihe John HERON Art Institute OF
indianapolis, and oil paintings BY
MISS Margaret Law OF Baltimore
Miss Laws pictures are mostly OF
negro subjects and are characterful,
palnter-like presentations.
Mr.. Browns block prints, the ma
Jorlty of which are of architectural
subjects. are indiyidualistic, small in
size, and show interesting handIfng
OF heavy line. even when the subjec'
rendered is extremely small in scale
ana ana delicate OF detail. Mr.. Brown
has been spending several months IL
Europe and the majority of the prints
shown are of foreign subjects.
MI Cassidy's paintings are of In
dlan themes or of landscape in tbc
iHhlan country, and are quite out al
the oTdinary-reaIistic, almost aca-
demic, and yet forceful. One Of th.
desert is particularly attractive
another of trees or bushes with vel
low foliage is delightfully."- rendered.
and IN most instances where Mr. Gas
SIdy introduces figures in his LAND
Scapes they seem TO belong there. His
separate figures, Of which he show
several. are extremely good, Wig
0rously, painted, Interestingly de
Santa IHe is supposedly a hotbed o.
modernism, but Mr.. Cassidy seems to
have escaped the contagion and L.
have proved that traditional methods
can be employed for such purely
American subjects without loss Of
vIriiity. Al the Panama-Californi
Exposition in San Diego there was an
Indian arts gallery for which Mr
Cassidy painted series of uurai
decorations and received in apprecia
tIon the grand prize and gold media
award.
4 T the ART Center, 110G Connecticut
avenue, may be seen at presen,
q joint exhibition of paintings BY
Agnes NJ Richmond and WINTHROP
Turney and, in separate gallery q
collection of portraits and still-life
paintings in pastel by Edith NJ Nc
Cartney.
The former are essentially in tie
extreme modernistic style, that styI.
which sacrifices the amenities OF
beauty, supposedly for impressiyeness
Of strength, but without beauty what
excuse has work of art for being.
There is u certain primitiVeneSs about
these paintines-still life, landscape
and hgureS, which commendS them L.
attention, but there is nothing iu
them which the first glance does no
disclose, no secret loVeliness &c
claimed or even whispered, nothing
which rejoiceS the eye or induces 30
to linger. These artists are presum-
ably, seeking truth, but il is only 4
half truth that they present. Thcv
are aiming at simplicity. but as Royai
CortiSSoz has lately said: You can
not get mplicity-the kind of sim
plicity that is beautiful, by takinc
thought: 1t must arise from the GER
tral spring of your inspiration and b.
habit of mind; it is of the soul %
is that this sort of simplicity give
the impression of being labored.
EDITH MccARTNEY'S works come
much nearer to the ideal ot
beauty, for she has found Iovelincss
in a flower, a piece of pottery, in an
individual and a child, and has made
it manifest. She has learned, IN
doubtedly, from the oriental artists
and has applied their wisdom to our
modern way of seeing. Her portrait
sketches of Betty Smell and EruoLt
Armat are excellent and her pictures
Of mdrShnalloWS and OF white phIox
are charming, sensitive interDreta-
tions, suggesting the fTagility of the
flowers and at the same time inter
pretlnS their spirit.
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A RNOLD RONNEBECK, the scuIp-
tor, whose works were shown a
short time ago at the Art Center, is
now giving, under the auspices OF
the center, a series of talks on Mod
ernism in Europe and America
Course \ begins on March 81. and in
Course r begins ON AnriI and in
ciudes lectures on April and 1t
The first is at 4:i5 o'clock in the aft-
ernoon, the second at 1880 o'clock IL
the mornings. The subjects are "'Ou
Scandals in Paris" The Secret OF
Pygmalion" and The Sioux, the SKI :
scrapers, Jazz and Other Possibil-
tiles. Mr.. Ronnebeck, who is one of
the foremost exponentS of modernism
in sculpture, and has perhaps a bette
comprehension than the majority Of
his colleagues of its possibilities. and
also its limitations, will undoubtedly
have much to say that is worth hear
ing and that is provocative Of
thought
A 7 the Eandyck Galleries, l6lI Con
necticut avenue a collection OF
paintings by Jane Peterson is now on
view. Miss Peterson is q New York
artist and contributor to the lead
ing exhibitions. She has developed an
interesting style quite her own. and
her boat pictures and architectural
renderingS are of an extremely faSci-
mating sort. This exhibition. which
opened today, Will be on view for a
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EROM Apria to II there will bc
shown at the Arts Club, under
the auspices of the japanese ambas-
sador and others interested in Japan,
a collection of $50 paintings and 50
wood block prints by distinguished
Japanese artists, assembled and
brought to this country by Mr. and
Mrs. HiroShi Yoshida of Toxic. to b.
sold for the benefit OF the Japanesr
artists who lost everything in the
earthGuake. The collection was shown
first in Boston, then in New York,
where il attracted much favorable at
tention.
Mr. Yoshida will be remembered as
one of the group of japanese artists
who exhibited here in the CorCoran
Gallery about twenty years ago. al
exhibition which created an cXtraor-
dinary amount of attention because
of the exquisite beauty of the pic
lures shown. many of which found
their way into Washington homes.
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! AT the Smithsonian Institution.
"a under the auspices of the d.
partment of graphic arts. collection
of etchings by the foremost ctChcrs
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