Evening star., 1924-02-10
Notes of Art and Artists

until o'clock. and that this priv
ilege will continue until June. The
gallery at the present time gives
special prominence to the lately ac-
CURED masterpiece by Renoir "i.e
Dejeuner des Canotiers." but is show
ing with it choice and remark bic
title collection of the works of other
great French imnressionists. which
is of immense Significance.
The spirit of the age is quantita-
tive rather than qualitative. but art
can always be best enjoyed when
segregated and in a measure secluded
The endless galleries of paintings
provide ofttimeS supera bundant
feast: it is the little gallery which
Whets the appetite. With the other
institutions in Washington-the Ma
tional Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery
and the Freer Gallery-the Phillips
Memorial Gallery now takes it's place
and a place untitled by any of the
others and Infinitely important. The
art connolSSeur from OFT of town
who comes to Washington puts this
gallery on his list of special priv
ileges and carries away with him re-
membrance of aesthetic pleasure of I.
THE exhibitions at the Arts Club
changed yesterday. In the front
room upstairs is now to be seen COL
| lection of oil paintings by Lester
Stevens of Rockport, Mass, who was
prize winner in the Corcoran Gal
| lery's biennial exhibition two years
ago. Mr.. Stevens was represented in
the recent biennial exhibition by an
exceedingly impressive painting of
Rockport quarry. His work is of an
| essentially virile order.
In the library adjacent is a collec-
tion of aquatints by Beatrice Levy
of Chicago, who won an honorable
mention by her etchings at the PAN
anna Pacific exposition and prize for
painting in the Chicago Art Insti-
tute's exhibition lately closed.
In the downstairs room a coIlec-
tion of water colorS by Flora Pilking-
ton ton Of London is on view. Miss Pill
kington has made a specially of gar
den pictures and has exhibited i'm
! many parts of the world
MISS ELLEN DAY HALE and Miss
Gabrielle De V. Clements are
spending the winter in one of Phil
adelphia's suburbs. Word comes of
an exhibition of etchings and soft
ground aquatints in color. by them
which was lately set forth in Good
speeds Bookshop. Boston. The ex-
hibition comprised French. Italian
and American subjects, and the little
catalogue enumerated forty five
! plates.
| AT yENABLEs GALLERY there
is now on view a collection of
water colors by Miss Lillian Giffen of
Baltimore, president of the Baltimore
! Water Color Club Miss Giffen's
! work is fairly well known in Wash
ington and commends itself through
merit. She shows variety of
| themes.-iandscapes, garden pictures,
architectural compositions such as
! mount Clare" Baltimore the old
i, home of Charles Carroll.
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tTHE Baltimore Water Color Club
| announces its twenty-eighth an
nual exhibition in the Peabody Insti
tute Gallery from March 12 to April
| 3, inclusive. Exhibits will be received
March 3. Entry blanks may be OBJ
tanned by writing to Miss Eleanor H
] Hurd, corresponding secretary, 1923
! st. Paul street. Several prizes will he
| awarded. The jury of selection and
award consists of Cullen Yates. HiTda
J Belcher and Paula Himmelsbach Ra
! lano.
| A T the Peabody Institute, Baltimore
| there is at present an interesting
exhibition of oil paintings by cotem-
| porary American artists; in fact
! many of the paintings shown in the
| Corcoran Gallery's recent exhibition
| went from here there.
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THOSE who are interested in art
and visit Baltimore at this time
| should not overlook the fact that the
| Walters Gallery is now open and that,
| on payment of small entrance fee.
| which goes to the poor fund of Balti-
more, its interesting collections may
i be viewed on Wednesdays and Satur-
/ days during February, March and
April from IL am. to pm; also on,