Evening star., 1924-04-20
Notes Of Art and Artists

" He COrcoran Gallery OF Art has
purchased for its permanent
collection a winter landscape
= by Hobart Nichols, now of
New York. formerly of Washington.
Mr.. Nichols was born in this city and
received his art education here. study
ing at the Art Students League. For
a number of years he held "a govern
ment position and his painting was done
in spare time on Sundays and holidays
and in summer when on leave. Even
SO. his work took on thoroughly pro-
fessional character and found admis-
sion. not only in the local exhibitions
hut in the leading exhibitions held in
other cities. From the first there was
invariably a lyric quality in his pic
lures. Not only was he a good drafts
man and an excellent colorist, but
sensitive to the beauty in nature, and
his interpretations reflected his own
poetic vision.
Those who recall the exhibitions OF
the washington Water Color Club and
the Society of Washington Artists
twenty years ago will remember well
Mr.. Nichols charming nocturnes and
his pictures of the landscape around
about Washington, into which he some
times introduced animals or figures
which lent a note of special interest
He was a member of both the Society
of Washington Artists and the Wash
| ington Water Color Club and was
active in the interests of both organi-
cations and also in arranging exhioi-
tions held at the Cosmos Club. 1t was
through his instrumentality that a
notable exhibition of water colors by
Henry B. Smell was shown in the Co.'S
mos Clubs assembly room.
For over ten years now Mr.. Nichols
has lived in New York or it's vicinity
and given his entire time to painting
and he has met with exceptional sue
cess. Not only has he been elected
to membership in the National Acad-
emy of Design, but his works have
| repeatedly received award. His
| brother, Spencer B. Nichols, is also
an artist and has won distinction as
| an illustrator and painter or oecora'
| tive compositions, as well as oe-
| signer Mrs. Nichols is painter, and
one of their daughters within the
! last couple Ol ytdIo ido CAhAbiScN -
one of the annual exhibitions OF the
National Academy of Design.
The picture which the Corcoran
| Gallery has purchased shows a snow
covered landscape. There are bare
| trees in the foreground seen at close
range. Across a little brook, unfrozen
and rejecting the blue heavens over
head, is a snow-covered hill which
rises gently to a high horizon. Mr.
Nichols, it will be remembered, was
! represented by a similar picture 1T
| the Corcoran Gallery's recent bien-
| NAL exhibition.
THE great international exhibition
of paintings, to which all Europe
as well as America has come to look
with interest, opens in Pittsburgh the
| last of this week. 1t will comprise
about 400 pictures, and of these only
about ITO will be by artists resident
in the United States. For foul
months Homer Saint-Gaudens, direc-
tor of the Carnegie Institute, was
abroad collecting the most repre-
sentative works by the leading art
| lists in Great Britain and European
| countries. In Spain he visited Zu'
loaga and Anglada and secured from
each a. group. He visited Poland anc
| CzechoSlovakia, France, Italy anc
England and has brought back Will
him a representative showing. Blu
he warns those who visit this exhi'
| bition not to expect to find from
many of these foreign countries pleas
ant pictures, for the symbols of thei1
art are different from our own, ant
at present it would seem that the,
are not looking for pleasantries
| Those who organized the information
| q axhihffinn in PITTSBURGH no
selecting pictures for permanent
collection. but endeavoring to show
us here in America what is going or
in the studios abroad
Not only did Mr.. Saint-GaudenS
bring back with him pictures, but dis
! tinguished jurors-Albert Besnard OF
| France, for years head of the French
Academy in Rome and now head OF
| the Beaux Arts, in Paris, one of the
| foremost French artists of our time
and A. ]. MummingS of England, who
has gained celebrity as a painter OF
sporting life, of horses and racing
scenes, who served as members of the
! international jury of award. Mr.
| Mummings is executing a number OF
commissions while in this country
M. and Nine. Besnard. however, arr
returning to France the last of thi:
month. Nine. Besnard has given &
number of lectures while in thi,
| country on French art and she and
| ncr nuSDdnO nave Oeen mucn reteo
A reception was given to them b.
the governing committee of tn,
Brooklyn Museum on April Is, anC
April 10 they were guests in New
York of the president and council o
the National Academy of Design.
is greatly to be regretted that the.
will not visit Washington. Unfor
| tunately, their stay in America is too
] limited to permit it.
| This exhibition, which opens or
April 25, will continue through Junt
Is, and will undoubtedly well repay
journey from Washington.
X
TOR a number OF years, while he
was modelling the pediment Of
the Capitol, Paul Bartlett had studio
| in this city. He is now in Paris, but
his interesting statue of Robert Nor.
| ris, which is to be erected in Phila-
delphia, had lately been cast in 8
| Baltimore foundry AS there has beer
some disagreement in regard to the
| site that this statue will occupy anC