Evening star., 1924-11-02
Notes of Art and Artists

THE director OF the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art is arranging for an in
teresting series Of one-man exhibitions
to be held in the special exhibition gall
lery during the present season. These
will all be notable American artists, and
will give the public an opportunity to
become intimately acquainted with the
work OF each. AS the special exhibition
gallery will be occupied all of November
by the annual exhibition Of the WASH
ington Water Color Club, arrangements
for the one-man exhibitions are not yet
complete, and announcement is therefore
temporarily withheld.
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THE Washington Water Color Clubs
twenty-ninth annual exhibition will
open in the Corcoran Gallery Of Art next
Saturday, November 8. and continue un-
til November 30 This exhibition is al
ways one of the interesting events of the
year and compares favorably in the
merit of works shown with the eXhibi-
tions held in Philadelphia, New York
and elsewhere. There are no prizes and
no private view. but the works shown
have been invariably upheld to a high
standard.
We have been particularly fortunate
in Washington in having a number of
among whom are the president and Sec
retary of the Washington Water Color
Club-William II. Holmes. director of
the National Gallery of Art. and Lesley
jackson. There is something particular
ly intimate and joyous about the medium
of water color, and those who employ it
well produce works of art of charming
quality.
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MANY in local art circles have
AvA been much eaddened this week by
the death of Alice Willoughby, a mem
Der both of the Washington Water Color
Club and the Society of Washington
Artists, which occurred quite suddenly
last Tuesday. Miss Willoughby was both
musician and a painter, and was held
in high and affectionate esteem by her
confreres Her sudden passing is a
shock and a grief.
A N exhibition of portrait drawings
"a by Mrs. Bush-Brown will open
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art stimuli
taneously with the Water Color
Clubs exhibition. These drawings
of which there will be "a, will be
shown in the cases in the upper
atrium, and quite a number are of
well known people. Mrs. Brown
Will serve tnlS year as a mem Der OF
the jury for the Pennsylvania Society
of Miniature Painters annual exhibi-
ton, which opens November s in the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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THE Philadelphia Water Color Club
will open its annual exhibition in
the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts with a private view and
reception on the evening of the same
day. 1t has become customary for
these two organizations-the Phila-
delphia Water Color Club and the
Society of Miniature Painters-to ex-
hibit jointly, the latter occupying one
of the long series of galleries de-
voted to the current display. The
Philadelphia Water Color Clubs ex-
hibition is Invariably one of the no.
table shoWings of the year and well
worth trip from Washington to see
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A T the same time the Art Alliance
"A of Philadelphia will have on view
series of water colors by Walter
Dawson, done in Italy during the past
Summer. Mr.. Dawson is one of the
instructors at the University of Penn
Sylvania and a water colorist of raj
gift and skill. He has in the past
made somewhat of a speciality of gar
den pictures, a theme which lends
itself delightfully."- to pictorial inter
relation.