Evening star., 1924-04-20

the matter Is still undecided, the
statue has been temporarily placed in
Roland Park.
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A N exhibition of graphic arts opened
at the Baltimore Museum OF Art
on April and will remain on view
through Sunday, May IA
One gallery is devoted to examples
of printing. series of twelve charts
has been loaned by the division of
graphic arts of the National Museum.
Ihese show in a remarkably interest
ing way the development of early
woodcuts, Japanese prints the Ameri-
can school of wood engraving, line
engraving, meZzotinting, etching,
aquatinting, lithography, collotype
process, photogravure, screen proc
esses, paper and book making, type
making, bookbinding, etc. Two cases
show. step by step. the making of q
half-tone and of a line cut
-ihere Is one group of etchings by
Baltimore artists and another by
members of the Brooklyn Society Of
Etchers. In the main gallery there
are original illustrations that have
been assembled and sent out by the
| American Federation of Arts
On three successive Thursdays dur
ing the period of this exhibition there
| nings. The first of these was on the
evening of April 10, by William Auer-
bach-L Levy, who made an etching be-
fore the audience; the second, on the
evening Cd April II, was by Freder-
ick Reynolds, who showed the proc
esses of mezzotint and dry-point, and
on the evening of April "a the demon
stration will be by Will Simmons OF
New York, who will make an aqua
tint and describe the process. Etch-
f~fr TrxN- n
ar now on exhibition here in the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE American Federation of Arts
announces its fifteenth annual
convention to be held in this city May
IA, Is and IS at the willard Hotel.
An interesting program is promised.
The addresses on the first day will be
by H. NJ. Kurtzworth, director of the
Kansas City Art Institute, on Our
Part in American Art; by Florence
N. Levy, director of the Baltimore Mu-
scum of Art, on The Usefulness OF
an Art Museum to the Community;
by Anna Curtis Chandler of the Metro
politan Museum of Art, on School
Children and the Art Museum" and
by Robert Underwood Johnson. per-
manent secretary of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, on "a
Plan for the Establishment of Art
Museums" Among the interesting
| subjects to be presented at other ses-
sions are National Tendencies in In
dustrial Art" Home Industries"
Marketing Art" "Abolishing Country
Billboards" and Technical Art Train
ing for University Students" all by
well known authorities.
The afternoon of the 18th will be
devoted to inspection of the Freer
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convention will be concluded, as usual,
with a dinner on the evening of the
18th: at which there will be distin-
guished speakers.
IT TNDER the auspices of the National
Geographic Society Fred P. Clat-
worthy of Rocky Mountain Park re-
Gently gave a demonstration of the
present possibilities of color pho
Biography, showing both afternoon and
evening before large audiences his
series of beautiful slides of western
| scenery.
Possibly few of those who had the
/ privilege of seeing these slides real
| lied how much art went into their
making. The photographer, quite as
much as the painter, however, must
| art is founded il he is to succeed, and
| when the lu1niere or other color
process plates are used a new element
of difficulty is added. Mr.. Clatworthy's
| pictures are, in the first place, charm
| ing compositions, which means that
| he chooses his subjects we'll and with
| the pictorial viewpoint in mind: and,
| secondly, they show admirable distri-
| button of light and shade; finally, he
takes into his reckoning the effects
| of atmosphere and light, and renders
| with amazing skill these subtletieS of
Impression, the Interpretation of
which heretofore has only come with
| in the range of the painter. In eX-
| planning his pictures Mr.. Clatworthy
| mentioned several times that these
effects were only to ba had at GER
show that, though he was using me
chanical methods, he was literally
| painting with light. To remarkable
degree his color photographs have
what painters would call technique,
| breadth of effect coupled with
measure of detail. so that the eye
takes in the whole at a glance. Here
| in, as a rule, lies the difference be-
| tween photograph and a painting.
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| A SPECIAL exhibition of pencil
portraits by the Duchess of Rut-
land will be held under the patronage
of the ambassador of Great Britain
| in the Vandyck galleries, 1911 Con-
necticut avenue, commencing April 90.
This group of portraits has been
shown for the past two weeks at the
Duveen galleries in New York and in
cludes several portraits of Lady Di-
ana Manners, the daughter of the art
| ist, who is acting the double role OF
| the Virgin and the Nun in the scenic
| play THE Miracle"
| The Duchess of Rutland is widely
| known in her own country, where her
| portraiture is much in demand, but
this is the first opportunity that the
art patrons of Washington have been
| given to view her work. This group
! consists of about fifty portraits. Civ
! ing ample proof of her versa tility
Announcement is also made by the
! Tandyck galleries of an exhibition of
| paintings of the BarbiZon School,
| from April % to May B. inclusive.
LEILA MECHLIN.