Evening star., 1925-05-24
Notes of Art and Artists
Portrait of the Late Calvin Coolidge L by Richard Meryman
to Be Placed in Mercersb,rg Academy-Threc Notable
Artists Working Here During the Past Week.

most recent portrait of the Swedish
Minister. will be shown in this city
before Count Spares return to
Sweden.
THE Metropolitan Museum of Art
has lately acquired one of Mrs.
George Oakley .Totten's porcelain
stltuettes. The purchase was made
when a number of these charming lit
tie works of art were on view in the
Grand Central Galleries. Mrs. Totten.
who before her marriage was Vicken
Won Post, learned her art at her old
home in Sweden. and these delightful
little statuettes. done in an inimitable
manner all her own, We're produced at
i porcelain factory, in Stockholm.
some time in the near future Maj.
nd Mrs. Totten hope to establish a
porcelain kiln here in Washington in
which case her work in this medium
can go on.
THE exhibition of railway posters
lately shown by the Bureau of
Railway Economics in the Transpor-
tation Building has been transferred
to the Public Library. where it is now
on view.
This library has been most fortu-
nate in receiving as IA gift from Mrs.
John B. Henderson for its new Mount
Pleasant branch a large painting of
the Grand Canyon by ->kucien w
Powell. There are few who have
painted this marvellous work OF ma
ture so we'll or SO sympatheticaHy as
Mr.. Powell, and. as typicaliy Amer
lean subject by an American painter.
the picture will doubtless serve
valuable purpose.
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art for
mally announces its tenth exhibi-
ton of cotemporary American oil
paintings, to be held April 4 to May
16. 1926. Circulars and entry cards,
giving full information to those desir-
ing to submit work. will be ready for
distribution on or about February |.
The annual exhibition of the Cor
coran School of Art will be held next
week. when the annual award of
prizes will be made. Owing to the
fact that the semi-circular gallery in
which this exhibition is usually shown,
is being reroofed at this time, no def
lMe announcement could be made in
ADVANCE as to the portion of the
building in which the exhibition would
be displayed. or whether or not il
would be generally open to the public
or restricted to the students and their
friends. Full announcement will be
found in the news columns in due
course.
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THE Critcher- Hill School of Art
announces a. Summer session. with
Miss Anne Abbott, registrar of the
Corcoran School of Art, in charge
Miss Abbott has herself had excellent
training, and has exhibited during the
nf faC -fo Nd
ing and merit She is, therefore. well
equipped to take on this new respon-
sibility. Miss Hill is going to New
York about the first of June to exc
cute some commissions, and will later
visit friends in the Berkshire Hills
Miss Critcher will spend the Summer
again at Taos, \. Mex. She is the one
woman member of the Society of Taos
Painters.
MRS. H. X. BUSH-BROWN. after
attending as a delegate the six
teenth annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation Of Arts, held in Cleve-
land, Ohio. the week before last, has
gone to St. Paul, Mimi. where she
will paint a number of portraits.
Lydia, Bush Brown, her talented
daughter, who has made quite repu
tation by her decorated textiles, is
now travelling abroad and expects to
spend the greater part of the Sum
mer in Alexandria, in Syria.
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EELICIE WALDO HOWELL, for
merly Of this city. announces
Summer painting class. TO be held for
the eighth season at East Gloucester,
Mass, beginning July ! and continu
ing through August 26.
THE Washington Arts Club has now
on exhibition an interesting col
lection of handicrafts by local crafts
men. Most interesting. perhaps, is a
case containing beautifully bound
books by Marian Lane, Mrs. Charles
NJ. Wilkes. Mrs. Frank Smith, Jessie
Mel. Watson and Stella Divine.
There are beautiful screens by Maj.
p. D. Glassford, one in particular with
peacock decoration and another with
a floral decoration, both essentially in
Oriental style. William Partridge
shows several interesting carvings, or
"statuettes," made of roots and
branches of trees. eroded, brought
down by the river and long exposed
TO the elements-clever adaptations.
Mrs. Belloit shows a bowl with
painted decoration; Ruth NJ. Tanner,
wooden box attractively carved:
Mrs. Frank Smith, baskets; Roy
Birch, wrought iron. There are dyed
scarfs by H. l.. Nyman, woven fabrics
in design by Emmy Sommer. Attrac-
tive bags and other weavings are eX-
hibited by Mrs. B. c. McCue, Mrs.
Hayes and Mrs. Whitman.
Alberta Montgomery shows some
lovely silverware. and Mary Endicott
and Mollie B. Weyman, rings, simple
in design and well executed. There
are examples of Norwegian weaving