Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

KR. BUSH-BROWN. the we'll
~ ~ known sculptor. has just
WI completed a heroic alleEori-
cal figure OF Liberty bring
ing peace TO the world. The
figure, woman in flowing drapery. is
s feet in height and stands on hsil-
isphere feet in diameter. The gen
tral outlines of the figure recall the
Victory of Samothracc. There Is
suggestion OF flight. OF forward mo-
ZION. and as the wind catches the
flowing drapery il losses II backward
30 that II takes on the appearance OF
wings. The right hand Is upialsed,
- = it were in benedicuon: IN the teit
hand is held a scroll. Tie head, rlas-
sic In feature. is we'll placed on The
shoulders and is strongly and beauu-
fully modeled-the head of a Juno.
As large as is this figure and as mon
umental as is its character, the idea
of UghtneSS of buoyancy.. iS admiral
oily conveyed. One foot rests on the
globe the other barely touches II. yet
the figure is fully supported.
Around the lower edge of the hem
iSphere is a band of lettering Peace
on Earth to Men of Good Will''-and
across it runs a second band bearing
the words: Love Thy Neighbour.
Mr.. Bush Brown conceived this fig
IRE and Sketched it some years ago,
but until, to HIS mind. there was pros
pect of peace on earth. he did hot
feel disposed 10 develop his concep-
lion. Within the last few months he
has done SO, and within 4 fortnight
or more il win be cast and exhibited.
probably for the first time at the an
nual exhibition of the Architectural
League of New York.
II is modelled in plasterlina OF two
tones golden and silver gray
The entire figure is done in the gold
colored substance; the drapery in that
OF a silvery tone. The combination
= particularly pleasing. suggesting
variety in patina were the work in
bronze.
Mr.. Bush,Brown is inviting mem.
hers of the Arts Club and other
friends informally to view the work
in his studio this afternoon and to-
morrow afternoon from 4 to 8.
THE Society of Washington Artists
awarded three prizes for the
works shown in it's annual exhibit
ton now on view in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. These were awarded
some days after the exhibition opened.
and by vote of the membership of
The society.
Numerous ways are employed for
the award of honors of this sort.
Sometimes an out-of-town jury is
called in: sometimes it is left to a
vote of the visiting public. In this
case the award is the consensus of
opinion of the artists confreres. and
although no award is ever universally
satisfactory. this would seem most
nearly to have attained that greatly
desired end.
That the first prize would go to Mr..
Dunn for his full-length portrait of
Il. young woman in black might al
most have been prophesied by the
astute as soon as the exhibition
opened, from the fact that the hang
ing committee gave to this painting
the place of honor half way around
the semi-circular wall. which indi-
Gated the high esteem in which it was
held by those of the profession.
Charles Dunn is Washington boy. a
student of the Corcoran School of Art
and a pupil of Edgar Nye and Of other
local artists. He has here not only
attempted but achieved an exceed
ingly ambitious and skillful work: a
figure well drawn, we'll placed on the
canvas and broadly painted, with a
good deal Of reticence and decided re-
Straint - characteristics which one
commonly associates with mature eX-
perlence. Undoubtedly. MI. Dunn has
studied the works of Monet and his
followers. 1t Is quite probable, also,
that he has learned a thing or two
from Whistlers paintings in the
Freer Gallery. but all the admiration
in the world and careful examination
of the works OF masters would not
produce this result without gift
quite ones own. Mr.. Dunn is to be
congratulated not only upon his
prize but upon his achievement.
No one will quarrel with the second
prize, which went to Camilla White
hurst of Baltimore for her charming
picture of little girl in red. SO fresh
~ and sympathetically is the subject
painted, so workmanlike the tech
nigue.
More difference of opinion would
probably be evoked by the third award,
honorable mention, to Edgar Eye Tor
his painting Of boats-a rather
Cubistic Interpretation of ii theme
which invariably makes appeal both
10 the artist and the public. But if one
must paint in this style there is no
doubt that Mr.. Nye does it as we'll as
it could be done.
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IT is with real satisfaction that one
notes the little gold sold" sign on
The painting of roses by Mrs. Lessen
ring ~ th's eShibition-a charming