Evening star., 1925-03-29

employed here. 1t is a pigment print
pulled from an mixed bromide enlarge
ment on pIate-printer's press. The
results achieved are very soft and es-
sentially artistic The collection will be
on view throughout the coming month.
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NORD was received in this city last
w week that one of the Hallgarten
prizes in the National Academy of
Designs Tooth annual exhibition.
which opens in New York day after
tomorrow. was awarded 10 Jerry
Farnsworth of this city for his figure
painting entitled Helen" This is
a real honor.
Hobart Nichols, a former Wash
ingtonian. was the recipient of the
was awarded for his landscape,
Across the Valley" This award also
will give great satisfaction to men,
bers of the local art fraternity and
Air. Nichols many friends in Wash
ihgton.
a ENCOURAGEMENT has been made of
"a the appointment of VIII Hutch
ms of Scarborough on Hudson, New
York, as professor of the history and
theory of art at American Univer-
for it will bring to Washington one
capable of leadership and add to the
art colony an artist of very consid-
erable abiIt"- After having made a
brilliant record as a scholar at Yale
% years ago, Mr.. Hutchins declined
an instructorship in literature and
turned to literary and dramatic criti-
cism, but, feeling the urge to paint, he
went abroad for several years to
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proficiency. On his return he became
associated with Ralph Adams Cram
in editing the periodical. Christian
Art. Soon after this he was sum-
moned by Walter Hampden to assist
in producing plays, and in recent
years he has gained much experience
in stage production. He was, in fact,
director of dramatics at Yale for a
time. He has, Furthermore, a spe-
cial knowledge of literature, par
ticularly of English and italian
poetry, and has made a special study
of Dante. Among his published works
are the standard translation of Cop
pee's "Pater Noster," and his own
poetic drama, Jeanne dare" besides
many articles in leading periodicals
principally in the field of art criti-
cism.
Thus it will be seen that Prof.
edge of art. not merely of painting
and sculpture. but of the great arts
of literature, the drama and poetry.
He has indicated that his emphasis
in his teaching will be placed on the
correlation of the arts. on the inter-
probation Of the principles which
link the fine arts with literature,
music and the drama. In addition,
he will give a course which will de-
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of the stage have in different periods
determined the nature of the drama.
Prof. Hutchins is already widely
known in Washington. He is mem
ber of the Arts Club, where he has
exhibited and where he lately gave
an illustrated lecture on modern
stage production. His illustrated lee
lures on Giotto and Leonardo da
Vinci at George Washington Univer-
sity and at the American University
this Winter and last also won him
many friends. A cordial welcome
awaits him.
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A FITTING tribute to the late
Mitchell Carroll, for many years
associated with art activities in
Washington, was published in the
March 16 issue of Ell Palacio. the
Ofhclal organ OF the Museum OF New
Mexico and the School of American
Research. 1t reads, in part, as fol-
lows:
The flags over the Palace of the
Governors and the Art Museum at
Santa Fe were at half mast on in
auguration day, March 4, and the
days succeeding. Word had come by
telegraph that DIR. Mitchell Carroll
recorder of the managing committee
of the School of American Research,
had passed away at Washington,
d. c. The school and the museum
had lost one of it's stanchest sup
porters one whose loss is irrepa-
rable. The city of Santa Fe had lost
friend who had been for years ac-
tive in telling the world about it's
manifold attractions. There were
scores in the old historic city to
whom the news brought grief and
DR.. Mitchell Carroll, scholar, editor
and educator for many years gen
eral secretary and a moving spirit in
the Archae illogical Institute of Amer
ica was one of the stanchest and
Fe, the School of American Research
and the Museum of New Mexico. AL
though classicist whose profound
scholarship was recognized at home
and abroad, he also had flare
for American archaeology and was
among those who years ago aligned
himself with the Americanists, being
one of the founders of the SchooN of
American Archaeology and the School