Evening star., 1925-03-01

round about Washington" The Al
exhibits, all of which are water
colors, were painted in or near Wash
ington, Georgetown and Alexandria
and will come to have historic as
@ell as artistic value. Some are in
gouache, others in transparent wash.
The former naturally have more body
than the latter and are perhaps the
more artistically meritorious.
Mrs. Chase has not limited her Sc
lection to those subjects which are
essentially the sights OF this our ma
tlonal city, although she does show
among her paintings two Views of
the Smithsonian Institution, one of
the Cathedral and one of the entrance
to the Octagon. What she has chosen
to interpret are the picturesque, out
of-the-way places-the little house
on NJ street between Thirtieth and
Thirtyfrs which was at one time
Washln gton's headquarters and where
LEnfant is said TO have stayed; the
X Street Market, the Georgetown
Canal, quaint old buildings here and
there which give a honey" flavor
to the city. Passing beyond city
limits, Mrs. Chase shows a most at
tractive view of the entrance to the
Fairfax House Alexandria, and a
charming glimpse of a house near
kensington, "in the woods" which
turesque outside staircase leading to
the second floor. Certainly this eX-
htbition goes far to prove that for
picturesqueness and paintable quality
Washington may be ranked high, and
therefore. affords special allurement
for painters. 1t is those who can
discover beauty in the commonplace
and make 1t patent to all that in the
field of art are really serving theE
generation.
I TPSTAIRS at the Arts Club, in the
main assembly room. is to be
seen at this time collection Of paint
ings by Hugh Breckenridge of Phila-
delphia, one of the most original and
individual of our cotemporary Amer
lean painters. These are oil paint
ingS and some of considerable size.
They are figures, landscapes, still life,
and TO the painter members of the
club they must have very special in
terest.
Mr.. Breckenridge is a Southerner
by birth and Philadelphia by
adoption, and he has for years now
been one of the principal instructors
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. Also, he has conducted
for number of seasons Summer
school at Gloucester, Mass. His in
generation has been potent. Know
ing the principles upon which all
great art is based and having served
his apprenticeship in the matter of
craftsmanship, he has been able to
cast aside tradition to a great ex-
tent and make bold experimentation
The problems of color have interested
him particularly, and many will re-
member with interest his painting
entitled The Pirates Chest" which
was included in one of the exhibit
tions of cotemporary American art
held by the Corcoran Gallery In his
figure painting Mr.. Breckenridge is
structurally strong-almost brusque
in expression; in his still life sub
Jects he resorts to essentially mod
ernistic methods of rendition. In his
landscapes, however, he follows to a
large extent the lead of the French
tmpressionists. though he does not
employ broken color. Two of his
landscapes in this exhibition, one of
a garden, the other of little stream
in the midst of q meadow, are ex-
tremely poetic in suggestion. His
color is inclined to be hot, IL is in
variably positive, and his color COM
positions are in a deep-toned, insis-
tent key. One may not like Mr
Breckenridge's paintings, but one who
knows cannot fail to admire his
anu HIlO interest III MS eN-
perimentation.
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MARION BOYD ALLEN of Boston,
A'I a nonresident member of the
Art Club of this city, will hold a COM
prehensive exhibition Of her paintings
at the Vandyck Galleries, 1911 Con-
necticut avenue, from March to Is.
This will comprise 5S works of large
and small dimension, and will include
her lately completed portrait of Rev
Caleb r. Stetson, formerly OF this
city, now rector of historic Trinity
Church, New York. There will also
he shown in this exhibition Mrs AL
lens portrait of Anna Hyatt, sculptor,
now Mrs. Archer Huntington; her
beautiful idealistic painting, entitled
Simeon and the Little Child; her
picture. entitled Motherhood" which
was shown at the National Academy
of Design in 1920; "EnameIing,"
shown at the Panama-Pacific Exposi-
tion, and a very large canvas show
ing a. young girl wearing a print
gown worn one time by the painters
grandmother and pictured spinning
at the old fax wheel. An interesting
feature of this exhibition will be a
group of little pictures, 4x5 inches in
dimension, made as studies.
Mrs. Allen had the privilege some
years ago of painting portrait Of
John Lane, the British publisher and
she has numbered among her sitters
others Of much distinction.
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THE Society of Washington Artists
Will open its thirty-fourth an
nual exhibition in the Corcorau Gal
lery of Art next Saturday, March Z,
to continue through Sunday, March
2s. The jury of selection is composed
Of William H. Holmes, Alexis B.
Many Clara Saunders, Mrs. Margaret
3. Zimmele. Hattie Burdette, Mrs
William F. Kelley, Jerry Farnsworth,
A. II. o. Role and NJ. S. Jameson.
There is every promise of a fine
showing.
a n exhibition of etchings, .aquatipts
a and mezzotints by John Taylor
Arms formerly of this city, now of
Connecticut, opened in the Smithson-
ian Institution, division of graphic
arts of the National Museum, yester-
day and will continue to March 27.
Seventy-five prints are shown, quite
a number in color. Among the etch-
fngs are three notable series, the
gable series, the gargoyle series and
the series of Spanish cathedrals.
Among the aquatints is a ship series
and a series devoted to moonlight
themes.
John Taylor Arms was bern in this
city in 1887. He studied architecture
at Princeton University and the Mas