Evening star., 1926-04-04
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

NTdll6Ty VI All HAS dSSSLllOiSO
and set forth a notable eXhi
Il bition Of cotemporary Amer
lean painting. These exhibi
tions, which have been held at inter
walls OF two years. have come to be
regarded as important events in the
art world, epoch marking in the de
velopment of American painting. The
fact that they are held here in the
National Capital and that through
the munificence of the late William
A Clark five large money prizes are
awarded lends special Importance
and inSures the submission OF the
artists best works to the jury OF
selection.
The Jury for this exhibition was
composed of Edmund c. Tarbell, John
c. Johansen. Jonas Lie, Leop9lc
Seyffert and Robert Spencer, a group
Of artists Of outstanding reputation
and Of broad and catholic tastes. The
result Is an exhibition widely com
prehensive and at the same time
fully representative, an exhibition
which not only upholds the high
standard set i'll the past but creates
a new standard through still higher
average of merit.
Three hundred and fifty.ttve paint
ings are listed in the catalogue, and
to their showing the entire upper
floor OF the Corcoran Gallery has been
given over Happily for the exhibi-
ton visitor. the pictures have been
catalogued chronclogically, so that no
time need be wasted in turning back
and forth it's pages.
X 4 X y
THE place of honor in Gallery C.
opposite the main staircase. occu'
MED one time. IL will be recalled, by
Sargent's mastery painting of group
of eminent physicians at johns HOP
kius University, has been given this
wear TO Carl MelcherS' portrait OF
Mrs. John W. Garrett of Baltimore.
II is a full-length and shows Mrs.
Garrett painted in Spanish costume
a bold piece of brushwork. a tour de
force, executed in q. manner Whlch
would certainly have delighted the
great masters of Spanish painting
whose influence in our art today Is
so strongly evident. Far more I'M
pressive does this portrait appear here
in it's present position than when
shown lately in the New Society S
exhibition at the Anderson Galleries,
New York. Fortunately, MIR. Mel
- chers is represented in this current
showing by two other diverse works,
a sturdy painting of two hunters In
Winter togs passing a country mouse
in the gray light of a Winter day.
and a picture Of The Wheeler
House" a country home in Spring
time, half hidden behind a fruit tree
in full bloom--an exquisite inter
pretation of the loveliness OF the out
door world brought into conjunction
with the simple LONELINESS OF coun'
try living.
There are many notable portraits
In this exhibition; such, for instance,
as the ree-quarter-.ength seated
portrait of Mrs Russell Sage painted
bv Cecilia Beaux, with great reserve
and keen insight; or the double por-
trait by Wayman Adams OF Emil
Carlsen and his gifted son, Dimes, both
of whom are represented, and well, in
the exhibition. There is the interest
ing group portrait by Charles Hop
kinson OF himself and Mrs. Hopklnson
and their five engaging daughters to
which the place of honor in Gallery f
has been given. This was evidently
painted at the artists Summer home
at Manchester, Mass, and the whole
canvas is peryaded by a spirit of joy
BUSINESS and youth a delightful COM
position, an Interesting personal docu-
ment.
A little to the left hangs Abram
Poole's portrait of Nile, Orosoff. an
impressive work rendered in vein
quite his own and claiming equal i'm.
portance with The Spanish Sisters
TO which the fourth William A. Clark
prize and Corcoran honorable men
ton were awarded.
There Is perhaps nothing so i'm
pressive about this current exhibition
as the diversity in style of the work
shown therein, and if there is one
lesson to be learned from it, 1t is that
there are many ways, not a single
way, of painting admirably.
THE first Clark prize and the
Corcoran gold medal were award
ed, as has already been announced in
these columns, to painting by
Charles w. Hawthorne, 1.-The Fish
and the Man" a Provincetown subject
treated with that amazing skill when
characterizes all of Mr.. Hawthorne's
later works Two other exhibits
equally we'll represent him--"The Cap
tain. the Cook and the First Mate, "
which won a prize at the Carnegie
Institutes most recent international
exhibition, and a Mother and Child"
beautifully painted and possessing a
touch of the universal.
The second Clark prize and Corcoran
silver medal went TO Walter Elmer
Schofield's painting of "A Little Har-
Dor" nesting beneath a hin on which
a town has grown up. This hangs in
Gallery D and is pendant to a second
work by the same painter. picture
of a Devon farmhouse. Both paint
ings possess great beauty, and though
bovn the annpa "a npn Of sim nj O.
ity in rendering. they have in truth
laen wrought with elaborate care and
The technical assurance acquired only
through the medium of long expert
ence. These are pictures to which