Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

which affords. however. especially in.
terestinC material for pictorial repre-
sentation, not only in its landscape
setting and it's picturesque village
scenes, but its native inhabitants. In
dian, white man and Mexican.
Herbert Dunton was born in Au-
eusta. Me, and studied under De
Camp and other members of the Bos-
ton group. II was probably through
the influence of Ernest l.. Blumen-
schein that he discovered Taos, but
having discovered it, he made it his
own. His Western scenes are essen
TALLY in the spirit of the West. He has
completely saturated himself with that
atmosphere. and he has interpreted it
truly and without eXaEgeration.
Oscar +. Berninghaus is native Of
81. Louis and spends his Winters in
that city. He is a pupil of the st.
Louis School of Fine Arts and a regu-
lar exhibitor not only with the st.
Louis group but in the leading Ia stern
exhibitions The City Art Museum of
St Louis owns his Winter in the
West > Some of his most interesting
paintings represent typical New MeXi-
can Notwithstanding at the fairs
or for sports. or caravans following
the setting sun.
T. -Idllill IltlliliISS btEdiI iiiV III
New Jersey, but he is a pupil OF the
Art Institute of Chicago and his Win
ter studio is there. He has painted
not only pictures of the broad Western
la ndsCapc. but also interesting life-siZe
figure studies Of the Indians and of
the Western farmer. His remarkable
characterization of The Twins" driV-
ing a prairie schooner across the
plains was awarded the Martin Z.
l., ,Nr-iD Va Arr In #
Chicago year or more ago.
Probably if a foreigner We're seek
ing an exhibition of typically Ameri-
can art he would find this collection
eminently satisfying. Technically,
however, as we'll as Subjectvely, it is
of artistic interest.
In the lower room at the Arts Club
this week and next will be seen an
interesting exhibition of etchings by
Anne Goldthwaite of New York and
coored chalk drawings by Mrs. Mar
Saret Fish. Anne Goldthwaite long
ago won an enviable place for herself
among etChers. She has essentially
the sympathetic, delicate touch of the
born etcher, and her works have real
distinction.
THE exhibition at the Dunthorne
l. Gallery changes this week. etch-
ings by Frank w. Benson taking the
place of the English sporting prints
which have attracted such favorable
attention. An exhibition of Mr.. Ben
sons work is invariably an event of
note. A group of his water colors
in this instance will lend additional
interest.
THE special exhibition at the
l. Phillips Memorial Gallery is in
teresting not only because of it's con-
tent but as providing another chap
| ter in the record of modern art which
Mr.. Phillips is generously putting
before the Washington public this
, son.
THE presiding genius" in this
exhibition, Mr.. Phillips himself says,
! is Odilon Redon, whom he describes as
"a painter of hypnotic dreams about
ancient gods and the brief fash of
butterflies. one who waited for ghost
lly apparitions, one who chrystalliZed
the strange thoughts we associate
with Oriental religions; Mr.. Reden
certainly is one who does suggest not
a little in his painting Mystery"
the sketches made in the Orient by
John La Fargo when he, too. was
de!ving into mysticism.
| Augustus Vincent Tack. who
perhaps more than any other CO.
temporary painter has employed a
new form Of speech to render things
of beauty is represented in this ex-
hibition by THE Storm" a beautiful
piece of color and imaginative COM
position and a smaller work, Lost
Lake" in the same vein.
! Rockwell Kent is also given place
here by a characteristic little picture,
boldly rendered, one might almost
! think, with a chisel, rather than a
brush-a Mountain Lake" with snow
covered peaks cutting clear against
| the sky.
| Vincent Canade. who made his de.
but in the January exhibition. is in
Guided in the present group because
of his affinity with painters of visions
and emotional conceptions OF him
| Mr. Phillips says: He is true prim-
tive, isolated by his individuality
from the subtle and sophisticated
artists around him.
Eugene Speicher, though whole
some realist," is given place here be-
cause Mr., Phillips finds in his sculp-
turesque head of drowSy defiant
girl IAN epitome of elemental wom-
an"
Among the less we'll known ex-
| hibitors are Georgia O'Keefe, whose
"clean edges and pure colors" have
won admiration, and whose 'rarefied
art" is said to burn with a hard,
gem-like flame" Hard it certainly is,
and at the same time to the un-
| familiar eye drearily homely.
| Karl knaths' "Geranium in Win