Evening star., 1926-11-21
BY LEILA MECHLIN.
NOTABLE addition has been
made to the Washington art.

Il n Louise Crow, former pupil
of William M. Chase and
Prank Duveneck, who. after living
several years at Santa Fe, n. Mex,
and later abroad. has taken up her
residence here and opened a studio at
1922 street.
Miss Crow Is a native OF Seattle, but
she is essentially cosmopolitan. She
10 equally at home on the Western
plains and in the heart Of Rome or on
the boulevards of Paris. She has ex.
hfbfted in the Salon and received high
commentator from the French crit.
4as for her portrait of an Indian In
bis war paint, and for her interpreta'
ton of our far Western scenery. In
quite the same spirit and broad man
ner she has painted the peasant
women of Tuscany and the Alban hills.
That she has been influenced by the
modernist movement her paintings
testify, but that she has interpreted
this movement with extreme sanity
is also to be remarked. or Goya' s
works she has made q special study,
and in them she has found abiding
Inspiration. She does not restrict her.
self either to one theme or to one
style. In her studio now are to be
seen portraits Of members Of her fam.
fly, painted with suavity and reti-
cence; portrait studies of Italian and
AtIuldH SUBJECTS DOIOly SCI lOi Ihs l0ItO'
scapes and pictures of the DolOmiteS,
showing in their composition and rem
dering extreme simplification, placing
emphasis on design, and still life sub
jects full of rich, juicy color, such as
her one.time master, William NJ.
Chase, would have loved.
In February Miss Crow is to have q
man" exhibition at the Ainslee
Gallery in New York, and in prepara.
lion for this she Is at present busily
engaged.
Miss Crow has had the qualification
Of securing the hearty approval of
hose scholars and critics who are best
acquainted with the great Southwest
md its arr. Marsden Hartley says of
Ter paintings made in the region: RE
;arding the Southwest of America
specifically, 1t is gratifying that there
IRE tendencies appearing which at least
Indicate. on the part of certain paint
rs, the desire to think and feel in
erms Of the subject. and of them
elves. ! hope that my earnestness
will be accepted in these terms when
t. say that Carlos Vierra and Louise
row present me with genuine indi-
ations Of personal approach to the
iubjects in hand. Until the artists
Who come to New Mexico take upon
themselves this esthetic sincerity
mere IS MUS nope OJ GTrlVluE dt al
Lrt expression which will be in any
way expressive of the facts in hand.
The war has accomplished
his for the painter. it has demanded
originality Of him. 1t has sent him
pack to his own soil to ponder and
'eadjust himself to a conviction of his
)wn and an esthetic of his own"
1t is particularly interesting to note
hat these same qualities which give
yQlNe n har nafNfinoG nf tho Snnfh n.
vest are TO be found in her paintings
made in Italy. In a completely differ
IN atmosphere. But, after all, 1t is
aot the subject which signifies; 1t is
The way it is rendered.
In Rome Miss Crow lived and paint.
I'D on the same street, close under the
Pincian Hill, where Elihu Vedders
studio once was. and where. in fact,
the artists conSregate, and where
Monday mornings the models troop,
seeking employment. THE Italians" 1"
she says, were not interested in my
Indians, whereas the French were in
tensely so. The French were more
open to in9ovation; the Italians still
more conservative.
Miss Crow comes Of a talented fam
ily. One OF her sisters is musician,
another is the wise of John w. Wink.
Ter. one OF the foremost of our Amer.
lean etcherS. member of the Califor-
MIA Print Makers Society. but for long
resident in Paris.
A MOTHER gifted artist who has
"a won for herself a place In the
art world. Margaret Fitzhugh Browne
of Boston, is in Washington at pres
ant painting a portrait of Senator
Borah. the COrcoran Gallery or Art
landing its hO9 r1ronYl1 aS q fNfNnOr1rV
studio.
Miss Browne is the great-grand-
daughter of the late Gen. and Mrs.
Maynadier. and she has. therefore,
many connections in this city She
is, however New Englander. a prod
uct of the Boston ART schools--the
Massachusetts Normal Art School,
where she was pupil OF Richard An.
drew, Albert Munsell and Joseph de
Camp, and the Boston Museum School.
where she studied under Frank w.
Benson. She has Fenway Studio
in Boston and a Summer workshop
at AnnisQuam, and among her sitterS
have been not few whose names are
we'll known IN social and official life.
She has been represented. and we'll,
in the last two or three biennial exhi.
billions held by the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, and those who visited these ex-
CdnllOt loll ~ ICCfAh 1lcT fAht
Students" and Summer Girl" One
of her most interesting canvases is
portrait study Of an old man, THE
Chess PLAYER" with spectacled eyes
looking down and right hand per.
plexedly pulling his beard while he
ponders the next move.
As cotemporary writer has said,
commenting on Miss Brownies "one-
man.. show at the Ferargil Galleries
wear before last. Her portraits are
unconventionally posed and in their
surroundings and accessories are evi'
IDENTIFY composed so as to present the
individuality of their subjects. Her
figure studies are the exposition OF a
definite idea without being too anec.
dotal." One finds in Miss Brownies
work the intellectual quality Of New
England combined with the freedom
Of technique which belongs to the
present day.
Miss Browne also Is to exhibit a col
lection of her paintings at the Ains!ee
Gallery, New York. beginning Decem.
Der /.
Drank GARDINER HALE. master
l. craftsman and medalist OF the
Boston Society Of Arts and Crafts, VIII
hold an exhibition and sale OF his
hand.wrought jewelry and enameis al
Jane Bartlett's from November ~
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