Evening star., 1926-09-27
EMINENT ARTISTS
VISITING CAPITAL
Distinguished American and
European Painters View
Galleries Here.

An international group, of distin-
gushed artists arrived i'm Washington
this morning on three-day visit to-
the art galleries and public buildings
of the Capital. They are Charles
Sims. keeper of the Royal Academy.
London: Pierre Bonnard. modernist
French painter: Giovanni Romagnoli.
head of the art department of the
University of Bologna. Italy: Homer
Saint -Gaudens. director Of the fine
arts department of Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh. and Guillaume Lerolle,
European representative of the Carne-
gle Institute.
Sims. Bonnard and Romagnoli, who
have been serving on the jury of
awards prior to the opening of the
twenty fifth international exhibition
at the Carnegie Institute, October Ia.
together with Saint-GaudenS and
I.erolle. were the guests at luncheon
today of Secretary Mellon at his resi-
dence. where they viewed his famous
collection of paintings. The American
Federation of Arts will entertain the
visitors at tea this afternoon in the
Octagon House. and a dinner will he
given tonight in their honor at the
Chevy Chase Club, where they are
staying.
VIII ISL MOum vernon.
The artists will lunch tomorrow at
historic Gunston Hall. in Virginia,
and will afterward visit Mount Yer
non. The sightseeing itinerary We'd
nesday will include the Corcoran.
F'reer and National Galleries. the Cap
itol. Arlington Cemetery and the
Adams statue in Rock Creek Park.
They will 60 to Philadelphia Thurs
day to see the Joseph r. Widener art
collection. They have already visited
the points of interest in New York,
Chicago and Cleveland, also in Pitts
burgh. where they Judged the exhibi-
tion entries from ii countries.
Bonnard will sail home on Saturday;
Sims will stap in New York for a
while to paint and ROmagnOli is going
to teach for time at the Carnegie
Institute. The Pittsburgh exhibition
awards will be announced October | 4
Sims. prominent member of the
Royal Academy, ranks with the noted
McEvoy in pOrtraiture. which remains
the hest form of British art Sims
recent portrait of King George. clad
in knee breeches. caused a storm
of controversy in England. and the
canvas is now rolled up in his studio
awaiting the ascent to the throne of
another monarch.
Others, Also Eminent.
Pierre Bonnard. colleague of
Denis and WILLARD, represents the
mildly modernistic tendencies in
French art. A fine example of his
work hangs in the Phillips Gallery
in this city. which the artists will
visit this afternoon. He is an un-
questioned leader among French
painters, especially in the depletion
Of interiors and figures and the inter.
relation of colors and patterns.
ROmagnOli is brilliant painter. as
evidenced by the fact that an entire
room was devoted to his work at the
last Venetian international exhibition.
Together with Gaudenzi, he repre-
sented the younger school of Italia n
academic art az opposed to the adj
vanced school Of painting. He special
ICES in nudes. done somewhat after
the Zornf manner.
sculptor. Augustus Saint Ga udens,
who is acting as host to- the artists,
considers the Shaw memorial in Bos-
| ton. the Lincoln statue In Chicago,
and the monument in Rock Creek
Cemetery. depicting Grief. the hest ex-
ampleS of his fathers work. IIerolle,
who arranses to bring noted foreign
! paintings over to the United States
| for exhibition at the Cargnegie In
stitute. is a son of the we'll known
French painter, Henri Leroile