Evening star., 1926-05-02
News and Notes of Art and Artists
Popular Gallery be Awarded Tomorrow The Las
Echngs- School Students Visiting Artists Studios

stoned to produce the mural decora-
tions for the Pennsylvania Station,
New York, he chose for two of his
panels maps as themes.
Maps such as these early map
makers or as our later-day mural
painters have produced are genuine
works of art. appealing to the imagi-
nation, pleasing the eye, evidencing
fine craftsmanship and a real sense of
harmony and color.
The Roi Partridge etchings and the
collection of early maps will both be
on exhibition until the latter part of
this month. On June / Mr.. Dunthorne
closes his gallery here for four
months, during which time he will be
in Seattle.
TN order TO counteract the erroneous
impression of artists studios and
what transpires therein given by some
of the moving pictures of the day,
Miss Jessie L. Baker has arranged to
take the Sketch Club of Central High
School, group of 26 students, to see
several Of the studios here In Wash
ington. The artists have very gen.
erously given cooperation. not only
opening their studios but meeting the
students and talking with them on
subjects pertaining to art. The first
visit was to the studios of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bush Brown. Many Of the stu
dents In this little art club had never
visited a sculptor's studio before, and
they could not have, had better op.
portunity for first acquaintance than
in the studio of our gifted local sculp-
tor. Mr.. Bush Brown explained TO the
students how work in sculpture is
made. Mrs. Bush Brown. when her
upper studio was visited, talked with
them on the subject of portrait paint
ing.
The second visit was to the studio
of Eben Conins. Mr.. Comins had a
| model and painted before the stu
dents. He also gave them a brief talk
on Chinese painting. of which he has
| lately acquired several choice exam
! pies. Later visits will be paid TO the
studios OF Miss Critcher and Mrs. Lei
senring. 1t is planned that one visit
will be made a week during the re
mainder of the school year.
| Through arrangement with Miss
Baker, the exhibition Of etchings anC
drawings by Thomas Handforth
which was recently shown at the Arts
! Club of Washington, is temporarily oil
view at the Central High School.
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IHE art season and the scholastic
year are drawing TO close, con
! sequently exhibitions OF school work
are being organized and set forth ano
! notices sent out of Summer classes il
art
! At the Arts Club during the past
week there has been on exhibition III
: interesting collection of the work OF
/ students of the National School ot
| Fine and Applied Art. directed by Fe
| liX Mahoney. This school specialiZes
| in the sO-called commercial art-art
/ for advertising, costume design, inte
rior decoration. following closely along
/ the lines of the New York School ot
Fine and Applied Art. of which Franl,
, Alvah Parsons is director. Mr.. Ma
/ honey has made a careful study Of The
| Hambidge system of dynamic sym
metry. and in his teaching makes us,
Of it. also OF we'll worked out color
scale. The results are quite surpris
| ing.
| The Abbott School. Of which Mis-:
| Anne +. Abbott is director. 1923
| street. will have its Spring exhibition
| this week, opening this afternoon Will