Evening star., 1926-04-04
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
The Notable Exhibition of Co temporary American Painting
Importance Of the Corcoran Gallerys Showing-The
Artists and Their Work.

one will want to return again and
| again
The third Clark prize and the
| Corcoran bronze medal went to
Adolphe Borie, gifted painter OF
| Philadelphia, for a nude, well done
| but extremely unattractive. Here is
where the Judgment of artist and lay
| man parts. The artist. knowing the
difficulty. rewards success; the lay
man, ignorant of technique, judges by
result alone.
The fourth award, as has already
| been said went to Abram Poole S
| unique painting, THE Spanish Sis
ters." a huge canvas, smoothly rem
dered and somewhat reminiscent Of
Victorian days.
1t must be remembered that many
paintings were not eligible for awards.
and the findings of the jury, therefore
while significant, should not be re-
garded as restrictive.
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THE first picture sold from this ex-
hibition was one of pair by Rob
ert Spencer, a member of the jury and
therefore not a competitor for honors.
These two pictures, both OF common
place buildings made beautiful through
glamour of sunlight through atmos-
phere, the introduction of human
life, have been hung to the right and
the left of MIR. Mercheres' portrait -
Mrs. Garrett The one to the <eit.
ship Chafldler's Row" was pur-
chased before the exhibition opened.
, Both are supreme works of art.
In this same gallery hangs charm
ing Winter picture by Edward w.
Redfield, an original landscape COM
position by Joseph 7. Pearson, an
arched bridge silhouetted against a
broad, open sky; notable still life by
Emil Carlson, a marine by Paul
Dougherty; a landscape, THE Hay
stack" by Charles Ebert of Lyme,
Conn, which recalls the best of the
French impressionists' works and is
delightful in the matter of color ana
atmospheric Interpretation. Here. too,
hangs Augustus Vincent Tack's por-
trait of Duncan Phillips, painted Tor
the Phillips Memorial Gallery-an un-
usual work in portraiture; Giuseppe
Trotta's admirable portrait of himsef,
painted in the style of the great ira
dition; besides Marie Danforth Page
group portrait of three young girls,
and Richard S. Meryman's portrait
OF Mrs. Frank B. Hayne, to mention
only few.
No less than IS local artists are rep
resented in this eXhibition-an ex-
traordinarily large and strong repre-
sentation.
Mr.. Meryman shows two portraits,
the one already mentioned and an
other OF Mr. Eugen Weisz, his pupil,
who himself shows two notable figure
paintings, large canvas OF two
hockey players and of a mulatto girl
with jug.
Burtis Baker makes excellent show
Ing in a portrait of Miss H." which
has great distinction of style and
charm of design; a still life and a
nude.
William II. Holmes, the director of
the National Gallery of Art and the
president of the Society of Washing
ton Artists. is represented by lovely
MARYLAND landscape and a charming
picture of a woodland brook.
Mrs Bush-Brown shows portrait
entitled La Penserosa," one of the
most subtle and best works that she
has produced.
Miss Ellen Day Hale shows figure
study. 1.-The Fashion of 1899; Miss
Gabrielle Clements a well painted
portrait, Miss Sarah Munroe pic
ture entitled "A Bird and a Bowl. y
in profile, brilliant piece of paint
ing, lovely in color, artistic in han
dling--a work which lends distinction
in itself.
Miss Critcher is again represented
by an Indian subject, but one less
important than her showing of two
years ago. Cameron Burnside shows
a characteristic French scene. well
rendered.
Sarah NJ. Baker, Garnet w. Jex,
Wynne Johnson. Edgar Nye, Mary
G.. Riley and Elsie Brooks Snowden
are all well represented.
Mrs. Duncan Phillips, who has
been holding an exhibition at the
Durand.Ruel Galleries, New York.
and a group of whose works are now
OF exhibition in the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, has contributed to this eXhi-
bition a landscape painted in the
Pennsylvania hills, showing a pano-
ramic view of open country, in which
rhythmic line and balance of compost
ton, as well as restrained color, con-
tribute to a pleasingly decorative eff
feet, a work realistic and convincing.
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THERE are two charming land
scapes in this exhibition by Bruce
Crane, and there are marines by
Woodbury.. Ritschel, Sherman and
Waugh. Mr. Waugh, who is painter
Of figures as well as of marines, his
toric subjects, boats and landscapes,
has adventured into a new field and
is represented by a most delightful
painting Of "Tiger Lilies and
"Thistles."
There are two charming figure
paintings by Mrs. Lillian Westcott
Hale, one of little girl and doll,
entitled Nancy and the Map of Eu-
rope" the other a portrait of a young
girl, Penelope" very simply, direct
ly and artistically rendered.
Helen NJ. Turner is represented by
two portrait works, one a double por-
trait of TWO young girls, the other
standing portrait of Ann Spencer. ="
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