Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Comprehensive Exhibition of Bensons Work View the
Capital-Portrats of the Presidents-News Of
Artist Colony.

promptu." which makes special ap-
peal in Mr.. Benson's plates.
1t is an amazement to find how low
| many of these etchings are priced
figures which place them well within
the reach of those of moderate means.
This is indeed most enjoyable and
impressive exhibition.
X X X
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art owns
n a collection of portraits of the
Presidents of the United States which
for some years now, owing to limita-
lions of space. has not been on view.
During the past week these portraits
have been generously distributed
among the schools of Washington,
and so have again come to view. Two
copies of portraits of George Washing
ton and his wife. Martha Washington,
by Gilbert Stuart. made b" G. p. A.
Healy. have been appropriately lent to
the George Washington University
and hung in Corcoran Hail. The other
portraits, beginning with John Adams
and ending with President Mckinley,
have each been lent to the school
named in honor of the President repre-
scented. All are said to be excellent
likenesses, Were thought sufficiently
good to be included in the Corcoran
Gallerys permanent collection and are
we'll framed.
OF the "a t25, including the portrait
of Martha Washington, II were paint
ed by Healy, being copies of the
works of others. II original works.
George Peter Alexander Healy was
born in Boston, in July. 1913, and died
in Chicago, ILL.,, as late as 1894. AT
the age of Is he is said to have begun
Il 1t
of all who could be persuaded to sit
for him. His first successful achieve
ment was a copy of a painting by
Guido REM. "Ecce Homo" which was
purchased by priest and placed in
church. In 1896 he went to Paris and
studied. in 1858 he was in Chicago, in
1859 he revisited Europe, and resided
for some years in Rome. While there
he painted portraits of Longfellow,
Pope Plus TX, the Princess Gutenberg
and other distinguished persons. The
number of his portraits is almost
countless. Among them may be men,
toned those of Louis Philippe, Guizot.
Gambetta. Webster, Clay, Lincoln and
Grant. He is represented by works in
the City Hall, New York: the Metro
politan Museum, the Pennsylvania
Academy and other collections. At
his best, it is said. his heads are
strong. dignified and characteristic.
He also produced a number of large
historical pictures. for example,
Franklin Before Louis XVI" which
won a third class medal at the Paris
Salon in 1910; and his "Webster's Re-
ply to Hayne," which now hangs in
Faneuil Hall, Boston. He was a good,
sound. but not brilliant painter.
The portraits of Presidents William
l..
Rutherford B. Hayes are all by
Eliphalet F. Andrews, who for IS
years was director of the Corcoran
School of Art, OF which he was the
organizer. Mr.. Andrews was born
in Steubenville. Ohio, in 1885; studied
at the Dusseldorf Academy and un-
der Knaus and Bonnat. the latter in
Paris. His portrait Of Martha WASH
ington hangs in the White House
His work was in the style of the
academicians of the Dusseldorf
school-strong, virile and workman
like.
The portrait of Grant is by Henry
like and the portrait of Cleveland
at one time numbered among our
Washington artists. Mr.. like studied
in Berlin, Mr. Uhle in Paris.
The portraits Of Presidents Garfield,
Benjamin Harrison and William Nc
Kinley are by William T. Mathews.
who was born in England in 1921 and
died in Washington in 1905. He
studied at the National Academy of
Design in New York and was por-
trait painter of more than ordinary
ability.
1t would be we'll If other institu-
tons like the Corcoran Gallery would
"A I'll aYhihifa
placing them in the schools on indefl-
mite loan rather than leaving them in
storage, profiting none.
II
WORD was received in Washington
w last week that the gold medal
award of 800 in the annual exhibit
ton of the fellowship of the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts was
won by Sarah Baker at one time
4 student at the Corcoran School of
Art for a self-portrait. Miss Baker
won the Cresson travelling scholarship
rom the Pennsylvania Academy and
is one of the group of talented
younger painters.
The fellowship exhibition opened on
February 10 in the galleries of the
Sketch Club, Philadelphia. About 100
artists contributed works.
X
THE Washington Chamber Of Com
merce will hold its second annual
industrial exposition in the Washing
ton Auditorium from March 4 to Is
and has again generously set aside
adequate space for an exhibit of paint
ings. works in sculpture and other
mediums by local artists. The exhibit
will he shown under the auspices of
the Society of Washington Artists,
assisted by the Landscape Club. the
X Painters and the Washington
Water Color Club. The committee In
charge comprises TheophiluS Parsons,
Cameron Burnside and Dorsey Doni-
phan.
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DHILIP DE LASZLO is in Wash
ington painting portraits of Mrs.
Coolidge. Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Ander-
son, Miss Mellon and others. Mrs. de
Laszlo has returned to England and
Mr.. de Laszlo is soon to follow.
While in New York Mr.. de Laszlo
occupied studio on West Sixty
seventh street and executed a num-
Der of important commissions. He
has, in fact. been kept increasingly