Evening star., 1926-04-11
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
The Art Season Reaches It's Height Washngton-The vari
Gus Exhibitions-Works Of the Leading Water
Colorsts-Etchings View

| painters works or has worked in his
| own individual way, but all have
recognized and adhered to the Pc
| culiar attributes of the medium.
| The majority of the Pennell water
colors. of which there are 81, were
| painted from the artists window in
| the Hotel Margaret, Brooklyn. and
| give glimpses of New York and the
| New Jersey shore seen across New
| York Harbor and the East River, the
| amazing beauty of which has en-
| thralled the painter. They are essen
| TALLY Impressions, swiftly and skill
| fully rendered, impressions of light
and shade, of mist and fog, Of sun.
rise and sunset, Of night time, the
fairy lights twinkling out from high
buildings and moving boats. They
are in the spirit of Whistler. but
not at all in his style, and they mani
fest essentially the meaning of the
| artists vision, the artists power to
see and interpret beauty.
The five water colors by Norman
Wilkinson share some of these quail
ties. but are done more In the Eng
lish style, showing a little more pre-
cision. a little more definiteness in
treatment. One, 1.-The Mid.Atlantic,"
is a superb Interpretation of the
loveliness Of the unmeasured sea in
one of its happiest moods, but the
entire group Is appealing.
Mr.. WilkinSon'S water colors are IN
cidental to a more impressive and
arger showing of his etchings and dry
points. Some of these are of fishing
subjects, chiefly salmon fishing in
Scotland, and recall a little Benson's
sportsman's prints. Mr.. Wilkinson
makes greater use, however, of strong
black and sometimes attains the vel
vetyneSsz of quality that is seen in
Cameron's etchings at their best.
Occasionally his blacks, however, seem
little dense and out of scale. but
this is indeed small fault among
many virtues.
Norman Wilkinson has been paint
ing for a number of years and has
made speciality of marine subjects.
During the late war he went to Gallip-
oil as official artist, after which he
was employed by the admiralty in de-
signing the camouflage of ships. In
the pursuit of this work he came to
the United States for brief visit. He
is now planning to come again, this
time on an essentially peaceful mis-
sion, to make series of plates illus
trating American fishing. He did not
take up etching until after the war,
but he met with immediate success.
The astute collector will find it diff
cult to pass his work by.
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II K. BUSH-BROWN has just com.
AA' pleted an excellent portrait bust
of Dr. Harvey Wiley. 1t was made
from sittings during noon hours and
is not only good likeness but spirited
and vital.
Mrs. Bush-Brown has Just finished
painting an excellent portrait of Gen.
Glennan, which was ordered by the
graduate nurses of Walter Reed Hos
pital, with which Glennan has for
long been connected.s The portrait is
to hang in the hospital. 1t is an excel
lent work in portraiture.
DIAMOND Crosby, well-known for
~ his illustrative drawings for Life
and other periodicals, has been spend
ing some time in Washington. work
ing in Mrs. Bush.Brown's studio. He
has drawn in charcoal an engaging
double portrait of Mr.. and Mrs. Bush
Brown, which is sprightly in manner
and distinctly personal as we'll as
true to life.
ERCOLE CARTOTTO, who had an
- exhibition of silver point portraits
in Washington last Fall, is returning
to the city shortly to paint a por
trait of President Coolidge for the
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, the
President having agreed to give the
artist sittings. Mr.. Cartotto has
spent the Winter in Miami.
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EBEN COMINS, after having been
- in California all the Winter has
returned to his Washington studio
and will show this afternoon to a
group of friends informally some of
the portrait commissions which he
has executed out there.
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4 BRAZILIAN painter of distinc-
ton, Decio Eillares of Rio de
Janeiro, is exhibiting under distin-
guished auspices a collection of his
paintings at the MayfloWer Hotel.
Mr. Villares is making his first visit
to the United States.
A writer in the Bulletin of the
Pan American Union says: 1T is a
matter of keen regret to all Pan
Americanists that. because of lack OF
exact data and the misunderstand-
ings and delay due thereto. this
Brazilian masters work could not