Evening star., 1926-10-03

A(A/ ingtOn ana elsewhere SHOWS
symptoms Of reawakening.
On the calendar Of impor-
tant out-of- town exhibitions pre-emi-
nent Is the international exhibition in
Pittsburgh, which opens on the 14th
of this month, and the annual exnl.
bitions Of American paintings ana
sculpture which opens 10 days earlier
at the Art Institute Of Chicago. start
ing with these. important exhibitions
comprising the works of the leading
artists of the day will follow one an.
other in New York Philadelphia ana
other large cities until the last OF
March or the first of May.
The artists. who have been scat
tered hither and thither during the
Summer, are returning now 10 then
Winter studios, many bringing with
them the fruit of their Summers toll.
More and more the artists summer
colonies, particularly those in New
Englan New York, Pennsylvania and
far-off New Mexico, have been gaming
In popularity, and the Summer exhl-
bitions which were set forth IN QUICK
succession in August and early sep
tember have been, without exceptlon'
uncommonly successful this year.
And how many there are OF these
art centers and Summer exhibitions.
Starting at Boothbay Harbor, where
Mr.. Smell conducts Summer classes and
Edward w. Redfeld spends the warm
months, one can visit in succession
with profit Ogunquit, where Mr. Wooo.
hurry has his classes; Gloucester and
Provincetown, the largest Of the sum
mer artists colonies, the former win
two exhibiting bodies, The latter cen
tering around Hawthorne school ana
finding a public through the Province
TOT Then fheTG
are Lyme and Mystic-Lyme with Its
own art gallery beautifully designed
and appointed. 1t Is at Mystic that
Charles II. Davis paints his Summer
pictures. and at Kent, nearby, Fred
erick j. Waugh, the marine painter
is to be found.
There is a little center created by
the Berkshire School in northern
Massachusetts,. In the BerksnlreS
proper. however, both art and music
in September hold full sway, for IN
spite OF the fact that the Pittsfield
music festival has been transferred to
WASHINGTON and will be given here
gain this season this very week In
the auditorium of the Library Of Con-
gress. Mrs Frederick Shurtleff Cool
idge. that fairy godmother OF Amerl-
can composers, still draws about her
in her Pittsfield home great musicians
| whose music she shares with other
Berkshire music lovers.
At the same time at Stockbridge'
near which, at Glendale. Daniel Ches-
| ter French has his Summer studio
and home, there Is a group of accom-
plished painters and scuptors. The
| Stockbridge exhibition this year was
| most successful Over $4,000 in sales
were made. and the little catalogue
listed works Of extraordinary interest.
| among them a head by Margaret
| French Cresson of this city
Mrs Cresson, by the way. has had
a busy Summer. working on no less
| than three sculpture commissions, one
| IF them a memorial tablet for place
| nent here in the new Y. W. c. A.
5uilding.
The Summer artists colonies in New
York are at Woodstock and at Crags-
, moor; those in Pennsylvania at New
| Hope and Chester Springs, and so it
| goes.
DROBABLY the most notable event
| l. which took place during the Sum-
| mer in the field of art here was the
gift to the National Gallery of Art by
an unnamed donor Of a group of 81
portraits by John c. Johansen Of the
chief figures in the peace conference
at Paris in 1919 This group of por
traits was included in the special ex-
hibition of works by Mr.. and Mrs.
Johansen (M. Jean MacLane) held in
| the Corcoran Gallery of Art last Janu-
ary, at which time comment upon
them was made at length and much
| interest aroused.
Mr.. Johansen. it will be remembered.
| was one of the group of American
| artists sent abroad Immediately upon
the close Of the war to paint portraits
of those eminent persons who had
| taken outstanding part. To him fell
| the enormous task of painting the
peace conference as it sat. OF course.
sketches and studies without number
were made at the time through special
| permission, but in order to verify
| likeness and to make the painting his
torically as we'll as artistically correct,
Mr.. Johansen secured sittings from
each Of the participants, and it is
studies made under these circum-
stances for this end that constitute