Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

w YITH the end of May the
NA| art season draws to a
wv close. The Corcoran Schoo
Y of Art holds its annual eX
hibition of stuael.ts' work ir
Corcoran Gallery this week opening to-
morrow, when announcement OF
awards will be made. The Abbott
School of Fine and Commercial Art
will hold it's annual exhibition in its
new school rooms, 1924 H street, June
3. and 5. The National School of
4 Fine and Applied Arts. the Critcher
| School, the Burnside School are all
4 closing. The artists are preparing to
. leave the city for Summer studios or
. travel.
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TAT the Arts Club, 2017 1 street.
there will be opened this afternoon
a Summer exhibition of paintings and
works in sculpture by members Of the
club. This exhibition will remain ur1.
til September
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DURING the Summer the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art, the Freer Gallery,
/ the National Gallery of Art in the Ma.
tional Museum, will be open to visitors
but no special exhibitions will be put
on.
Work on the additions to the Cor.
coran Gallery of Art purposed to house
the w. A Clark collection and special
exhibits is progressing rapidly, and it
is hoped that these additions will be
completed by late Autumn when in
stallation will begin. .
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|NTR. Bush Brown has just presented
A'A to the National Museum a num-
ber of original casts Of his works, the
working models for his equestrian
statue of Anthony Wayne at. Valley
Forge, Of his Cen. John Sedgwick,
Connecticut; a life-sized bust of Gen.
G. G. Meade, made as study for the
equestrian at Gettysburg; a life-size
bust of Gen. John Fulton Reynolds,
likewise a study for an equestrian
statue at Gettysburg; portrait heads
of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles and Gen. Da-
vid Men. Gregg; bust of DR.. A. w.
Cowles, president of Elmira Women's
College, of which the bronze has been
placed; bust of Admiral Harry Tay-
lor and bust of Henry Kirk Brown,
the bronze of which is in the Hall of
Fame of the University of New York.
The portrait bust, which Mr.. Bush
Brown did some time ago of DIR. Wiley
4 is being presented by DR.. Wiley to
his alma mater, Hanover College, at
Madison, Ind, which is about to cele-
brate its hundredth anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bush Brown have a
|Summer home in Pennsylvania where
they will probably spend the greater
part Of the vacation days.
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|EBEN F. COMINS will shortly close
~ his studio in this city and go to
New Haven, where he is to paint a
Prof Charles Sheldon Hastings,
IPh. B., which is to hang in the great
hall Of Yale University. When this
commission is completed he will con-
5tinue north for the Summer again,
occupying a studio at Gloucester.
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MRS. w. PENN CRESSON has
AsA completed a bronze tablet in
memory of William E. Baker for the
new Y. w. c. A. Building in this city
and. closing her studio here, has gone
to Glendale, Mass, where she has
Summer home on the estate Of her
father, Daniel Chester French,
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miss ELIZABETH SAWTELLE
has closed her Washington
studio and motored to Ogunquit,
Me-, where she and her mother have
h Summer home.
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WALDO HOWELL, for
merly of this city, now Of New
York, is spending a short time in
Italy prior to opening her Summer
school at Rocky Neck. Gloucester.
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MIR. AND MRS. CAMERON BURN
W. SIDE are going back to France
next month with the expectation Of
remaining abroad some years. Mr..
Burnside is to hold an exhibition, by
special invitation, in one Of the lead
ing galleries Of Paris in the early
Fall, and he and Mrs. Burnside have
many friends and patrons among the
French artists and art lovers. The
Burnside School is being taken over
by Miss Lucia Hollerith. in whose