Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-06

place of honor is given to landscape
by Bonnartl. who Mr.. Phillips con-
S.ders one of the greatest living paint
ers of our day. In Bonnard he sees
an affinity to De Busy. Both. he
claims, are masters of naunce, links
between the old and the new in music
and painting. The lately acquired
still life with flowers by Matisse. hung
to the right, lends gay color. as does a
figure paintings girl in red dress
with a dark dog, by Bonnard----hung
to the left.
An entirely different atmosphere
prevails in the little gallery, which
contains an amazing amount of love-
illness in its small space--such mas
terly paintings. for instance, as Fan
tin Latours beautiful, but essential
~ traditional. portrait of "Mademoi-
selle Sonia" and ]. Alden Weir's pic
ture, knitting for Soldiers" There
is a lovely little Dewing here. Pan
DORA" and a charming interior with
figures by Helen Turner. Every way
ones eye turns there is something
beautiful. But the gem of the whole
collection, the surprise, that which
carries ore completely of ones feet
through inherent and unspeakable
beauty. is a lately acquired portrait
head by George Fuller, cotem-
poIary of Inness and La Fargo and
Thayer and Dewing and those other
great American artists, who through
their works. have added beauty to
our own world and reputation to our
country Works by George Fuller
are included in some of the leading
art museums of this country-prized
possessions, but none that the writer
has seen is as fine or as mastery as
this sensitively and sympathetically
painted young woman's head. Not
only the Phillips Memorial Gallery,
but Washington, Is to be congratu-
lated that ii has come here to stay.
This gives but summary account
of this notable exhibition, but as 1t
has just opened and will continue for
four weeks, ample opportunity will
be provided and taken advantage of
later for fuller description and dis
cussion.
A T the Dunthorne Gallery an ex-
tremely pleasing and appealing
exhibition of oil paintings by Lila
Cabot Perry opened last week and
will not close until next Saturday.
Mrs. Perry is perhaps better known
as painter of figures than as a
painter of landscapes, but the pres
ent showing is chiefly made up Of
the latter, a single exception being
portrait of little girl, Hide
garde." very sympathetically render
ed. Quite a number of the subjects
set forth were painted during the
past year in the neighborhood of Mrs.
Perry's country home at Hancock,
n. II. One of these is a Winter
scene--a little cabin set on a hillside
among leafless trees. the ground
snow-covered, the title appropriately,
"A Snowy Monday" Smoke comes
hangs out. There is a lovely Spring
picture in the collection chiefly fea-
turing blossoming crabapple trees.
Mrs. Perry's style is little that of
the French impressionists. She has
undoubtedly taken her cue from Mo-
net. whom she knew intimately, and
she has in her paintings not little
of his stylistic quality. Furthermore,
she uses fresh, fine color. She is OBJ
viously a lover of nature as we'll as a
lover of art, and one who has studied
nature in its many moods.
Among the pictures in this exhibit
ton are three or four painted in ia
pan. One is a view of "Fuji from
"Theater Posters, Ikao, JAPAN" and
a third, Full" just Full.
Three of the paintings in this ex-
hibition were purchased as soon as 1t
opened, one by the Countess Sczhenyi,
one by Mrs. Marshall Field and one
by Mrs. Perry Belmont.
Mrs. Perry has just held an exhibit
ton of her works in the galleries of
the Guild of Boston Artists, of which
she is secretary, on which the critic
of the Boston Transcript made the
following excellent comment: zone
can but admire he said, "the sus-
tanned interest displayed in her art
by the exhibitor, ever able to assem-
BILE at short notice a considerable ar
ray of canvases, a large proportion of
which has never been shown before.
Nature seems continuously to present
new aspects, which to her. have real
pictorial interest and are accordingly
transposed onto canvas with remark
able facility. Heroic under in
clement conditions has been the art
lists devotion to her native landscape;
the painting which remains most
clearly fixed in the mind shows a cot
tage blanketed with snow and backed
with slim trees which rise dark and
sentinel-like toward the sky. 1t is
one of Mrs. Perry's latest paintings
and is one of her most crisp and in.
cisive endeavors' The painting re-
ferred to is undoubtedly "a Snowy
Monday" on which comment was
made above.
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I UNUSUAL success has attended the
exhibition of Miss Marian Lanes
pencil drawings of Washington, water
colors, illiminations and book bindings
now in progress at the Dunthorne
Galleries. Miss Lane has chosen
wisely in the matter of subject, and
demonstrates the picturesque quality
in those buildings which many of us
pass unnoted day after day. Among
her water colors is one of group
of houses in Bruges which is particu-
larly significant, as are a number of