Evening star., 1927-03-13
BY LEILA NECHLIN.

TIME exhibitions at the Arts cub
change about every fortnight
The latest showing, wnicf
4 opened a week ago and VII
continue to the end OF this
week, consists OF paintings by MISS
Hattie r. Burdette and Mrs, Mar
guerite p. Neuhauser both Washing
tonians and members of the, club.
i Miss Burdette's works are shown
downstairs. They are g in numbef
and all IN oils. Over the mantei ln
the lower living room, in the place
of honor. is hung her lately com
pleted, portrait of Mrs, Thomas r.
Bayafd. Elsewhere on the walls are
TO be seen her portraits OF Master
Charles Lippett and Miss bhzape'l' II
Clark She also shows head OF d
young girl and study of a dark.
haired woman-"BIue and Cold.
For the nrost part, however, MISS
Burdette's showing is made up OF
pictures PAINTED out -of doors ana ol
still life and flower subjects.
Among the outdoor pictures IS one
of the interior court and fountain az
the Freer Gallery. Another SHOWS a
rroup of buildings seen in The midst
OF Winter under gray sky and
light covering of snoW-1n eAceheitl
piece of WORK, sincere, SUBTLE. aanif
ably rendered. i4ef hoWef palhtihSs
a~e fresh. colurful and very charm
Ing Ano in the rendition of still life,
such for instance, as antique tea
Pot she shows extraordinary SKIN
In the Interpretation of textures ara
surface finish.
Miss Rurdette has delightful sense
of decorative values. Her painting is
sound, but never heavy; her medium
is used so well thai II does not IN
trude upon The notice of the op-
server: good craftsmanship as wen
as technical skill are evident IN hef
figure paintings, and though she is
conservative in style, her work Is
essentially up-to-date and very
charming.
MRS. NEUHAUsERs paintings
are in the upper assembly room
and library. Likewise colorful and
not very dissimilar from Miss Bar
dette's in the matter of theme-land-
scapes, flowers and still life-her
method of Interpretation is utterly
diverse. Apparently Mrs. Neuhauser
uses a palette knife rather than
brush, and lays on her pigment eX-
tremely heavily. Her surfaces are as
rugged as the face of the moon seen
through a telescope, but the effect
produced is in many instances eX-
ceedingly pleasing. u must be eX-
tremely difficult to produce works at
short range which can only be effec-
lively seen at a considerable distance,
but this feat Mrs. Neuhauser has GER
tainly achieved. Her craftsmanship
Is at times a little weak but her
manner of rendering is extremely
virile There is nothing weak about
these pictures, nothing that suggests
inexperience, timidity, indecision on
the part OF the artist Mrs. Neu-
haussrs painting u e charmingly
colorful. clean cut and effective. 1t
is an interesting showing.
w4x :
BECAUSE OF the interest shown in
the group of over-mantei decora.
tions by B. Coty Kilvert. together with
etchings by William Walcot and NAL.
colin Osborne and a tapestry by Kath-
crime Penn Crawford, which were
placed on view in the ,Dunthorne Gal
lery March l. this exhibition will be
continued through this week. tse
The over-mantel decorations consist
Va JaluLlIl5S Ol SIals, IsEnty COlOTluI
and seen through an amber haze,
which recall the splendors of com
merce in the golden days of Venice.
and are well calculated to enkindle the
imagination. They are, of course,
imaginary scenes, Mr.. Kilvert's
owns dreams of harbors in the
Caribbean Sea or in the Mediterra-
mean. They suggest to a degree the
splendor of a marine pageant and re-
call in a measure Turner and lesser
men, bringing to mind the series of
paintings shown here in the v. g.
Fischer Gallery 20 or more years ago
by a no less well known but equally
gifted painter, illustrating Wagner's
opera of "Parsifal." One can imagine
that with the right surroundings.
those of a sumptuous drawing room,
they would make genuine appeal. Be
cause they were created for such place
and TO be seen singly, they are not
seen TO the best advantage as grouped
in exhibition.
UTILLIAM WALCoT and Malcolm
= Osborne, whose etchings occupy
the upper gallery at Gordon Dun.
thorne's, are both Britishers. The
former, however, has visited the
United States, and some of the etch-
ings on view--in fact, quite number
ARE interpretations of things seen in
America, notably the skyscrapers Of
New York.
Mr.. Walcot's work is extremely deli
cate, subtle. His line is as fine at