Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
PRESIDENTS ART APPEAL
i APPLAUDED IN CAPITAL
leaders Stress Need of Buildings to
Attract Rich Cifts-Corcoran Gallery
Doubling Capacity.

gallery has met, with gratifying sue.
cess selling works of art from it's spe-
cial exhibitions, more than 81 900, 600
in sales having been made for artists
since the biennial exhibitions were
established in 1907. No commissions
sales.
The art school conducted in connec-
ton with the Corcoran Gallery is an
important activity In Washington art
circles and the enlarged gallery will
be of benefit to the school in so far as
having & larger variety of art helps
the student. The school. which has
an annual enrolment of from $50 to
400 pupils, charges no tuition, but
nominal entrance fee is required.
While the following resume is by
no means complete, it gives some idea
of the scope Of the Clark collection
and the enlargement it will bring to
the Corcoran Gallery.
Old Masters i'm Gift.
Paintings and Neutrality-suspicious. 200.
including many old masters, such as
Rembrandt, Titan, Van Dyke and
Murillo. OF the English schoo! there
are examples Of the work of Raeburn,
Reynolds, Gainsborough, etc. The
French are represented by Corot,
>. 4
are i6 very beautiful drawings by
Velasquez, Da Vinci and masters of
their rank
TeXtiles-There are three kinds. A
series of four Gothic tapestries is
valued at more than 81 900, 900. Then
there are four Gobelins and three
Beauvais. Between 40 and so rugs
are in the collection, including 30
Ispahan, 5 Polonais and l Damascus.
Experts say the tapestries and rugs
together are worth $4,000, 900. The
collection of laceS is both rare and
exquisite. There are so pieces of the
Italian, French and Brussel examples
of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
Furniture and ornaments The
three periods of the Empire, Louis XIV
and Louis XVI are represented. The
Louis XVI salon has ceiling "A feet
long, by Fragonard. There are 1872
antiquities OF the Grecian. Egyptian
and Etruscan schools, some dating as
far back as the twelfth century b. c.
Fatence-Three kinds. with 121
pieces, some from the Hanauer estate
in Berlin; 35 pieces of Bernard de
Palsy ware and As pieces of old Delft
ware.
Stained Glass Windows.
Two stained glass windows of the
thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, a
Gothic mantel and sculptures in mar
Bile by Rodin and Canova, among
others, complete the high spots" in
the collection.
When it is understood that the art
obtained by the gallery represents a
careful selection from the entire Clark
collection, taking the cream" the
lr1 Nd i,afn af ha rrif ovzn
greatly enhanced.
The Corcoran Gallery. open every
day in the year except Christmas and
the Fourth of July, or when special
exhibitions are being installed, at
tracts from 10000 to 1926, 200 visitors
which is considered a. large
patronage for a city the size Of Wash
ington. Tourists by the thousands
visit the gallery every year from
every State in the Union.
This is true also of the National
The number of visitors to
the gallery itself is not kept, since 1t
is in the new National Museum Build
ing, but more than 100000 visitors a
year visit the Museum building, most
Of whom also view the art collection.
Art at Library of Congress.
In the print division of the Library
Of Congress Washington has the larg-
est collection of this kind of art in
America. There are more than 400,-
600 prints on hand now end they are
increasing at the rate of Ii, 900 year.
A notable tribute to the Library of
Congress as an art center was paid by
the late Joseph Pennell, who left his
valuable collection to the Library and
bequest of about $500, 900.
The Library of Congress- further
more, is an almost unwalled store
house of the literature of art, con-
suited constantly. Any survey of the
art resources of Washington which
omitted the Library of Congress, there
fore, would be inadequate. Thousands
of visitors find the print division fas-
while art connoisseurs visit
it for more technical reasons.
Among what might be termed pri-
vate galleries in Washington is the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, which has
an important collection, including
some very modern works.
The personal side of art in Wash
ington is represented by such organ
of Washington Artists and the Wash
ington Water Color Club. They
foster public interest in and apprecia-
ton of art as well as contribute to
the professional advancement of
artists
The encouragement given to art by
President Coolidge in his message has
been received not only here, but in art
circles throughout the Nation, with
the greatest interest and with the con-
fident expectation that great impe-
tus viii be given to Washington as an
art center.