Evening star., 1927-04-24

in Mr.. Jex's work. The same may be
said of paintings by Roy Clark, Eugen
WeisZ and A. j. Schram. Others well
represented are w. Boyer Pain, Minor
s. Jameson, Tom Brown, Louis 5.
Dergans, Robert f. Cornett, Wynne
johnson, Charles Dunn. Robert Z.
Motley and William l.. Maclean. The
last exhibits, besides landscapes, a
sheet of very clever silhouettes, cut
rather than painted.
Mr.. Bush-Brown's group includes
portrait busts of Gen. Meade, Admiral
Taylor, DIR. Cowles, Henry Kirke
Brown and DIR. Harvey w. Wiley;
studies of children. book-ends, horse
and COW and his ideal statuette,
Liberty Bringing Peace" The oNhi-
bition will continue to May H..
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THE American Association of Uni.
\ versity Women has issued invita-
tions to an exhibition Of quilts by Miss
Elizabeth Wells Robertson. district
supervisor OF art in the public schools
| of Chicago, sister of Justice David
Allan Robertson of this city, to be
held in the clubrooms tomorrow
afternoon, April 25, at which time
Miss Robertson will be present and
speak informally.
Miss Robertson, it is understood.
took I'D the work of designing and
making quilts as a pasttime, enthused
by the beautiful work done in the
past by the women of this country.
The Charleston Museum, the Oldest
museum in the United States, has an.
extraordinary collection Of such.
quilts, designed, woven and stitched
by the women of the South in
Colonial days and the early days Of
the Republic. The woven ones show
beautiful repeated design and fine
craftsmanship. Those which are.
stitched are exquisite examples OF
design and needlework. Two in par
ticular. in which the designs are floral
and are appliqued, are indeed rare
works of art. That this beautiful and
useful art should have been revived
by one who so perfectly understands
the significance Of artistic design as
Miss Robertson, is indeed a matter
of congratulation.
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A DISTINGUISHED British etcher,
"a Percy Smith, visited Washing
ton during the past week. Mr..
Smith is represented in the per-
manent collection OF the Library of
Congress and other famous print col.
lections in this country and abroad.
He began etching in 1913 and was
In Bruges preparing material for
number Of plates when the war broke
out. During the war he served in the
British army at the front, and though
his work as an etcher was inter-
rupted he continued in his spare mo-
ments to make notes for future use.
These, for the making of which he
narrowly escaped court-martial, he
later developed into a series of IL
dry points which he published in
limited edition of 12 sets, of which
10 only are for sale. They are ap-
proximately 6x8 inches in size and
give the most dramatic picture of
war that has yet been presented.
They were published at the earnest
solicitation of William Rothenstein,
who has written the foreword to the
series. AS Mr.. Rothenstein has said.
"No one now wants to be reminded
of the war, but the artist does not
work to please the public. He feels
impelled to speak, whether he finds
listeners or no, OF what his eyes
and his spirit perceive. These things
are not given or withheld on account
of what the public may be assumed to
want or not to want. Nor is one
moment more propitious than an.
other. Sincerity is not likely to be
either in or out of the fashion"
What Mr.. Smith has represented is
the devastation Of war, with a sense
of the dramatic and at the same time
the picturesque. 1t is war more or less
detached from the individual who
helps to make it. It Is war as
great devastating force which blights
and mars whatever 1t touches and
leaves ruin in it's wake. Yet, despite
the tremendous dramatic element
with which the etcher had to deal,
his works are primarily OF artistic
interest. They are the works of
great artist, one who knows as well
as feels.
Among Mr.. Smiths later works is
a series of "Wuthering Heights" pic
lures of the moorlands which serve as
"Wuthering Heights and also, in.
cidentally, for the lives of the Brontes.
He has done--and some consider
these his best-two or three etchings
of mowers--three mowers on a hill
top silhouetted against the sky; three
mowers resting: and tiny little plate
Of one Of the three mowers standing
by his scythe. They are all power
full and beautiful works.
Mr.. Smith was most enthusiastic
over the beauty of Washington and
greatly impressed by the building of
our new cathedral on Mount. St. Alban,
Of which he made memoranda sketches
by the Adams Memorial by Saint-Gau-
dens, by the Lincoln Memorial and by
the setting of our city. He left here to
visit Pittsburgh. Niagara, Boston and