Evening star., 1928-05-27
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Contemporary French Prints Now View at the Library of
Consress-Exhbition at the Arts Club Is
Attracting Attention.

! Groom, of Mime de Lagnel will be un-
veiled with appropriate ceremony. The
| exhibition will continue for week ano
be open to the public daily in the after
moons,
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MISS ETHEL FOSTER has removed
ANA her studio from H street, neal
Lafayette Square. to her home 10 lows
circle. She expects to remain in wash
ingtcn during The Summer and Will con-
duct classes in design. color and draw
ing in pen and ink as we'll as poster
work.
Miss Foster has been for a number
of years in charge of the art depart
rent of Western High School and is a
successful teacher
THE Abbott School of Fine and Com.
mercial Art will hold its annual eX-
hbition from today through the coming
week open to the public during school
hours and from to pm. on Sundays
Numerous prizes have been awarded
as follows: Portrait. scholarship. Miss
Esther Hall: illustration, scholarship, q
II. Streeter; water color. scholarship
ton, scholarship. Elizabeth Mattern;
commeciRl illustration. pen and ink
Eleanor Browning; color illustration
Katherin McGill. Other prizes will be
awarded in textile design, costume de-
sign. teacher training and children'S
class.
HENRY B. SMELL. who has been
Il III e. al
class in Washington this Winter. which
has met at the Abbott School, will give
one more criticism early in June, and in
July will take q class to Portugal, SAIL
ing on the ID and returning in Septem-
her. The headquarters of the class will
be historic Cintra. but opportunity will
be given to visit the Alhambra. the gall
leries at Seville and the Prado at
Madrid. It is gratifying TO hear that
MIR. Smell will continue the monthly
professional criticisms at the AbbcI~
School next Fall. There Is no better
teacher of landscape painting for pro-
fessionals nor one more experienced.
THE director of the National Gallery
~ of Art hes announced that the
National Gallery of Art is seeking to
discover unlisted paintings of America s
most distinguished miniature painter,
Edward Greene Malbone l777-l801
Some $50 Of Malbone's works are known
at present. While he was active only
for the short space of ~ years. yet he
was constantly employed. and must. 1t
is believed, have painted from 300 To
500 pictures during that time.
Malbone was born in Newport. r, I.
He achieved his first success in painting
raj 10 fYA
he was but II years of age. The year
1896 found him in Boston increasing his
reputation, and year later he en-
oarked on pilgrimage down the Allan
tic seaboard TO New York Philadelphia
and Charleston, painting as he went.
Six months were spent abroad In 1901.
The subsequent years until his death in
1907 were fully occupied by commissions
In all the large cities of the East, the
Winters being spent in Charleston the
Summers in the North.
The National Gallery Of Art is plan
ming to hold an exhibition of Malbone's s
miniatures and other works of art In
the coming Fall or Winter. 1t is hoped
that owners of works by this master
VIII communicate with the gallery In
order that the record Of his paintings
may be made as complete as possible.
EELICIE WALDO HOWELL. formerly
OF this city, now of New York, an
nounces a Summer painting class from
July to August "a, at East Gloucester,
Mass.
THE National School Of Fine and Ap-
piled Art. which has had an enroll
ment during the past season OF 300
students from almost every State In the
Union, win hold its annual students
exhibition, beginning today and con-
tinuiug through May 81 An invitation
has been extended to the public by the
director OF the school, Felix Mahony. to
visit this exhibition between the hours
OF 10 am. and 10 pm. Mr.. Mahony
announces that the school will award a
scholarship for the term OF l926-2o 10
q student OF each OF the public high
schools OF the District of Columbia.
The annual students exhibition Of
the Corcorsn School Of Art opens
today. TO continue throughout the pres
ent week. Announcement of awards
therein viii be made tomorrow In the
news columns
The Phillips Memorial Gallery is open
this afternoon and will be open on
Tuesday afternoon. closing the following
day for the season.