Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-05

members The Washington Watercolor
| Club, which also exhibits annually, has
about rs members The Landscape
| Club has 40 members. The Arts Club
Of Washington has its location at the
! James Monroe house, which was nuilt
! in 1902. 1t holds exhibitions tnat
/ change every two weeks. not all OF
which are Of local work. The nemner S
meet each month at dinner calico
! the artists round table. which is
forum for comment and discussion.
/ During the Summer months many 0!
the artists leave the city to work ana
study. They go to the art colonies OF
| New England, to Ogunquit ana Pro-
vincctown. They scatter TO the Soutn
and West for specialized work. Cather-
| inc Critcher. director of the Critcner
School. is now in Arizona, painting tne
| Hopi Indians. other artists nave gone
/ to various parts of Europe. Marguerite
Mum Port, who works in watercolof
and oils, is painting old french toWIls;
Eleanor Gusts is especially interested
in italian cities. Mary Riley is paint
ing landscape in Portugal. -.
a number of the Washington artlsts
are stayinq in the city for all or part
of the Summer They may be found IN
their various studios with doors ana
windows opened wide to the breeze tnat
blows across the canVases. and ire
ouentlv with an electric fan placed
comfortably near the easel.
Some of City's Artists.
+, One Of the most widely known artists
of washington is Benson B. Moore.
Mr. Moore works in a number OF me-
dhrns He has been awarded numer-
ous prizes for his oil paintings. His
speciality in this field is Winter land
scape. He also works In watercoior.
Mr. Moore also is noted for his etch-
| inSs. He spcializes in animals ana
birds. and he has done more animal
etcninas and dry points than almost
any artist of the present time. he
Spends much of his time at the WASH
ineton Geological Gardens. studying the
animals as they move about naturally,
and making sketches. OF their dlnerent
poses.
AT present Mr. Moore is preparing
a series of dry points, etchlngs an s1
Iithooraphs for exhibition. Tney VIII
he renroductions of birds, animals and
historic places and will be exhibited al
several points in the United States soon
MIR. Moore has exhibited all over the
country. He is represented in the per-
manent collections of the Congresslonal
library. the White House and the New
York CITY Public Library. print oil
the well known King Vultures" was
exhibited in the Seconda Esposizone
Internationale dell'Incisione Moderna
Florence. and another print Of the same
etching and also one of the White
Herons" is in the permanent collection
of the Bibliotheque Rationale, Paris
the French national library.
Mr.. Moore has invented new metn-
cd Of making colored etchings. he
etches the plate with the needle, AND
makes his print. He then uses thir
sheet of celluloid to outline the design
in indelible ink. and paints in the
necessary colors in oil In this way sew
eral coIors are obtained with one print
ing instead of the usual process Of
making as many prints as there are
colorS,
Nye Is a MOdernist.
One of Washirgton's moderrsists Is
Edgar Nye. He is especially interested
in landscape and makes frequent stud
les of scenes in and about Washington
MIR. Nye's studio is in building OF ltS
own. in the garden back Of his house
1t contains several interesting canvaseS
OF city streets and houses, one OF them
an impression of Baltimore. the expires
sion Of the mental feeling that the city
leaves
Mr.. Nye has done good deal of work
In the impressionist manner But M
decided that impressionism was bltnc
alley that II had color and light bu
neglected form Form" Mr.. Nye says
lis what gives you the emotion, as in
The pictures that Mr.. Nye is doing
now are modern especially in their
'implifcation and In the use OF
geometric principles of organized de-
,icn. One Of his best pictures is of the
dew from Federal Hill. looking down or
Baltimore Harbor,
Club Limited TO Men.
An interesting development of art in
Washington is the Landscape Club
which is the only club In the city in
which the membership is limited to
men. A. H. o. Role Is president of the
Stub For the last 20 to 80 years MIR.
ROLES special interest. outside of his
necessary business activities. has been
lrt He Specializes In landscape in oil,
and occasionally does watercolor and
! ,tching He has exhibited with the
Society of Washington Artists at the
Corcoran and the National Gallery,
and with the Watercolor Club at the
| -orcoran. He has also had pictures in
| lhe Baltimore Charcoal Club exhibits.
In the New Haven and Hartford. Conn.
art clubs. and with the Landscape Club
III numerous places about the United
States
Mr.. Role believes that art In WASH
ngton Is decidedly flirthered by organi-
| sation The Society Of Washington
| Artists and the Watercolor Club hold
annual exhibitions which attract out-of-
/ Town artists and critics The Landscape
Club, In addition to holding number
II local shows each year sends pictures
/ tn out-of-town exhibitions. These
I pictures are usually made out III doors.
| md are sincere reproductions of various
| ,hases Of nature Such activities help
make Washington known aS an art
! ENTER" The circuit Of Special exhibit
J ions OF the Landscape Club includes
about 20 States. as far west as Arizona,
| as far north as Wisconsin, as far south
IS Alabama.
| Work of j. G. Hidden.
John Clarke Hidden is an outstanding
artist of Washington. He does portrait
md figure painting primarily. and oc-
1asionally landscape and sttll life MIR.
Hidden says that Still life is the one
hing that the painter does for himself
One of his portraits won the Southern
States portrait prize two years ago. The
subject is q negro girl sitting In chair
very calmly and placidly. but with an
expression OF keen mental awarenesS,
Another very fine portrait Is Of Tex
O'Reilley. the soldier Of fortune, who
has fought In every war that this coun~
try has been concerned with for long
time, as we'll as in fneia, Mexico and
China.
Mr. Hidden taught al the Rice fnSti~
ture, at Houston Tex, fnr ~ wears, IN
1924 together with an architect and an
archeologiSt, he took charge OF a group
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