Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

Royal Institute of Oil Painters and is g
member of the Royal Institute of Paint
ers in Water Color and of the Roya
Society of Portrait Painters. In the
Salon DIES Artistes Francois in 1928 hi
was awarded the gold medal for hi
picture 1.-THE Door Opening Into the
Garden" showing three young men, one
silhouetted against the light, another
with an armful of lately gathered flow
ers. Among the most interesting Of
! the paintings in the exhibition at the
Yorke Gallery is an interior of the Gas
parini room of the royal palace
Madrid, showing elaboration of wall and
ceiling decoration end furniture In the
exquisite ornate style of the Renais-
sance.
Miss Lanes work is so we'll known
! that it needs no commentator or re-
mark, but it is understood that her re-
cent drawings of buildings at Princeton
and Harvard are her best and most
charming.
These exhibits will remain on view
through December /.
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THE Arts Club 2017 I street, changes
exhibits today, water colors by Clara
Dieke and designs by Miss Dieke's pupils
in the schools of Cleveland replacing
the little paintings by group of Wood
stock artists which have been on view
for nearly fortnight. Miss Dieke has
not exhibited in Washington before, and
her connection with the Cleveland
schools and the section of her pupils
works will undoubtedly prove of special
interest.
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AN interesting sculptured relief has
been placed in the Mckinley Ma
tional Birthplace Memorial, at Niles
Ohio, as gift from Secretary of Labor
James j. Davis of this city. 1t is the
work Of Louis Mayer and portrays Labor
forging the key to opportunity
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A T Gordon Dunthornes, 1926 Connec-
ticut avenue, there is now on view a
collection of exquisite reproductions OF
portraits of illustrious persons of the
court of Henry VIII by Holbein, engraved
by Bartolozzi. There has probably never
been more intimate record of per-
sonalities than this made by Holbein
court painter between the years 1921
and 1543. The originals of these works
are in Windsor Castle. Their exhibition
here and their availability through re.
IPtON0NOAOA dI1OLO Ad1C lOI
art lovers both to see and to acquire
facsimilcs of some of the greatest works
IN the history Of portraiture.
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THE Fall exhibition of the Landscape
Club of Washington which opened
| at the Mount Pleasant Branch of the
Public Library November /, to remain
until the end of the month. is pleasing
Ira nc l@A 49,
from an acquaintance with the former
displays of the same organization
| Conservatism is not only dominant bu
unanimous. There is not a picture ir
the group which could by any stretch
| OF the imagination be termed mod.
| ernistic." In this era. when our MOS
| venerable art institutions and organiza.
lions are inviting the works of mod.
erniSts and giving them highest hon.
ors, it would seem as though such
| associations as the Landscape Club
which show the type of work they
prefer without striving for variety.
are the only real independents"
Two of DR.. William H. Holmes beau.
tiful water colors, "A Maryland Mill
and Summer Clouds" are high note:
is represented by four oils. the mos
interesting, perhaps, being Winter ir
Rock Creek" study in variations Of
black and white, with rare touches Of
color in the copper of dead leaves ane
! the rainbow surface of the snow. r
! Bruce Horsfall shows two water color:
Of animal life, Rocky Mountain Goat
| and Tropical Spotted Shark" These
/ are faithful studies of the animals
shown against their respective back
| grounds of mountain crag and under
sea garden. Mr. Horsfalls painting:
Of this type are familiar to readers
of Nature and other publications
wherein they are frequently reproduce
as color plates. His equal facility ir
oil painting is apparent in two land
scapes in the current exhibition. Meal
Congressional Country Club" by j. c
Claghorn; sand Dunes. Cape Henry,
by A. H. o. Role; Summer by Roy