Evening star., 1928-04-01
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Exhibitions in Commercial abshments Promise New Guilt
vation of Public Taste-Work of Independent Ar
fists Shown-News From Art Galleries.

! Miner Jameson: still life by Mar
! guerite Munn and strongly rendered
| figure study. The One-Eyed Man" by
Grace Turnbull. witness to the painters
competence; but In most instances the
wlldneSs of the extremists Is equally eS
| inartistic as the weakness of the ira
ditionalists 1t Is Just bad art, and that
is all there Is to say about It, Possibly
tho artists may profit by opportunity
FOR exhibition, but undoubtedly the pub
lie. which Is led 10 suppose that this Is
art. cannot fail to be misled and dis
cnmaged. Undoubtedly MANY go to And
sn1uSerent. some to ScofT, a few seeking
truth; but certainly those who love
beauty and cherish It's tradition cannot
but be saddened by such display,
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At the Arts Club, 20l7 / street, there
! Is now on view collection OF water
cclors by Margaret Lent of this city and
OF New York. and of pictorial photo
graphs by Ben Judah Lubschez, men,
her Of the American Institute of Archi-
tects
Miss Lent's water colors are OF an un-
usual sort. uncommonly large. extraor-
dinarily forceful In the best sense
Miss Lent employs modern methods.
Her work Is essentially contemporary:
II Is simple. strong forceful and good
and it carries conviction. She shows
landscapes and still life Subiects~-nic-
lures painted at Monhegan Boothhay
and other places on the New England
coast Her technique is remarkable:
she uses full free brush. but with an
exactness which could only come as
the result of effort and experience
Handled In this manner. water color b.
comes as powerful as oil and the result
is extremely decorative.
ANY one who Is interested In not only
technical achievement but artistic prog
ress should not fail to see Miss Lent's
works.
Mr. Lubschezs photographs are all
OF Manhattan. the Magical Island
and have been made during the last Is
years by one who Is himself an archi-
tect and has q keen appreciation not
only Of architectural principles but Of
pictorial effects. They show New York
as the artist sees It: not merely as the
great METROPOLIS but as the unbniieve-
able city of our dreams. the citv of
great contrasts. OF titanic buildings.
and at the same time OF much little
loveliness
Mr.. Lubsrhez has taken great pains
TO picture New York under certain at
mospheric conditions, To interuret 1t ir
sun and shadow. In mist and rain. In
the gray Of morning and at night when
it's manv-lighted windows take on the
effect of fairv-land. It is an interest
ing Interpretation of civic beauty. an
Interpretation which cannot fail to
open the eyes of the observer to more
beauty than he or she may have seen
before Thus these photographs con-
form to one of the greatest REQUIRE
ments of arr and ran reasonably be
considered works within this field
At the National Museum, In one OF
the galleries set aside for the display
OF works owned by the National CAL
lery OF Art. there Is now on view a
series Of portraits of the late Isaac
Newton. first Commissioner OF AgricuI-
ture. painted by employees OF the De-
partment of Agriculture competing for
the honor Of placement In the gallery
OF secretaries in the new administrative
building OF the Department of Agri-
culture
done from photographs by artists whose
work is connected with the scientific
divisions and who are not professional
portrait painters. They are all life
size. and each has been rendered with
] a certain naivete which is interesting
Curiousiy enough. they do not strik-
ingly resemble one another In one In
stance the Hon. Mr. Newton Is repre-
sented with an exceedingly low fore
head: In another his forehead is high
and domed. But no one who examined
these portraits could fall to be Inn
pressed by the sincerity OF the artists
and by the workmanlike manner with
which thrv have essayed their effort