Evening star., 1928-05-06

t 1873. Entry CardS ana circulars giving
fuller details will be issued on or about
August Is and may be had on applica-
ton To the gallery.
since the last exhibition of this series
was held. Senator ClarkS widow. Mrs.
William A. Clark. has generously estao-
iished an endowment fund of 100000,
the income from which is 10 be used
for meeting the expenses of organizing
these biennial exhibitions. Thus the
cost OF organization, as we'll as the prize
awards, are now provided Jointly by
Senator and Mrs. Clark by their re-
spective gifts. The surplus income from
both Of these endowments is to be used
in the discretion Of the trustees for the
purchase of works of art by American
artists TO be added TO the permanent
collection OF the gallery. II is these
purchases even more perhaps, than the
generous awards provided for by Senator
Clark himself which induce artists to
send to these exhibitions their very best
works
! The William A. Clark prize awards,
established through Senator Clark en-
/ iowment. will again be awarded. These
prizes are as follows: First, $4,000, ac-
eompanied by the Corcoran gold medal;
second, 81 500, accompanied by the Cor
coran silver medal; third, $1,000, ac-
oompanied by the Corcoran bronze
medal, and fourth. $500. accompanied
i by the Corcoran honorable mention GER
/ tiilcate
The most recent of the biennial ex
{ hibitions held under auspices Of the
! Corcoran Gallery Of Art was In the
Spring of the year. It would have been
{ held again this Spring, in all probabll-
I itv. but for the opening of the Clark
+ collection, In many ways, though, the
attendance is said TO have been better
at that time of the year than in the
/ Fall. the Fall is more agreeable season
I for an exhibition of this sort. 1t is the
opening rather than the closing OF the
season that interest is alert And
/ though the date may conflict with some
other exhibition held in some other CITY,
/ there IS enough good work being pro-
duced in America to supply more than
one such show, and there is every rea
son To believe that real satisfaction will
+ be felt ON many sides az the return to
the Autumn date,
S&
/ I TNDER the auspices Of st. Johns
- College 8 unique pageant viii be
/ enacted in Annapolis on the 18th OF
Nav. AT that time St Johns College.
/ which has lately acquired two beautiful
! historical houses to be preserved as his
( tc-ical houses and as examples of the
art of the period in which they wete
built. viii present q living picture of
/ Colonial times. The two houses-one To
j be made into a historical museum, the
other into a faculty houSe-will be fur
nished throughout as in the days of
] their youth and viii be peopleo by
those who viii impersonate the original
owners
The President and Mrs. Coolidge, who
will be special guests. are TO be met at
the entrance TO Annapolis by a tally-h0
coach with four horses and outriderS.
in which they will make their entrance
The people Of Annapolis in the streets.
in the gardens viii be in Colonial cos
tune At the Hammond -Harwood house
| the distinguished guests will be met by
Matthias Hammond, the one-tirne own
er. and MIR Buckland. the architect. and
viii find in the dining room George
/ Washington. Charles Carroll. Tench
/ TiIghman and other Maryland celebri-
/ ties. A similar portrait impersonation
viii also be made az Brice house
The celebration commentaries the
Annapolis Convention OF 1886, and It
viii bring to mind forctbiy the admir-
/ able taste of those who built and fur
nished the houses Of those days. those
i! who were at the same time helping 70
| frame the Constitution.
II has been said that every art. 10 be
/ fully appreciated should be studied in
connection with the life of the time in
which il was created. A step In this
direction was taken when Mr. and Mrs.
Robert de Forest gave TO the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art the American Wing.
containing rooms from various historic
mansions and furniture OF the period.
I A ENmn nd fAa nf xN
Pennsylvania Museum is the placement
I OF works of art In the environment for
which they we're created. And, what Is
more, the city Of Philadelphia has lately
taken over . series Of historic houses
which il has placed. as permanent ex-
/ hibits, In the custody of its new museum.
Annapolis thus Is going one step further
/ IN preserving these houses and re-cTeat-
! ing the life Of the time In which they
were built.
/ TX the library of the clubhouse of the
American Association of University
Women, Fsrragait Square, there is now
/ 10 be seen q group Of paintings bY
+ Catherine c. Critcher OF this city, which
4 not only possess interest but evidences
/ extraordinary talent and achievement
Included in the showing are three
cauyasez which one may confidently
rank with the best produced today Miss
/ CEitcher has undoubtedly been Unfit
enced by the modernist movement. but
/ her works manifest the best trend OF
4 this movement They are simple, but
/ strong, direct and virile. they are In o
new manner. but they are not divorced
/. from tradition. One Of these paintings
/ is Of Gala lilies in bowl standing on
table in front of weil-fllled book shelves
The color scheme Is high-keyed the
painting exceedingly crisp and direct,
/ the effect Is essentially three dimension
al And though the style is somewhat
stern. the Interpretation is not merely
Of fact but OF spiritual beauty, the re-
suit emotionally charming.
Comparable with this tour de force
IL her painting Of coIored man with
q basket Of briSbt-colored vegetables In
his lap, possibly yender Of vegetables.
Here. too, the painting is forcefu1. di-
rect, realistic. nut essentially artistic.
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