Evening star., 1928-05-13
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

IN our local art worIu. TWO I'M
portant exhibitions are opening
i the exhibition Of paintings,
drawings. prints and sculpture
BY local artists In the Corcoran Gal
lery OF Art, and the exhibition Of 800
etchings. Autographs and engravings by
contemporary French artists at the Lii
hrary OF Congress,
Also, this is the week when the AS
sociation of Art Museum Directors. the
American Association of Museums and
the American Federation of Arts will
hold annual meetings in this city.
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THE American Federation of Arts and
i the American Association of Muse
un,s will hold Joint sessions. open to the
public, In the Mayfiower Hotel, Begin
ning Wednesday and continuing through
Friday. These meetings will take place
In the ballroom and viii be Of excep-
ttonal interest.
At the opening session the President
Of the United States will make the ad-
dress Of welcome. after which brief re-
ports viii be presented by officers OF the
two organizations. These will occupy
the nrst half of the program. The Sec
ond half at that morning session Will
be devoted 10 q discussion, led by +.
land Museum of Art, on Community
Cooperation in Educational Planning"
The afternoon session on wednesday.
May IS. will be devoted to the subject
Of Museum Ideals" and the speakers
viii be Fiske Kimball, director OF the
new PENNSYLVANIA Museum; Clyde Fl.
Burroughs, secretary of the Detroit In
stitute Of Arts. and Paul NJ. Rea, direc-
tor of the Cleveland Museum OF Natural
History. That evening the art museum
workers will hold round-table dinner.
On Thursday morning the session
VIII be devoted to the subject OF Adult
Education" and the speakers will be
Audrey Avinoff. director OF the Carne-
gle Museum. Pittsburgh; Chauncey j.
Hamlin, president Of the Buffalo City
Planning Association and president OF
the American Association Of Museums,
and dorado Taft. sculptor. author and
lecturer.
That afternoon the American Asso-
ciation OF Museums viii hold group ses-
sions and delegates TO the American
Federation Of Arts meeting will visit
the Ccrcoran Gallery Of Art, the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery. George Hewitt
Myers textile collection and the eXhibi-
ton at the Library Of Congress.
incidentally, mention should be made
OF the fact that an interesting exhibit
OF Mayan art, arranged by the Carne-
gle Institution In the form Of photo
graphs and stereoscopic views. viii be
set ct the Mayfiower
On Friday the Museum Association
viii hold its sessions at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art the American Fedora
ton of Arts at the Mayhower.
The federation's program includes
morning session on Art in the
Schools" with Henry Turner Bailey. d.
rector of the Cleveland School of Art.
9. Valentine Kirby. director OF art. de-
partment Of public instruction Of the
state of PENNSYLVANIA, and Huger
Elliott. educational director. Metropoli-
tan Museum CT Art, New York. as
principal speakers. and an afternoon
session, at which The Place Of Art in
Higher Education" viii be discussed by
Prof. Paul H Grunnnann, director OF
the School Of Fine Arts Of the Univer-
Eity Of Nebraska: Paul j. Sachs assoct-
ate director Of the Fogg Art Museum OF
Harvard, and Everett v. Meeks. dean Of
the Yale School of Fine Arts.
Both organizations viii come to-
eettaer at the banquet that evening a.
the Maynower. which will close the
sessions. There viii not only be notable
speakers az this banquet, representing
extraordinary film of New York viii be
shown. evidenctng the artistic possible
tiles Of the moving picture.
At the Phillips Memorial Gallery there
a has lately been placed on view, TO
remain throughout the month OF May.
a choice small collection Of paintings In
water color by living American artists.
Sixteen painters are represented BY one
work each. The pictures are hung In
the Little Gallery.
The works Of these painters are all
modernistic. but 1t Is the best type Of
modernism-tiaat which gives indication
Of genuine originality and new, ac-
ceptabie form Of expression. not. II
ticn. There Is no doubt whatsoever
that the nodernist movement has back
Of II something substantial and worth
while. something more than mere de-
sire for ecceutrictty. and that there are
those vino are sincerely striving thus 20
secure q new and finer form Of ex-
preston, one typical Of our own time.
OF course, the work Is stili 70 great
extent experimental, but out Of the con-
fusion and the perpiexity Of much that
10 bad 10 emerging some which Is good,
WHICH ~ Ep0Ed~ulAkIuks WHICH, - AZ
dicstiye Of still finer things 10 come. It
Is work Of this kind which Mr. Phillips
is seeking and which the public will
ind included Ia the present group.
Obviously, there win always be dis
agreement In regard 70 merit In art,
DISAGREEMENT not always based on
fundamental principles, but colored by
personal preference II is better that
there should be, and there Is no doubt
that many who zee the 10 little water
colors comprising the present exhibi-
ton viii not Invariably admire or even
comprehend. But the thoughtful, the
open minded, will. 1t would SeeEn, have
70 admit that here Is evidence Of SIN
cerfty, Of potentiality, Of the probAble
en1eTgence Of something new and en-
ineutiy worth while ia the field Of art
Most interesting. most concrete. In
telngible, significant, perhaps, A Rock
well Kents water color, Load Of Peat, .
showing o man with q load on his back
leaning against the rocky top OF 9
mountain overlooking ths world~-s pow.
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