Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Exhibition of Contemporary Belgian Art Opens the Cor
coran GaIery-Post-war Development in Painting
and Scupture-Other Notes.

! BILE. unique, jewel-like technique. Very
different in style and manner, but
equally pleasing as color compositions,
are Micha's Roses" Bouquet" and
Reading"
OF notable interest is a portrait of
Rik Wouters, poet and sculptor,
leader in the Modernist movement in
Belgium, who was killed during the
World War, painted at full length by
Auguste Oleffe, lent by the Musee Royal
deS Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
But what can one say Of Paul Mas
painting Woman With Pearls" Of Spill
liaert's painting OF "A Chair" of
Daeye's Eve" and Schirren's Nude"
symptoms Of a changing world?
Fernand Wery's portrait of young
Woman at Window" is grotesque but,
like his picture entitled II Go Out for
Stroll" does bark back to the art of
the past which was frankly realistic.
Perhaps one Of the most remarkable
pictures in this exhibition, and one
which gives the thoughtful visitor most
occasion for pause. is Gustave de Smets
figure study entitled Radio" Is the
artist satirical or Is he uttering warm
ing? It is hard to say.
The sculpture In this exhibition in
ly stated, of the work of Meunier-
works essentially plastic. humanistic,
strong and at the same time rendered
exQutSttely. The names of Meunier in
Belgium and Millet in France will al
ways be associated as interpreters of
labor, and 1t is a remarkable fact that
these men hold their own today Splen-
didly In the midst Of the ModerniSts'
most violent expressions.
That the sculptors of today are still
under the influence of Meunier, this
exhibition demonstrates. There are
beautiful works in bronze, conservative
and yet strong, Modernistic and yet
traditional, which one may study at
length with delight and satisfaction.
among the most notable. perhaps, are
RouSSeau's Man With Mask of Bee
thoven," Wijnant's "Marieke," Wouters'
self-portrait and Lebel's lie Mecano."
This exhibition will remain on view
through November 30, after which It
Will be shown in other museums in this
country. Meanwhile. it is understood,
representative exhibition of American
art is being assembled to be shown
under the same auspices In Brussels
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Al the Arts Club, 20l7 I street Is
now to be seen an interesting COL
lection Of water colors, etchings and
studies by Lesley Jackson Of this city.
and group of original designs for book
jackets lent by New York publishers.
Miss Jackson's works are In the re-
ception room on the first floor and in
the dining room. They include her
water colors Of Washington made for
color reproduction on post cards. the
Roundabout Prints, which have become
rightly popular. Included In this
series is a picture of the Dupont foun-
tain IN Dupont Circle; the White House
as seen on Easter Monday with its
coiorful crowd of merry children; the
Lincoln Memorial: Mount Vernon:
washington Cathedral in process of
erection, to name only a few.
With these are shown q few of Miss
Jackson's larger water colors made in
France and Japan a couple Of years
ago-charming subjects beautifully in
terpreted Especially must one re-
mark with pleasure a French subject
a little cottage stepped in sunlight
with lilac and iris blooming in the
door-yard. a picture full of the illusion
OF light and atmosphere, and no whit
less good because beautiful
When Miss Jackson was In Japan
she studied for time under q japanese
master, Tokida San, and here She
shows, possibly for the first time, some
OF what might be called her student
exerciSeS-Studies of flowers, leaves
figures, made in the Japanese manner
with facile brush. These studies are
not only skillful, but are immensely
significant to the student and tech
nician.
With these water colors and brush
studies Miss Jackson exhibits a group
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subjects-the doorway Of the Octaeon
House, the arch Of Connecticut Avenue
Bridge, the steps at the head of Tween
ty-second street-serious studies, pic
tureSque in themselves and sympathetic
cally rendered. One of the most in
teresting OF all, perhaps, is entitled
The Black Stocking" a clothes line
stretched behind little cottage, a sin
gle stocking gives emphasis to q row
OF white laundry hung up to dry.
The book jackets upstairs are few in
number and little Disappointing
good in their way. but not as good as
some that have been produced. OBJ
viously, the purpose of pictorial book
jackets Is to attract the eye of the
purchaser and at the same time to in
dictate the content or spirit of the book
Some OF these Jackets have been made
by Leading illustrators and are admir-
able from the artistic standpoint.
Miss Eleanor Parke Custis, chairman
OF the exhibition committee of the Arts
Club, has herself executed some eX-
cellent jackets, which her chairman
ship and modesty forbade her, unfortu-
nately, to display at this time.
Here Is by-product Of illustration
which affords illustrators a new outlet
for their art.
THE Yorke Gallery, 200 s street, re-
opens tomorrow with an exhibition
Of paintings by Bessie Lasky.
Mrs. LaSky, who is the wife of Jesse
Lasky, the. film magnate, began her
professional career as pianist. In re-
nine years ago she began to study art,
first with William Silva in California.
later with Felicie Waldo Howell in
New York, both erstwhile Washington
artists.
Mrs Lasky is one of those who paints
because she loves 1t and because she
desires to hand on to others the beauty
which she finds in simple themes. Her
paintings in some instances are rather
elaborate in the matter of composition,
but it is always the loneliness Of color,
of surface finish, Of light and shade,
that attracts her and that she sets
forth.
Forty-five canvases will be included
in her exhibition, which will continue
through November 8. This is her first
exhibition in Washington, but during
the past Summer she held an invited
one-man exhibition at the Brooklyn In
stitute, and one Of her works has been
purchased by the Newark Museum for
its permanent collection.
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MISS MARIAN LANE has returned
AVA to washington after Summer
in Ogunquit, Me, where she recup-
Grated from the effects of a serious au-
tomobile accident which took place