Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

works in porcelain, which Vicken Won
Post (now Mrs Totem did in her own
home in Stockholm and exhibited when
she first came to this city, works of
rare sort, of which We have too few to-
day. These original porcelains, which
Museum, New York. and other art
museums throughout the country. rep
resented for the most part characters
| IN Swedish folk lore. 1t is delightful
| that Mrs. Totten is now thus memorial
izing our Mother Goose.
A group of Mrs. Totten'S works are
to be shown III the great forthcoming
exhibition of American sculpture to be
held IN the California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, from
April to Autumn.
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4 T the Library of Congress in the
South Curtain. under the auspices
of the division of prints, group of II
etchings by Gabrielle Dew. Clements OF
this city Is now on view.
Miss Clements began etching in the
early sos when the art was young in
this country, but the work that she is
doing today is in the spirit of the pres
ent and compares favorably with the
best. Thus it is most fitting that she
should be given place in the present
showing of contemporary work and that
that place should be between the Pen
nell exhibit and the more comprehen-
sive exhibit Of present-day living
etchers.
Chronologically arranged, the etch-
ings in this group are approached from
tho nTcSpnt. that tho 1cfCgt u'npR &c
shown first. This consists of what Is
known as The Baltimore Series"-five
large plates, to which has most recently
been added one of the State House at
Annapolis. These Baltimore plates.
showing characteristic views in that
city, were done in successive years
the Washington Monument In 1896, the
Harbor, Baltimore, in 1921; Mount
Vernon Place in a snoWstorin, 1925:
the Battle Monument 1925, and North
Avenue Bridge in 1927. They are all
elaborate compositions and show ex-
traordinarily fine craftsmanship on the
part of the etcher The Harbor, Bal
timore." is beautifully etched, very i'm
pressive: North Avenue Bridge" is an
exceedingly unusual composition show
ing the conjunction of the PennSyl-
vania. the B. and o. and the Western
Maryland lines, a typical scene SO
rendered as to present not only a sense
OF power but of real structural beauty.
Artistically and technically these plates
are notable achievements They are
all published by Bedann of Balitomre.
each in an edition of $50. In three
instances the edition has long since
been exhausted and the price conse-
quently not only doubled but tripled.
Turning the corner from the case In
which this series of etchings is shown,
one finds the still earlier works-"The
Mill Race" dated 1884; two Gloucester
subjects, Home from the Banks" and
Herring Fleet; "Rockport Quarry
also dated 1884, as fine as anything that
the etcher has produced-a little up
right plate showing the oxen on the
quarry's floor drawing away the heavy
blocks OF stone. Belonging to this same
series is THE Road at Folly Cove" de-
lightfully naive but assured in treat
ment. Then come two of Mount st.
Michel-unusual views-two of Chartres
ana two OF Taormina-in all a group
OF which any might be proud.
Gabrielle Dew. Clements was born in
Philadelphia in 1853. the daughter of
Dr.. Richard Clements Of that city and
Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements of South
Carolina. Her preliminary education
was in the Philadelphia schools. She
studied drawing and TYPOGRAPHY at the
Philadelphia School Of Design for Wom-
en- in 1875 prior to entering Cornell
University the following year.
She graduated from Cornell in 1880,
returned TO Philadelphia, attended
classes at the Academy of Fine Arts
under Thomas Eakins, studied etching
with Stephen Parrish with small group
OF artists whom he invited to work in
his studio once week, and produced
her first plate In 1882. In 1884 she
went to England and France and stud
led at the Academic Julian in Paris
under Fleury and Bouguereau, exhibit
ing in the salon of 1885. The etchings
of Chartres and Mont St. Michel now
on exhibition were all done in the
Summer OF 1885.
Returning to Philadelphia, she took
up mural painting and did panels. first
for the New Century Club and Guild,
then for the Pennsylvania Building at
the Chicago Fair. In 1894 came her
visit to Italy for the purpose of ex-
tended study OF mural painting in Flor
erce. Sienna and Venice In 1895 she
became associated with the Bryn Mawr
School in Baltimore as head OF the
department of drawing. and continued
10 i've III tnaC CITY until l9U6. During
these years she did decorations for three
churches there-Trinity Church Towers,
st. Paul's Chapel and st. Matthews,
Sparrows Point. and also executed a
decoration for q music room for Mrs
Horace Brock Of Philadelphia.
In 1910 she came to Washington
where the majority Of her Winters since
have been spent. in company with Ellen
Day Hale Miss Clements and Miss
Hale have a Summer home at Folly
Cove and studios we'll equipped with
facilities not only for painting and
etching but for printing etchings.
| Miss Clements is a member of the fell
lowship of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, the Society Of Wash
ington Artists, the Washington Water
CARNATIONS, including the Chicago So