Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-26

n under distinguished auspices in
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, at the present time.
This exhibition was opened with q
private view and reception on the after
noon OF May IL by Sir William LEVEL
lyn. president Of the Royal Academy.
and il shown under the distinguished
patronage Of the British Ambassador to
the United states. Sir Esme Howard:
the president of the board of educa-
ton Lord Eustace Percy: the director
~ the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Eric Maclagen: the keeper of the de-
partrn mt of engraving. illustration and
design of the Victoria and Albert Mu-
scum, Martin Hardie; the keeper of
thu department of prints and drawings
British Museum, Campbell Dodgson.
and the president of the Royal Society
Of Painters. Etchers and EngraverS.
Sir Frank Short. 1t was assembled by
the American Federation of Arts, our
national art organization with head
quarters in Washington. and the Amer
lean honorary committee is headed by
Elihu Root honorary president of the
federation. and includes the Secretary
Of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon. an honor
airy vice president: Robert w. de For
est president both of the federation
and of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. and the presidents OF seven Of the
leading print makers societies IN this
country.
This exhibition comprises 432 prints
selected by a jury of we'll known etch-
ers the chairman of which is John
Taylor Arms. from over 900 contrib
uted by print makers from ali parts of
the United States. 1t includes work
both conservative and modern. is con-
temporary and retrospective. In the
retrospective section are etchingS by
vuhtcfinr 70 nt.Nonnrk
Blum. Pennell. j. Alden Weir Henry
Wolf, George Bellows and Ernest Has
kell. OF contemporary artists the rep
reSentation is more extensive and in
cluded are the works of such we'll
known etchers, engravers and lithog-
rapherS as Benson, Roth, Arms, Rosen-
berg. Heintzelman, Horribly. Webster.
Ely. Sloan, Martin Lewis, Kent. Rome
beck. Wanda Gag, Handforth, Biddle
and many others.
A catalog with an appropriate in
PRODUCTION and numerous Illustrations
has been issued.
The exhibition will remain on view
u the north court of the Victoria and
Albert Museum until the twenty-sec-
ond Of June and will. it is hoped, bring
to the attention OF British print lovers
the estimable work of some of our fore
most American graphic artists.
This is the third important exhibit
ton OF American prints that the Amer
lean Federation of Arts has sponsored
and sent abroad. The first was shown
IN an international exhibition in Flor
&hce in 1925. the second at the Bib
notheque Rationale, Paris, last Summer.
\ T the same time that the American
Federation Of Arts has sent exhi-
billions of American etchings abroad 1t
has brought exhibitions of the works
OF European etcherS to this country.
For example, the exhibition of etchings,
enEravings and autographs by French
artists assembled under the auspices Of
the Association Franchise d'ExpanSion
ct Exchanges ArtiStiques which had It's
premier showing here at the Library OF
Congress last Summer. This exhibit
ton has since been shown In the fol-
lowing museums. arouSing great deal
OF interest at each place: The Ctncin-
natl Art Museum, the Detroit Insti-
tute OF Arts. the Memorial Art Gallery.
Rochester, N. Y; the Carnegie 1nSti-
tute, Pittsburgh: the Toledo Art Mu-
scum. the Cleveland Art Museum, the
Art Institute of Omaha, Nebr., and the
Baltimore Museum of Art.
From this exhibit while on tour, over
q hundred sales have been made. 1t has
been said, and is currently thought,
that foreign works of art are less costly
than works by American artists, but
some of the etchings in this collection
are priced as high as $500, and prac-
tically none Is as low in cost as Amer.
lean works when first issued.
There is a growing public for fine
prints in the United States, as wit
messed by the fact that the sales from
the Chicago Society Of Etchers' recent
annual exhibition amounted to over
$4,000.
IN this connection it is interesting to
note the increasing interest abroad
in American art, tangibly witnessed
recently by the issuance in Paris OF a
magnificent catalog in two large folio
volumes Of the etchings Of Arthur w.
Heintzelman a distinguished American
etcher, with a most complimentary and
appreciative foreword by Campbell
Dodgson, one of the greatest authori-
ties today on prints. Also, Simulta-
neously, the announcement OF an ex-
hibition in Paris of recent etchings by
Cadwallader Washburn, for a time OF
this city, who, though q world traveller.
is distinctly an American and an Amer
lean OF rare achievement. A collection
Of some Of Mr.. Washburn's recent works
was shown this past season at Gordon
Dunthornes and has been augmented
lately by several of his inimitable dry
point portrait studies. Mr. WaShburn
has been spending the Winter at his
sisters villa at Mentone, and his etch-
ings shown here and in Paris are chiefly
subjects found in Southern France.
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A INVOLVEMENT was lately made in
"a the New York Times of notable
gift to the Library OF Congress- col
lection of 10000 or more woodcuts from
early illustrated books made by DR.. and
Mrs Otto H. F. Vollbehr in special
commemoration of the life and service
Of Carl Schurz. This collection Is now
being catalogued and assorted in the
print division of the library. Its many
items include not only illustrative wood
cuts but initial letters. head and tan
pieces. decorative portraits. etc. The
collection has been described by the
Librarian of Congress as "a great