Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

choose in merit. Each has his own
viewpoint. That which is most sig
nificant is the fact that with increased
skill these artists are giving more GER
tain expression to the subtle beauty of
nature, the effects of light and atmoS-
those things which magically turn the
commonplace into the beautiful. And
this is art.
AT the Washington Club on Thursday
of this week, under the patronage of
q local committee headed by Mrs. Bar
ron Du Bots, lecture will be given by
A. Hugh Fisher-"Travels With Pen
and Brush In Southern Europe and the
Far East'-prefaced by an exhibition
OF Mr.. Fishers etchingS, drawings and
sketches. The exhibition will be open
free to the public from 10 am. to 4
pm; the lecture will be given at 4
O'Clock and an admission fee will be
charged.
Mr.. Fisher, a British artist. is one of
the many-talented few. He is not only
an artist but a writer and a traveller,
poet, critic, raconteur. At one time
he made tour around the world for
the London Times and he is said to
have seen practically everything every
where, except America. He is in this
country now for six weeks. but not for
the first time. In infancy he was
brought by his parents to the United
States to a Kansas farm on which 1t
was their intention TO settle. The ex-
pertinent not proving successful, how
ever, they returned to England shortly,
so that Mr.. Fishers American memories
are only those of very early youth. And
yet It is said that even then he mani
tested his interest In drawing and re-
ceived his first impulse toward art by
acquaintance with one of his fathers
associates who made sketches in col
ored crayon.
Like all etchers, he has a preference
for architectural subjects, but he also
does animals with especial understand
ing. In many of his works there is a
CLINT OF humor, a touch of the whiIn-
SicaL
There is nothing, it is said, that Mr..
Fisher likes better than telling stories to
children, and for children he has writ
ten several books Of nonsense rhymes.
BY those who know him best he is de-
scribed as an artist of rare gift and
delightful personality.
Il X X
ON Wednesday evening at 800 o'clock
~ Prof. Frank Jewett Mather, jr.,
MarQuand professor of art and archie
ology at Princeton University, will give
in the auditorium of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets. an illustrated lecture on
Prom Giambellino to Titan" This is
the first of series of notable lectures
on art to be given by leading authorities
this Winter under the auspices of the
Washington Society Of the Fine Arts.
Prof. Mather is one of the foremost
authorities on italian painting, the au-
thor of Estimates in Art" "A History
of italian Painting" Modern Painting"
and THE American Spirit in Art" For
many years and up to the time of the
war, Prof. Mather was the art critic
ing the war he enlisted and served in
the Navy.
Subsequent lectures in this same
course will be by william NJ. WINS. jr.,
curator of prints. Metropolitan Museum
OF Art; S. w. Woodhouse, jr., formerly
associate director of the Pennsylvania
Museum, and now adviser, department
OF industrial arts of the museum:
Amanda K. Coomaraswamy, keeper of
Indian and Mohammedan art, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston. and Everett v.
Meeks, dean and professor of architec-
ture, School Of Fine Arts, Yale Univer-
sity.
These lectures are open only to mem
bers of the Washington Society of the
FINE arts ana tneir guests.
X
THE Carnegie Institution of Wash
ingtan has issued invitations to
series of lectures on EARLY Civilization
in Southwestern United States" to be
given on successive Tuesday evenings
at 8 80 o'clock in the assembly room of
the Administration Building of the in
stitution. The first of these occurs
next Tuesday. November IL, and will be
by Alfred v. Kidder on tho subject,
Dawn of Civilization in the New
World; Earliest Remains in the South
west" This will be followed on Novem-
Der 10 by a lecture on "Crystalliza-
ton Of Southwestern Culture; the Cave
People" by Earl H. Morris: on Novem-
Der rs by a lecture on THE Great Pc
Rod; Pueblos and Clih Dweilers," by
Earl H Morris, and on December 8 by
lecture on Period Of Disintegration