Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

Club is holding its thirty-thire
annual exhibition in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art. 1t COM
prises 240 paintings and prints
and is set forth in the two galleries
situated to the right and to the left
of the grand staircase on the second
floor. To see the collection chronology
ically as it is catalogued, one should
turn first to the gallery on the left.
Herein are hung in a single line about
20 water colors by artists OF Washing
ton and elsewhere. for the most part
fair-sized, colorful works. The remain
der of the collection, including the
prints and work in black and white, is
TO be found in the gallery to the right
Of the staircase.
The first picture. No. l in the cata-
iogue. and the first also to be labeled
sold" is a painting of an "Old Mill, I"
by Dorsey Doniphan, an exceedingly
skillful and successful work. in which
a great mass of leafy foliage is inter-
preted with directness and veracity.
Centering the same wall is large
flower painting by Elizabeth Muhlhofer,
decorative. colorful and witnessing in its
rendition to amazing command of me-
dunn. Miss Muhlhofer also shows an
exquisite little picture of tea roses, ham
died so reticently that it is marked
contrast with this larger, bolder COM
position, and it shows the artists ver-
6atility.
Flower painting has distinctly a
vogue today, and an excellent one-a
vogue which takes in the most modern
istic expression and work which hanks
back to the decorative pieces of the old
Dutch masters There are, in addition
to Miss Muhlhofer's contributions. some
excellent examples of contemporary
flower painting In this exhibition.
few Of which may well be mentioned.
Elinor Barnard shows a painting OF
flowers In vase on red cover, realis-
tic in rendering, charming in effect.
Frances Hungerford Combs shows sew
eral flower pieces. among them one OF
petunias, very delicately rendered, very
lovely in general color scheme. Clara
r. Saunders shows a still life. in which
flowers are a chief factor. but which
derives its artistic eminence, or, one
might say, pre-eminence-for it is a
brilliant piece of work-from its rem
dition of atmosphere indoors. Mrs. KEEP
linger is we'll represented by painting
of ZiuniaS, and Esther I. E. McCord
'(now Mrs. Chapman) by painting of
peonieS, while Mary K. Porter makes
distinct departure in showing two gar
den pictures, THE Pool" and Garden
SHRINE. OOtfl Oh WHICH AOWCIS hIC
represented in great profusion.
Landscapes as subjects predominant
In this exhibition. and, apparently, to
secure these subjects the artists have
travelled far afield. Dora L. Murdoch,
for example, shows interesting pictures
of Lake Louise, done with her charac-
teristic skill. but distinctly In the old
mode-realistic transcription - charm
ing Emma Mendenhall shows "A Gate
way at Tangier" and also "A Gateway
at the Alhafi1bra"; Barbara Macfarlane,
the gateway of "The Forbidden City,
Pelkin," also bit Of the villa Borghoee,
Rome
There are a good many Portuguese
subjects, among them pictures OF
Cintra, where, It will be remembered,
Henry B. Smell conducted a class last
Summer; whereas several artists, among
them Lesley jackson, Elizabeth Saw
telle and Gladys Brannigafl, show sub
iectS found in our own woodland and
open country. Miss Jackson has painted
Sn the BerkShires, and one Of her pic
lures bearing this title shows q broad
stretch Of Berkshire hills seen over the
treetopS and under clouded sky-a
very accomplished piece of painting.
Elizabeth Sawtelle's work is invariably
strong and colorful, and her two Rock
Greek Park subjects are no exception to
this rule.
Eleanor Park Gusts is represented by
four examples, two Brittany subjects.
the other two done in italy. These are
all extremely clever, well drawn. indi-
vidualistic, picturesque, but they might
just as well be block prints, for they are
fat and without atmosphere. Miss Gus
It's has undoubtedly extraordinary gift,
and while one delights in the clever
ness OF her achievement, one expects
from her bigger work than this, work OF
more enduring significance.
Margaret Lent, to whom has lately
been awarded for the second time the
New York Water Color Clubs much
coveted prize in the joint exhibition Of
the New York Water Color Club and
the American Water Color Society, now
in progress in New York. shows three
works, no one Of which, however, rep@.
resents her at her best. She, too, Is q
strong painter, from whom, because OF
her past achievement, big work IL conf
IDENTIFY expected.
Jane C. Stanley of Detroit shows four
paintings, among them one entitled
VALLEY of the Adige. MeFAno." which
is particularly picturesque, with its
stately cypress in the foreground. its
dramatic cloud and mountain effect in
the distance.
More modernistic in expression than
those previously mentioned is Sara
Bard OF indianapolis, who shows sew
eral homely subjects made impressive
through virile rendering such, for in
stance, as "Cherry's Barn" and THE
Cliff House"-ugly, but rendered with
bold assurance which makes them
memorable and gives them worth.
Most modernistic are the works of
Hobson L. Pittman, comparatively
new exhibitor, who shows four pictures
in gray, with just touch of brown, in
which houses are rendered without re-
gard to structural requirements and