Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
BY LEILA MrcHLIN.

81 ~ curing the last week OF the
~ gift y an anonymous dc donor 9,,o Of
; Lie of the building OF the
Panama Canal to the Military Acad-
envy at West Point. The gift was made
asa memorial to Maj. Gen. GoethalS,
builder of the canal and first civil gov
. erIaer of the Panama Canal Zone and
1t is especially suitable. as the paintings
constitute a record of one of the great
est engineering featS in history. When
the announcement was made, 1t was
stated that the Military Academy was
chosen as the recipient SO that the
institution might have record Of great
peace-time achievement by an, Army
engineer, wartime proves being already
represented. The gift has been accepted
by the academy, but no date has been
set for the presentation. se
Shortly after these paintings were
/, made thSy were exhibited here for q
brief period at the Pan-Amefican
Union. Later they were shown In sew
eral of the leading art museums. At
that time one of the paintings, The
: Crnqueror." was. purchased for the
Metropolitan Museum of ART and an
other, "Culebra Cut" was secured by
the Detroit Museum. The sketch for
THE painting in the metropolitan Mu-
scum is now owned by MRS. Goethals,
;'+: Mr.. Lie is quoted as having said
: that he tried ito give in paint some
of the grandeur, some OF the immensely
Z Of the undertaking, the vast difficulties
encountered in the building OF this
waterway through the jungle, and to
give some feeling of the tremendous
imagination it took to conceive, the
plan and carry 1t out. 's - &C.
7 t. As~~Ao =.
Norway in 1880. His uncle, Jonas Lie,
after whom he was named, was a well
known Norwegian poet and novelist.
+ His boyhood associations were with
! literary, artistic and musical people. He
!: came to this country while still youth
and began his art studies by attending
evening classes at the National Academy
OF Design. He studied also at the Art
Students League. When but 20 years
OF age his first painting was accepted
and shown in one of the academy ex-
hibitionS. In 1925 he was made a ma
tional academtcian. He Is represented
+ IN the Corcoran Gallery of Art and
/ the National Gallery, here. and in a ma
jority of the leading art museums in
) this country. His "Ice Harvest" is
owned by the Luxembourg. Paris One
OF his paintings was recently pur-
chased by Norwegian Americanss as a
wedding gift to Prince Olaf of Nor
way and Princess Martha of Sweden
VINO were married, it will be remem-
nered, last month at Oslo.
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THREE Washington sculptors. Henry
K. Bush Brown, Margaret French
OreSson and Vicken Won Post Totten
WI be represented in the great exhi-
milton OF American sculpture opening
m san Francisco this month and re-
naming on view at the California Pal
ace OF the Legion of Honor all Summer.
This is one Of the most comprehen-
&ve and notable exhibitions of Ameri-
can sculpture that has ever been as
sembled. 1t will include over a thou
sand pieces and will represent Sculptors
IN all parts Of the United States and
abroad. The exhibition lis under the
auspices Of the National Sculpture So
elety. which assembled it, and it was
made possible by munificent gift of
$lO0, 600 from Archer M. Huntington.
who also, it will be remembered. financed
the impeEtsyIt exhibition that was held
under like auspices six yearSsago at the
6lSpanic Museum, New York
The California Palace of the Legion
Of Honor Is a beautiful building, mag
n4hcently located on a commanding site
overlooking the harbor Of San Fran
cisco and the Golden, Gate The sculp-.
tsire VIII be shown not only in its gall
leries but In its beautiful open court,
and the city of San Francisco has CO.
operated in providing superb landscape
setting, transpiating for the purpose, it
= said, thousands of rhododepdrons and
other Towering shruhs:i y
g For the most part, the sculpture
shown IN this exhibition will be work
produced within the last decade and
VII. therefore, constitute a new chapter
N the history of American sculpture
sand bring the record UP to date.
= Not only win three of our local sculp-
tors be represented, but quite number
of the works shown will be of sculpture
either here IN Washington or intended
for future placement. For instance,
there will be shown a full length statue
OF Henry Clay. by Charles H. Niehaus,
which is destined for placement in
Statuary Hall at the Capitol, represent
ing Kentucky, Clay's native State. 1t
shows the. statesman with the tradi-
tional beaver hat of stove-pipe pattern
IN his right hand, a cane in his left,
while oyer his left arm has been flung
his cloak. The expression is extremely
vital. the look Of the eye is penetrating, 4
eAC use tAla6 VI stepping IUFWaFQ, the
weight thrown on the left foot. A skill
fH1 arrangement of a pile Of books and
the long folds Of the cloak go to give
Eolidity and plastic strength to the COM
position. Niehaus, 1t will be remem-
hered, is the sculptor of the John Paul
Jones statue at the foot Of Seventeenth
street, and also of the Hahnemann
statue In Scott Circle
4 Washington, with its spacious public
grounds and beautifully planted park
ways. would afford superb setting for
great exhibition such cas- this Of
American sculpture, and it is earnestly
To be hoped that some time in the near
future such an exhibition may be held |
It is exhibitions Of this sort that EXERT
a powerful educational influence and
help to raise the standard of our nal
tional life. $3.50, So
IS k&* X
OF large local as well as national
Importance is the announcement, |
lately made. Of the appointment Of DR.. |
Leicester H. Holland OF Philadelphia I
as chief Of the division of prints of the |
library of Congress, position which |
has been unoceupied since the death of |
Prof. Rice some years ago.