Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29

Mr.. Crafty did as rule the casting
and the marble cutting of his busts.
only employing workmen to assist him
in his larger pieces. Otherwise he felt
that much was lost in translation.
Some artists" he once said, do not
care for detail. They say it makes their
work look weak. 1t is not the detail
which detractS; it is their false values"
Adding, Look at nature; how perfect
is her detail, yet her work is never
weak" This is eXemplified in his por-
traits of Duveneck and Hassam, where
the modelling in its perfection seems
only to accentuate masculine vigor. The
finish of these busts, the base upon
which they stand, the variety in the
modelling of the throat and chest, sets
them aside as unusual and extraor-
binary.
Mr.. Crafty, 1t will be remembered, was
killed within the last year by an auto
mobile, which, appearing, it seemed.
from nowhere, leaped up on the curb
from which he was about the cross the
street near his home in Philadelphia.
A terrible loss to American art, to
which. however, he had already made
large and lasting contribution. He is
survived by his widow and daughter,
the latter q we'll known writer on art.
A SPECIAL exhibition Of water colors
by Miss Elizabeth Sawtelle of this
city was placed, simultaneously with
the Grafly bronzeS, on exhibition in the
atrium OF the Corcoran Gallery Of Art.
These water ColorS are to be seen, and
admirably seen, in the cases, being
matted but unframed
There are 20 paintings in all, the
majority of them done last year on a
trip to the West Indies. A few are of
subjects found in Sicily; still others are
Ogunquit themes, in the immediate VIE
cinity, or comparatively near, the art
ist's Summer home. All are broadly
and beautifully painted, with that as
Surance and ease which comes only as
the result of competence gained through
experience, and they testify eloQuently
to the trained hand as we'll as the dis
corning eye.
The west Indies subjects are ex-
tremely colorful and delightfully."- COM
bine mountainous landscape and rest
less blue-green seas. The Sicilian pic
lures are painted with equal breadth,
but with little different feeling, sug-
costing not so much nature unrestrained
as nature long associated with man.
There is an interesting painting in this
group OF Mount Etna, with volcanic
steam and smoke ascending from its
snoW-capped top, towering above what
at glance might be thought a blue
sea. but in reality is a sea of noun
tains. After all, the artist herself says,
wave forms and the undulating lines of
hills are not essentially different-nor
are they.
The Ogunquit group includes two de-
lightful beach pictures, gay with Sum-
mer folk. indicated very simply but per-
fectly satisfactorily. There is a wood
land bit in this group-the pine trees
on Miss Sawtelle's own property, splen-
didly rendered. with nice understand
ing OF varied textures, broken surfaces,
blended color.
Miss Sawtelle is one of Charles Wood
bury's pupils, and her work is not I'M
like her masters, but 1t has its own in
dividuality. 1t is extremely sincere: it
takes into consideration the limitations
as we'll as the potentialities Of the me-
dunn used; it is big in effect, and 1t
makes an extremely interesting one
man show.
WORD was received last week of the
award of the Lloyd C. Griscom
prize Of $3.50 In the annual combined
exhibition of the New York Water Color
Club and the American Water Color
Society, New York. to Margarete Lent
OF TINS city. Miss Lent showed in this
exhibition four works isherman'S
Haunt" 'Naughts and Crosses" Pal
passo, Low Tide" and "Lansallos
Street" all broadly painted and ex-
tremely interesting. The picture to
which the prize was awarded will be-
come the property of the donor. 1t is
interesting to note that in this instance
the amount of the prize exceeded by
one-third the artists asking price. In
1928 Miss Lent received the Helen Will
loughby Smith prize in this same ex-
hibition. Also it may be noted that Miss
Lent's 'F1shermans Haunt" included in