Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
BY LEILA MECHLIN.


Institute, Pittsburgh, eompris-
ing paintings by contemporary artlStS
of all the leading nations abroad ss Wen
as within the United States. Originally
these exhibitions were held in the
Spring of the year, but for some time
now they have been set forth in the
Fall, and after six or eight weeks show
ing in Pittsburgh the American section
has been dispersed and the foreign SEC
ton sent on tour Of leading art mu-
ssums.
The current showing, which is the
Twenty eighth international Exhibition
of Paintings held under these auspices:
opened in Pittsburgh October ~ ana
will continue to December 3. IL con-
sists of 392 paintings from is different
nations and WIS selected by jury COM
prisins three distinguished artists from
abroad, three American artists, and the
director of fine arts at the Carnegie IN
stitute, Homer Saint Gaudens.
One of the American members this
year was Felicie Waldo Howell. former
" of this city, who, now, however, has
her studio in New York. To be invited
to serve on this Jury is one OF the high
est honors an artist can attain, ana
that 1t should have come to Miss How
ell so comparatively early in her career
Ger she is still in her early thtrties)
Is indeed q great compliment.
Not only was Miss Howell on the jury
of selection and award but she vas
also one of those invited to contribute
a group of paintings to this eXhibitien:
This group comprises two pictures OF
New York, Broadway From Bowling
Green" and 1.-THE Cerner-Wan, Broad
and Nassau Streets" and two interiors,
both of luxuriously furnished private
residences one thu dining room OF MRS.
jackson E. Reynolds of New York.
Miss Howell began her career oy
painting pictures Of sweets and houses
in a Simple, straightforward, almost
poster-like manner, showing rather thin
color and strong outline. In recent
years her style has completely cnangeo,
and her works have more depth ana
show greater mastery OF msoinm. no o,a
of her paintings OF New York now on
view in Pittsburgh are extremely elab-
crate and complicated compositions, nut
are rendered with apparent diFeeness
and ease. In Broadway From Rowing
Green" she gives an excellent lmPres-
sion Of one Of the titanic once oui9-
ings towering against the SKY, huge Az
canyen-like street crossed by light ana
shadow from other huge structures 10
the left-New York In its most impress
siys and unbelievable aspect.
Her interiors are painted with equal
fidelity to fast and with an apparent
keen sense of beauty OF design ana ar
rangement 1t Is a nice conceit TO nave
the portrait of ones house painted
either its exterior face or us lnterior
livability. and in such work as this MISS
Howell has succeeded admirably.
. ONE cannot see these interiors by
~ Felicia Waldo Howell without re-
calling the work of two other well
known American artists-Walter Gay:
Who has painted chiefy in France, and
Charles Bittinger of Boston, who, by the
wav, is a Washingtonian by birth ana
is this Winter making his nome mere.
Walter Gay is also represented "a tne
Carnegie International by four paint,
fncs All of Hhich are of interiors-still
life eompositions--and indicate ms eA-
ouisite sensitiveness to beauty ~ tnlngs
made bv the hand of man and his power
to interpret 1t. There is poeQy m
walter Gays paintings - Atmosphere
suggestions slanging perhaps 70 ene
uuieter days or the past, put OF Rs'eAT
NAL interest. o,.,o
Institute has been putting iRto eneek
unioue plan in connection win its th-
ternational Exhibitions. Eaeh year
certain number Of artists have been IA
vited to show not one, put gfeup; %
canvases, but no artist mas Deeh MViCea
Dit once, IuGIEIdtCy W BNt y. N~~rTF---s
survey Of eotemperaFy art mere aAa
abroad, it Is necessary to cehsiaer not
merely the current showing. but WlIh
IL the two previous ones. the eApeEi,
ment has rounded cut this year ana VIII
not continue in effect. .,.,
The Carnegie Institutes international
Exhibitions have IN recent years Decn
REGARDED as primarily radical but such
radicalism as Is seen In the present dlsV
NAV is of a mild sort compared WtA
the Belgian exhibition now on view IN
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art. There is,
to be sure, in Pittsburgh Q cubistic rem
dition of railroad tracks through a SKY
scraper city, entitled The Soul OF
SouIless CITY" by c. r. w. Nevtnson
of England, who before the war was
one of the leading opponents OF cubism;
there is q strange painting by Wllnam
Roberts. also an EnglishmRn, entitled
"The ProdigaI Sets Out" which resem-
bles a mechanical puzzle made up OF
parts of machinery; there Is much that
is homely and commonplace put tneEe
is little or nothing that Is Vulgar OF
positively offensive, and there Is much
that is indicative of new point OF
view and Virile power. Besides when,
one finds here and there real mas
terpiece. such as "A Court Scene" by
Louis Forain; an interior by Edouard
WILLARD and landscape, THE Pear
Tree, py GqNdtu nauSS' W AIS4ttt,a
only a few An exhibition such a4 thB
is purely transitory-here today, gone
toniorrew-but for the moment II
stimulating.
TN New York the art season is IN fun
swing. At the Metropolitan Museum
of Art there Is q special exhibition on
view at the present time OF glass ana
rugs, an international showing collected
DO In America during the
past Summer by the American Feaera-
ton of Arts under q special grant from
the General Education Boafd--an ex-
hibitien the purpose of which Is to slim
ulate our own artistic industries and at
the same time call the attention OF the
public to the value of design In articles
of everyday use. Much OF the glass IN
this exhibition Is of interest. The rugs,
largely hand=woven, more than the
glass, show the influence Of moderntstic
design.
In the dealers galleries ON Fifty
seventh street and up and down Firth
avenue there is an endless parade OF
works of art-paintings and sculpture
by both old and modern masters. AND
from all appearances, despite the recent
collapse of the stock market, these eK-
hibitions are well patronized and many
sales are made.
4 NEW Museum Of Modern Art spon-
sored by a group Of we'll known
New Workers. for the most part men
and women of large means, has been
lately opened on one Of the upper floors
of the Heckscher Building, pending a
building of its own. This new museum
consisting of series Of well lighted
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