Evening star., 1929-10-06
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

I street, of paintings by Jane
i Peterson of New York. Miss
Peterson Cor. as she is known
in private life. Mrs. M. Bernard
Philipp) will personally superintend
the hanging of this exhibit and will
be the guest Of honor at tea to be
given this afternoon at the club. at
which the art committee, Miss Eleanor
Parke Custis, chairman, will be hosts.
The seasons program could scarcely
have been more auSpiciously 1nauguf
rated, for Jane Peterson's work, while
essentially sound, is bright and gay
and extremely vivacious. It is the kind
Of work which is modern in spirit but
traditional in fact. holding fast TO the
best of the old and assimilating and
adapting what Is most worth while in
the new. Her style Is broad and DASH
ing. Her paintings were characterized
for good many years by marked indi-
viduality-an individuality which swept
the beholder off his feet because of
extraordinary cleverness. Her later
work is more studied, more compact.
more experienced, but no whit less
vigorous or personal.
Jane Peterson has studied under
BrangWyn, Blanche ana Sorolla, ana
her work shows to sCme extent the In
fluence of each of these masters. Her
use of strong line definite boundaries
of color, recalls Brangwyn; her nice
adjustment of values, Blanche, and
the sunny, gay quality in her work
may be regarded as souvenir OF her
months with Sorolla.
She has painted in many parts OF
this country-at Gloucester, in the
Canadian Rockies-here and there.
She has also painted abroad, in Spain,
Venice. France. She has even painted
in Constantinople. and has the honor
IS a. h.
American Painters Association OF that
great Eastern capital.
Miss Peterson exhibits with the Ma
tional Academy of Design, the New
York Water Color Club, the American
\Water Color Society. the National AS
sociation of Women Painters and Scu!p-
tors, and the North Shore Arts Asso-
citation, organizations OF which. In most
instances, she is member. Numerous
prizes have been awarded to her by her
colleagues, showing appreciation in the
profession The Brooklyn Museum the
Syracuse Art Museum and other pubic
galleries, as we'll as numerous. private
collectors own her works.
The exhibition opening here at this
time will include city and seaside pic,
lures. as we'll as still life studies and
flowers. A very characteristic example
is a picture of Venice painted from the
window of a room which Whistler one
time occupied and thus giving pre-
cisely the view that must have ire
Quently met his eye.
This exhibition will continue at the
Arts Club for two weeks. when it will
be replaced by group of water colorS
and etchings by Lesley jackson OF this
city, and a collection of original draw
ings for book jackets lent by New YORK.
publishers.
An extremely interesting program vi
fortnightly exhibitions from now to the
last of next May has been arranged by
the art committee of the Arts Club,
including works by local and out-of-
town artists-a program Of diversity In
interest and upheld to high standard.
Among the out-of-toWn artists VINO
have promised to send exhibits are
Henry B. Smell, Henrietta Wyeth, the
daughter of Nathan c. Wyeth, well
known illustrator; Marion Hawthorne,
the wife of Charles w Hawthorne. and
Gertrude G. Brown Of Ipswich, Mass.
Among the local artists who will present
invited exhibits are Marguerite G.
Mum, Clara r. Saunders, Mary Hlley
and Hattie E. Burdette. Among the
etchers exhibiting will be Philip Kappeu
and Frank w. Benson.
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THE Corcoran Gallery of Art will not
l. begin its special exhibitions until
khe latter part of this month, but from
November %, when the first OF this
series opens, there will be successive
showings until and through May.
Most notable among these, perhaps:
are two international exhibits. one OF
the works of contemporary Belgian
painters, under the patronage OF the
Relpian Ambassador; the other Of works
Of Canadian artists of today, which the
Canadian minister will sponsor. The
Belgian exhibition is the first on the
program. Invitations to the private
view on october "a will shortly be is
sued.
AT the Corcoran Gallery of Art is
"A now to be seen in the special ex-
hibition gallery on the second moor 10
the right of the main staircase, col
lection of drawings by the late Jonn
Singer Sargent which has been pre-
sented to the National Gallery OF Art by
Mr. Sargents two sisters. Miss Emily
Sargent and Mrs. Violet Ormond.
To the student of art these drawings
are of enormous interest and value
Even in the present day when drafts
nanship is said to have gone out OF
fashion they give indication OF the
sound structure on which Sargent art
was based and his reputation estab-
ings were made swiftly, surely and with
ease, but it is fact that Sargent did
not invariably draw easily, that draw
ing to him was always a feat, and that
whatever he drew he approached in the
spirit of conteSt-difficulties to be over
come, success to be achieved; not as
a plum drops softly into ones hand, but
as q crown to be won.
Some of the drawings in this collec-
finn were preliminary studies for his
paintings in the Boston Museum; some
are of still life objects The ma ajority,
however. are of heads, arms, legs, bodies
in various positions.
Even to the uninitiated this collection
gives indication of the enormous
amount of STUDY att OF effort, tie cor
tinuous process of learning that any
great artist must go through and does
carry on continually, gladly. AS soon
as the learning process ceases. as long
as there is nothing beyond to strive for.
the Joy of production is at an end. The
great Sargent was perpetual student,
q tireleSS worker---one who loved not
only art but the labor of production, the
effort of striving to do not only well,
but better-always better.
DuRING the Summer the Corgoran
IL Gallery of Art has made some
changes in the re-arrangement OF the
rugs in the Clark collection. Two or
three of those that were in the base
ment heretofore have been brought to
upper galleries and placed on display
One, a unique piece, an Ispahan rug OF
the sixteenth century. wonderful In de-
sign. exquisite in color. is now to be
seen in one of the picture galleries on
the first floor entered through the Cor
coran Galley's sculpture hans: