Evening star., 1930-12-11
EXHIBIT ODE OPEN
/ TO PUBLIC TONIGHT
CorCoran Gallery to Have
Second Evening Showing of
Contemporary Paintings.

For the second time since the exhi-
bition opened 10 days ago, the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art win hold open
house tonight for all who wish to visit
the Twelfth Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Oil PAINTINGS.
The night showing. arranged with
the cooperation of the Washington So
ciety OF the Fine Arts is for the spe-
cial benefit of those who have found It
inconvenient to attend during the day.
The first of the night showings was held
last Thursday, with a response that
gallery officials characterized as erati-
Tying. In view of the great public in
terest being shown in the exhibition an
even larger turnout is expected tonight
The gallery will be open this evening
from until 10:30 O'Clock, The ex-
hibition also Is open to the public every
weekday from 8 to 4:30 o'clock, except
on Monday. when the hours are noon
to O'Clock, and on Sunday from to
O'Clock. The institution will be closed
on Christmas day. but wills be open
New Year day from 2 to o'clock.
There is no charge for admission.
Fourth Picture Bought.
The Corcoran Gallery has purchased
another picture in the exhibition, 1t was
learned today. This Is Bryson Bur-
roughs' painting "Demeter and Perse-
phone" Three other pictures previous
~ had been acquired for the perma-
nent collection Of the gallery. They are
Maurice Sterne's After Lunch" winner
of first prize in the w. A. Clark
awards; John Mobiles Early Morning"
and John r. Grabach's River Barges, I"
Praise Of the exhibition continues to
reach the gallery from varied sources,
including art circles and the press. It
Is noted that the art critic Of the New
York Times, Edward Alden Jewell re-
ported to his paper that, taken all in
all, 1t tthe exhibition) is the best big
group show OF contemporary American
painting the present writer has ever
seen."
Quoting from the foreword in the
catalogue of the exhibition, Mr., Jewell
points out that 1T has been the aim
of the trustees, through the close and
sympathetic cooperation of the jury of
selection, to present to the public an
exhibition of oil paintings that accu-
rately reflects the trend Of contem-
porary painting in America; that illus
trates as completely as possible what
American painters of today are doing;
that is broad and fully representative
in its scope and character, and that
includes the best available works exem-
plifying the different schools and phases
OF painting as they now exist in this
country"
Says Aim Realized
Inspection of the work placed on
view," the critic wrote, "% prompts
one to affirm that this aim has been
admirably realized. Walking
through the several rooms In which
these 1896 canvases have been hung, one
experiences a genial warming of the
heart; confesses very definite sense of
encouragement.
I'VE have our ups and downs, certain
ly, in watching the development of
American art; an exhibition such as
this gives welcome impetus to the per-
suasion that American artists have al
ready accomplished fine things and TO
the persuasion, likewise, that, given an
opportunity to bring forth our best,
we need not in the least adopt o dep
recatory tone in recommending the
work Of native artists to he attention
Of the world at large"