Evening star., 1930-05-11

ROYAL Bailey Farnum of the Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence formerly principal
of the Massachusetts, School of Art, is president
of the council; Leon Loyal Winslow, director of
art in Baltimore secretary.
The meetings of the council will also be at
the Mayfower Hotel.
What promises to be most interesting
Nv report ON color names and a color exhibit
will be presented here in Washington Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week in connection with
a convention to be held by the United States
Pharmacopoeia. The United States Pharna-
copoeia is a legal standard for drugs and
medicines and its revision is authorized at the
beginning of each decennum by convention
of physicians and pharmacists. In connection
with the last revision it was noted that many
color names were used in haphazard way and
a study of color names and their Standardization
was undertaken.
The sessions of this convention will be held
at the Willard Hotel
A THOUGH late in the season, Washing
"A tonians and visitors to Washington will
find in the local galleries exceptionally IN
teresting exhibitions on view at this time.
At the Corcoran Gallery of Art there is not
only the Davies Memorial exhibition, which
is extraordinarily comprehensive and important,
but also an interesting group OF recent pOr-
traits by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, which
will be placed on view today and reviewed ut
length in these columns later.
At the National Gallery of Art is the
Hungarian exhibition, which increases IN in
terest upon acquaintance. At the Philips
Memorial Gallery there Is special exhibition
of recent paintings by Mrs. Phillips in the
Little Gallery in addition to the studies for
mural paintings by Augustus Vincent Tack, to
which reference has previously been made. At
the Yorke Gallery the adventurous English
artist, Vivian Guy, is exhibiting and at the
Arts Club are to be seen paintings by Minor
S. Jameson and pictorial photographs by Paul
p Steintorf. In the Library of Congress the
special attractions are the Pennen Memorial
exhibition and pictorial photographs Of Fred-
ericksburg by Frances Benjamin Johnston. The
Smithsonian Institution. division of graphic
arts, United States National Museum, is show
ing etchings by Gordon Grant and others.
THE exhibition Of paintings by Marjorie Phil-
May 81 comprises Is works In oil landscapes,
still life and genre-the majority of which
were produced during the past few months.
AL were included In an exhibition held recently
in New York and very favorably commented
upon by critics.
More and more MRS. Phillips is developing
q style of her own, but as her work increases
in assurance 1t loses none OF its naive charm.
There Is no doubt that Mrs. Phillips has been
influenced by the works of the modern French
masters but she Is not one who blindly follows,
and from the first her paintings have pos
sessed marked individuality. Her landscapes,
while simple in manner of Interpretation, adj
mirably set forth contours and interpret with
amazing accuracy forms as seen in mass. Her
painting In this exhibition "On the Ridge"
is an excellent example, broad view of hills
and tree-grown valleys beautifully patterned
across the canvas-realistic and at the same
time essentially artiStic-an Interpretation
which carries conviction of fact.
Frequently Mrs. Phillips introduces figures
into her landscapes, usually child figures, thus
"a
man, interpreting the spirit Of one while evi-
dencing the spirit of the other. For instance,
'The Kite" q lovely composition in which the
figure Of q child flying kite is of chief in
tereSt and essential to the composition. THE
Vegetable Garden" THE Birthday Party" and
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