Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
CORCORAN EXHIBIT
OPENED TO PUBLIC
Collection of Contemporary
Paintings to Be Shown
Through January II.

The Twelfth Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Oil Paintings
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art opened
formally last night before a brilliant
company Of invited spectators, and to-
day the exhibition will be thrown open
to the general public for a six-week
period ending January IL next.
A striking array of works of leading
American artists, including four paint
| ings recently singled out by a jury of
prominent artists for the biennial
! w. A. Clark Prize Awards, greeted the
throng of distinguished guests at the
private showing last night.
A representative assemblage of official
and private society of the Capital
an event Of national Importance from
a social as well as an art standpoint.
While the formality Of a receiving
line was dispensed with, trustees and
other officials of the Corcoran Gallery
| were on hand to meet the guests. The
committee on the exhibition was COM
posed of James Parmelee, chairman;
G. Powell Minnigerode, director of the
gallery and secretary, and r. M. Kauff-
mann, trustee.
Interest gravitated toward the prize
composed of Daniel CARRIER, chairman;
Childe HaSsam, Charles Hopkinson
Leon Kroll and w. Elmer Schoheld.
Prize Work Purchased.
1t was disclosed for the first time
last night that the painting after
Lunch" by Maurice Sterne, interna-
tionally known artist of New York,
which won first prize OF $4,000 and the
Corcoran gold medal, has been pur-
chased for the permanent collection of
the Corcoran Gallery by authority of
the trustees A notice to this effect
was posted beside the picture, a still
life" showing table with a bowl of
pansies and dishes remaining from a
simple midday repast.
In acquiring the Sterne picture it
is apparent that trustees of the gallery
are following policy generally adhered
to In the past in connection with SINH
lar contests. A study of the gallery's
permanent collection of American
paintings shows that the work of vir-
tually all flrst-prize winners of the
past is represented This policy will
give the institution a group of pictures
passed upon by notable juries, showing
the chronological development of art
in America
Two other paintings in the exhibition
dAoO nave Deen purchased lot the GAL
lery's permanent collection They are
John Mobiles Early Morning" and
John r. Grabachs River Barges."
Other Prize Winners.
Other prize winning pictures inspect
ed last night were Clifford Beal's Circus
Girl" which won second prize of 81, 500
and the Corcoran silver medal; Edmund
Archer'S Show Girl" which received
third award of 81 900 and the Corcoran
bronze medal, and Joseph M Plavcan's
Mechanic Street, New Hope Pa" which
was awarded fourth prize of $500 and
the Corcoran certificate of honorable
mention
The population of Americas art world
was we'll represented among the guests
who passed in and out of the many
rooms devoted to the showing of the
395 paintings by 287 artists, composing
the colorful collection. Mr. Sterne, Mr..
Beal and Mr.. Archer were observed
among the guests. Each received the
congratulations of his friends
Permanent works of art in the Amer
lean section of the gallery's collection
were removed temporarily to provide
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