Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

out realization of discrepancy" This state of
things in Australia is passing, and in Victoria
National Gallery of Art has been established
and is conducted along liberal and efficient
lines
This exhibition of Australian art, under the
patronage Of the prime minister of Australia,
was brought to this country and is being circu-
lated hsre by the International Art Center of
the Roerich Museum New York, with the pur-
pose of creating better international under
standing 1t has &ready been shown in New
York and will later go to other prominent
cities.
MISS FRANCES r. GRANT vice president
of the International Art Center of the
Roerich Museum, gave an interesting lecture
last Tuesday morning at the Washington Club
on the life and work of Nicholas Roerich, hon
orary president, and guiding spirit in the de-
velopment Of this great center of activity in
New York
The Roerichs, Miss Grant said were an old
Icelandic family one of the Oldest families in
Europe, but had migrated to Russia years before
Nicholas Roerich was born. His boyhood home
was great estate in Northern Russia, on
which, with boys curiosity, one day he dis
covered in a great mound relic of the Stone
Age. His father was lawyer and though his
inclinations were toward art he studied at the
university ard also at the academy Finally
his skill as an artigt being fully demonstrated,
he was allowed to follow his own inc1inations
teachers great Russian artist, had originally
been a peasant shepherd boy and his influence
helped strongly to mold Roerich'S attitude
toward life. Before the revolution Roerich was
represented in the National Gallery at Moscow,
was teaching art, was helping to establish tn .
great Russian ballet and also the Moscow
Theater. In 1919, through an exhibition in
London, an invitation was extended to him to
come to this country and exhibit at the Art
Institute of Chicago That exhibition was on
the road in this country for nearly three years,
by which time Roerich had determined to make
the United States henceforth his home, and
had placed his two sons as students at Harvard.
In 1920 or 1921 the first of the present group
of organizations included in the International
Art Center was established, school, in a single
room in the Fifty streets, New York Today
little more than 10 years later, the Roerich
Museum and its related activities own a great
skyscraper building at 80 Riverside drive New
York, designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett, well
known New York architect which houses the
Roer1ch Museum, the Art Center, the Art
School and other outreaching activities.
Meanwhile Prof. Roerich, his wife and ore
son, an orientalist, spent five years. from 1929
TO 1923, in the heart of Asia. exploring Kash-
mir, Thibet and other 1itt1e-trayeled countries
From that trip Roerich brought back with him
to this country 500 paintings. Selections of
THESE were shown by Miss Grant last Tuesday
through the medium of stereopticon slides
and proved extremely impressive to the audi
the elemental evidencing the power of the
painter to enter into the habit of thought of
various peoples of past well as present time
Miss Grant herself has Travelled extensively in
Asia and South America, the latter with the
purpose Of inviting exhibitions to this country
fulfilling the objects of the International Art
Center.
The conjunction of Miss Grants lecture in
this city and the Australian exhibition at the
Arts Club was peculiarly fortunate.
IN the National Gallery of Art United States
National Museum, a memorial exhibition of
water colors of Egypt. Greece, France, Italy
and England, by Henry Bacon of Boston, opened
yesterday to continue to April 30
This Henry Bacon (who should not be con-
fused with the architect of the Lincoln Memo
r1al although the name is identicaD was born
at Haverhill, Mass, October 8, 1882 and died
In March, 1912. He studied at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts in Paris and under Gerome Edward
Frere and Cabanel. Between 1863 and 1895 he
exhibited no less than IS times in the Salon.
Paris, and his pictures were invariably hung on
the line Many of his works were subject pic
lures, such as Boston Boys and Gen Gage"
THE Burial at Sea-" Taking on the Pilot" ans
Little Boo-Peep"-pictures belonging esssas-,
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