Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22


The art which he and his associates practiced
ct that time was very similar IN purpose and
style TO that Of John Rogers In sculpture
pictorial story telling, but skillful and sinceTS
the art Of . world which wanted to be amused
and was m q measure puritanical. All OF
Henry Bacons works found ready SALE were
engraved and published and much appreciated.
Then came q series of marine subjects. He
was an industrious producer. For time he
devoted his attention to writing, wen as
painting, and produced with success volumes
entitled Partisan Art and Artists" "a Partisan
Year" and two story books for children which
he himself illustrated. 1t was comparatively
late in life that he turned to water color paint
ing, but after mastering this medium he held
to 1t consistently. 1t was while painting in
water color that he visited Egypt, the Near
East and produced some of his finest works, and
a number of those by which he is represented
in the present exhibition. He used always
clear wash, and worked on white paper, sones
what in the manner Of the English. OF special
note are his paintings of sculpture in relief.
such as fragments of the Frieze of Phidias on
the Parthenon.
It is said that Bacon was less influenced by
the great masters of the past. such as Rene
brandt Velasquez and Raphael than by the
masters Of the present and that he never
tired Of looking with admiration and delight
at the water colors of Jacquemart or at thu
oil paintings Of Sargent and Constable. He waa
one of those keenly sensitive to beauty iu
nature and art, man of cultivated mind and
gentle instinct, one of rare culture and charm
Of personality, all of which shows in his arr,
TN Paris at the present time notable exhfbhs
ton Of the works of Bourdelle is being held
These are shown in the Museum Of the OraTKa
gerie in the Tuileries, and on the terrace id
front of the museum. In the former are 170
sculptures including details of large monumenta
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sketches. Outside are to be seen q replic@
of his immense equestrian statue OF Gen. Ais
year in Buenos Aires, and the colossal gildeo
bronze, Virgin of Alsace." made in 1922 and
erected in Niederbruck. Included In this greaA
exposition is his Dying Centaur," which Ne
longs to the Beaux Arts; the Hercules Archer,S
owned by Luxembourg and many other well
known pieces, including bust of Rodin. The
Phillips Memorial Gallery IN this city owns
a small edition of Bowdele's Virgin" small nd
actual measure but large in significance
It is not generally known that Bourdelle'M
niece and former pupil, Fanny Bunand-Sevass
tos, has for more than year made her home
here In Washington. Employed at the Pana
American Union, this young artist has beeH
steadily producing IN spare time as q painter
and now, with an American girl, Angela CSreg4
DRY Of New Orleans, likewise student of BolHS
dele, she Is holding an exhibition of her worhe
for two weeks, March is to 81, at the Chars
coal Club, Baltimore, and later, from April Isl
Will exnlDa6 Tor q fortnight here at the Art9
Club. The work Of both of these young women
IS very modernistic in trend
HAROLD WESTON, an exhibition of whose
work Is featured at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery this month, was, one learns from thu
catalogue Of the exhibition lately issued born
at Merton, Pa, In 1894, graduated at Harvard
in 1915; was In the Far East with the Y NJ c.
A., attached TO the British Army, 1916 to 1914
in India and Mesopotamia, where he organized
an art club IN Bagdad, 1917-1918; caravaned
through Persia 1918 and 1919 Then for thre6
years he lived and painted in an isolated part
OF the Adirondack Mountains In 1923 ha
married and from 1926 to 1880 he and his wira
lived In the Pyrenees in primitive village and
there several Of the paintings in the preSena
group were conceived He has held exhibitions
in the Montrose Galleries. New York from 1923
to 1880, and other one-man shows at RochesteR.
Cleveland Washington, Philadelphia Chicago
ana st. Louis. The current exhibition Wa1
shown lately in the last. He is self-taugft
HE lecture by Rudolph Meyer Reifstahl %
the Freer Gallery Of Art March IL, marked
the opening TO the public of two galleries q
art Of the Near East and of East Indian
art acquired within the last few years anA
not heretofore exhibited. These are the RasR
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