Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15

dering are both out of the ordinary There In
much OF real beauty in her Irish themes
Bank OF FoxgloveS,' a row of flowers in the i'm
mediate foreground and mountain green and
glortously lighted, in the distance her Road
Round Ireland" an engaging composition, and
her Irish Gpsies," full of the human touch
Her Island Haven" listed in the PASSPORT sub
Jects is also engaging, excellent study of
rugged rocks and swirling water
The Gloucester subjects are interesting but
perhaps more usual whereas the portrait
memories outstep completely the realm of the
real The Lutte Player" suggests the distorted
image one sees in the bowl of q spoon, but the
Woman of Connemara" has haunting eyes
which the beholder will not soon forget.
No one can see this exhibition without both
admiration and curiosity-the former for what
Miss Macintosh has done, the latter for what
she will do later
Miss Osgood shows IS paintings-still Iife
portraits, coast scenes and landscapes, some
what broadly rendered and with great sim
certify. Some we're painted in New Mexico,
others in Maine and presumably still others
here in Washington.
BRYANT BAKER, who for some time had a
= studio in Washington, has = just won
through competition the commission for the
Willard Fillmore statue to be placed on the
facade of the City Hall, Buffalo. The choice
was made by layman's committee under the
advice OF group of experts including the
acting director of the Albright Art Gallery
architect and Mrs. Evelyn Rumsey Lord
Mr. Baker also produced the statue OF
Grover Cleveland which is likewise for place
nnent on the Buffalo City Hall. He has made
busts OF Presidents Taft, Coolidge and Hoover
and has recently been at work on marble
statues Of Caesar Rodney and John NJ Clay
ton commissioned by the State of Delaware
for Statuary Han in the Capitol. But he is
probably best known for his picturesque "Pio-
neer woman" entered in the competition in
stituted by Mr. MARYLAND Of Ponca City, Okla
which won the prize and dedicated last
year
Mr. Baker Is an Englishman by birth a grad
uate Of the Royal Academy. He and his brother
came to this country in 1915 and he has re-
Gently become a naturalized citizen.
THE Freer Gallery of Art announces series
OF lectures illustrated with stereopticon
slides on the Literary Backgrounds of Islamc
Painting in Persia" by Sir Edward Denison
Ross, to be given in the auditorium of the
Freer Gallery on the afternoons of Saturday
November 81, Monday, November %, and
wednesday, November IS, at 4:45 o'clock The
first lecture will be entitled THE Epies" the
second will be on "Timurid Literature" and the
third on "Safavid Literature" Sir E. Denison
Ross was one Of the committee of arrangements
Tor the resent exhibition in London of Persian
arts, and is the author of "The Persians" re-
Gently published by the Oxford Press. He IS
to give the eight Kahn lectures at Princeton,
the four Cooke-DanielS lectures in Denver and
the six Harris lectures at Northwestern Uni
versity while in this country. The lectures to
be given at the Freer Gallery are free to the
public and are of special significance because
of the gallerys comprehensive collection Of
paintings of Islamic Persia of the various
periods upon which Sir Denison Ross will
touch. The wealth of the Freer Gallery in
this particular field is not generally known
but its collection of Persian paintings is Of
such character and quality that it is already
attracting students frcm all parts of the world
HE second of the special print exhibitions in
the Smithsonian Institution opened No
vember 2, to continue throughout the month
and consists of Autographs, etchings and block
prints by G. A Seward of Wichita Kans OF
this collection AZ prints are Autographs only
seven etchings and four block prints but Mr.
Seward Is primarily lithcgrapher
Born In Chase, Kans., March f. 1884 he is
chiefly self-taught but has profted by instruc-
ton from Albert T. Reid, George NJ Stone and
Burger Sandzen. For some time he was art
director OF the Western Lithographic Co He
Is member of the Artists Guild of Wichita
Cne wichita Art Association. the California
Print Makers Society, the Northwest Print