Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

he PnnnpS memorial Gallery issued last week
its educational program for the season of
1892, and although Mr.. Phillips in fore
word states that for the present we educate
under difficulties" there is an amazing amount
Of opportunity here offered.
On Thursday evenings in November, Deem
Der and January informal conferences viii be
held at the gallery The November conferences
wiz be under the general topic, 1.-THE Artist
Sees Differently" In December the three talks
will be on Christian Religious Art" before
the fourteenth century. Giotto and some Italian
primitives of the Renaissance and Of today.
The January talks will be on the Influences
of FL Greco, Cezanne and Van Gogh." Visitors
and friends of the gallery are welcomed to
these informal meetings for which there is no
admission charge, but those wishing to attend
are requested to give their names to Miss Bier
in order that they may receive notices and
be placed.
Special courses in drawing and painting
announced, consisting of three studio classes
and one lecture weekly: painting and life classes
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from to >
pm. There is an experimental course for pro-
fessional painters, amateur sketch class,
Tuesday life class and high school students
Saturday course. Artists who wish studio space
privately for their own work are offered facili-
ties. Groups desiring decent service gallery
talks by members of the staff may arrange for
such in advance. Teachers in public and pri-
vate schools may conduct their classes In mod
ern art in the gallery, using as illustrations
original pictures and small gallery on the @
street level, at the foot of the main staircase,
has been set aside for the exhibition of works
of artists who at one time or another have
worked or studied in the gallery studios, many
of which are for sale.
A small group Of pictures from the Phillips
Memorial Gallery is lent to the art section or
the Public Library. Ninth and X streets where
q well rounded library on modern art Is avail
A Enflo
ton of Arts travelling exhibitions are no less
than three this year Of paintings le1t by this
more than generous institution, lie Phillips
Memorial Gallery of Washington.
THE formal opening of Sears, Roebuck q Co.'S
galleries at 1106 Connecticut avenue Will
take the form of a private view Tuesday eve
ming, November g. for which cards of invitation
have been issued. From Wednesday, November
4, to the end Of the month"; they viii be free
to the public.
showing will consist of paintings by Mr.. and
Mrs Albert Herter of New York and California.
Mr.. Herter, it will be remembered, is one Of
those who rendered large service in recreating
an interest in tapestry-making in this country,
and for many years conducted the Herter
Looms, but he is also a competent painter
and an extremely gifted designer. Included in
this exhibition will be certain sumptuous pieces
of silk textiles that Mr. Herter has designed
and executed by an entirely method, ma
terials which rival in beauty both Of design
and color the fabrics produced in Italy dur
ing the great Renaissance.
There will also be included In this show
ing group Of paintings by w. Lester Stevens
of Rockport, Mass. and Princeton, N. j.. one
of the strongest of younger painters and
of the most sincere. In the section Of
black and white there win be a delightful
series Of illustrative drawings in pen and ink
by Thornton Oakley, one Of our leading
American illustrators, made as illustrations for
books of travel In France, Spain and Italy
written by his gifted wife, Amy Oakley.
American etchers will be represented adj
mirably by Andre Smith, who is both ira
ditional and modern, working at pleasure In
either one, a brilliant technician, o very genu-
inc artist. Dewing Woodward, one time Of the
Blue Dome Fraternity near Kingston in the
Catskils, later of Florida, will show a group
Of silver points. There will be small bronzes
and fashion show
= ORDON DUNTHORNE has, within the last
- week, removed his galleries block farther
south on Connecticut avenue and is now
occupying rooms in the Mayhower at the corr
ner of Connecticut avenue and De Sales street.
where he is showing some rare and interesting
prints
Opening tomorrow, an exhibition of Iitho-
graphs by Albert w. Barker OF MoyIan Penn
will be shown in these galleries Mr. Barker
though appearing only recently as a print
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