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department Of the Carnegie Institute Pitts
burgh. The American section viii be assem-
bed by and under the charge Of Leila Mechlin.
who has been appointed director.
1t Is thought that this International exhibi-
taon held In connection with the Olympic should
increase interest in sports as suitable subjects
for representation in art as well as create an
artistic event of note The project as a whole
Is sponsored by the American Federation of
Arts. The organization Office Is in the Barr
Building
THE well known art dealers, NJ Knoedler &C.
Co OF New York, celebrating the
eighty-fifth anniversary of their establishment
by an exhibition entitled "A Print Lovers Hum
dred" which comprises engravlngs, etchngs,
wood cuts and Autographs by the most dis
tmguished engravers ano etchers of all nations
from the fifteenth century to the present time.
Such names illumine this list as those of Durer
Holbein, Rembrandt, Ruysdael, Pironesi Man,
teuil and, coming down to a later day Forain
1ngres, lie Gros, Lepere, Cameron, Haden and
Zorn.
The United States has in this great assem-
blage four representatives-for the nineteenth
century, Whistler; for the twentieth century
Childe Hassam, Frank W. Benson and John
Taylor Arms. What greater honor could one
have than to be given place in such an as
Semblage
John Taylor Arms was born in this city in
1887 and spent his boyhood here He was
trained as architect. studying at the Boston
Institute OF Technology. He entered, after his
graduation, we'll known architects office but
he was msistenuy and irresistibly an etcher,
and he has been fortunate enough to be able
to devote himself entirely in recent years to
etching. He Is now the president of the Ameri-
can Society of Etchers, which is holding its
annual exhibition at the National
New York, and he is holding one-man exhibi-
uon OF his recent works at Kennedy & Co.s,
has publishers. His works are in such demand
that they never remain long either at the pub
hshed price or on the market. Yet he is well
represented here at the present time In the
Washington Water Color Clubs annual ex-
hibtion print section, and in the group set
forth simultaneously at the Corcoran Gallery
by the newly formed Society of Miniature
Painters, Sculptors and Gravers of which he
has become a member The little etchings in
cluded In this latter showing were made origi-
nal1y as Christmas cards. Fortunate indeed are
those Of the intimate circle to whom they have
been distributed.
Quite number of Mr. Arms etchngs have
been reproduced as Illustrations for books of
travel. written by his gifted wife Dorothy
Noyes Arms-Such, for instance, as Churches
OF France, published co-ple of years ago and
selling in limited edition with an original
etching as frontispiece, for 500. This COM
elnation OF author and Illustrator, the husband
providing the pictorial features, the wife the
text, recalls another well known etcher and his
talented life companion, Joseph and Elizabeth
Robbins Pennell. Mrs. Arms in her writing has
something of Mrs. Pennels light touch, but q
style distinctly her own second volume
Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy" has
been prepared by Mr.. and Mrs. Arms and was
announced for publication last October but
postponed by the publishers because of preva-
lent financial conditions until Spring or later.
Mr., Arms occasionally does a bit of writing
himself and has contributed extremely
Skllhul and appreciative introductionS or fore
words to catalogues of exhibitions by his fellow
print makers. There is certainly no more skill
full craftsman or technician today among the
etchers than he, none who in the estimation
Of experts stands higher.
HE Eliot OHara exhibition at Gordon Dun
thornes continues to attract attention and
call forth praise. His water colors set forth
great variety of subject matter and in way
which is simple and at the time aluring
What looks as though easily done always at
tracts and charms, but as those who have
tried know only too well, an appearance of ease
and simplicity is the reward of labor, not the
starting point of endeavor
AS mediur' water color is exceptionally sem
sitlVe and requires a sure hand we'll as
correct eye. An oil painting may be created
and repainted, but the effect in a water color
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