Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01


Gallery of Art. In the local field of
art this is one of the principal events
Of the year, and those who visit the exhibition
will find it upheld to the high standard of ex-
hibitions set forth under the auspices Of this
organization in the past.
The Corcoran Gallery Of Art has generously
set aside the gallery to the left of the staircase
for the Water Color Clubs use during March.
the exhibition extending from today through
March IS. But so many excellent paintings
were submitted to the jury that additional space
was requested and granted on an adjacent wall
In the atTium, and the collection Of etchings
and wood-block prints which is a part of the
showing, is shown in the atrium cases.
While almost no works in this exhibition are
IN the manner Of the extreme modernist school,
the exhibition as a whole reflects gratifyingly
the changes that have taken place in the art
Of painting in the last 10 years, and the works
are fresh, colorful, strong and essentially up tc
date.
Washington has every reason to be proud
Of its local painters, and especially its painters
in water color but it must be confessed that
IN the present exhibition some Of the strongest
and finest work comes from out Of town. For
example, there are included in this collection
two brilliant water colors by John Whorf of
Boston, one of the finest water colorists we
have in this country today, with style all his
own, amazingly skilful, an innovator, leader
Mr.. Whorf has to an extent specialized in
boats, painting and sketching from small
boat of his own In Boston Harbor the ships
that come and go in that great port. He sends
to this exhibition a characteristic boat picture,
but also a picture Of wind-blown palm trees,
possibly in Florida or in the West Indies, sill
houetted against a dramatic, clouded sky.
Whorfs water color painting has the brilliance
and the verve that one found some years ago
in the oil paintings Of Sorolla but there is no
similarity between the two.
From Henry c. PITT of Drexel Hill, Philadel-
phia, have come two paintings rendered in a
manner not altogether unlike Mr.. Whorf's.
One Is q landscape in which there is dazzling
effect of sunlight and shadow rendered with
great simplicity.
From Philadelphia have come also two ex-
cellent paintings by Catherine Morris Wright,
gifted daughter Of Harrison Morris, at one
time director of the Pennsylvania Academy.
One Of these is q painting of house-plain,
undressing facade but rendered that it
seems to possess great CHARM the other is an
interesting flight Of steps leading, presumably,
to a barn door, on which Is a flock of chickens
in ascent or descent Mrs. Wright draws with
great accuracy and her paintings invariably
have both style and distinction.
Oh different character, but extremely at
tractive are two paintings done in the West
Indies by Constance Cochrane, a pupil of FL
lott Daingerfield and Henry B. Smell, an
alumnae of the Philadelphia School of Design
for Women one Of the Ten Philadelphia
Painters. Both of these pictures are rendered
somewhat as the late James Henry Moser
painted, with a sense Of dignity and quiet, with
a beautiful reticence Of expression, but at the
same time the use of rich color-paintings with
which one would delight to live
From Elisabeth Spalding of Colorado has
come interesting still life, vase of flowers
painted broadly but with the simplicity at
tanned by experience, knowledge. Felicie Howell,
formerly of Washington, now of New York, has
sent a charming boat picture, group of pleas
ure craft with their white sails like flock Of
white butterflies, standing off from a wharf
start Of Bermuda Race" From George PeaTse
Ennis whose water colors have been frequently
hkened to those of Winslow Homer have come
two subjects painted at Eastport, Me-, rugged
and strong, suggestive Of marine life and char