Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
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works directly from nature on the wood and
each line made with his graver Is a permanent
record. Among the wood gravures which he IL
showing here in the present exhibition are
Landscapes, architectural themes, portrait and
boats. He is also showing picture Of Gilbert
StuaTts birthplace, in Rhode Island for the
preservation Of which as a permanent memorial
organized effort is being made.
Mr. TOttle spent some little time in wash
ingtOn . year ago and made a number Of wood
gTavures Of local subjects. Unfortunately he
met, Of late with a serious automobile accident
in which he sustained fracture of the leg. He
sttn expects TO be in Washington before the
close Of the exhibition, which viii continue
through February %.
THE second Of the series Of the seasons ex-
hibitions at the Phillips Memorial Gallery
brings TO those who are familiar with the
Phillips collections old friends in new arrange
ments and some new acquaintance, the entire
series Of galleries having been rehung In the
main gallery one finds again with pleasure
Renosr's Boating Party at Luncheon" Fantin-
Latour's portrait Of Mile. Sonia, Corots Woman
With water JAR" Daumiers Uprising" Char
dins beautiful still life, "A Bowl OF Pfuns,"
and our own George Fuller's exquisitely painted
Ideal Head" besides the self portrait Of
Cezanne, which Is recognized as one Of the
ganery's masterpieces and other congenial wen
known works
Romance and Satire OF the Nineteenth Cen.
tury," including Delacroixs exquisite portrait Of
Pagantni, and, hanging next it in congenia1
comradeship, Daumiers brilliant little picture
THE Three Lawyers" There are four other
Daunniers IN this group two Ryders. Macbeth
and the Witches" and "Moonlit Cove; q Maris,
and two Guys-al memorable
In the Little Gallery now known Gallery
"A, there is . group setting forth Pictorial Lam
guage Of the People, Direct and Spontaneous,
or Styli2ed by Sophisticated Admirers of the
Primitive"-such as Walt Kuhn's clown In
Black Wig" painted in so direct a manner that
it Is almost painfully forceful bowling over the
observer at q first glance. Here are paintings
by Kane, "Old Pittsburgh; Coleman, THE
News at Sunset; Chariot, Mexican Night"
and Witt THE Seine at Paris done in O
manner reminiscent Of what we might call our
American primitives-childlike and yet paro-
doxically sophisticated. Here is painting Of
Samoa" by Elshemius, which savors Of the
influence Of Gauguin, or perhaps little Of our
own La Fargo, and somewhat cynical satire
on modern life by Ffene, Fall Of Old Houses"
Under the title 1.-THE New Decorative Idioms
IN Painting" in Gallery G, are shown works
by prague, Please, MarcouSsis, Lurcat, Kantor,
O'Keefe, Knaths, Halpert and Graham, de-
scrtbed as straight and curved lines-receding,
advancing and superimposed pIanes-a con.
s1deratiOn Of surfaces and edges-harmonies Of
unusual, intermediate tones The metamor.
phOsis Of objects into symbols. An intellectual
aeStnetlclSm OF formal relations presented with
subtle tayte"-workS so far advanced beyond
the boundaries Of the familiar that many win
find them difficult of comprehension.
The memorial exhibition of the works Of
Preston Dickinson, which occupies Gallery d,
comprises eight paintings. one or two Of which
are familiar through previous showing such as
Harlem in Winter" All are of rather dreary
type and convey a sense of depression rather
than joyousness
In Gallery Is shown q group of 10 paint
ings which are said to illustrate Twentieth
Century LyTicism," lyricism which apparently
disregards the traditional amenities Of beauty.