Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22

both modern and traditional in the same breath.
WITH Lydia Bush Browns silk murals will be
shown at the Arts Club for the next fort@
night sculpture by Clara HILL director of the
Hill School of Art of this city
Miss Hill comes OF an artistic family HeH
father, 1t will be remembered was an engravera
long head of the division of engraving of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and also a
violinist of exceptional skill, member of the
old Georgetown Orchestra. Miss Hill studied
under Saint-Gaudens and others, and has ex>
hbited extensively. She has real sense o1
plastic form and very sympathetic and under~
standing technique Some of her portraits in
relief and small bronzes have almost a classic
beauty.
IN the reception room at the Arts Club fron
today until March collection of wateH
colors by Carolyn Bradley of Indianapolis win
be view. Miss Bradley studied at the john
Heron Art Institute and with Henry B. Snelh
W. Lester Stevens and others. She is a membeN
of the New York Water Color Club, an associate
member of the American Water Color Society
and other well known professional organizations
and has received prizes for her works in Chs
cago Indianapolis and New York. The pictures
which comprise her exhibit come here directly
from a one-man show in Indianapolis.
A VERY attractive little exhibition of Paints
ings in oil-f1owers, still life and other subs
J6CJS-Dy Grace Merrll Ruckman latelV
shown in the rooms of the District of Columbia
League of American Pen Women StoneeigIi
Court Mrs Ruckman paints in the traditional
manner but shows in her work a very keen and
delicate sense of beauty in nature. Some Of her
Hover subjects are exceedingly well composed
and rendered, are colorful and at the same time
decorative.
NHE Art and Archaeology League has arranged
for the current season an interesting and
EXCELLENT nf oT,I -
February meeting took the form of studio
assembly at which Miss Lucia B. Holerith was
hostess in her studio, at 808 Seventeenth street,
The next meeting will be held February 20 az
Gunston Hall, when Mrs. Mitchell Carroll press
ident of the league will give an illustrated Ices
ture on Art Treasures of Istanbul" Mrs. Care
roll visited Constantinople last Summer and
many OF the slides which she will use to illuSA
trate her lecture are from photographs cole
lected at that time
HE Washington Water Color Club win open
its thirty-flfth annual exhibition in the Core
coran Gallery of Art week from today, Suns
day, March /.
Two prizes will be awarded this year for thu
hrst tlme-the Lucien Whiting Powell Memo@
rial Award Of $25, the gift of Mrs Powell foh
the most meritorious landscape or figure paints
ing In the exhibition, and the James HenrN
Moser Memorial Award of $25 given by the
washington Water Color Club for the best stiIl
life or flower painting in the exhibition Tho
jury OF award will consist of Mary G. Riley.
Allyn Williams and Eugen WeiSz
| UCIEN POWELL in whose memory the first
OF these prizes is given is well remembered
here, being but lately deceased. James Henry
MoSer' whom the second prize memorializeS.
was Tor many years president of the Washing
ton Water Color Club, teacher of water color
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, distinguished
wafer color1st, whose works found ready admis-
urolQ ~ H.
In New York and Philadelphia very genuine
and capable artist, held in high esteem by his
associates Works by Mr.. Moser are included
In the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran
Gallery OF Art and in many private collections,
OF notable interest in the annual exhibition
OF the National Association of Women
PAINTERS and Sculptors held in New York Is a
portrait bust by Brenda Putnam, daughter Of
Continued TuOenty-second Pace