Evening star., 1932-01-31

GrAscrS attention has already been called here
this Winter to pstentAahtSes In this "axt IN
little aAl It ~aM therefore be ds1bly inter
estinx ts zee whAt another aocaEnpaianed
sculptor has achieved asang these lines. Cssh-
erna DArjansky r. said - have workoA In
wood. stone and hroase, producing Me-siseA
figures before she became q n1dniAtarist. Is
in her small works. however that sAe AerseN
feels she Is best able to express -thosc nuAAees
and subtieties that are beyond the capacity II
even the greatest IN hard material aad On
large scale"
Of art and the shops OF Europe for something
that would suggest what she wanted. she came
upon q couple Of wax figures In the Carnavaiet
Museum. This gave her the inspiration she
sought, and 4 miniature portrait of Ida
Rubenstein created from memory the i'm
mediste result She now numbers among her
Sitters celebrated people throughout the world.
The entire royal family of Belgium have had
their portraits done by Barjansky. Queen Eiiz-
abeth is one of her famous pupils. Among the
works that she will show here portraits Of
some of her distinguished colleagues. Bourdelle,
Carl Miles the violinist Ysaye, Won Bode, Lie
hermann Einstein, d'Annunzio and others. In
addition to the portraits she will show IS or Is
statuettes and couple Of baS-reliefs.
Nine Bariansky born In Odessa. Russia.
Her husband Alexander BarjanSky, is a dis
tinguist ed cellist This wax she uses is made by
Is little ivory scalpel.
A N exhibition of paintings by George Pearse
Ennis secretary of the American Water
Color Society, will open in the Arts Club today,
continuing for fortnight. Mr.. Ennis is widely
known because of the distinction of his work
and for the fact that he has for a number of
years conducted a Summer school of art at
as a painter and a teacher that this Fall he
was made head of the faculty of the lately
formed School of Art in connection with the
Ringing Museum at Sarasota, Fla, school
which MI Ennis himself feels has great poten-
tialties.
1t is impossible to see George Pearce Ennis
paintings without recalling the works of Winslox
Homer Doubtless, Mr.. Ennis has felt the Homer
influence. but Homer was not man to be
copied He left recipe for his art, but that
sturdy quality of sincerity and strength that
permeated 'Winslow HONS paintings is what
one finds today in the paintings of George
Pearse Ennis.
David Lloyd, writing a couple of years ago
in the American Magazine of Art. said: such
painters as Mr. Ennis rarely trip themselves
upon one of our fayorite fallacies that paint
ing as a completed work is presented to the
beholders eye. It is, of course presented to
the whole man; to our intelligence, our emo
tions, appetites even to our prejudices
and our esthetic foibles. The very gestures
of prof1er, ceremonious bluff and hearty are
not often obscured. In the addess the painter
makes to US in the communication we receive.
those multiple passages extended on the canvas.
which must have their own imnediacy II they
are to become factors of this intercourse, THESE
are the things we have been calling the Incl
dents q expression" In other words, It Is
not merely what Mr.. Ennis puts into his pic
lures but what he omits from them that gives