Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23

Calder, presented by the United States
Grafton of the Tooth anniversary of
the Althing. Around the rotunda the
alumni of the American Academy in
Rome has placed 100 enlarged photo
graphs of executed work in architec-
ture sculpture, painting and landscape
architecture by graduates Of the
academy.
In the National Gallery of Art space
are about $50 pieces of sculpture con-
tributed by leading sculptorS of the
country. The arrangement of the sculp-
ture has been in charge of Henry Her
ing, Ernest Keyser and Uric H. Eller-
husen, sculptors. The National Sculp-
ture Society contributed $1,000 toward
the exhibition, and a similar amount
was made available to the National
Commission of Fine Arts by Congress.
Mural Exhibition.
The Mural Painters Society has pre-
pared especially for this exhibition a
score Of large mural paintings depicting
events in the life Of George Washing
ton. This "Bicentennial friese" has
been mounted on the upper panels OF
the National Gallery of Art. The paint
ings are "Boyhood of Washington,
1745," by Hildreth Meiere; Washing
ton at Fort Necessity, 1854" by Austin
Purves, jr.; Washington Taking Com
mand of the Army" by Arthur Convey;
Battle Of Princeton, 1777," by D. Put
nam Brimley; Washington the Sol
der" by Ernest Peixotto;;" Washington
and His Friends at Mount Vernon" by
j. Monroe Hewlett; "Our French Allies, -
by Ernest Peixotto; valley Forge" by
Deane Keller; Surrender of yorktown,
1781,' by Tom Lofting Johnson; Wash
ington'S Inauguration in New York" by
Ezra Winter; Death Of Washington, y
by j. Mortimer Lichtenauer; Overture
to 1916" by James Daugherty; "Tri-
umph of Washington" by Gardner
Hale, and Cooperation of Labor" by
John Steuart Curry.
The George Washington Bicentennial
Frieze Is completed by four panels in
grisaille, each having as It's central mo-
tive Washington sentiment by some
famous man, whose figure apears on the
canvas. These panels were painted by
Nathan Dolinsky Gincoln paneD. John
F. Conan John Marshall PANEL, Stan
ley Rowland Napoleon paneD and
addition there are portraits of George
Washington by Wilfred Conrow and
Tom L. johnson and the smaller mural
paintings-"The Cincinnatus Of the
West" by Duncan Smith; Virginia
Hunters" by Suzanne Miller, and THE
Modern Rhythm" by ]. Mortimer Lich-
tenauer. Also there are photographs OF
paintings by Violet Oakley and Edwin
H. Blashfield.
The School of Landscape Architecture
Of Harvard University has contributed
valuable historical surveys and plans OF
Mount Vernon; also sketches of Gun
ston Hall, Woodlawn and the excava-
lions at Belvoir, once the home of Hon.
william Fairfax, cousin and agent OF
Lord Fairfax, on the grounds OF the
present Fort Humphreys, near Mount
Vernon. The geographical survey Of
Mount Vernon discloSes facts hitherto
unknown.
The Plan of Washington.
A comprehensive exhibition of the
plan of Washington on the lower floor
of the National Museum comprises 200
plans, designs, models and pictures illus
trating the development of the National
Capital from the days Of L'Enfant in
1892 to the present. The original Nc
MILAN Park Commission plans of 1901
are ON exhibition, also the model pre-
pared at that time for the future Wash
ington. There are the plans OF the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission for the development Of Greater
Washington and large model prepared
by William r. Partridge for that COM
mission. Here, are also the plans pre-
pared in the office of the architect OF