Evening star., 1932-11-27
OIL Oh ART AND ARIL[T[

have been carefully compiled by the museum
so as to make the exhibition as comprehensive
as possible not merely from a geographic point
of view, but to insure a wide variety of styles
and tendencies. careful reading of this list,
however, ihclines one to the belief that the ma
jority of the works shown in the exhibition
must be of the so-called modern" school and
by artists not associated with the academy 1t
Is comprehensive so far as this school goes
One Washingtonian invited-Mariorie
Philips-who is represented by a Landscape
With Running Horse"
OF the older and more conservative painters
the only representative is Carl Melchers who
shows painting entitled Virginia Beach"
Clifford Beal who served as chairman of the
Corcoran Gallerys jury is also an exhibitor
in the Whitney Museum show, and so is Earl
Horter. whose etchings view in the
Smithsonian Institution. division of graphic
arts this month
With regard to the works to be purchased
from the $4,000 fund, they were selected, it is
stated, before the paintings were hung, but will
not be announced until after the exhibition
closes. The Whitney Museum takes this means
of adding to its permanent collection of Ameri-
can paintings and at the same time of encour-
aging living artists in the matter Of production
1t is an interesting deviation from the usual
prize awards and which it would seem
reasonable to suppose would be most gratifying
to the artists.
A COMPARATIVELY few years ago art irr
the United States was produced in few
well known centers, such as Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, ana the Eastern exhibi-
uons-thoSe held in the Eastern StateS-were
composed almost exclusively of the works Of
Eastern artists. That this is no longer the fact
is evidenced by glance at the catalogue of the
annual joint exhibition of the Philadelphia
Water Color Club and the Pennsylvania Society
Of Miniature Painters now on view in the Penn
sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Not only are the names of artists of New Eng
land and the Middle States found in this list
ing, but also the names of artists from Cali
fornia and from Washington State from Santa
Fe and Taos, N. Mex; from Alabama, Georgia.
South Carolina, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, the
last In special abundance. And this is it
should be IL to have genuinely
national art.
The Philadelphia Wafer Color Clubs exhibi-
ton comprises invariably not only water colors
but drawings etchings and works in black and
white. Eliot OHara of this city is represented by
a water color, Cherry Blossoms; Percy Crosby
of Mclean, Va, by three drawings in ntho-
graphic pencil. Other WashingtonianS repre-
sented are Eleanor Parke Gusts, who shows
three water colors, and Margaret Lent who
shows two works in the same medium. Among
the miniaturists exhibiting are Katherine s.
Page and Eva Springer, both of this city: Iona
Miller Keplnger of Bethesda, Florence Greene
Huey, Emma Hess Ingersou and Virginia H
Stout Of nearby Maryland
A T the Arts Club, 2017 street, an exhibi-
ton of water colors, etehings and drawings
by local members ef the Washington Water
Color Club will open today with a tea at which
Miss Annie D. Kelly and Miss Mary K. Porter
will be hostesses.
Miss Eleanor Parke Gusts is now chairman
of the clubs Exhibition Committee, having re-
placed Mrs. Elizabeth Evans Graves, who re-
signed. Mrs. Susan B. Chase is vice chairman
This exhibition. opening today. will continue
to December 9 and will undoubtedly be found
of exceptional interest. 1t will be followed by
an exhibition from December IL to January
of work in all mediums by members of the
club
THE Art League of Washington is showing
through November 80 three one-man exhi-
biions-water colors by Elizabeth Langenbeck
water colors by Robert Franklin Gates and
sculpture by Margaret Broxton-in their two
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