Evening star., 1932-01-24

The Corcoran Gallery mas purchased tnfco
of these drawings for the permanent collection
which it Is gradually building up and to which
have lately been added three drawings BY
Speicher These latest acquisitions are espe-
cially well chosen. One is the head OF an
Indian a portrait study; another character
istic group of figures; the third delightful
series of sketches Of wild animals-the animals
of our Western mountain regions.
There are not many artists who attain TO
success in so many fields and seldom does one
find a group of drawings more varied or more
interesting.
h IExT Thursday evening, at the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, Allen Tucker, land
scape painter, will give talk on "The Ap-
probation of Art"
Tucker was = pupil Of Twachtman and
studied architecture at Columbia University,
New York. AS Mr.. Phillips reminds us in his
collection in the Making" "he has written
some sensitive lyrics of his experiences In the
great war; his paintings are always plastic
and never literary, and his landscapes emo
tional but never sentimental and commonplace,
his outlook never merely that OF the average
man"
Mr. Tucker is best represented in the
Phillips Memorial Gallery by painting, which
at present hangs in the drawing room, OF "A
Souall" on the seacoast, a Summer shower
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and fury streaking obliquely the landscape and
undoubtedly drenching to the skin those who
are not under cover-yet Wlthal passing.
plain little house, presumably hShermans
dwelling stands to the left; on the edge OF
the rugged shore is a group of people looking
out to sea, needless of the rain. The manner
of rendering is unusual, but the effect is ex-
tremely graphic. Such an effect certain great
japanese printmakers have produced in their
works. such an effect of late particularly
skllful modern American woodblock printer,
Paul Landacre has produced in print en-
titled "Downpour" In each instance the re-
suit, once seen, becomes memorable
To again quote Mr. Phillips ALLEN Tucker
paints sensations of light and of weather which
are as true as those by any realist but his
pictures are also works of art in the sense that
they express the artists own intense emotions
and his ability to impose upon nature an order
which in turn becomes a distinguished pat
tern" Strangely enough, go from art TO
nature, rather than from nature to art, and IL
is the function of the artist to clarity vision.
This Mr.. Tucker undoubtedly does.
GAIN this Sunday afternoon, from to 4.
" there will be music in the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery-music presented as art for its
own beauty rather than because of the celebrity
of its composer or the distinction of the in
terpreting artists but always well rendered and
fine.
THE appointment of Herbert Winlock as direc-
| tor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
gives occasion for local pride, for Mr.. Winlock
was Washington boy, educated here In our
public schools. His boyhood home was on the
corner of Twentieth and H streets. His grand
father was director of the Harvard College OBJ
servatory and his father an assistant as
tronomer in the Naval Observatory here, later
connected with the Smithsonian Institution.
Mr.. winlock is said to have become interested
in Egyptian archaeology while schoolboy In
this city. AS student at Harvard he spe-
cialzed in this study and there met Albert M.
Iithgoe at that time assistant professor OK
Egyptian art and curator at the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts. When In 1906 Mr.. Lithgoe
was called to the Metropolitan Museum Mr..
Winlock, who graduated from Harvard that
year. joined him in the first expedition UNDER
taken by the Museum at Lisht, in Egypt. His
association with the Metropolitan Museum has
continued unbroken ever since. From 1907 to