Evening star., 1932-03-26
Presentation of Washington
Statue Set Today-Fess
to Speak.
LARGE MURALS DEPICT
FIRST PRESIDENTS LIFE
Historical Surveys and Plans In
cluded in Notable Display to Con-
tinue Until Thanksgiving

The unveiling of statue of George
Washington on the south steps of the
new National Museum, Constitution
avenue at Tenth street, this afternoon
at o'clock by Senator Simeon D.
FeSs of Ohio, vice chairman Of the
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission, was to mark the official open
ing of a special exhibit being sponsored
there. Senator Fess was to be intro
duced in a brief address by Charles
Keck, president of the National Sculp-
ture Society.
The exhibit contains IA large mural
paintings, valued at $4,000, depicting
ever.ts in the life of George Washing
ton. and prepared especially for this
exhibition by members of the Mural
Painters Society.
Valuable historical surveys and plans
of Mount Vernon, sketches of Gunstor
Hall, WoodlaWn and the excavations al
Belvoir. once the home of William Fair
fax agent of Lord Fairfax, in the
grounds of the present Fort Humphreys,
near Mount Vernon, have been con-
tributed to the exhibition by the Schoo
of Landscape Architecture of Harvard
University.
Capitals History Shown.
Some 200 plans, designs, models ano
pictures, illustrating the development
of the National Capital from the days
of LEnfant in 1892 to the present
visualize the expansion of the plan oi
Washington.
An extensive exhibit of sculpture
contributed by the National Sculpture
Society, typical of various schools lr
this art, form an outstanding part o1
the exhibit. The alumni of the Amer
lean Academy in Rome have con-
tributed works illustrative of variou;
parts of the world.
The statue of George Washington is
a cast of the statue of the Father OF
His Country by John Quincy Adams
Ward, located at the Subtreasury in
New York City. The cast was specially
made with the consent of former Sec
retary of the Treasury Mellon and Mrs.
Ward by the Gorham Co. Also at the
main entrance OF the new National
Museum are two statues of lions, exc
cuted by A. V. Hyatt Huntington. and
the bronze statue of the Republic by
Daniel Chester French, who executed
the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the
Lincoln Memorial.
Famous Statues Included.
In the rotunda of the museum are
casts of the equestrian statue of Gen
Lafayette, by Paul Bartlett; the statues
of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson, by James E. Fraser; the
Henry Clay statue, by Edmond T
Quinn, presented by the United States
to Venezuela, and the Left Ericsson
statue, by A. Stirling Calder, presented
by the United States to the Kingdom
of Iceland in commemoration of the
l,000th anniversary of the Althing
The exhibit, for which a catalogue
has been prepared for the public, will
be open from today until Thanksgiving
when the Bicentennial closes. The
exhibiting societies comprise the Ma
tional Sculpture Society, the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
the National Gallery of Art, American
Society of Landscape Architects, Amer
ican City Planning Institute, National
Society of Mural Painters, American
Academy in Rome, American Institute
of Architects, the Fine Arts Commis-
sion, the American Federation of Arts
and the National Conference on City
Planning