Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
WASHINGTON ART
EXHIBIT INSTALLED
Bicentennial Display to Be
Opened at Smithsonian
About March rs.

A special exhibit Of painting and
sculpture, city planning. architecture
and landscaping, as feature of the
George Washington Bicentennial Cele-
bratfcn. will be officially opened in the
New National Museum of the Smith
sonian Institution, at Tenth street and
Constitution avenue, about March rs.
This announcement was made TODAY
by H. P. Caemmerer, executive secretary
Of the commission, who said that an
impressive series of panels, depicting
the life of the Father of his Country.
has been executed during the past year
under the direction of Ernest Peixotto.
president Of the Society of Mural
Painters; J. Monroe Hewlett, chairman
Of the Committee of Artists for the
Bicentennial Exhibition. and Alexander
B. Trowbridge, vice chairman.
Each panel is a canvas IS feet in
height and from to 20 feet in width.
Mr.. Caemmerer said. This series. plan
ned as a unit, is now being installed ON
the upper walls Of the National Gallery
Of Art space in the National Museum.
Many Phases Shown.
Each artist was permitted to in
terpret in his own way a phase of the
life of Washington" said Mr.. Caem-
merer. 'Washington's Boyhood' is by
Hildredth Meiere; Washington Taking
Command Of the Army is by Arthur
Covey. The Battle of Princeton was
painted by D. Putnam Brinley: Wash
ington and His Friends at Mount
Vernon by J. Monroe Hewlett. and
Washington With Gen. Knox and
Lincoln and Lafayette With French
Allies by Mr. Peixotto
"Other painters and their subjects
are Austin Purves. jr., The Building of
Fort Necessity; Deane Keller. Valley
Forge; Tom Loftin johnson, The Sur
render at Yorktown: Ezra Winter.
The Inauguration; j. Mortimer LIGHT
enauer, The Death of Washington:
James Daugherty Overture to l776':
John Steuart Curry. The Cooperation
OF Labor in the Revolution and Gard
ner Hale, The Triumph Of Washing
tom"
An exhibition of sculpture Is being
arranged by the National Sculpture
Society in the National Gallery Of Art
space and also in the rotunda Of the
National Museum. The Gorham Co
is contributing copy of the John
ington, which stands in front Of the
oubtl cdSuly bulOlAIB Al NCW AOAh'
Sculptors in City.
Henry Herring. James E. Fraser and
Ernest w. Keyser, sculptors. are in
Washington today, to arrange for TIE
proper installation of the pieces of their
group.
An exhibition Of the work of the
alumni of the American Academy in
Rome also will have a place in the ex-
hibition. Paintings Of the gardens Of
Mount Vernon. treated historically, will
be contributed by the American Society
Of Landscape Architects.
Cooperating with the Fine Arts Com
mission in arranging the special BIZ
centennial exhibition are: The Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, the Amer
lean Society of Landscape Architects,
the National Sculpture Society, the
Mural Painters Society, the American
Academy in Rome, the American City
Planning Institute and the National
Conference on City Planning An elab-
crate exhibition Of the plan of Wash
ington, including plans of the great
public buildings program now under
way here, will form part of the exhi-
bition,