Evening star., 1932-03-07
BARONESS EXHIBITS
HER PAINTING HERE
Clio Hade Reveals as Many
White Values as Whistler
Did Blue.

Baroness Hertha DobIhoff, an artist
who finds. as much variety in white as
Whistler did in blue, is exhibiting some
"A of her paintings and monotypes at
the Corrado Galleries, 1881 Connecticut
avenue here again this week
Seven years ago the baroness came
to New York to attend an exhibition
of portraits by her husband, Baron
Robert Doblhoff An official of the gal
lery hearing she also painted, offered
to allot space for her work. Thus acci-
dentally was begun series of exhibit
tiOnS which continued in Paris, London,
New York, and now for the first time
Washington
While Clio Hade-the composite name
Hertha Clotilde Doblhoff invented to
avoid confusion with the artists sigma
ture of her husband-displays her ex-
traordinarily delicate and various works
here, Baron Doblhof is busy painting
portrait OF Mrs Nicholas Longworth,
widow Of the late Speaker, and her
daughter Paulina.
Began Career Early.
Baroness Doblhoff was attracted to
drawing and painting from girlhood.
Her family. prominent in Vienna and
wealthy before the Socialist regime was
established in Austria, INDUCED her tall
ent. She was allowed to study with the
Viennese teacher, Prof. Hugh Darnaut,
and later at the Academic Julian in
Paris Then she married and went
around the world on her honeymoon.
In China she became intensely in
terested in Chinese art, learned much
of their technique of monotypes and,
inf, hv
simple. direct lines of Chinese flower
work The effects of this study appear
in most of the score or more flower
paintings seen here.
The predominant characteristic Of
Clio HadeS paintings, however, Is the
use of white both as theme and back
ground She employs the color lavish
", varying the tone from alabaster to
cream to gray and any number OF other
shadings which are peculiarly her own
Some of her paintings are totally in
white, with but one color-such as the
green stalks of lilies-to offset the sin
gle tone. Yet there is nothing monoto-
nous in these canvasses. They have as
much shading, perspective, light and
shadow as many artists can obtain from
a combination of half a dozen strong
colors
Always LOFcu Nhitc'
"I have always been attracted by
white. Any lovely, white object I see,
] want to paint" the baroness says
Because of this love of the color, I
have studied it, learned every possible
combination I could create from II"
Her preference has not dominated
her work, however, to the exclusion of
deep and brilliant colors. Many of the
flower paintings blaze with orange, vel
low and warm tones of all sorts.
Versatility also marks Clio Hade's
Teations. Her still lite subjects are
reated delicately, decidedly as a
woman would paint flowers and fruit
But her drawings are often bold and
strong, the figures strikingly athletic or
sharp.
In contrast to both these methods is
the soft, haZy treatments in certain
sketches of the New York skyline as
seen from the fiftieth floor of the En-
pire State Building
Painting in special studio there
during her recent visit to New York,
Baroness Doblhoff recorded her i'm
pressions Of the ever-changing pano-
rama Manhattan presents at birds-eye
view.
May Extend Exhibition.
Baroness Doblhof probably will close
her exhibition here at the end of
this week, but may extend it another
week or more OF all the pictures she
is showing here, she believes still-life
of bowl of fruit-mostly lemons-to
be the best.
When she leaves here she will 60 to
Florida to arrange murals painted for
q house there After that her plans
are indefinite, but she may return to
Vienna, which she still calls home.