Evening star., 1932-12-04

washington by N. G. WXeth, awarded
the fourth william A. Clark prize O.
$500, accompanied by the Corcoran hon
orable mention certificate.
cifixion," in which attention is centered
on the "Repentant Thief"
Abram Poole is at his best in q por-
trait of young girl in white, long,
narrow panel, very smoothly and accu-
rately rendered but with dignity and
grace. There Is a wood scene by Co.'S
tigan which opens ones eyes to the
beauty of leafiess trees and brown earth
Carl Melchers Represented.
Carl Melchers. whose death occurred
since this exhibition was begun, is well
represented by large, important can
vas of a mother and two children
seated on bench out of doors, nurse
maid standing by-"Indian Summer
a work lately completed and equaling
his best-a notable canvas.
Rockwell Kent, who has exerted a
strong influence both on American
painting and American illustration, is
fine Adirondacks" and Corn,
the elemental, yet excellent in design
and good in color.
Leopold Seyffert, who is one Of our
foremost portrait painters, shows por-
trait study Of a Basque in quite new
vein.
Cecilia Beaux, than whom there is
no better painter in America or else
where. shows little canvas of young
girl Dressing Dolls" painted primarily
Tor her own pleasure, beautiful in quail
ity, lovely in color, very French in
feeling-a work which may not declare
itself at glance but will reward study.
Clifford Beal, the chairman of the
jury for this exhibition, shows besides
a characteristic painting of seafaring
people and sea-a stern, dramatic sub
ject-a gay picture of two dancers,
"Adagio." To Mr.. Beal was awarded
coveted Carnegie Prize in the National
Academy of Designs Winter exhibition,
New York, for a painting entitled
"Northeaster
A beautiful still life by Harry Wat
rous, first vice president of the National
Academy Of Design, hangs between
an intensely realistic picture of barber
shop by Edward Hopper interesting
as a study in lighting effects. and a
second work by Grabach, New York
Americans" which might we'll be sub
ject of thought for immigration officers
West Coast Artists Shown.
From the Pacific Coast have come
two very interesting decorative paint
ings by Jessie Arms Botke, as well as
significant works by ten or a dozen
other West Coast artists.
,F De- yr-I,< L.,
won great distinction as a portrait
painter, shows an excellent full-length
portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes. And from Frank Benson of
Boston have come an exquisite paint
ing of still life and typical landscape,
Dawn on the York." with canoeist
in the foreground-a painting OF great
force and beauty, one which once seen
will not readily be forgotten.
John Sloan, who is both painter and
etcher, leader of the modernists, head
ing the group responsible for the great
epoch making armory show in New
York, president of the Independents, is
now, strangely enough, seen in this col
lection as a conservative. His painting
of "Yeats at Petit Pas" with a group
of friends, recalls to mind Renoir at
his best, and is great work of art, one
to own and which will doubtless find
collection. Thus does history repeat
itself. Mr.. Sloan also shows at this
time an interior of a Chinese Amer
lean Restaurant"
There are two paintings by Frieseke,
both in high key-forSty-one gray and
rose, the other gray and blue, done in
the style he developed in France and
has held to SO wisely. But his COL
league, Richard Miller, appears at this
time in an entirely new manner, show
ing double portrait of an elderly man
and his wife-dwellers "On Cape Cod"
which is beautifully drawn and simply
rendered after the school, shall we say,
of Holbein.
Works Of Taos School.
Among figure studies John c. Johan-
sens portrait of his son, 1.-THE Boat
Builder which, by the way. was in
cluded in the Olympic exhibition in
Los Angeles last Summer, is outstand-
ing, as are two group pictures by his
gifted wife. Jean MacLane, both of fig
ureS of young people out of doors.
The Taos School is generously rep
resented, but not at its best, excepting,
perhaps, Blumenschein's interesting
picture of New York with its sky
scrapers and automobiles, and his typo
graphical picture of Arizona. Randall
Davey. formerly of Santa Fe and now
of Colorado Springs, shows a painting,
strongly rendered, of lumberman
leaning on the back of little burro,
and from Roso Braught comes a
dramatic Interpretation of Colorado
mountains as seen from above.
Edward Bruce shows a rather solemn
rendition of the brown California hills,
dairy farm at their feet, and city
picture, "Industry''-grim buildings and
smoke stacks, both analytical and skill
fully set forth.
Charles Woodbury., who received the
$1,000 Palmer memorial prize in the
Winter exhibition Of the National
Academy of Design this year, is repre-
sented here by a colorful picture of
Mount Pelee.
Among the Washington artists repre-
sented in this exhibition are Marjorie
Phillips, Charles Bittinger, Mathilde M.
Leisenring, Burtis Baker, Richard F.
Meryman, Lois Baldwin, Helen F.
Collision, Catherine c. Critcher, Sewell
Johnson, Charles Sarendorf, Beulah B.