Evening star., 1932-05-01

RaieyS transcription Of the Old Bruton Parish
Church, Williamsburg is likewise memorable
and Minor Jameson's Lock on the Old Canal"
Is in his accustomed pleasing manner
Among the works hung in the back reception
room Is painting by Mr.. Schram of Cherry
Blossoms and the Tidal Basin Bridge" which
seems to bring history up to date. Here, also,
Is picture Of the Key Bridge and Water street.
Georgetown, by Beulah Weaver which Is essen
italy modern. Charles Btttinger's "Old Wall
Paper" an interesting interior rather broadly
rendered, which hangs above the mantel, how
ever. brings one back to Colonial days. Other
painters represented in this group of works are
Katharine Beaman. Cherry Ford White,
Margaret Loughborough, Clara Kimberly,
Margaret F. Robinson Edith Hoyt, Blondelle
Malone, Clara r. Saunders. M. M. lockwood,
Ruth Osgocd. Willard B. Dye, Margaret Zim-
mele and Elizabeth Muhlhofer
With the paintings in the gallery are shown
number of works in sculpture head of
Washington by Bush Brown commented upon
when shown in the Grand Central Galleries
exhibition in New York, and reproduced in
these columns, well as his familiar portraits
Of ViScount James Bryce, former British Am
baSSador, and George Foster Peabody Here is
Clara Hills excellent interpretive portrait Of
Pocahontas, George Washington plaque in
bronze by Louise Kidder Sparrow and four
small historic panels by Margaret Broxton, be-
sides, of notable interest two busts by Houdon
In bronze, one of Washington, the other of
Benjamin Franklin, lent by Hamilton Fish jr,
very generous and important contributions and
works which would lend distinction to any COL
lection.
Finally in the entrance hall one notes a
group of IA prints, three by Benson Moore
which have the appearance of red chalk draw
mgs; four etchings by Emily Burling Waite
Manchester. one by Lesley Jackson, a portrait
poster by Knella Fontaine Binckley, who also
1kriIll
Present Day; sketch of the Washington
Monument by night by Marion Stevens. and
two OF Eliot OHaras prints, one of Mount
Vernon the other of the Capitol-certainy q
comprehensive and widely representative as
semblage.
HE special exhibition of paintings by Edward
Bruce which opened at the Corcoran Gal
Ary last Tuesday afternoon to continue through
May o. fulfills ones expectations and fully
justifies pleasureable anticipations. The works
shown therein are essentially out of the ordi-
nary and are thought provoking as well as en-
joyable.
For the most part, the "a canvases which
make up this exhibition set forth landscape
themes. There is one figure study, a portrait
OF Chlnaman, Wing Sing" done with great
precision and in a manner which one may ven-
ture to suppose would have been found pleas
ing to the great masters of the past Durer and
Holben There is one still-life study an over
turned basket of apples and pears painted with
the seriousness, the accuracy. and in a meas
ure, the dryness of scholarly student. A third
painting is that of tulips in a bowl, reproduced
In these columns last week The remaining 81
paintings are of mountains and valleys trees
and buildings water and desert, rendered some
what as the primitive Italians might have rem
nered similar subjects, or as the great masters
of China would have done had they lived today
Mr.. Bruce paints with great smoothness, but
he does not put emphasis on texture ing
almost always the same technique regardless of
subject matter. What apparently interests him
most are form and rhythm in nature, the earth
sculptured by the hand of time, the f9w of
lines harmoniously interviewer. His larger
landscapes are typographical, amazingly ac-
curate and at the same time delightfully."- dec
oratfve and pictorial They are compositions
simplifled to the elemental His Italian land
scapes. of which there are several in this coll
lection have lyrical quality, and but for the
golden tone which Wilson used might recall
the works Of this great English landscapist
But there Is epic, not lyric, quality in his
paintings OF California landscape, and only to
those who have seen these places will the ex-
celence of the works be understood Take for
example, a painting entitled "Ssnta Lucia
Mountains, view from Carmel - brown,
dreary-nature stripped, stern nude yet pro-
foundly moving to those who have stood in it's
presence. Less forbidding and more appealing
are his klamath Glen" and 'Mists on the Kla-
math," suggestion of atmosphere lending a
touch of kindness. Monterey Cypress" and
California Cliffs" have more pictorial quality;
The Gonzales Ranch" returns to stern real
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