Evening star., 1932-03-27
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AHu raul hdAS4ilp, tOf dICulbcCblfe 6ODeTL I'D.
Kohn, president of the American Institute OF
Architects Arthur Ware president of the So
ciety of Beaux Arts Architects; Myron Hunt
Of California, Warren p Laird of the University
Of Pennsylvania and Eliel Saarnen of Finland
and Detroit.
The American representation in this COM
petition and exhibition will be exceptionally
large and notable. Some of the leading Amer
ican museums have consented to make loans
among them tie Museum of Fine Arts Boston;
the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia and
the Phillips Memorial Gallery of this city; also
Phillips Academy at Andover Mass.
1t is remarkable how many excellent works
there in painting. sculpture and archi-
lecture which comes within this feld-repre-
sentations OF polo players wrestlers, skiers, pic
lures of horse races, boat races, golf games,
tennis tournaments etc. The architectural
section will include drawings, plans and photo
graphs of stadia foot ball fields, swimming
pools and the like, many Of them designed by
leading American architects and engineers for
great American universities There will also
be an exceptionally fine collection of prints,
etchings, Autographs and woodblock prints.
An unique feature of the American section
of this exhibition will be groups of paintings
of Indian sports by young Indians Of Santa Fe
and Oklahoma.
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art announces that
Burtis Bakers exhibition which opened
March l. will be continued up to and including
April 3, and that during the month Of May a
special exhibition of paintings by Edward Bruce
will be shown
THE exhibition of portraits and frescoes by
] Eben F. Comins at Gordon Dunthorne'S,
which was to have closed March %, has been
extended through March 81
from March 20 to April "a etchings by Eu-
gene Higgins of New York will be on view
in the Smithsonian Institution under the
auspices of the Division of Graphic Arts o. S.
National Museum Mr. Higgins is a painter
as well as an etcher, and has produced, in both
media. works of great distinction. One of his
paintings, it will be recalled was recently pur
chased by the Ranger trustees under the
Ranger fund. Both his paintings and his
etchings are, as rule, of people of the work.
ing class-strong, vital, grave and dignihed-
works which, in measure, recall those Of
Millet, but only through similarity of subject
matter and feeling There is much more Of
the drama in Higgins works than in those of
Millet.
Mr.. Higgins born in Kansas City, MO.
He studied at the Julien Academy and l'Ecole
des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is a member of
the National Academy Of Design. the New
York Water Color Club and other professional
organizations and is represented in some OF
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INVITATIONS have been issued by Theo.
] J. Morgan, director of Sears, Roebuck & Co.'S
local galleries, to exhibition of contemporary
American oil paintings, etc, which will open
with q private view on the evening of April 5.
This exhibition will comprise works by q con-
siderable number of artists not well known in
Washington, among them Joseph Birren of
Chicago and Sander Vago of Cleveland. both
Sho uuinoF init mos and lin of
York who will be represented by group of his
etchngS There will also be included In this
exhibition a set of so Autographs by Joseph
PenneI from the Lessing J., Rosenwald col
lection.
THE last of the series of illustrated lectures
on historic temples planned by of the
Washington Cathedral committees will be given
April 1 by Everett v. Meeks. professor of archi-
lecture, Yale University, and dean of the Yale
School of Fine Arts. The subject will be
American Places of Worship-Mayan and
Indian Colonial; Modern; the place, Chinese
room of the Mayf1ower Hotel: the hour,
O'Clock These lectures have been exceedingly
scholarly and have been well attended and Of
great interest.
a GAIN an international exhibition of art is
to be held in Venice, opening in April and
continuing throughout the Summer Two years
ago. 1t will be remembered the United States
took its place in this exhibition, with other
nations with a building of its own, erected
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