Evening star., 1933-10-29

PORTRAIT OF the Pfe6aoeoS q e1e
n United States, W Paul 1fsoA'eoek'
~ hss been placed temporarily On a.
- l,Il,ttion In the Corcoran Gallery q
Art. 1,,i. portrait has been painted
Z ' here In washington during tns p~"
ax v.sk. and Is but Just completed II vas
ssone On order for Columbia University. NsW
9osk where It !. shortly to be ~ .,easa<s u
plaoed. The painter had sese q. 80.
shos,t one hour each These were In the Wh&e
Hn.e and while the President was busy q M
seak But it is said by the artists that %
~. a most considerate sitter, and thouShs1uIy
held the chosen pose as much a. possaDie.
No two portrait painters see the same person
alike. It Is for this reason that q AL ceie-
br.ted persons we have in portraiture numerous
verMons. Obviously 1t is In the aggregate o.
theae that truth Is found And how mucn
better It is that there should be this diversity
Mr Trebilcock has painted the President
with great dignity and in serious mlen. he
gives correctly the impression Of large man.
alert. full of life and vitality. but extremely
quiet His hands. firm and strong. test On
the arm Of q chair or in his lap. In complete
relaxation The clothes are dark, bat color
full note is given to the composition ~ dark-
red curtains decoratively arranged Il y
virile work
This Is the second portrait that has been
painted Of Mr.. Roosevelt since he became
President of the United States. both by Amer
ican artists and Of very consioefaoe olS-
tinction.
paul Trebilcock was born IN Chicago In 1902.
He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and
under Seyffert. He began winning awards for
his paintings as early as 1875 and already mas
acquired many such honors A portrait OF MS
wife, painted in Florence, has been widely ex-
hit,ited and highly praised In his figure paint
ings he often introduces decorative design but
in his portraits he Is most often extremely
direct and simple He has painted President
David Kinley for the University OF Illinois,
Dean Smaller Matthews for the University OF
Chicago Judge A. A. Bruce and Dean Peter G.
Lutkin for Northwestern University, DR.. w. g.
MacCallum for Johns Hopkins University, DR.
c. W. johnson for Loyola University and
others His portrait Of Mrs Asa A. Warner
is extremely subtle and suggestive, beautifully
rendered His portrait of Mr. Horace Oakley,
a lawyer, is equally vigorous and simple.
THE other portrait of the President, TO which
] reference has been made. was by woman
Ellen Emmet Rand of Salisbury, Conn, and
New York City, descendant Of the Irish
patriots but an American Of several genera
tions In her own generation she IS one OF
five gifted woman painters, the others being
her sister, Leslie Emmett and her three cousins,
Rosina Emmet Sherwood. Lydia Field Emmett
and Jane Emmet de Glenn.
Mrs Rand was born in California IN 1876
and studied when quite young girl under
William M Chase and Robert Reid at the Art
Students League in New York. Later she
came under the tutelage Of Frederick Mac
MonnieS and the influence Of Sargent. Two
of her paintings are in the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, New York; one Of these Is OF
Benjamin Altman, which hangs IN the Altman
Collection; the other is of Augustus Saint
Ciaudens q very excellent Likeness, and an
interesting arrangement in browns Her por-
trait Of the President was painted during the
Summer at his home In Hyde Park
It Is indeed gratifying that commissions for
these portraits given TO American artists,
and artists so deserving the honor.
THE Washington Society of the Fine Arts
announces this week its very interesting
program of lectures, meetings, ETC., for the
current season The first Of the lectures will
be giyen on the evening Of November Is by
H. Van Buren Magonigle, fellow OF the Amer
acan Institute of Architects, designer of the
great War Memorial in Kansas City, Mo-, and
of other monuments and buildings, also sculp-
tor and painter, past president Of the Archi-
tectural League of New York author OF Ma
tme Practice and History Of Art" Hts subject
will b "Tfaditions of Taste" and his lecture
will be illustrated by Stereopticon slides SNOW
ing works by the great masters q the past
and Of modernists. side by side. in pairs. allow
ing opportunity for comparative criticism on
the part of the audience =
The December lecture viii be By Carl P.
Rollins of the Yale University Press, on '1he
History of the Art OF Printing" subject ON
which is authority.
Rockwell Kent Is scheduled for January, and
his subject will be TN Defense Of True Art"
At the conclusion Of his lecture. to prove his
right to speak he will show . series Of stere-
opticon slides Of his own paintings, draw
ings and prints.
In February William W. Ellsworth, for many
years of the Century Co., New York, viii give
a lecture ON "The Glories Of the Thirteenth
Century" illustrated with exquisitely colored
slides.
The concluding lecture in March will be by
George Bddle, painter photographer, who has