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tngton, spent the Summer at Gloucester, Mass.
hom where she recently returned She has
exceedingly strong committee assisting her in
the work Of the Arts Club exhibits with Mrs.
9Ban B. Chase, Anna F. Abbott, Frances
Hungerford Combs, Edith Hoyt Lesley Jackson.
Minor 8. Jameson. Marian Lane Elizabeth
SaWtelle. Clara Saunders and others as members.
THE Phillips Memorial Gallery, In accordance
with an announcement made late in June.
opens the first of this month new school of
painting. the Gallery School Of Art. which will
occupy the studio house at 1914 Twenty-f1rst
street (adjacent to the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery), and which will be under the direction Of
c. Law Watkins associate director in charge OF
the educational work Of the gallery. Mr.. Wat
kinS will be assisted by Robert Franklin Gates.
whose work has been exhibited during the past
season at the Cincinnati Art Museum the Ad-
olson Gallery of American Art at Andover, the
Art League of Washington and elsewhere His
wife, Margaret Casey Gates will act as execu-
tive secretary and conduct the Saturday art
classes for children. Mrs. Gates is member
Of the Society Of Washington Artists and has
exhibited with the society, at the Addison GAL
lery Of American Art at Andover at the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery and elsewhere.
The amateur sketch class formerly conducted
by Mr.. Watkins in the gallery will be resumed
in the studio house with two night meetings
weekly Evening classes will include
instructed life Class, a weekly lecture on
anatomy by the Blake method, etc. There will
be an advanced course in the scope of painting,
co-rdinated with conference in comparative
criticism to be conducted in the gallery weekly
under the guidance of Mr.. Phillips the painting
projects following the discussions.
It Is the conviction Of the organizers of this
new school that the wisest and best teachers
he ancient
art, and that the logical school is in direct
association with great collection" The Phil
lips gallery collections will serve this purpose
The foundation of this new school will in no
way change the program Of the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery, according to Mr.. Watkins. All
activities having to do with the appreciation or
Interpretation of art will be conducted as before
in the gallery itself. as will also the gallery
talks Sunday concerts, Thursday evening lee
lures, etc. This again is pioneer work in the
field Of art education, the result Of which will
be watched with much interest and lively
anticipations OF valuable result.
NNE of the most discussed paintings in
~ the Century of Progress exhibition at the
Chicago Art Institute (which, by the way, has
been visited by approximately 1,0oo, 900 persons
since it opened the first Of June) is the
Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir
owned and lept by the Phillips Memorial Gall
lery Of this city. According to the news letter
Of the Art Institute of Chicago, this has been
called one of the 10 greatest pictures in this
great exhibition The Louvre, in Paris, organized
this Summer. great showing Of Renoir's work
and was extremely anxious to include this cele-
brated painting. In fact, the Art Institute
received two separate requests from the French
government to borrow it. Neither Mr.. Phillips
nor the Art Institute Of Chicago felt however.
that they could give the permission for the
picture IS the great center of one of the
leading galleries. and to remove 1t for three
months time would be to deprive several hun
dred thousand people Of the opportunity Of
viewing it.
The same news letter gives the following in
teresttng items in regard to this painting
now % familiar to Washingtonians: painted
in 1881 it was exhibited in Paris at the
independently the next season. It was first
entitled Dinner at Chatou,' a place on the
Seine where boating parties took place 1t was
the fashion at these boating parties to stop at
the restaurant of the genial Pere Fournaise.
Such party at this place is here represented.
The canvas was painted out of DOORS The
subjects are the intimate friends and models
of the artist The girl at the left fondling the
dog b Mile. Alice Charigat, little later the
wife Of Renoir. and one Of his favorite models.
Behind her leans the relaxed figure of the
landlords son, the young M Fournaise. Strad-
ding the chair across from them Is the painter
CaflIbotte. of the minor impressionists
whose marvellous collection of works by his
friends was willed to the French government.
That this great painting is owned here in
Warrington and will return to this city is.
indeed, . matter of congratulation.
he Art League o. Washington, Charles Val
Clear, director. is making a strenuous effort
this season to acquire additional support and
presumably additional extension Of influence
through the medium Of lay members to which