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forth with a vyidness which makes them un-
forgettable.
Some of the works in this exhibition may be
purchased but the majority are lent by COL
lectors-museums and individuals Amone the
latter are the wife of the President. Mrs
Hoover, and the Commissioner Of Indian Af-
fairs, Mr.. Rhoads
From here early in March the exhibition will
30 to Los Angeles. 1t occupies four galleries
and has been arranged under the personal
supervision Of Mrs. John Sloan and Miss White
TWO one-n,an exhibitions open in the Arts
Club today one consisting of water colors.
drawings and etchings by Ernest D. Roth. the
other Of etchings by John Taylor Arms both
occupying foremost places among contemporary
etchers
Ernest Roth was born in Stuttgart, Germany,
January 1879. He came to this country when
boy and studied at the National Academy
OF Design in New York. etching under James
d. Smiley. In 1923 he was elected a member
of the academy and from 1911 to the present
day he has been a constant prize winner
There is perhaps none who stands higher in
the esteem Of collectors both here and abroad
than Ernest David Roth and his fellow ex-
hibitor, John Taylor Arms Mr. Roth who
amazing accuracy as well sensitiveness, is
represented in the permanent collections of
the New York Public Library, the Boston Mu-
scum of Fine Arts the Library of Congress-
the Art Institute Of Chicago the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, the Uffzi Gallery Florence;
the Bibliotheque Rationale Paris, and other
great collections in Europe and in this country
He Is a welcome exhibitor everywhere and his
plates are much sought and priced
JOHN TAYLOR ARMS was a Washington
~ boy, born and brought up in this city at
tending Western High School. then Princeton,
then the Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology.
It was his intention to become an architect
and after finishing his architectural course in
Boston he practiced this profession in New
York up to the time of the war Then came
period OF service in the Navy, after which
he turned to etching and with such success
and personal satisfaction that not only does
he give his entire time to this work but through
it has won enviable reputation
Undoubtedly Mr. Arms technical knowledge
of architecture has stood him in good stead,
for he has specialized in architectural themes
the Interpretation for the most part of Gothic
Old World buildings. He is a marvellous tech
nician. employing pure etching as a medium
with skin that has almost never if ever, been
equaled. Such plates as Lace in Stone" and
art.
Mr.. Arms has been elected an Associe de Ia
Societe des Beaux Arts and his works are in
ciuded in the Bbliotheque Rationale Paris
the Musee de Rouen, the British Museum and
all the leading print collections in this country
HIS wife, Dorothy Moves Arms, is writer and
together they have issued two superb volumes,
one, Little Churches of France: the other,
Hill Towns and Cities Of Italy'-delightful ac-
counts Of travel. superbly illustrated by repro
ductions of Mr. Arms etchings
John Arms home and studio are at Green
field Hill Fairfield. Conn, but he etches
wherever he is-in Fairfield or in Italy or as
last Summer. on a ranch in the Far West. He
Is an indefatigable, as well as most sensitive
artist, and deeply concerned with the advance
ment Of art and its appreciation, president of
the Society Of American Etchers (formerly the
Brooklyn Society of Etchers} and q member of
half q dozen other etchers' associations as we'll
as Of the National Academy Of Design and the
American Institute of Arts and Letters.
] IS to lecture and give a demonstration Of
etching here under the auspices of the WASH
ington Society of the Fine Arts next Wednesday
evening at $50 O'Clock in Barker Hail. at the
same time that his works are on view at the
Arts Club. He will at that time make an etch-
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